National Ride to School Day is just around the corner on Friday 22nd March 2024! It’s the perfect occasion to encourage your children to get on their bikes and choose the healthiest and most fun way to travel to school. 

Riding to school not only benefits your children’s health and sense of independence, but also improves their concentration and academic performance.

Let’s pedal towards a brighter and greener future together WA!

EDUCATORS - REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL TODAY

Join the movement for healthier, happier, and safer streets by participating in Ride To School Day on Friday, 22 March! 

As part of this initiative, all of WA’s 1050 schools have the chance to win an exciting bike fun day for their students. Register your school for Ride To School Day and be in with a chance to win a day filled with bike and helmet checks, bike riding skills sessions, fun obstacle courses, and exciting prizes and giveaways.

Once registered, you’ll receive a comprehensive resource pack loaded with practical tools and innovative ideas to promote active travel to and from your school in the lead up to Ride to School Day WA. 

Get involved and show your school’s commitment to active travel! 

Parents - share your photos and win

Celebrate Ride To School Day WA on Friday, 22 March, by sharing photos/videos of your kids school journeys over the next 16 days and win a shiny new bike + accessories from 99 Bikes

Bikelinc apparel will go to other contenders! 
 
Use the hashtag #RidetoSchoolDayWA, tag in @WestCycle on Facebook or Instagram and celebrate the way your family rides to school! (Or if social media is not your thing email us at [email protected])
 
Ride to School and win!
  
99 Bikes Bike package terms & conditions
 Prize items are not refundable.

Winning Pedal bike excludes e-bikes, Pedal Viking, Pedal Colt and Pedal Otway.
 Choose one helmet up to the value of $70 (or upgrade and pay the difference).

Choose one bike lock up to the value of $35 (or upgrade and pay the difference).
Offer is only valid in-store (WA), and for in-stock items only (not online).

Don’t hesitate to contact WestCycle at [email protected] with any queries.

Tim Roach

Elected Director | Off Road

Tim has been in senior leadership and strategic development roles for more than twenty years. He is currently Director of Executive Education in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University and is a past Assistant Commissioner and General Manager in the public service. He is an Accountant (FCPA) and sits on the Divisional Council of CPA Australia.

Tim has been involved in racing mountain bikes, BMX and triathlon for many years, both as a father of two children who race and as a past and current bike racer. Tim is the current over-50 State Champion in downhill mountain biking. He is also a very regular and enthusiastic transport cyclist; frequently seen in a suit and tie riding to meetings in the city on a mountain bike.

Denise Sullivan

Chair | Governance & Risk Committee

Denise Sullivan has a career spanning over twenty years in senior management and executive roles in the state public and not-for-profit health sectors.

In her usual role of Director Chronic Disease Prevention with the Western Australian Department of Health, she leads the development of state chronic disease and injury prevention policy and planning frameworks and contributes to the shaping of the national preventive health policy agenda.

Her professional interests cover many aspects of chronic disease and injury prevention encompassing health communications, health promotion and research, public policy on health and workforce planning and development.

She has a particular interest in furthering collaborations with other sectors with a mutual interest in promoting a more active and healthier WA community, and creating and sustaining environments that support this. Denise is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Leadership WA Signature Program, and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian College of Health Service Managers.

Denise is a recreational cyclist and recent convert to mountain biking (although trainer wheels still on!).