The company runs a community bike repair workshop with the aim of improving access to bicycle maintenance facilities in an area otherwise lacking them. We started the workshop in 2016 having been approached by our local council who were looking for someone to run a new project. We offer low cost or free repairs to local residents of all ages. In the year 2024 / 2025 we have benefited the community in the following ways: We repaired 356 bikes over 46 sessions of running the workshop. The majority of these were bikes brought in by members of the community for us to repair, anything from puncture repair to brakes and gear work etc. The others were bikes that were donated to us which we repaired and sold to raise funds towards the running costs of the workshop. We refurbished and sold 14 bikes and stripped a further 10 for useful parts are recycled the remains. Where customers are interested we show them how to carry out the repairs we do, though it isn’t always possible for them to stay while we do the work. If people know how to carry out the repairs but don’t have the tools they are welcome to use ours. Our customers cover a wide range of local residents from young children and teenagers to pensioners, plus students and working families, everyone is welcome. We provide rechargeable USB lights available for free, particularly to the young people who use the workshop, over the winter months. We also give advice on bike fitting, secure bike storage and bike maintenance.

Our stakeholders are the residents of Whitehawk and beyond, mostly in East Brighton. This year we have also been working with Brighton and Hove City Council where they have provided us some funding towards the costs of running the workshop and we have helped them gather data regarding transport use in the area. In our surveys of customers we received overwhelming support for the work we do at the workshop. We have been asked is we can have a wider range of bikes to sell at the workshop but unfortunately we don’t have the storage space available to allow us to do that. Otherwise, as in previous years numerous people asked if we could run the workshop in additional hours but unfortunately this isn’t currently possible.

The total amount paid to the directors over the financial year was £6,636.50 There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration