"Inclusive cycling for all, encouraging the health and wellbeing of everybody in the community we live in."
Bikeworks is a social enterprise in Tower Hamlets East London, that offers a range of organisational and public cycle services including; cycle training courses, repairs, bike re-cycling, travel planning and sales of new & second hand bikes.
We tackle environmental issues by getting more people cycling & make cycling as green as possible by recycling used bikes for re-use whilst at the same time creating employment & training opportunities for disadvantaged communities.
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Bikeworks has moved it’s base for operations to Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets. The park offers excellent opportunities for cycle programmes and will be a home for Bikeworks bike recycling operations. See contact us / map for details of where to find us.
Bikeworks is delighted to have secured funding worth £45,000 over two years from the City Bridge Trust to support the development of the enterprise and the growth of our social and environmental programmes including bike recycling. We would like to thank the trust for their backing and belief in what we are doing.
See www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk for more information.
Bikeworks has been successful in securing a grant worth £20,000 from the Esmee Fairbain foundation to develop it’s employment and training arm in 2008. The grant will enable us to build an accredited trainee programme and employ young people (including disability groups) in East London as cycle trainers, mechanics and in other areas of the enterprise.
See www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk for more information on their grant programmes.
Bikeworks is delighted to have been highly commended by the London Cycling Campaign in their annual community awards in October 2007. The award recognises the significant progress Bikeworks has made in a very short time since we started trading in February this year and in particular highlights Bikeworks successful disability cycling programme.
See www.lcc.org.uk for more details on the award winners.
Check out the short film we made with BBC explaining some of things we do at Bikeworks. Click here to watch film
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