recycling bicycles for the third world?

Question

a charity that sends good quality second hand bicycles to the third world in or around Kemble in Gloucestershire UK.

Answer 1

1. The short answer is that you should contact the Gloucestershire Community Waste Partnership to see if they have any suggestions.
http://www.gcwp.org.uk/

2. The long answer is as follows:
a) Re-Cycle
This Essex-based organisation (already referred to) is the UK's leading charity for reconditioning bicycles to send to Africa. It asks that donations be given to help ease the burden of transport costs. [The value of the bicycle / transport costs comparison, mention by another responder, is irrelevant]. The charity's website is being updated, so there's not much to see, but the e-mail contact is there. It won't be able to collect from Gloucestershire, but it has does have some reciprocal arrangements (e.g. with a cycling group in Greenwich, south-east London). It may have other similar arrangements, but, in any case it should be able to advise you further.
http://www.re-cycle.org/
b) Bicycles for the underprivileged in UK.
There are some voluntary organisations that recondition bicycles for use by local people who would not otherwise have an affordable means of transport. One example is Edinburgh-based The Bike Station ....
"The Bike Station is a community project that accepts donated bikes from members of the public and recycles them for use by priority groups of people such as the long term unemployed, those who have been homeless and those with mental health problems. A proportion of renovated bikes are sold to raise funds."
http://www.thebikestation.org.uk/
c) Some other organisations recondition bicycles for sale as a cheap source of cycling. An example is Infinity Cycles in Scunthorpe ....
"Infinity Cycles is a social enterprise which takes in unwanted and discarded bicycles and restores them back into good quality reliable machines for sale at low-cost to the local community."
http://www.askyourneighbour.co.uk/laprofile.php?tid=23932&cid=0&uid=4179
d) If you persist with your enquiries you may find some way of putting your second-hand bicycle to worthwhile use, if not in the developing world, then at least in a way that is socially-responsible and eases your conscience. Good luck.

Answer 2

Rebel, you are a crazy guy. I swear, you are my long lost father.

Do you remember getting anybody pregnant in Cheyenne Wyoming in 1974? My mom told me that my father is a well mannered English gentleman, but he skipped town, and left us on the reservation.

Onto a different note: How can it be economically efficient, to gather bicycles for export to third-world countries? I mean the cost of transport would far supercede the value of the bicycles.

In the states here they refurbish biciycles to distribute among local people.

The charity sounds like it would make people feel good, but I am sceptical.

Maybe the more effective solution would be to allow asylum-seekers an employment opportunity, to refurbish bikes and distribute them to low-income areas locally.

Answer 3

And your question is?
If you are trying to promote this charity good on you as I think that it's an awsome idea, however, you need to ad a link if they have a website.

If you are looking for a charity that dose this the closest on to Gloucestershire i can find is listed below.

Somerset Council for Christian Care
8 Leigh Road
Street
Somerset
BA16 OHA
Tel: [phone]

Answer 4

I don't know about Glos but there is a charity called www.recycle.co.uk and they are in Essex. You could talk to them and see if they know of other initiatives abit nearer to Glos.

Answer 5

That sounds awesome to me

Answer 6

ooh arr i is from gloucestershire

Answer 7

sounds gd, gd luck.

Answer 8

stop it