Route 51 NHS Cycle Project
Our activities
About us
Route 51 NHS Cycle Project are a Cycling UK affiliated group.
Route51 NHS 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 ESNEFT NHS Staff by repairing and re-homing cycles, Colchester and Ipswich hospitals. We aim to help NHS Staff get out cycling and for it to be an inclusive and empowering experience. We achieve this by making cycling accessible and affordable for all members of staff.
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 cycle 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.
Information about the group rides
Weekly rides from Wivenhoe to Colchester Hospital and return
Weekly rides from Ipswich train station to Ipswich Hospital
Establishing safe routes to and from hospitals.
Early Spring and Late Autumn we journey across to mainland Europe for a weekend ride.
Partners
ESNEFT NHS Community Energy Colchester