Alison completed forty Wainwrights in her fortieth year, celebrating movement, wellbeing and the joy of the outdoors. Her challenge reflects Cycling Without Age Stockton’s belief that adventure is for everyone, and shows how time in nature can rebuild confidence, connection and resilience.
Cycling Without Age Stockton-on-Tees is rolling out free Dementia Orientation Training for our volunteer pilots – and offering it to other CWA chapters across the UK. Designed and delivered by our own dementia trainer, this two-hour session equips volunteers with the skills to provide dementia-friendly trishaw rides, from understanding brain changes to using communication techniques that make every passenger feel safe, respected, and included.
Our steampunk-inspired trishaw joined the 2025 SIRF Community Carnival to celebrate Stockton’s creative spirit, invention, and inclusion — with a cardboard cog or two and a whole lot of heart.
Cycling Without Age is about so much more than cycling – it’s about bringing people together, one slow and meaningful ride at a time. If you’d like to get involved, whether as a volunteer or supporter, we’d love to hear from you. Let’s keep the wheels turning!
CWAStockton met with Kevin Clark from the Sunderland Echo to talk about the project and the impact it can have on people living with dementia.
On Thursday 2nd November, Trixie and Robert went along to Green Lodge Care Home in Billingham.
On Friday 9th June, we joined staff and residents from Moorlands Care Home at South Park in Darlington for a game of bowls and trishaw rides around the park.
On Friday 23rd December, Team Trixie donned some festive attire and visited Allington House Care Home in Billingham.
On Wednesday 14th December, the CWAStockton team along with Santa Claus joined the group from Stepping On Social.
On Wednesday 14th December, the team from Cycling Without Age Stockton on tees were at Grays Road Institute for Young At Heart ULO CIC’s Big Sing for Christmas.
On Sunday 11th December, Trixie Trishaw and two members of the team headed out on a cold and frosty morning to the very beautiful Ropner Park for the Friends of Ropner Park Festive Fair.
On Friday 9th December, Trixie Trishaw and the CWAStockton team again had the important duty of safely transporting Santa Claus to BELP.
On Tuesday 6th December, the Cycling Without Age Stockton on Tees Team attending two Young At Heart ULO CIC Dementia Activity Groups and Care Partner Support Groups.
On Saturday 26th November, the team from Cycling Without Age Stockton on Tees attended the Winterfest event at South Park, Darlington.
On Wednesday 2nd November, Caroline from Team CWAStockton attended the Coop Cheque Presentation event help at the store in Ingleby Barwick’s The Rings.
On Saturday 29th October, Trixie returned to Summerhill Park in Hartlepool to support a fundraising event for NeoAngels.
On Saturday 15th October, Trixie Trishaw attended Summerhill Park, in Hartlepool, to take part in the grand opening of the brand new cycling track.
On Monday 10th October, Alison and Trixie went along to Billingham Environmental Link Programme’s Mens Group at Low Grange Community Centre in Billingham.
On Sunday 9th October, Trixie Trishaw was in Hartlepool on the promenade near Elephant Rock in the Headland for Hartlepool Borough Council’s Dino Day.
On Friday 23rd September, Alison and Caroline took Trixie along to the White House Care Home in Hartburn, following an invitation from their Activities Coordinator Julie.
On Thursday 15th September and Thursday 22nd September, Trixie Trishaw and McChadwick the Minibus supported Stockton Lodge Care Home to enjoy a seaside adventure in Seaton Carew.
On Friday 16th September, Robert and Alison from CWAStockton boarded McChadwick and headed south towards Derby for the Cycling Without Age England Conference.
On Thursday 18th August, Trixie was out visiting staff Allington House in Billingham
On Wednesday 17th August, we went on an adventure with Trixie Trishaw McChadwick the minibus and Stockton Lodge Care Home residents.
A TRISHAW has taken care home residents for a ride down memory lane – after a romantic trundle around Saltburn-by-the-Sea with their wives.
On Sunday 7th August, Trixie and co took part in the Stockton International Riverside Festival Community Carnival.
On Thursday 28th July, Trixie and our team attended Aycliffe Care Home in Newton Aycliffe to deliver a free taster session for the benefit of the care home residents
On Tuesday 26th July, Trixie Trishaw attended Sherburn House Care Home in Durham as part of the trishaw trial for care homes
On the morning of Monday 18th July, we took Trixie Trishaw along to Anchor’s Millbeck Care Home in Norton.
On Sunday 17th July, Trixie and the team were invited to Ropner Park to be part of the Eid Fusion festival.
On Friday 15th July, Alison and Trixie ventured to Ropner Park in Hartburn to meet with Emma from the local mental health charity Red Balloons and one of their activity participants.
On Sunday 3rd July, Trixie Trishaw took part in the 10th Stockton Cycling Festival Family Fun Ride in Stockton on Tees.
