Meet The Team

Meet the dedicated team at Re-Cycle. With your invaluable support, we can sustain our mission of transforming lives by repurposing bikes from the UK and sending them to rural communities in Africa.
Re-Cycle Team
Bicycle donation
Container of bikes

Charlotte Ward

Director

Claire Kettle

Operations Manager

Mark Pamment

Warehouse Manager

Chris Smith

Workshop Manager

Georgia Brown

Fundraising & Marketing Manager

Clare Dowman

Admin & Finance Officer

Caroline Bates

Trust & Grants Fundraiser

Our Amazing​

Volunteers

Re-Cycle offers meaningful volunteer opportunities to people of all ages and from all walks of life including people with additional needs. Without our volunteers we would not be able to achieve as much as we do in a cost-effective way.

The work of our volunteers is very important to our success and ability to achieve our mission in a cost effective
way. Not only do our volunteers work hard in our warehouse every day, but they also assist in loading and unloading containers for shipping, spend time driving to collect bicycles in the Re-Cycle van and helping with the ‘Dr Bike’ outreach sessions at Essex University.

 

Meet our Vounteer Graham

  100 Hours  |  567 Bikes Collected   Graham, a retiree with a wealth of experience in accountancy, transport, and customer service, has been a dedicated volunteer at Re-Cycle for the past six months. In this time, Graham has generously

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Meet our Volunteer Barrie

How I became a volunteer: My professional offshore engineering life was coming to an end, and I needed to keep busy physically and mentally as I retired. At my last Charity where I volunteered I met Johnny Johnstone who volunteered

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Meet our Volunteer John

Meet John Adams, he has been volunteering with Re-Cycle for 5 years, since retiring from a career in the maritime containership & ports industry. His job took him all over the world, although ironically the one continent he never set

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Support Us

Whether you decide to make a one-off donation or pledge a monthly gift, we promise that the donation you make to us today will be used to help provide a bicycle lifeline to people in rural Africa.

Where to donate your bike

In the UK, thousands of bikes are thrown away or lie unused in sheds and garages, whilst many people in Africa have no access to transport of any kind. We have bicycle drop-off points nationwide, find your closest drop-off point today!