Cycling Without Age Bendigo

A big happy birthday to one of our pilots mum’s today! 🎂 We from CWAB hope you have a wonderful day. 🎉 Our pilot was able to take her mum for a ride around Lake Weeroona in the Trishaw yesterday as a special treat for her birthday! Just goes to show there are always new things to experience and we are glad we were able to help make your birthday a little bit more special! 🎈

Here’s a fun idea that our passengers might enjoy at the gardens during the school holidays! Here’s a link to it for your information

https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/explore-bendigo/whatson/village-of-gnomes

All rugged up and ready to roll! Residents of Estia Ironbark enjoyed the Botanic Gardens this afternoon and each others company on a leisurely outing for a Trishaw session. Thank you so much to Robert and Ian who were the pilots on this occasion. Well done! 🌿🌷🪻🌼

Residents of Estia Kangaroo Flat took full advantage of today’s glorious sunny winters day enjoying a trishaw ride around the beautiful Botanic Gardens in White Hills. Thank you so much to Greg and Robert who were the pilots for today’s session. 🌸🌿☀️

It was a lovely sunny day on Monday for residents of Estia Ironbark to enjoy their trishaw rides! Thank you so much to Robert and Ian who were the pilots on the day! All rides were very much enjoyed by all 👏👏👏

There were lots of birds to see in the Garden for the Future this afternoon as residents from Estia enjoyed their Trishaw rides! 🦆🦜🐦‍⬛🪿
Thank you so much to Greg and Brenda who were the pilots. 🤗🤗

Thank you so much to Huntly Community Hub - Australia for including our 2nd Birthday event in your May/June Newsletter, much appreciated! 🙏🤗

IT'S VOLUNTEERS WEEK!

We would like to take the opportunity to express our gratitude to all of our volunteers for everything that you do for our chapter big or small, it's all very much appreciated. Fitting for the occasion is to revisit the Pilots testimonials which were gathered for the last event we attended and attached below.

The work that we do as a chapter encourages both our older residents and people with a disability to get out to the outdoors and to stay connected with their environment and the community.

This in turn combats loneliness and social isolation resulting in benefits to their mental health and increased self confidence.

The benefits of our Trishaw rides for our passengers is simple in theory. It's the conversation, the sharing of lovely parks and gardens, in some instances bringing back memories from long ago, it's the sharing of life stories, sometimes perhaps meeting people that they know along the way, patting dogs, watching baby ducks or just watching other people walking their dogs. So in essence it's connecting them again to the community and the mobility that they once knew in a gentle, relaxing manner.

So a huge thank you to all of our volunteers, you do a wonderful job and definitely deserve a pat on the back. Well done! 👏👏

What beautiful weather we are having. And residents of Estia Kangaroo Flat have been enjoying a glorious afternoon at the Botanic Gardens! Thank you so much to Estia for sending through these photos and thank you too to Robert and Ian who were the lucky pilots for this session! 🌿🍂🍁🌷🌺

Our chapter turned 2 today!
It’s a momentous occasion and getting together for coffee gave us a chance to reflect on our achievements and growth over the last two years. Apologies from Tim, Tony, Gerard, Brenda, David, Eddie and Glenda. Well done team! And here’s to the next 12 months! 🤗🤗🤗