The idea
Preston Pedals needs help from you as someone who can see the value in what we've been doing. We'd like to keep our popular sessions going over the summer 2023, so we continue to help people across Preston to repair their bikes or do up a donated bike, learn new skills, make new friends and grow in confidence on their bikes. We offer expert bike mechanic support during friendly and informative sessions at community venues around Preston. While we are working on our future set up as a cooperative community organisation, we'd like your help to keep operating so Preston keeps growing as a city where everyone benefits from riding a bike! Here's a link to our film we made in 2022 - https://youtu.be/odjBEemVG_A
What we'll deliver
- Minimum of four sessions of bike repair/maintenance each month over 5 months
- Expert support and tuition to fix and maintain bikes
- Workshops where volunteers work on donated bikes and save them from landfill
- Open and accessible bike repair / maintenance sessions at community centres across Preston
- Making bikes available for those who need them as their main transport
- Support to organisations who want to support their staff and users to cycle to work/service
Why it's a great idea
People learn new skills or refresh existing skills in bike maintenance
More bikes in Preston that are safe and in working order
Support for people to who want to use cycling as their main transport
Volunteering opportunities and support
Increasing the benefits to health and wellbeing from cycling
Saving good bikes from landfill
Saving money in a financial crisis - promoting affordable transport
Keeping Preston Pedals alive and in tune with what communities want
Steps to get it done
- Schedule weekly repair/maintenance sessions with bike mechanic and advertise widely
- Negotiate times and dates with community venues
- Set up admin systems to book people onto weekly sessions
- Review equipment and parts, identify what's needed and order
- Create promotional materials and promote via Facebook and Instagram
