Route 51 Cycle Project are a Cycling UK affiliated group. 

Route51 Cycle Project delivered by Repair Reuse Recycle CIC

Overview

The Route51 Bike Project is a registered community led social enterprise focused on making cycling accessible and affordable for all by repairing and re-homing cycles and fitness equipment within the Basildon, Colchester and Harwich community. We aim to help people from all walks of life get out cycling and for it to be an inclusive and empowering experience. We achieve this by making cycling accessible and affordable for all.

Outcomes

To empower people within our community by providing access to affordable and sustainable transportation by encouraging an ethos of DIY and DIT (Do It Together!).

Strengthen our community by providing an inclusive, vibrant and supportive environment for people from all backgrounds to come and work alongside one another.

Deliver an educational experience for all by creating opportunities to learn and develop lifelong bike maintenance skills and offer people the opportunity to have contact with positive role models.

Promote sustainability by saving bicycles and their working parts from landfill, encouraging reuse wherever possible, and offering an alternative to buying new.