Unwanted Bicycles Sought for Refugees
The Bike Project is holding a pop up donation session in Chiswick this week
A one-off, pop-up bike donation session is being held in Chiswick this week and your old, unwanted or unloved bikes are sought.
The Bike Project is a refugee charity with one simple mission: to take second-hand bikes, fix them up in a workshop and give them to refugees. This allows them to get safely and cheaply around London (most asylum seekers are prohibited from working and live on £5.75 per day). At the moment The Bike Project is also offering free online repairs and support to NHS workers.
Outside of lockdown, The Bike Project has a successful system of collecting second-hand bikes from all around Greater London. However, like many other groups, it has had to find new ways to adapt, and providing one-off pop-up bike donation drop off locations has so far been very successful.
So this is a call out for old, unloved and abandoned bikes needed for a one-off collection in Chiswick.
If you’ve been using lockdown to clear out your garage or garden, use your daily exercise to bring a bike (in any condition), save it from languishing, and give to a good cause.
Drop off Information:
• Chiswick Village Estate Office, W4 3DF
• Wednesday 13 May, 4pm - 6pm
• Drop your bike from a safe distant, a volunteer will be there co-ordinating.
The bikes are due to be collected later that evening by van and taken to their Deptford workshop.
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May 9, 2020
