My Bike Jumble - every month on the Second Saturday at Hullavington, near J17 of the M4, just keeps getting bigger and better [and warmer].
We’ll be outside soon for strawberries and cream.

The last Jumble, in support of bikes4Africa, saw over a hundred people converge to grab a bargain from all the bikes, bike bits, accessories and clothing on sale.  And we have so many different types of bikes!
Our own Gok Wan of the bike world, Owen Coutts, both modelled and welcomed customers to the “Bend Down Boutique” for cycling apparel, some of whom had come from London and the depths of Wales to be there.
We had acres of stuff on sale but did run out of bacon butties - we were that busy - but luckily had some juicy venison burgers to fill in the gaps.

Thank you Gillian for the yummy cakes!  And thanks to Gillian, Sue and Carol for running our on-site kitchen and food stall.
 
Young Em-On-Wheels [a vision of loveliness] did a fantastic job of taking everyone’s details for the prize draw. The winner of the Badge A Bike was Ronnie from London, whose personal message will be placed on a bike to be loaded by jole rider for a school in Africa at the end of this month.

The next My Bike Jumble is on Saturday 12 May from 10.00am until 1.00pm.
Check out our websites for details or phone David on 0870 609 2007.
We look forward to seeing you there!

My Bike Jumble
jole rider

See us also at Bristol Mud Dock on Saturday 5 May.

    

On the last Wednesday of 2011 we will have our End Of Year Celebration.
We will be loading our 6th container of the year with bikes, books and education resources for African schools.

And the highlights of 2011 which we will be celebrating include...

1.   Launching Badge-A-Bike : our Virtual Gift to support bikes4Africa
     Connecting our Learning Development Centre in The Gambia to the World Wide Web
     Running our first Teacher Development Workshops for Gambian teachers
     Holding our first My Bike Jumble : these will now be held every month
     Gaining the support of journalist and broadcaster Jon Snow
     A visit from Jim Moulson, President, Rotary International Britain and Ireland [RIBI]
     Loading our Silver Jubilee Container in July [that was our first 25 containers away!]

So, if you’d like to take a well-earned break from the effort of eating mince pies and watching TV, why not come and join us at the Container Loading? [Between eating more mince pies, and raising a glass or two, we might have you loading a few bikes too.]


Another special bike gets loaded

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Badge-A-Bike Virtual Gift.

As well as an ethical gift, Badge-A-Bike is an opportunity to directly transform a child’s life.

Your PERSONAL message is placed on a badge.
The NUMBERED badge is affixed to a bike.
The bike is delivered to a NAMED school in Africa.

Badge-A-Bike is a special and simple Gift for a Birthday, Anniversary or Christmas

To change a child's life costs just £60 

This exciting new initiative is supported by journalist and broadaster Jon Snow