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January Update from Yate Community Bike Hub – HNY! ✨

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January Volunteer & Supporter Update

Happy New Year!

As we wheel into a new year, we’ve taken a moment to reflect on the amazing things that 2025 brought us. We saw over 570 bikes donated to us, which included our 2000th bike, we supported 17 riders build their confidence cycling in our Rusty Riders sessions, we passed on our knowledge through 25 maintenance and practice sessions and held weekly work placements. Beyond this, we lead over 10 social group rides and ‘Women on Wheels’ made a fantastic start with 3 rides, 3 social events and 1 group riding training session. What a fantastic year and we couldn’t have done it without our fantastic volunteers and of course our supporters – THANK YOU!

Looking ahead to 2026, our newly achieved Charity status and the events we have coming up, we’re sure it’s going to be a wonderful year. Whether you’re thinking of taking up cycling, you’re committing to making one more journey by bike, or maybe you want to join our community by volunteering at the Hub?

Whatever the new year looks like for you, we’d love you to join us and be part of the exciting year ahead! Why not pop into the Hub to say hello, or drop us an email – yatecommunitybikehub@gmail.com

Best wishes for the year ahead, bike miles = big smiles!

Lexy & the YCBH Core Team

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Christmas Lights Ride

We had a wonderful end to our social riding for 2025 with an inclusive spin around the local sights to admire the truly amazing light displays on offer.

22 of us donned tinsel and lights and hit the pedals to take in the fantastic displays of Clayfield (raising money for the Wallace and Gromit appeal) and Kent Avenue and we were even joined by the big man himself!

It was then back to the Hub for hot chocolate and home made mince pies (Thanks Andrea!) to round off a wonderful evening.

The ride was a hit with all from 4+ to 80+ years. Keep your eyes peeled for our next ride!

New bike racks installed

With the opening of the new Aldi supermarket in Yate we were pleased to see covered bike racks installed at the front of the store too. This means your bike will be better protected from the elements while you’re picking up your parsnips!

DIY Build-Your-Kids Bike

We launched a new event in 2025 to help parents safely construct their kids’ new flat-pack bikes with the support of Santa Stuart and his wonderful volunteer elves, giving them peace of mind that their little ones could ride their new pride and joy with the handlebars and pedals correctly put on!

This session was one of the many free courses we provided in 2025 and we have a heap more planned for 2026!

January Dates for Your Diary

23rd January – 10-3 Hub reopens for 2026!

10th January – Dr Bike – drop in for a free bike check

13th January – Volunteer Coordinators meeting 7pm All Welcome

20th January – Intro to Bike Maintenance Course 7-8.30pm Booking Link

27th January – Maintenance Course Practice Session 7-8.30pm Booking Link

30th January – Consultation for walking & cycling routes in Yate closes

Maintenance Events 2026!

Here’s a sneak peak at our maintenance courses for 2026. Although they’re subject to change so make sure you look out for future newsletters and social media for the latest updates.

Sign up as soon as you can on Eventbrite to secure your place as courses filled up quickly in 2025. If you do sign up and then are no longer able to attend, please update your attendance on Eventbrite so that we can contact our reserve list and the spaces don’t go to waste.

Book Nook!

After a very generous bumper donation of books, our Book Nook is bursting with good reads from various genres.

So if your new year goal is to read more why not combine it with your love of cycling and pick up a bargain when you’re next passing?

Suggested donation £1.

Lexy’s pick – Wonder Wheels – The Autobiography of Eileen Sheridan

The Autobiography of Eileen Sheridan is a fast-pedalling life story of an Irish woman who ditched expectations, hopped on a bicycle, and rode her way into record-breaking adventures—proving grit, independence, and a good sense of humor can take you very far indeed.

Have your say before it’s too late!

Walking & cycling routes in Yate

Don’t miss the deadline for the consultation on walking and cycling routes between North Yate (Ladden Garden Village) and Yate Railway Station. This consultation seeks views on a series of measures designed to improve safety, accessibility and connections to key destinations along the route.

You can view the proposals and respond to the consultation here:
http://laddengardenconnectivity.commonplace.is/

The consultation will run until 30 January 2026.

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