Flat owners leaving their belongings in communal areas is a problem that just won’t go away.
Potentially the biggest impact is how it would affect your Fire Risk Assessment and escape plan for the building.
The following organisations offer bike recycling programmes
Name: Recyclez
Website: http://www.recyclez.co.uk/
Telephone: 0751 1079521
Notes: promoting social and environmental justice through a practical initiative to reuse, recycle and reduce waste
Area Covered: Bath
Name: Cyclechain
Website: http://www.cyclechain.org/
Telephone: 0121 357 0643
Notes: Cycle Chain is concerned with the creation of sustainable and realistic employment for disadvantaged individuals, in particular those with a visual impairment and those recovering from mental health problems.
Area Covered: Birmingham
Name: The Bike Hub
Website: http://rezolvebikehub.blogspot.co.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01208 265 943
Notes: RE:SOURCE is a furniture recycling social enterprise working as part of the national drug and alcohol charity: Addaction. Bike Hub is the bicycle recycling section of RE:SOURCE
Area Covered: Bodmin, Cornwall
Name: Wheelie Great Bike Store
Website: http://www.wgbs.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01202 310400
Notes: All proceeds from WGBS are reinvested back into local community initiatives supporting vulnerable adults and young people to access housing, health, learning and work opportunities
Area Covered: Bournemouth
Name: Margaret Carey Foundation
Website: http://www.margaretcareyfoundation.org.uk/2013/06/helping-offenders-work-to-help-others/
Telephone: 07794 534907
Notes: The Margaret Carey Foundation is a registered charity which takes donated bikes to prisons in the North of England, where they are refurbished. The bikes are then suppled to partner charities who distribute them to people in need, mainly in developing cou
Area Covered: Bradford
Name: Life Cycle UK
Website: http://www.lifecycleuk.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0117 353 4580
Notes: Life Cycle’s recycled bikes are repaired and cleaned up by prisoners thanks to a partnership with HMP Bristol, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Area Covered: Bristol
Name: Bristol Bike Project
Website: http://www.thebristolbikeproject.org/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07983 417231
Notes: The project supports people with mental health problems, learning difficulties and those in recovery.
Area Covered: Bristol
Name: Union Cycle Works
Website: http://www.unioncycleworks.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Notes: Union Cycle Works is an associated partner with The Margins Project, a homeless project based in North London.
Area Covered: Deptford
Name: Ride On
Website: http://rideoncycling.org/
Telephone: 01626 773261
Notes: The social enterprise recycles bikes to share the benefits of cycling with the community, especially through providing bike for young people who are learning to cycle at school
Area Covered: Exeter
Name: Nationwide Cycling Academy
Website: www.ncagb.co.uk#sthash.X7prOkSA.dpuf
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Telephone: 0161 773 9566 / 07970 430 987
Notes: Accepts donated bikes which are dropped off as well as collects them
Area Covered: Greater Manchester
Name: Re-cycleyourcycle
Website: http://www.re-cycleyourcycle.com/index.php
Email: [email protected]
Notes: We’ll take your unwanted, damaged or broken bike and get it ready for donation to someone who hasn’t had the privilege of owning their own bike.
Area Covered: Kent, Herefordshire & South London
Name: Bikes4All
Telephone: 0116 2420800
Notes: Offers bespoke training and activities to the community from a team of qualified mechanics and trainers, while selling or donating bikes to those on low incomes.
Area Covered: Leicester
Name: Chainlink Bike Project
Website: www.bluesci.org.uk#sthash.X7prOkSA.dpuf
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0161 9124828
Notes: blueSCI is a cultural and wellbeing centre in Old Trafford. They run a bike project that offers bike servicing, repairs and a bike maintenance course. Any donated bikes are repaired and serviced to provide a source of cheap secondhand bikes for the local
Area Covered: Manchester
Name: Kingston Eco-op
Website: http://www.kingstoneco-op.org.uk/what-we-do/bike-recycling
Telephone: 020 8942 5503
Notes: Although our workshops differ there is an emphasis on employment preparation / skills training throughout the project with support and expectations around issues such as timekeeping, team work and health and safety.
Area Covered: New Malden
Name: Open Shed Bike Kitchen
Website: http://www.openshed.org/bikekitchen
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01736 367516
Notes: If you have old or unused bicycles we will accept them as donations and this will help to add to our inventory of spares parts. In some instances where the bicycle is in reasonable condition, we will use them for training repair bikes or repair them and a
Area Covered: Penzance, Cornwall
Name: Bicycle Recycling
Website: http://www.bicyclerecycling.co.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 02392 601441
Notes: The centre accepts and collects donated bicycles from the local area and reconditions them for resale to the local community.
Area Covered: Portsmouth, Fareham, Havant, Petersfield, Eastleigh, Lyndhurst, Alresford, Romsey, Southampton, Stockbridge.
Name: Southend ReCycle Centre
Website: http://www.cyclesouthend.co.uk/recycle-centre
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07824 301609
Notes: Southend ReCycle Centre has drop-off points around the town, refurbishing donated bikes and selling them at low cost.
Area Covered: Southend
Name: Cycloan Cycle repair project
Website: www.stockport.gov.uk/doitonline/multimedia/cycloanprojectvideo#sthash.X7prOkSA.dpuf
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0161 476 2876
Notes: Cycle repair to donate to victims of cycle theft and much more! Will collect bikes from households and businesses or alternatively you can drop bikes off. The ‘Cycloan’ project is one of the initiatives carried out by Stockport Council to help young offen
Area Covered: Stockport
Name: On Your Bike
Website: http://on-your-bike.org/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01823 259035
Notes: cycle recycling charity
Area Covered: Taunton
Name: Re~Cycle
Website: http://www.re-cycle.org/
Telephone: 01206 841 268
Notes: Re~Cycle is the UK’s biggest and best-known bicycle recycling charity. It receives abandoned bikes reclaimed by councils and the police, as well as those donated by members of the public, and sends them to Africa
Area Covered: Throughout England
Name: Watford Cycle Hub
Website: http://watfordcyclehub.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01923 223994 / 07818 047838
Notes: We offer bike repair services, maintenance courses and cycle training. We also accept your old bikes (the ones that have been cluttering up the back of your garden for years!) and recycle them, salvaging what we can. In turn we also sell affordable recond
Area Covered: Watford
Name: Wolverhampton Bike Shed
Website: http://wolverhamptonbikeshed.org/
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07707 522120
Notes: Wolverhampton Bike Shed is a non-profit project offering bicycle repair and recycling.
Area Covered: Wolverhampton
