Welcome to Recycle Your Cycle! We are an innovative programme in partnership with the HM Prison Service in the UK.

Since Recycle Your Cycle began in 2015, we have refurbished and sold over 12,000 bikes! This has so far raised over £250,000 for charities across the UK and growing weekly. All of this has been achieved with no government grants or donations as we are completely self-sufficient. Thank you for your support!

What we do
We are passionate about supporting disadvantaged groups within our communities as well as prisoner rehabilitation and breaking the cycle of reoffending. To help, we set up bicycle repair workshops in prisons to help those in need to gain new skills and improve their employment prospects.

We collect abandoned bicycles We collect abandoned bicycles which are taking up space and would otherwise end up in landfill. We usually collect bikes from Universities, police stations, housing associations and bicycle retailers. If you have lots of abandoned bicycles (over 20), get in touch and we can put them to good use!

We deliver these bicycles to our workshops across the UK and train prisoners to refurbish them, equipping them with technical skills that they can use to gain employment. We have workshops set up in 10 prisons and more joining soon.

Once the bikes have been refurbished and skills have been gained, we supply the bikes to UK charity retailers for them to sell to raise additional funds. We’re currently working with over 20 UK charities and are always looking for more to partner with.

The benefits are:

   1. Reduce landfill
   2. Provide meaningful work to offenders
   3. Improve the employment prospects for offenders
   4. Raise additional funds for UK charities
   5. Provide the social, health and commuting benefits to a wider section of the community

How you can help
If you have a large number of bicycles to donate (over 20), please email info@recycleyourcycle.org.uk so we can discuss collection.