Cycle News Thursday, October 21, 2004

Bike aid group's lotto honour bid

A GLASGOW charity which recycles drinks containers to provide bikes for children is in the running for a national award.
Community Can Cycle in Castlemilk has made the final three for a Helping Hands Award, set up to celebrate 10 years of lottery-funded good cause projects.
It won through from more than 175,000 UK-wide projects.
It was founded four years ago by local man Jim O'Donnell, 39, who recognised the need for an affordable bike repair service.
He realised that fizzy drink cans and bottles could be recycled and the money used to repair bikes in the community.
The charity has now processed more than five million cans from its own recycling plant in Castlemilk and employs five staff. Four more will be taken on soon.
Jim's achievements include designing a scheme to provide new bikes for schools, sending repaired bikes to a Romanian orphanage and supporting a village cycling project in Ghana.
He has 500 bikes bound for Africa but needs to raise £2500 to cover shipping costs.
Now he may be named the UK's top Local Legend if his project wins.
The public decide who wins in a telephone vote which ends on October 31. Calls cost just 1p.
You can vote for Community Can Cycle by calling 0871 8721901. A GLASGOW charity which recycles drinks containers to provide bikes for children is in the running for a national award.
Community Can Cycle in Castlemilk has made the final three for a Helping Hands Award, set up to celebrate 10 years of lottery-funded good cause projects.
It won through from more than 175,000 UK-wide projects.
It was founded four years ago by local man Jim O'Donnell, 39, who recognised the need for an affordable bike repair service.
He realised that fizzy drink cans and bottles could be recycled and the money used to repair bikes in the community.
The charity has now processed more than five million cans from its own recycling plant in Castlemilk and employs five staff. Four more will be taken on soon.
Jim's achievements include designing a scheme to provide new bikes for schools, sending repaired bikes to a Romanian orphanage and supporting a village cycling project in Ghana.
He has 500 bikes bound for Africa but needs to raise £2500 to cover shipping costs.
Now he may be named the UK's top Local Legend if his project wins.
The public decide who wins in a telephone vote which ends on October 31. Calls cost just 1p.
You can vote for Community Can Cycle by calling 0871 8721901.

(Source: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5031693.html)