Rev And Go

My name is Daniel Hegarty Rev and Go off-road motorcycle club based for young kids around Copper Haven and Rushcliffe area in Nottingham they go riding in exchange for contracts for good behaviour. I’ve moved on since Rev and Go, worked my way up for the R6 cup, and potentially might be in British super weights next year. Male Speaker: The whole basis of Rev and Go is that the young people have control of what they’re doing, we’re just a monitoring brief to make sure things run safely, the lads themselves look after it, the know what they’re doing and they take care. Male Speaker: We do the bikes all by ourselves, we have a toolbox which is very handy. Male Speaker: They’ve also learnt a lot about mechanics and also about personal development stuff. Who they are and how they turn out into the world as proper adult people. One thing you notice whilst they’re here is that they are functioning as trainee adults rather than as teenagers. Male Speaker: The way that they are throwing the bikes around here is giving them a good stead in life; it’s the learning process with everything that they do. Female Speaker: It means a lot, the children learn such social skills for being in a group like this and without things like the Big Lottery Fund we just couldn’t keep it going. Simple things like having conversations at tables, like how is your day? Male Speaker: They’re learning to respect their equipment, rely on one another for maintaining the bikes, just getting them off the streets and into a nice secure area where there is adults to keep a check on them. Male Speaker: It’s keeping me off streets, I’m really growing up, I enjoy it a lot, we are having more responsibility because it is our group not anyone else’s. Male Speaker: My behaviour is getting better and better, it’s an easier way to grow up. Male Speaker: There’s more than one of them in fact who have been the subject of severe bullying at school and they used this project as the their time out of bullying and learning how to react to that bullying and deal with it without becoming bullies themselves. Male Speaker: Now that me daughters just started her first ride today and it’s bringing us out more as a family in family outings sort of thing Male Speaker: What’s on your knees? Male Speaker: Knee pads. Male Speaker: What's on your elbows? Male Speaker: Elbow pads. Male Speaker: And what are you going to put on your head? Male Speaker: Helmet. Male Speaker: What’s on your hands? Male Speaker: Gloves. Female Speaker: And I’m really looking forward to coming again next week. It was my first day today and I fell off a couple of times but then I decided to get back on after. Male Speaker: When the group first was originated, one of the issues in Cockgrave was significant amounts of illegal riding on mini motos and so on around the streets. The crime stats now show a dramatic reduction in that sort of activity. Without Big Lottery Fund this wouldn’t happen today.