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Friday 28th june
More local donations
We decided a while ago to increase our donations locally to deserving groups/individuals. These donations consist of bikes serviced and ready for the road. Some of the recipients are nominated by others some found by us, it matters not how it happens simply that it does.
Please write in if you know of any individuals or groups who may benefit by having a bike, we would be delighted to help.
This time we donated 15 adult mountain bikes for use by the users of Escape Youth Services up in Havelock place Hawick. These bikes will allow the users to venture far and wide broadening their horizons and building community networks, we wish them well.
Now please keep in touch with our latest news page we hope to have some very exciting new for the local community soon.
This week 10th June Alistair one of our volunteers donated some more bikes and scooters to trinity and Cherrytrees nurseries where it was a big hit with the kids having only just handed them over and straight away they were zooming about on them which is nice to see.
Welcome to the opening page of our new site latest news. Here we will seek to update you detailing significant events on our journey. We are an ever evolving team incorporating people with learning disabilities, people from criminal justice, and people looking for pre employment work experience.
As many of you will know we have evolved from the gardening project based at the Katharine Elliot centre where the project is thriving.
In this division of the project we are all about bikes. Now the vast majority of our bikes come from individual donations and we are most grateful for them. Every now and then we gather a surplus of bikes and we need to direct these bikes to groups that put them to good use. In the past we have donated bikes to a charity working with Ukrainian refugees a business that sends bikes to Africa, homeless groups in the borders, women in refuge institutions and our latest group who are in fact our future - young kids in nurseries and schools.
We have donated to a number of nurseries and on Monday 7th May Alistair delivered three bikes to the Cherry Tree nursery in Hawick with a commitment to deliver a further two next week.
Last week we delivered a few bikes to the Busy Bees nursery in Melrose. Now this is an innovative nursery who we have partnered with to supply and maintain bikes to be used on a soon to be constructed bike track for the kids.
We visited on Friday and Alistair presented the centre director Sara with a plaque designed and constructed 100℅ by his hand. Sara had dry up an exchange bank at the front entrance where parents can pick up or donate things like toys, clothes non perishable foods, books CDs and now bikes of various sizes. We would like to assist them further and would ask if you have anything that could be utilised to please drop them off at Carnarvon Street and we will deliver them to the nursery.
Kevin one of the lead volunteers delivered four black scooters with red handlebars (diligently sprayed by Gavin one of our volunteers) to the pump track in the town to be used by kids that do not own a scooter. He is organising a delivery of BMX bikes again in black and red which one of our volunteers will spray.
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