Mansfield Triathlon Club is the latest sporting group to benefit from an Armchair Club grant.

The club runs an active junior section, and offers bike hire to those who don’t own one so that they can take part.

The £250 grant will be used to service and repair bikes for juniors to continue training. The club owns 18 bikes, with 13 on hire to children.

When each annual hire contract ends, the club gets their bikes serviced and in working order for the following season.

Regular servicing is important so that time is not wasted on Saturday training sessions.

The Armchair Club was created in 1982 by a small group of Mansfield businessmen to raise much-needed funds to give back to able-bodied and disabled local sportspeople.

Grants are available to young sports people and clubs based in Mansfield or Ashfield area, go to www.armchairclub.org

Pictured are Mansfield Triathlon Club members with Geoff Waller, Emma Curry, and Andrew Saunders, of the Armchair Club, at Forest Town Arena, where the club is based,