A place to learn how to make bikes where you keep the skills and your first bike goes to someone who really needs it.

The Bicycle Academy is a new enterprise that will not only provide people with the skills and facilities to design and make their own bikes but will also donate bikes to people in Africa.

To many people in Africa bikes are a lifeline that make it possible to get food, water, work or an education. Together with the charity re~cycle The Bicycle Academy have started work on the design of a standard bicycle frame specifically for use in Africa. Every student who takes a course with The Bicycle Academy will build one of these frames which will then be made into a working bicycle before being distributed to those in need via partnering charities.

To get the project up and running The Bicycle Academy are crowd funding the cost of the workshop equipment and set-up using peoplefind.it. The first 50 places (each costing £500) are being made available for pre-booking from Tuesday 1st November for 6 weeks along with a number of other pledge rewards ranging from £20 for a specially printed T shirt to £2000 for one of the first 5 prototype Africa bikes.

Visit their crowd funding page on the Peoplefund.it website: http://www.peoplefund.it/the-bicycle-academy/, watch their video to find out what it’s all about, and get information on courses and pledge options.

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