The Bristol Bike Project Needs Your Vote
Posted on: 26 Oct 2016The revolution will not be motorised.
The Bristol Bike Project are in a race to win an Aviva grant, which would help the company to sustain their popular programme, The Social Cycle. The winner of the money will be the organisation which has collected the most votes - to cast yours go here.
The Social Cycle is a wonderfully beneficial programme for sufferers of social isolation, taking the form of a weekly workshop which allows the opportunity to meet other cyclists and make friends, as well as making bikes for their Earn A Bike initiative. The programme has been very successful so far, and the cash from the Aviva grant would go a long way to making it sustainable.
More generally, The Bristol Bike Project aims to provide free bicycles to underprivileged groups that would not otherwise have the opportunity to own one. All of the bikes are either unwanted or unused and donated by the general public, and the new owners have to attend workshops to overhaul and maintain their bikes.
The aim of the project is to be sustainable with a strong emphasis on people helping themselves, reducing the amount that ends up in landfill and recycling as much as possible.
For more information on the work that the project does, visit their website.
To vote for The Bristol Bike Project to win the Aviva grant, click here.
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An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.
