London Cycling Campaign launches £100,000 community cycling fund to increase cycling within underrepresented groups
Posted on in Business News , Cycles News
The London Cycling Campaign has teamed up with Lime and Loud Mobility to launch a new £100,000 ‘Share the Joy’ fund to increase cycling within underrepresented groups and deliver equitable access to its benefits.
The Share the Joy fund will support organisations and community groups who are improving London’s Accessibility and Inclusion, Health and Wellbeing and Skills and Connectivity, through cycling. Funded by Lime, this community cycling fund is managed by London Cycling Campaign with support from Loud Mobility.
The first cohort of fund recipients are each receiving £2500 to support things like core costs, project costs and new equipment. The first recipients of the funding include Cycle Sisters, London Bike Kitchen, Wheels for Wellbeing, and Londra Bisiklet Külübü , a Turkish and Kurdish focused cycling club that provides cycle training sessions and bike maintenance sessions to community members.
The fund is designed to support organisations and community groups who are working to increase equitable access to the benefits of cycling. Many of the grants are urgently needed and will be immediately put to use.
For example, London Bike Kitchen will use the funding to help reopen their DIY workshop: an affordable space where Londoners of all backgrounds can learn skills to fix their bikes. The Bike Project will use the funding to distribute more refurbished bikes to refugees and people seeking asylum on their waiting list. C86ERZ will use the funding to provide much needed storage space to help distribute items by bike to serve the basic needs of people experiencing homelessness across London.
