by Richard Wills | Oct 31, 2020 | Bike Mechanic, Kirkley, New Base, The National Lottery
Those of you who have known us a little longer will know that when we moved in and setup camp in the barn at Kirkley, it wasn’t exactly ready for us! But thanks to The National Lottery we were able to access capital sufficient to get us established with our...
by Richard Wills | Apr 9, 2019 | Adventures, Bike Mechanic, Kirkley, New Base, NHS, Partners, Rides, Sales, Schools, Services, The National Lottery, Thorneyford Farm, Trips
Well we are now 4 months in on our HQ project and I think we can be quite pleased with how things are going. Actually, looking back on some of the pictures from December ’18 it’s amazing to see the transformation from ‘Outer Barn’ to B4H HQ! There’s still work to do...
by Richard Wills | Mar 6, 2019 | Adventures, Bike Mechanic, Kirkley, New Base, Partners, Rides, Sales, Schools, Services, Thorneyford Farm, Trips
Again, I start with apologies. The first is for my blog frequency which seems to be going the wrong way and the second is that I forgot to mention last time that we were adding a 40 foot container to our headquarters! How could i not mention that? The mini project of...
by Richard Wills | Jan 23, 2019 | Adventures, Kirkley, New Base, Partners, Rides, Sales, Schools, Services, The National Lottery, Thorneyford Farm
This latest installment is well overdue! I can’t believe it was last year when I posted the last one. Rest assured and rather unfortunately we haven’t been out riding our bikes, we’ve been busy progressing the workshop and storage space to get it secure and fit for...
by Richard Wills | Dec 30, 2018 | Adventures, Kirkley, New Base, Partners, The National Lottery, Thorneyford Farm
Well we’ve certainly been making rapid progress with our new Bike 4 Health HQ at Thorneyford Farm, Kirkley, home of Kirkley Cafe since our first post announcing our plans with support from the Big Lottery Fund. So work commenced in earnest on the 11th December with a...
by Richard Wills | Dec 16, 2018 | Kirkley, New Base, Partners, The National Lottery, Thorneyford Farm, Uncategorised
A New Dawn for Bike 4 Health Bike 4 Health was established as a Community Interest Company back in 2014 and since then has positively impacted over 4000 children in 27 schools throughout the North East through our cycling programmes in and out of school. Mostly...