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2026 Great Selby Bike Ride
Great Selby Bike Ride 2026
Spring is arriving, bringing brighter mornings, colourful blooms, and the perfect excuse to get your bike back on the road. That also means the much‑loved Great Selby Bike Ride is just around the corner!
Event Details
Date: Sunday, 17 May 2026
Start/Finish: Barlby High School
Routes: 25 miles & 45 miles
Parking: Extensive on‑site parking available
Both routes are fully signposted and marshalled, with drinks stops along the way and mobile first aid support to keep riders safe. Enjoy the scenic countryside around Selby at your own pace.
New for 2026: Your Choice of Charity
This year, riders are invited to fundraise for a charity of their own choice. You can enter via your chosen charity or create your own fundraising page. Riders using JustGiving will also benefit from an extra 20% Gift Aid automatically claimed by the platform from HMRC on your behalf.
You are, of course, still very welcome to support Elmet Lions Club. Donations will help us continue our local, national, and international charitable work throughout the year.
How to Enter
Click here to enter the Great Selby Bike Ride 2026
We look forward to seeing you on the day. Wishing you smooth roads and happy pedalling!
Elmet Lions Club CIO
Read the Selby Times article of 8th May 2025
Mobile marshals
We are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with Ride of Honour and Wetherby Lion Tim Ritson to provide motorcycle marshals for the GSBR this year.
As well as a rapid response to any issue that might arise these marshals will also manage the stand down of static marshals after all the riders have passed by.
You can visit Ride of Honour’s website via this link.
Bike Ride Charities in 2025
BHF funds over £100 million worth of research projects every year. With your help, we can make a difference.
That’s why Elmet Lions has chosen BHF as one of the beneficiaries of the Great SeLby Bike Ride 2025.
Sign up to fundraise for our #cycling event here – https://greatselbybikeride.lionsclub.co/how-to-enter/ and create a Justgiving account here – https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/greatselbybikeride2025
Bike Ride charities in 2025
PCUK tells us that Pancreatic cancer is the deadliest common cancer. More than half of people die within three months of diagnosis.
With research underfunded and left behind, people are left with only hope to hold onto. But they deserve more.
With your support, PCUK could fund research breakthroughs to help us detect early, treat better and save more lives.
That’s why Elmet Lions has chosen Pancreatic Cancer UK as one of the beneficiaries of the Great Selby Bike Ride 2025.
Sign up to fundraise for our #cycling event here – and create a Justgiving account here –
Bike Ride charities in 2025
St Leonard’s Hospice team is here to offer compassionate care when people need it most.
This incredible support wouldn’t exist without you.
That’s why Elmet Lions has chosen St Leonard’s Hospice as one of the beneficiaries of the Great Selby Bike Ride 2025.
Sign up to fundraise for our #cycling event here – and create a Justgiving account here –
Bike Ride charities in 2025
At Martin House, we’re on a mission to build a hospice that children, young people and families of Yorkshire truly deserve.
THE BUILD will create a space filled with comfort and care for families today and for years to come. It’s more than a building – it’s a lifeline for families going through the hardest of times.
Here’s how we’ve supported families like Ruby and Sophia’s
THE BUILD will create a space filled with comfort and care for families today and for years to come. It’s more than a building – it’s a lifeline for families going through the hardest of times.Here’s how we’ve supported families like Ruby and Sophia’s
That’s why Elmet Lions has chosen Martin House Hospice as one of the beneficiaries of the Great Selby Bike Ride 2025.
Sign up to fundraise for our #cycling event here – https://greatselbybikeride.lionsclub.co/how-to-enter/ and create a Justgiving account here – https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/greatselbybikeride2025
Claiming GiftAid from HMRC
Elmet Lions have published an article about claiming GiftAid from HMRC.
A Bit of a Do
On Friday 21st June we had a ’Bit of a Do’ at South Milford WI Hall to thank the marshalling volunteers who helped at the Great Selby Bike Ride (GSBR), to present donations to the four charity beneficiaries of the Bike Ride and to recognise the major contributions made by two significant individuals involved with the event.
This was punctuated with a fun quiz and a light supper, not forgetting a slice of Ada Jobling’s celebratory cake too.
Held annually on more than 30 occasions the GSBR comprises two circular rides from Barlby High School on marshalled routes 25 and 45 mile in length and raises funds for four charities who organise and manage the event in May of each year.
Elmet Lions Club took over the GSBR in 2022 after its originators, Selby Lions Club, closed down. Over that whole time Sheila Newsome managed the drinks stop at The Guides’ White Rose House on behalf of Martin House.
Sheila Newsome being presented with a bouquet in appreciation of her years of involvement with the Bike Ride
At the other end of the age spectrum eight year old Ada Jobling has ridden twice in the most recent events, even tackling the 45 mile route this year in the company of her dad John, raising £2,500 and £4,470 respectively. Ada’s efforts have been match funded by The Hiscox Trust, for whom dad John works, amounting to £1,148 (2023) and £2,000 (2024) of the annual totals.
Ada and her dad
An interim cheque for £1,200 was presented to each of the four beneficiaries:-
Martin House, British Heart Foundation, St Leonard’s Hospice, and Elmet Lions PSA testing campaign,
with a further top-up expected when all donations are finalised and Gift Aid is provided by HMRC.
Becky from the British Heart Foundation
Sheila Newsome and Michelle Ford from Martin House
Annie Keogh from St Leonard’s Hospice
Lion VP John Brettell and Lion President Maggie Hartley
The winners of Lion John Boulton’s fiendish quiz were the Wistow Wizards who took home their prize of a bottle of wine and four straws.
Ada’s team comprising three generations of the Jobling family took home the wooden spoons, proving that even superheroes can have off days.
Quiz master Lion Johhn Boulton and Ada with her wooden spoons
Let’s do it all again next year!