NATIONAL CYCLING PROFICIENCY scheme (RoSPA) - candidate's examination award badge (1950s / 1960s)

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For sale is a vintage enamel badge awarded to candidates who passed their NATIONAL CYCLING PROFICIENCY (NCP) test having achieved a minimum score of 75%. The NCP scheme was organised and run by RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) until 1974 and thereafter by local authorities across Britain. This badge’s design is based on the red safety triangle symbol used by RoSPA, a cyclist and the wording National Cycling Proficiency. The NCP’s training and testing were generally done through schools, with 11 and 12 year old participants being the most popular age group. This badge would have been awarded along with the NCP Certificate on successfully passing the test. Entry fee for the test was 6d (sixpence) which included the certificate and the badge itself cost 1/- (one shilling). These and other costs were borne by local authorities who provided or approved the NCP training and testing facilities. After 1974, other variants of the NCP badge were produced by individual local authorities, but these are all harder to come by.

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1936 - A national cycling proficiency training scheme proposed.
1947 - A new Cycling Proficiency training scheme introduced by the Ministry of Transport and operated under the auspices of RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents).
1947 - The first Cycling Proficiency Test was held for seven children on 7th October 1947. Thereafter, the scheme rapidly expanded and by 1960 a target for around 300,000 cyclists to be trained annually had been set (Hansard Parliamentary debates 25/5/1960).
1958 - Based on the Ministry of Transport’s ‘Report of the Working Party on Child Cyclists’, the National Cycling Proficiency (NCP) scheme was started-up.
1974 - Statutory responsibility for road safety was handed to local authorities that included the provision of child cyclist training.
2007 - Cycling had waned with rising affluence and increasing car ownership with declining interest in the NCP scheme. With a revival of cycling in the early years of the 21st century a new national cycling proficiency scheme was established in 2007, Bikeability.

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DESCRIPTION:
Size: about 1" x 7/8" (25mm x 22mm).
Material(s): brass metal with 2 enamels.
Finish: tin plated.
Fitting: buttonhole (horseshoe shaped clasp).
Imprint: none.
Approximate age: 1958 to around mid-1960s.

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CONDITION:
Excellent condition. No damage.
Please see photograph(s), these form part of the description.

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