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| October Volunteer & Supporter Update |
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September has come and gone and boy has it been a busy one! |
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| We’ve had over 100 bikes donated, a new floor laid in the workshop (huge thanks again to Tortworth Court Hotel maintenance team for their help) and welcomed new volunteer Joseph who will be completing his Silver Duke of Edinburgh volunteering challenge with us over the coming months. |
|  | Crafts and goody bags for little cyclists! |
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|  | The Hub’s The 1500th donated bike with donor |
| We celebrated cycle to school week, handing out goody bags for small cycling champion who braved the torrential rain last week to travel to school by bike – chapeau! In our mission to help everyone get back on their bikes we also supported Broadway and the Ridge schools supplying four pool bikes for their staff to use instead of their cars. We look forward to seeing the action shots! |
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Coming up this month: we have the last chance to grab a space on our Rusty Riders sessions before they pause until next spring, an outing to Chipping Sodbury Parkrun, our ever-popular maintenance courses and a Halloween Bike Ride! Read on for details and tell all your friends! |
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A plea from the core team: We rely entirely on volunteers to continue the work of the Hub and are always looking for new team members. You’ll be welcomed with open arms (and all the tea and biscuits you like!) if you could give a few hours of your time to helping us each month. We have a surprising range of roles: as well as fixing bikes and running events to encourage cycling, we are currently looking for help with customer service during open hub, bike library bookings, cycling champion with schools and businesses, project evaluation, comms and social media. If you or someone you know has talent, enthusiasm and a little time to spare we want you on our team! Please get in touch via yatecommunitybikehub@gmail.com |
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Love, peace and bicycle grease, Rebecca & the YCBH Core Team
PS You can find all our links, including our socials, on linktree |
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Hub regular Adrian and colleague Dave from De Vere Tortworth Court Hotel did a smashing job laying our new hard wearing rubber flooring this month. We’d been making do with some plastic covers that were becoming more and more tatty so are really grateful for their help, though mechanic Adam did say he missed the fleet footwork required when tripping up 10 times a day since the new floor was installed! |
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Celebrating cycle to school week with a twist… |
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| As well as rewards for little ones cycling to school this month, we also had a treat in store for staff at The Bridgeway Federation in Yate (comprising Broadway Infant and The Ridge Junior Schools).
Thanks to a local government grant and the support of the Hub, staff will have the opportunity to leave their cars at home and cycle to work on four lovely refurbished bikes. This allows them to continue the great active travel work done over the last years which has seen a marked increase in green journeys to the schools. |
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Chris Strawson of The Ridge Juniors said, “We conducted a survey of staff across both schools last year and a common theme was a willingness to cycle to work but a lack of decent equipment to make it possible. With the successful grant application and the help of the Bike Hub, we now have 4 full sets of everything we need to allow more staff to leave their cars at home and cycle to work.” |
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If you know a business or school that would like to offer something similar for their staff, please get them to drop the Hub a line. We’d love to help! |
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Bike to Parkrun (new date!) |
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We have been working with the great team at Chipping Sodbury Parkrun to encourage participants to walk or cycle to Parkrun.
On Saturday 5th October, we will have bike parking with our own volunteers helping you to park your bike with Dr Bike on hand to help with any maintenance and delicious cycling bars from Hobbs House Bakery! |
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Stolen bike returned to owner with help of Hub |
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When a kind member of the public dropped an almost new carrera bike that had been found in Yate missing it’s back wheel, our spidey senses told us something was amiss. Fortunately, thanks to our great relationship with local police officer Sadie we were able to trace the owner who is thrilled to be reunited with his bike (which was stolen from Abbey Wood Retail Park a few weeks ago). |
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Bike thefts are the pits and there are plenty of opportunist and prepared thieves out there. Cycling UK have a great page of general tips and a detailed How-To for locking your bike. I know that many of our newsletter readers will know these tips already but with thefts seemingly on the rise locally, it might be a good time to share your wisdom. |
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Finally if your bike is stolen you have a much better chance of being reunited with it if it is on the Bike Register. You can log it yourself or come to the free bike marking session run by Avon and Somerset Police on Saturday 12th Oct from 10-12. |
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Additional Dates for Your Diary |
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8th Oct – Volunteers and Co-ordinators Meeting 19:00 ALL WELCOME! |
| 30th Oct – Wednesday Dr Bike, + three evening slots bookable via SGC Eventbrite |
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