{"id":405368,"date":"2026-02-03T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405368\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:38:07","slug":"swindon-sports-hub-gets-more-disabled-and-young-people-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405368\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon sports hub gets more disabled and young people cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since the hub opened in July 2024, more than 800 people with known disabilities have joined the sessions, including around 260 disabled adults and 440 young people, with SEND school groups attending weekly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Becky Cox, BC&#8217;s community developer in Swindon, said: &#8220;We pride ourselves in having options for everyone, if you come to us and want to cycle, we will find a way to help you cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes that&#8217;s having different equipment, we have a wheel chair trike so even if you&#8217;re unable to transfer out of a wheel chair you can experience the wind in your hair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hub also offers trikes where you can sit side-by-side with someone else who can control the bike whilst you help pedal as well &#8211; as having a range of single trikes which support with balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the hub opened in July 2024, more than 800 people with known disabilities have joined the sessions,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}