Parents are being encouraged to leave their cars at home and cycle their children to school on innovative bikes.

St James’s Catholic Primary School has been working with Richmond Cycling Campaign (RCC) to find solutions to ease traffic outside the school and help families ride to school.

RCC surveyed the school and found 37 pupils and four members of staff cycled to school but 226 children and 20 staff would like to but feel they are unable to.

Parents are now being given the opportunity to try a variety of bikes including electric bikes, tricycles, and cargo bikes and find out how they can cycle to school at a bike fair.

The fair was held at the school in Stanley Road, Twickenham, on Tuesday, June 18, and was part of RCC’s campaign to get children cycling in the borough and included bike marking from the police and maintenance workshops from Dr Bike.

RCC campaigns coordinator Tim Lennon said: “We believe that activities like this - showing families that cycling is a pleasant, safe transport option for almost all their activities, coupled with pressure on the council to follow Boris Johnson’s lead and provide better, more segregated facilities for cycling - can help us be a real biking borough, rather than one where up to half of a school's children say ‘I’d like to cycle but I can’t’.”