PRODIGAL BIKES

Registered charity 1170845 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Prodigal Bikes collects unwanted bikes in the UK. We refurbish them, then send them to Africa to help people there gain access to education, healthcare and employment. The bikes are prepared here by ex-offenders, ex-homeless people and school children at risk of exclusion. We teach them bike maintenance skills and inspire them towards further training and employment in Engineering related jobs.

Objects

1) THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS TO REDUCE REOFFENDING BY IMPROVING THE EMPLOYABILITY OF PEOPLE ON COMMUNITY PAYBACK PROGRAMMES, OFFENDERS AND OTHER DISENGAGED PEOPLE IN THE SOMERSET, DEVON AND DORSET AREA.2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF PEOPLE LIVING IN RURAL AREAS OF AFRICA BY SUPPLYING FREE OF CHARGE BIKES, SPARES AND TOOLS TO ENHANCE THEIR LIVES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRANSPORTATION.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted income increased by 42% to £59,709, with the charity maintaining a reserve fund based on a £5,000 grant to provide extra financial security. Per the trustees' report, the charity has achieved a steady, predictable income stream that covers most UK operational costs, although it notes that proceeds from UK bike sales are not yet fully covering the costs of supporting African projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Prodigal Bikes (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIMOTHY RALPH NEVILLEchair
• Calum McFarlane · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger James Allen
• STEPHEN CRANE

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

Operates in: Devon · Dorset · Kenya · Malawi · Somerset · Tanzania

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RE~CYCLE.

• RE~CYCLE income £389k
• THE BIKE PROJECT income £1.4m
• RIDE ON - CYCLING FOR ALL income £231k
• SOLIHULL WHEELS FOR ALL income £53k
• PRODIGAL ARTS income £72k
• ON YOUR BIKE (RECYCLE) LTD income £339k

Side by side with its peers

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