New travel grant to promote cross-continental cycling

The Janapar Grant is aimed at getting 18 to 25-year-olds to travel across countries by bike and will provide equipment, clothing and mentoring

Scottish adventurer Mark Beaumont cycles his Koga bicycle in front of the Pyramids of Giza

(Image credit: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert)

A new grant for young people has been launched this week, with the aim of getting travellers to make cross-continental journeys by bike by providing equipment and expert mentorship.

The Janapar Grant, coming from the Armenian word for 'journey', 'way' or 'road', has been set up by Tom Allen in order to ‘promote journeys that involve immersion in unfamiliar places, cultures and ideas’.

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