THE BIKE PROJECT

Registered charity 1152354 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We aim to provide relief for those seeking asylum and those granted refugee status and their dependents who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress. To achieve this, we collect, repair, and distribute second-hand bikes to refugees and asylum seekers. All of our resources and funding are directed towards achieving this goal.

Objects

(1) TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS; (2) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY; (3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF ALL AGES OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SAFE USE, RE-USE AND MAINTENANCE OF BICYCLES; AND (4) THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARTICULAR BY SAVING BICYCLES FROM LANDFILL AND PROMOTING BICYCLE RE-USE AND RECYCLING.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small unrestricted surplus of £45k, bringing its unrestricted reserves from a deficit of £61,700 to a deficit of £17,157. Total group reserves decreased to £211,185, with unrestricted funds remaining negative despite cost reductions and a strategic shift to online retail sales.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08359498
• Trading subsidiary: THE BIKE PROJECT TRADING LIMITED Companies House 12941780

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Bike Project (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Awards for All — “We are grateful for the support of our financial donors and the following trusts, funds and organisations Awards for All” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CORBY, Esther Hope Carmen — director, appointed 18/11/2025on trustee list
• NYONI, Gift Shala — director, appointed 18/11/2025on trustee list
• OLINS, Rufus Laurence — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• HIBBERD, Helen Anne — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• ROBLIN, Samantha — director, appointed 22/01/2024on trustee list
• KRIKLER, Douglas Henry — director, appointed 02/08/2021on trustee list
• ADEYEMI, Odunayo Comfort — director, appointed 14/04/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (50% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DOUGLAS KRIKLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Esther Corby
• Gift Nyoni
• Odunayo Comfort Adeyemi
• Rufus Olins
• Samantha Roblin

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RIDE ON - CYCLING FOR ALL.

• RIDE ON - CYCLING FOR ALL income £231k
• THE BIKE EXPERIENCE income £27k
• WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF UK income £2.2m
• SHROPSHIRE CYCLE HUB income £48k
• CAPITAL OF CYCLING income £181k
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.