On Thursday 30th June, Trixie and Co. made their way to Saltburn-by-the-Sea to visit our friends at Hazelgrove Care Home
Trixie showed her wheels in Darlington today as we visited the staff and residents at Moorlands Care Home
On Wednesday 22nd June, Robert and Trixie made their way to The Institute in Grangefield to meet with Tom and Tracey and take them for a daddy-daughter trishaw ride around Ropner Park.
On Tuesday 21st June, the team from Cycling Without Age Stockton on Tees attended the Trefoil Guild.
On Monday 20th June, Trixie Trishaw was introduced to the staff and residents at Park House Rest Home.
On Thursday 16th June, our team travelled to Lindisfarne Ouston Care Home in Chester-Le-Street.
On Wednesday 15th June, Trixie trishaw was showing her moves at Hazel Grove Court Care Home in Saltburn.
On Monday 13th June, we met staff and residents from Elton Hall for a few laps of Ropner Park
Today, we met with two members of staff and three residents of Elton Hall Care Home to cycle around Ropner Park.
Today, we took Trixie Trishaw to Ropner Park as part of our wider Dementia Action Week activities.
On Sunday 8th May, Alison and Caroline from Hand In Hand Activities CIC attended the Spring Fair at Ropner Park in Hartburn to take attendees for trishaw rides around the park on Trixie Trishaw.
Today, we took Trixie Trishaw to Hardwick Park in Sedgefield
On Friday 22nd April, the CWAStockton team jumped into the minibus and went on a road trip up to Shotley Bridge’s Derwent Clinic to meet with Claire and Lewis from the Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust’s Care Home Wellbeing Team.
Today, we had the absolute pleasure of taking Trixie Trishaw on a visit to Elton Hall Care Home to meet some members of the team and to take a few residents for a short trishaw ride around the local area.
On Thursday 24th February, Robert from Hand In Hand Activities CIC’s Cycling Without Age Stockton on Tees Chapter had a meeting with the Activities Coordinator for Stockton Lodge Care Home
We made the most of the dry weather and the sunshine and ventured out with Trixie Trishaw to Thornaby and Ingleby Barwick
Today, we attended Ropner Park for a long overdue meeting with Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham
Everyone who attended the trip received a return trishaw ride along the seafront
On Sunday 12th December, Trixie Trishaw and the team team were on hand at Ropner Park’s Christmas Fair.
On Friday 10th December, Alison and Trixie Trishaw attended a community Christmas Carol sing-along at Roseville Care Home in Ingleby Barwick
Trixie Trishaw attended Ropner Park to deliver a naughty elf to the singing school children.
We are a Co-op Local Cause until October 2022!
CWAStockton is proud to be supporting the re-opening of the NCN1 cycle path linking Seaham to Dalton Park following resurfacing works carried out by Sustrans.
On Tuesday 16th November, Alison took Trixie Trishaw along to Woodside Grange Care Home in Thornaby
We are delighted that our Cycling Without Age Stockton on Tees Chapter has been chosen to benefit from the Co-op Local Community Fund.
Our National Lottery Awards For All funding application was successful!
Ropner Park, thanks to support from Stockton Borough Council and Friends of Ropner Park and with funding from the National Lottery’s Celebrate 25 Fund, which we were awarded in 2020 prior to the COVID19 pandemic. The event offered free 10 minute rides around the Park, free refreshments (including sandwiches, wraps Read more
Trixie Trishaw will be at Ropner Park on Tuesday 24th August and is available for short, 10-minute rides around the park between the hours of 10am and 4pm, with pre-booking recommended at www.cwastockton.co.uk
Dear Supporters, We are delighted that Cycling Without Age Stockton on Tees Chapter (brought to you by Hand In Hand Activities CIC) has been chosen to benefit from the Co-op Local Community Fund. At a time when funds for community groups and charitable organisations are becoming more difficult to access, Read more
Cycling Without Age was invited to pitch at Stockton Soup, at ARC in Stockton, in July for some community funding towards the launch of our Stockton Chapter of Cycling Without Age which involves purchasing our first trishaw.
Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores awarded to local community projects.
Hand In Hand Activities Director, Mark Shields, took a break from his day job to join us at John Whitehead Park and experience the trishaw first hand.
The smiles on their faces when they returned said it all, even though it was snowing!
Stockton resident, Grace, was among the first to be taken for a spin around John Whitehead Park when the Cycling Without Age founder Ole Kassow and Pernille Bussone attending the Young At Heart ULO event of Monday 5th February.
Hand In Hand Activities Director, Phil Keene, was among the throng of volunteers eager to experience piloting the trishaw and once he boarded the pilot seat it was incredibly difficult to get him off it!
Hand In Hand Activities CIC is excited to announce that our application to establish a Cycling Without Age Chapter in Stockton on Tees has been accepted and work is now underway to raise the £7,000 needed to purchase the first of our fleet of trishaws.