Young People – Fresh Choices, a jole rider m2A project funded by the Criminal Justice Service, is designed to reduce crime in Wiltshire.

Starting in February 2010, it will do so by engaging young people excluded, or at risk of exclusion, from school in a bike skills training programme which will benefit less fortunate teenagers in Africa.

Young People – Fresh Choices will deliver profound, immediate and long-lasting positive impact upon participants’ senses of achievement and pride, and a solid foundation in applied skills to open employment opportunities.

The programme is based upon the successes achieved by HM Prison Service and resident inmates working with bikes4Africa. 

Only 15% of excluded children re-enter mainstream education…
there is a direct and palpable link between exclusion, truanting and crime
- New Policy Institute