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Annual Report 2024-2025
The Trail Pot Submits First Charity Accounts, Marking Key Early Milestone The Trail Pot, the UK’s National Mountain Bike Development Fund, has submitted its first set of accounts to the Charity Commission, marking an important step in the charity’s embryonic development and governance. Founded to support grassroots mountain biking projects and help communities secure funding…
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Transparency
Submitting our first set of accounts to the Charity Commission for England and Wales might not sound like a headline moment to most people — but for us, it genuinely is. When we set up The Trail Pot, the idea was simple: support grassroots mountain biking while protecting the landscapes we ride in and building…
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Keep pushing
It’s been just over a year since we really got going with The Trail Pot, and it’s fair to say that progress on its growth hasn’t been quite as good as we’d hoped it would be. We get amazing comments from people about the charity, the model and the plan – but that doesn’t seem…
Supporting the grassroots.
We are the only national charity in the United Kingdom supporting the development of mountain biking at the foundational level- the trail groups , volunteers and local organisations who make up the mountain biking community – we need the support of the entire community to make it work.
How it works
In very simple terms we intend to raise a lot then give it back to local projects.
And we’ve worked out a model to do that.
Our reinvestment
As a registered charity we’re bound by rules governing how cash can be raised and must be reinvested.
What’s in it for you?
We realise we’re asking you to support something that has never been done before and doing so requires a level of faith in the project overall.
The Trail Pot 