Future Cycles folks fall head over heels over anything bicycle, the fact that cycling is the most environmentally friendly form of transport after walking is a good enough excuse.
People should be up and about – and on foot, on bicycle and out of their cars and back to healthy lifestyle; which is why courses have been launced in Leicester for the coming year – convieninetly in the city centre .
School Training can be delivered at our training facilities located at Unit 1, Pilot House, 41 King Street, Leicester, LE1 6RN, or onsite at the respective school/college provided adequate facilities are available.
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Adult Training (for 16 and over)
Same as above for accredited training. Separate workshop options below are available for individual, group or corporate training
Basic Wheel Building (Delivered as 5 x 2hrs sessions)
Tuesday evenings 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm for five week commencing 25th February 2020 and 2nd June.
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No prior experience necessary.
Learn how to build a standard three cross pattern front wheel.
learn how to build a standard three cross pattern rear wheel.
A LEICESTER woman grew a humongous pumpkin but doesn’t know how she did it///by CRIMSON TAZVINZWA
Lisa Kyprianou lives in Western Park and has an allotment on Groby Road.
The 53-year-old has been growing different variations of fruit and veg for around 19 years but has never grown anything quite as big as this.
She said: “I started growing vegetables around the time my second daughter was born as a way of saving money so I could stay at home and it has just carried on from there.
“I grow most things to be honest but we have a massive badger problem and they love carrots and parsnips so I can’t grow them.
“The thing is I’m not really sure how the pumpkin’s gotten so big.”
Lisa’s previous pumpkin record was 77 pounds but the orange mammoth in her allotment has passed all expectations and then some.
Photos credits: CRIMSON TAZVINZWA
Some of the world’s biggest fruits and vegetables were grown in the UK. (Image: Getty Images)
Lisa Kyprianou huge pumpkin weighed considerably less than the heaviest in the world.(Image: Fothergill
The most wonderful time of the year kicked off on Thursday 21 November with Leicester’s Christmas Lights Switch-On. The city’s streets will be illuminated with over 16,000 sparkling lights and a spectacular tree, with 2,000 lights and 900 baubles, will take centre stage at the Clock Tower —By CRIMSON TAZVINZWA
This year there has been a 64% rise in people sleeping rough in Leicester, say statistics released by the government. A local interfaith winter night shelter, running since December, has taken over a quarter of the officially counted 36 people off the streets each night. Guests receive a warm bed, meals and company. 250 volunteers drawn from people of different faiths and none have volunteered at the shelter because they are deeply concerned by the growing numbers sleeping out in the freezing weather.
Speaking about rough sleeping at the City Mayor’s Question Time in December, Sir Peter Soulsby stated the City Council’s official rough sleeping figure as 16 and said,
“numbers who are rough sleeping are actually quite small.”
When challenged with the Department for Communities and Local Government figures of 22 rough sleepers last year and 36 this year, Sir Peter stuck by the council’s lower figure of 16 saying,
“I tell you, the people that count this, work with those charities and are able to put their professional reputations on the line to back those figures. They are accurate.”
In July 2013 Assistant Mayor, Andy Connelly, set out the new arrangements to tackle homelessness in a 5 year strategy that was centred on prevention. Since this strategy has been in place the government figures show that rough sleeping has risen by 227% in Leicester.
“Clearly the current homelessness strategy is not working. Behind these shocking statistics are desperate people; sleeping in doorways, bin shelters, bus stations and parks – anywhere they can find to stay safe and escape the elements”, said Karen Rooms, Canon Missioner of Leicester Cathedral. “Shelter for the night shouldn’t be arbitrary, dependent on a postcode, temperature trigger or how the council chooses to interpret the law. It should be a basic human right.”
Karen and members of other faith groups in Leicester have come together to set up the Leicester Winter Night Shelter, which provides overnight bed, board and support for 10 homeless people, who are treated as guests. It has already provided over 500 nights of accommodation and over 1300 meals. The shelter is run by volunteers who have given over 2550 hours so far this winter. It is managed by One Roof Leicester, a local charity which focuses on homelessness, and is funded by the Muslim charity Human Appeal, and Near Neighbours (a Christian fund), as well as generous donations from people in Leicester. The night shelter moves between Anglican and Catholic churches, the City Retreat (a Muslim community centre), the Progressive Synagogue and the Jalaram Bapa Mandir, and is the first multifaith venture of its kind in the UK.
For most of the faith venues, this is the first time they have provided a night shelter for rough sleepers. The venues are made available from 6pm until 9am, with volunteers setting up beds, serving meals and socialising with the guests.
“The response from people across Leicester wanting to volunteer for the winter night shelter has been overwhelming,” said Salma Ravat from One Roof Leicester. “The Night Shelter gives people of different backgrounds and faiths an opportunity to work alongside each other. We’re encouraging volunteers to help at venues that aren’t necessarily familiar to them, for example Sikhs in Churches, or Muslims in the Synagogue. This project brings everyone together in a shared desire to make a real difference to homeless people’s lives and it’s really humbling to see how friendships have developed over this time and the positive impact the project has had on Leicester.”
Sunil Budhdeo from the Jalaram Mandir Leicester, that hosts the shelter on Wednesday nights, said,
“Rough sleeping ruins lives, leaving people vulnerable to violence and abuse, and taking a dreadful toll on their mental and physical health. We have had guests who have been victims of torture, who had their legs gnawed on by rats, referred from the crisis mental health team. We have had those who have been beaten up just trying to find somewhere safe to sleep. This project has given us the opportunity to follow Bapa’s ethos of helping those who need it and make a little difference to their lives.”
In addition to running the shelter, from December to February One Roof put people up in hotels as there have not been enough beds in the city for rough sleepers. “Over Christmas & New Year we had members of the public who were helping rough sleepers ring us and say they had spoken to the Dawn Centre and Mayfield House and were told there were no beds available in the city”, explained Salma. “It is frustrating because the City Council policy is not to refer to voluntary, faith and community projects, only to their commissioned providers. This means homeless people are waiting until the end of the working day to find out if they have a space on a commissioned bed or whether they will have to sleep on the streets”.
One Roof Leicester and their volunteers are asking the City mayor to meet with them to discuss their concerns.
