Category Archives: Brightkidz Blog

Children love to get outside and ride their bikes, trikes and scooters around, especially now summer is here. However it's often not safe enough for children to play in their own street and many live a long way from green spaces. One organisation is helping communities to take action on that and create safe play...

Today is Clean Air Day.  But why do we need a special day to raise awareness of something we should be able to take for granted - the quality of the air we breathe? And how does it relate to active travel campaigns? It may shock you to learn that up to 36,000 deaths per...

Brightkidz has moved! We are now out in the country with some lovely brambles, sheep and soaring red kites for company.  There is now more space to store our wonderful products before packing and despatching to you… after the challenges of doing this from split locations over the past year due to lockdowns this really…

This week saw the annual launch of the Big Pedal for schools – a fortnight active travel challenge organised by Sustrans charity across the UK. Here at Brightkidz I got on my bike and joined one of the local schools we regularly work with – Grange Primary Academy in Kettering – for the event. Local…

2 minute read + activity Did you know bicycles are not the only kind of cycle? A bicycle has two wheels but there are lots of other cycles which don’t have two wheels or are different in some other way. Big Loads or Clowning Around Cycles often vary because they have been adapted for different…

2 minute read + activity Take a look around you. How good is your street? What makes it a nice place to be – pleasant and safe?  What makes it not so great? How could it be improved? This fun activity gets children thinking about where they live and how their street could be improved…

2 minute read + 2 minute videos No that’s not a light sabre! Children are often intrigued by the regalia of our local civic traditions. So involving your local dignatories such as your mayor in active travel celebratory events is a good way of not only raising the profile of walking and cycling amongst local…

2 minute read Promoting safe travel is one of our aims here at Brightkidz and by that we mean all sorts of safety – not just road safety – but also helping enable people to feel safe and included whilst out and about. After all the more people who feel welcomed and part of active…

2 minute read + activity Animal lovers will particularly enjoy this one - the second in our series of  'at home active travel' resources for pupils to download and complete. These resources can contribute as activities on your school travel plan and keep pupils engaged in the importance of walking, cycling and scooting regularly. We...

Schools may be closed to most but many of us in the sustainable travel sector are busy planning ahead for the ‘big return’... whenever that may be. How can you get more children to school in active ways, and encourage parents to keep cars away from schools? How can we make the school run safer,...