UK Charity Commission page for Re~Cycle, including down-loadable accounts

 

Bicycle Advocacy

Afribike Forum: on Yahoo

Bikeability: 'Cycling Proficiency' for the 21st century

Bikes Not Bombs: Recycled bicycles and other environmentally sustainable modes of transportation

Ciclovía: Bikes rule the streets, one day a week in Bogota

Cycling England: Department of Transport site aiming to encourage "more people cycling, more safely, more often"

Cycling out of poverty:  Netherlands Bike Advocacy

ITDG Cycle Transport: To develop and disseminate low cost cycle-based means of transport

International Bicycle Fund:Advocacy organization, promoting sustainable transport

IT Transport Ltd: Enabling Access for the World's Poor

Pedal Power: Pedal powered agricultural machines in S. America

Pedals For Progress: Advocacy organization, promoting sustainable transport

Sustrans: UK National Cycle Network

UWABA: Community Cycling in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Velomondial: International bike advocacy. Based in The Netherlands, Velo Mondial has been promoting cycling as a positive mode of transport for the past ten years.

 

Bicycle Technology

African Bicycle Design - www.africanbicycledesign.wordpress.com + http://www.wiki-bike.com

Bicycle Universe: Unusual bicycles

 

Cycles Maximus: Rickshaws

 

Pedal Power: Pedal powered agricultural machines in S. America

 

Solar Bike Wales: Shawn has helped with storage, publicity and money from a sponsored bike ride

 

XtraCycle: Sports Utility Bicycle

Yuba Ride: Manufactures, designs bicycle for transport and sustainable transportation: utility bicycle, cargo bike, commuter bike.  Has been kind enough to donate some bikes to BSPW, our old African partner in Uganda.

 

Cycling Sites

Bicycle Safe: How to not get hit by cars

Critical Mass: A monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling

CTC: The Cycle Touring Club site with lots of useful information

LCC: The London Cycling Campaign site also with lots of useful information

Other Bike Recycling Projects

iBike: great site, this link to its International list of cycle reuse projects

 

Tool Recycling Charities

Tools For Self Reliance: Supply hand tools to African artisans and supply Re~Cycle's partners

Tools With A Mission: also send tools, and supply Re~Cycle partners

 

Re-Cycle Supporters

Go Travel Solutions: Leicester based transport consultancy (a social enterprise and is constituted as a co-operative) that has designated Re~Cycle as its 2009 charity. It works across the UK providing sustainable transport services for businesses, organisations, transport operators and transport planners.

Headwater: Cycling, Walking and other activity holidays and keen Re-Cycle supporters. Donate valuable spare parts to us

Recyke y'Bike: Great bike recycling project in Newcastle. As well as a wide range of things, they also regularly send bikes to us to ship to Africa

Saentys are the design company who very kindly came up with this site design, and the design for our powerpoint and our logo, and....  Many Thanks!

Solar Bike Wales is a project develop  a prototype for a lightweight solar-powered vehicle, which will allow for 100% carbon emission free travelling.  Sean has kindly chosen to support Re~Cycle through his sponsored tour with the completed vehicle.  Also, he is keen to get a branch of Re~Cycle set up in Wales - help needed.

Weldtite: Regularly send us boxes full of rubber patch off-cuts which we send to our partner's workshops. A great example of an unwanted item in the UK finding a valuable use in Africa.

Wilde Side Cycles: a bike shop in Tunbridge, and the largest bike shop in the South, who're collecting and sending us tools and parts, and doing a trade in your old bike and we'll send it to Africa deal.

Webbline: Tool and training company who've donated tools in the past

 

Fantastically useful Site (and staunch supporters)

MoneySavingExpert.com: well worth seeing how Martin Lewis and his team could save you money.  Martin's an ex-trustee of Re~Cycle and very kindly donates a slice of his 'charity pot' to us - We Salute Him!