A SPECIAL school is organising a charity bike ride to help pay for specialist bicycles for students

YSGOL y Deri based in Sully Road, Penarth is encouraging people to join, help marshal or sponsor participants of the ride it is organising next month.

The school, which caters for over 250 pupils with specialist needs between the ages of three and 19, has arranged for a group to cycle along the Taff Trail from Brecon to Penarth to raise money to help disabled people enjoy cycling.

Over the last three years, around £20,000 has been generated to buy specially-built bikes for wheelchair users, design a mountain bike sensory trail and take students on trips to world-renowned cycling routes in the Afan Valley.

The bespoke bikes are made to order and cater specifically for an individual child’s particular needs.

They cost around £5,000 to £6,000 each and the first delivery of bikes is expected at the school early next month.

This year’s event takes place on Saturday, May 20, with riders given the option of joining the ride in Brecon, Merthyr or Nantgarw.

They then travel along a fully signposted and marshalled route that finishes in Penarth.

There will be a bus leaving Ysgol y Deri at 7am and a party featuring a barbecue held at the finish line.

It costs £12.50 to enter with discounts available for group entries and a prize awarded to every rider.

Those wishing to sign up to ride and raise money should visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ysgol-y-deri-taff-trail-challenge-2017-tickets-32830662395

More information can be found at www.facebook.com/YYDeri or by contacting tafftrailchallenge@yyd.org.uk and donations can be made through the event’s Just Giving page www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ysgolyderi-tafftrailchallenge-2017.