Do you know the joy of helping someone experience their first taste of riding a bike? On March 6 and 8, help us share that with dozens of children with special needs. We are in great need of volunteers: no special skills or experience is required.
Volunteers urgently needed for Try-a-Bike Day and First Bike fitting events
Friday, March 6 from 1-6pm
Sunday, March 8 from 9-5pm
Broxton Park School, 505 MacLeod Avenue, Spruce Grove
Imagine the joy of helping someone experience their first taste of riding a bike. On March 6 and 8, please help us share that happiness with dozens of individuals with special needs.
You Can Ride 2: Borrow-a-Bike is a program that loans adapted bicycles to children whose special needs make it challenging for them to ride a 2-wheel bicycle. This free service empowers children with the freedom to ride with their families.
We are in great need of volunteers: no special skills or experience is required.
Friday is our Try-a-Bike Day, an opportunity for individuals (of all ages) with disabilities to learn about a variety of adaptive cycling options available. We will have several bikes from our loan pool available for people to trial, as well as vendors with their own demos.
On Sunday March 8, registered children will be fit to bikes specifically adapted to their needs.
We urgently need volunteers for both events. We certainly need mechanics (no prior experience with adapted bicycles is necessary), but you don't need to be technical: we also need greeters, a photographer, people to help with inventory, and even someone to prepare lunch.
There are additional roles that we need help with in the days following, as well as for future bike fitting days. Please go to our volunteer sign-up sheet to see the available roles.
If you are a therapist, please visit our therapist page for available volunteer roles.
If you know someone that would be interested in helping out, please forward this message to them as well.
Sponsorship
If your company would like to sponsor this or any future event, and have your name and logo attached to it, please contact us at [email protected].
Alberta Venture named EBC one of Alberta's 25 Most Innovative Organizations in 2014. Read about it, check out the other organizations in the list, and watch a video they produced highlighting You Can Ride 2 on Alberta Venture's website.
Paid Roles
Are you interested in a continuing paid role as a bicycle mechanic? Both You Can Ride 2 and EBC are looking for people with mechanical skills. Contact [email protected] if you are interested in working on adapted bicycles, and visit our website for information about EBC's bicycle assembler job opening.