Free bikes to be gifted to refugees and asylum-seekers

Thanks to a Hackney based project and part of a charity scheme by the Helen Bamber Foundation, The Bike Project, with the cooperation of the London Metropolitan Police, will be handing over thousands of free bikes to refugees and asylum seekers. A bike given to London’s most vulnerable people can help them through the road to survival. Director of The Bike Project, Jan Stein agrees that a bike will provide these individuals who have faced atrocities and persecution, a step into normal life. Sultan Taylor, Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police’s Safer Transport Command, feels it is a great cause and thousands of unwanted or abandoned bikes will help the people in need. The project earlier depended on bike donations by the public, but now with the backing of the Met Police and support of Transport of London, it will turn a new chapter with potentially thousands of unclaimed bikes ready to be given off. 35 bikes have already been organised to be gifted away.