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Bike Stop

Bike Stop was set up in 2012 by the charity as a way to assist those who face significant barriers when trying to gain employment.  The Charity sees a lot of people each year who have no prospects at that time and no experiences to draw upon to help them into the work place.  Our experience also told us that general routes into employment, such as college qualifications, training centres and apprenticeships were way beyond what many of our clients felt they could manage and often dropped out or led to failure in a short space of time.  The biggest difficulty being self-confidence, self-worth and self-belief.  If you are constantly told you are a waste of space, then eventually you will totally believe that to be true.  This is a very difficult place to return from for many people, so we needed an environment that wasn't just positive in the way that the charity is but in an environment that mirrored other working environment. 

In effect we provided a business environment with all the usual business objectives to act as a teaching environment alongside creating one of the towns most successful small start up businesses.  Anyone interested in the gaining supported volunteering at Bike Stop should speak to Rob our Manager.

For anyone who has bicycle maintenance skills and would enjoy being part of this fabulous project then do please get in touch, we need your skills to keep the momentum going and to continue to succeed as a business, so we can continue to succeed as a training environment.  Please call Rob on 01325 788857

Bike Stop's website has much to offer and you can learn more about what they do through this link http://bikestop.org.uk/

Published: 4th February, 2019

Updated: 6th September, 2019

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