Mission: To engage young people and teach them skills
Funding: About 5,000 per scheme, funded through the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
The idea for Building Links Through Bikes came from a police officer in Sandwell who noticed the force had accumulated a lot of old bikes, in various states of disrepair, which he felt could be put to some use.
He contacted Sandwell Youth Offending Team (YOT), which set about creating a project using bikes. The YOT is divided into six local units, and the Smethwick Town team generated some funding, while the main team trained staff in bike maintenance.
They then went into schools on Saturday mornings to teach targeted groups of 11- to 16-year-olds how to look after and repair cycles. The young people were not known offenders, but the schools had suggested them as individuals who might benefit from the work.
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