H.V.L. Working in partnership with Liverpool City Region, Cheshire Constabulary and N.H.S. Merseycare on a Cycle Project.
so we’re at hton British Legion and behind us is some of the investment that we’ve done to work with veterans locally to start to address some of the the the problems that people have at this moment with mental health and well-being and they’re working obviously with ex Armed Forces but anybody else who wants to come and and they using the opportunity to invest in some cycling infrastructure working with the police here and the whole thing is really starting to come together being a former veteran myself uh and being a patient within the NHS and using mental health services I think we’re doing a really good job and getting out and engaging with veterans and the local community as well so we’ve been working hand in hand with ches constabulary Liverpool City region and the NHS ches constabulary have kind of donated the bikes which we get for free and at the end of the course the serviceu will walk away with a with a that they’ve been maintaining and looking after as well as safety equipment which hton veterans Legion will provide Kev and the team from hton veterans Le and explain the value of fixing the bikes and the mental well-being that gives so uh We’ve agreed to support them by providing bikes they come from a variety of sources uh there’s always dozens of bikes coming to the police they can be stolen lost found and if we can’t reunite them with their owners instead of them going to auctions or similar being disposed of we thought what a great opportunity to turn something bit negative against Community into something positive for the community we were very fortunate to be allocated funding from Liverpool City region environmental fund which we’re very grateful for to en enable us to start this project and hopefully maintain the momentum that we’ve achieved so far the idea for us with our communy environmental fund is to look at those things where we can improve not just the environments but also people’s understanding of the environment so Cycles help people get round but getting the the adrenaline Buzz of cycling uh the health and well-being benefits of being out with others you know discussing um their issues so everything that was trying to do is really around uh using our funding so that we can Target it at the things that we believe are really important