Breathe life into your old bike
A scheme to recycle unwanted bikes has gained lottery funding to run for a year. If you have an old bike, you can drop it off at The Vauxhall Centre, where it’ll be put to good use.
The scheme “Not about the Bike” is a community workshop which refurbishes and recycles unwanted bikes, offering training and work experience to a range of people. As a social enterprise, it gained lottery funding and now gives those people on the project the skills to get back into employment.
The renovated bikes are offered free or very cheaply to people on low incomes. The workshop, which operates out of an industrial unit off Magdalen Street, runs weekly bike maintenance sessions, but unwanted bikes can be dropped off at The Vauxhall Centre, near Chapelfield Gardens.
Christine Isaacs, a development worker with Centre said:”We want to give people, often with disabilities, the skills to get back into work and to engage with the community. They wanted to do something meaningful, so we came up with the idea of recycling bikes.”
For more information email notaboutthebike@yahoo.co.uk
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