Trips for Kids Metro New York Hosts 2nd Annual Bike and Bites Festival

Trips for Kids  Metro New York

Hosts Second Annual Bikes & Bites Benefit

With Your Help We Can Get Hundreds of Kids on Bikes

This Season

(New York, New York) March 11, 2010 - Trips for Kids Metro New York (TFK), will be hosting its second annual Bikes and Bites Benefit on Tuesday April 27, 2010 7:00-9:00 at 107 West Restaurant and Bar  on the Upper West Side at 107^th and Broadway. TFK is a non-profit organization, that provides inner city kids with a transformational day of mountain biking fun!

TFK ‘s  mountain biking trips teaches the kids mountain biking skills, environmental education and give them a self esteem building experience all by the simple act of having fun.

“Our rides activate and excite a child’s personal awareness through interaction with the environment and physical activity.” says Andree Sanders, Executive Director of TFK.

TFK provides an important service to Metro New York kids who have limited access to the outdoors and physical activity.  TFK gives urban children a rare opportunity to experience mountain biking under the guidance of trained professionals in non urban settings.  TFK’s outreach is committed to reaching the diverse group of urban youth, ages 10-18.

TFK’s specialized mountain biking intervention program nurtures positive attitudes and brighter perspectives helping kids lead healthier and more productive lives. Kids’ lives can be changed by getting them onto bikes and out in nature, where they can learn about themselves through discovering the environment around them.  Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008) has concluded that children who are regularly exposed to nature “thrive in intellectual, spiritual and physical ways that their ‘shut-in’ peers do not”.  He says studies show that enjoying nature reduces kids' loneliness, depression and attention problems.

In support of National Bike Month approaching in May, TFK is hosting its second annual Bikes and Bites Benefit to help get hundreds of kids on bikes this season.  The event will be held at 107 West Restaurant and Bar on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 7:00-9:00pm.  Tickets are $30 per person, which includes drinks and appetizers.  The event is open to the public and tickets will be sold at the door and online.  There will be a silent auction with items such as a weekend getaway near Tanglewood, a hand blown vase by internationally know artist, Michael Davis, and many different gift certificates to local restaurants and stores.   Raffle items include a kindle, many bike items and the grand prize is a Mountain Bike. 

For further information or to arrange coverage of this event, please contact: Andree Sanders, Executive Director at 917-658-9289, asanders@tfkmetrony.org