'The Bike Club' is Framework Housing Association's community bicycle recycling service. Established in 2002 'The Bike Club' has been running (quietly) in the Radford/Hyson Green area of Nottingham for around 6 years.
Recently it has relocated to a large, indoor, workshop next to Framework's central office in Forest Fields.

The service currently runs through a volunteer & donations basis & allows FHA service users as well as members of the local community to get involved with bikes & bike maintenance. The level of involvement is down to the individual and as such can range from simply taking a general interest in cycling to getting an introduction to the basics of bike repair. For the more adventurous this can progress to the finer arts of fault diagnosis, more complex repairs and even complete strip downs & rebuilds from bare frames.

All stock is donated by members of the local community, landlords, and other organisations such as local universities; many clients bring their own cycles to work on. Wherever possible these donated bikes are saved, 'recycled' & passed on to a new owner. Bikes which are past the point of saving are stripped of their parts & these go to help other bikes return to action.

Framework Housing Association are currently funding the premises and time for the bike club, to ensure sustainability we are always looking for sponsorship or other forms of funding.

Contact Us

• to find out more,
• for volunteering opportunities,
• to come down and start work on a bike of your own or
• for bike & bike part donations please email Liam, Dom or Al on thebikeclub [at] frameworkha [dot] org We'll do our best to accommodate collection of donated items however, if you can get them to us that would really help too!