Fiona
Bruce MP met with volunteers and workers from St Pauls Cycle Centre, Hightown,
Crewe
Fiona
Bruce MP met with volunteers and workers including Rob Wikes, Director and Isaac
Newall, young worker with the charity, from St Pauls Cycle Centre, Hightown,
Crewe, a project run by the charity Christian Concern to help provide training
and employment by giving people a range of engineering and retail skills in
bike recycling.
The
charity is always looking for donations of old bikes for its workshop which can
be collected and will then be repaired and sold on. In the last 12 months 407
bikes were collected, repaired and passed on.
Fiona Bruce said “It
was wonderful to meet Isaac and to hear how he has developed skills, both
practical and interpersonal and to hear how much he is enjoying working at St
Pauls Cycle Centre. I encourage anyone with a bike they no longer use to
contact St Pauls to donate it.”
Rob Wikes, Director, said
“In terms of what we do there are several beneficiaries, one: the people who
donate a cycle, two: those that receive the cycles, who are in the main using
them as commuter bikes, but, above all that, we employ a young person each year
and train them so they are better equipped for the workforce. In a small way we
are picking up individuals and helping them gain independence in the world.”
