Needs From: HandsOn NWNC

We are scheduling events throughout the year to give away bikes.

Help needed! Cycle Recycle needs a couple of volunteers with trucks or vans to be available to carry bikes on occasion. We don't carry bikes too often, but it would be helpful to have a couple of volunteers to call when we do so. Please reply to let me know if you can do this.  Call me at 336-525-6482.

Very part-time.

We are receiving bike donations throughout the week.  We need someone who can run point to call donor and arrange the bike drop off or pick up from their home.  Helpful to have a van when the donor has multiple bikes.  

We want to reach into the whole community.

Cycle Recycle is in the process of developing social media bullets that tell our story and invite people to join us by donating a bike, volunteering at our warehouse with operations and donating money.  We have begun videotaping short interviews with our partners and team.  An advisor would help us to be intentional and focused on the mechanics of best practices with our advisory team in communicating our story to the general public and target groups.  We are about to launch an initiative to solicit funds from potential donors.  We would like someone to help us with that who has experience.

 We need volunteers who have a passion for serving God in the community.

   Cycle Recycle is growing by leaps and bounds.  We have a passionate and dynamic team that is committed to our vision of providing bikes to kids in under-resourced areas of Winston-Salem and connecting with them to teach bike safety education.  We operate all year, but especially focus on providing bikes at Gift Mart.  We are partnering with several nonprofits and community outreach agencies to be open to how we can make a difference with families and kids by promoting the joy and freedom of cycling.  

    We are about to embark on a fundraising initiative that will also reach throughout the community to engage volunteers to join in our mission.  We have events scheduled throughout the year.  We need someone who loves working with people to work with our team to help organize events, help recruit or encourage volunteers and add to our ministry the joy and empowerment we want to spread throughout our city.  You will want to be present at many of our Wrench workshops as you are able.  It would be helpful if you were connected with much of the cycling network already or you are talented in making these connections.

We accept gently used children and adult bikes. We value every bike donation to us in love to pass along to someone who needs a bike.  We provide refurbished bikes to persons through our community partners. 

Please call 336-525-6482 and leave a message or write us at cyclerecycle@LoveOutLoudWS.com to arrange a drop off or to have someone pick it up.  To date, we have refurbished and have ready 185 bikes in our warehouse and probably another 100 to be repaired.

 

We're going strong.

Cycle/Recycle continues to receive donations of gently used bikes, which are stored in our warehouse.  We hold regularly scheduled Wrench workshops to repair the bikes to provide throughout the community during the year.  We need volunteers who are able to do minor repairs such as changing tires/tubes, adjusting brakes, doing tune ups and other basic skills.  We have professional mechanics at each workshop to assist you and teach bike repair.  Volunteers need their own tools.  Teens may have the opportunity to wash down bikes to get then ready. We plan to hold bike repair days at various times throughout the year.  Scheduled Wrench workshops:

2nd and 4th Thursdays beginning at 1:00 p.m. 1st and 3rd Saturdays starting at 2 p.m. Mondays mornings at 9:30

We ask volunteers to give 2-3 hours of their time to come help fix up bikes for Gift Mart.

We have given over 940 bikes away in the past 4 years.  We also need men and women who are passionate about connecting with the kids to teach them safe bike riding and repairs.  

Call Chester David at 336-525-6482 or email me at chesterodavid@gmail.com.