Children's charity Kibble is embracing cycling as it marks National Bike Week

A children’s charity has been marking National Bike Week.

Kibble has wheeled bike safety classes into Johnstone’s Fordbank Primary School as part of a social enterprise initiative which fixes and sells old bicycles.

Primary seven pupils attend regular workshops led by Ewan Turnbull, manager of Kibble Bikes, in which they learn how to safely check their brakes and tire pressure, as well as how to make repairs.

Alongside the workshops, the initiative collects scrapped bikes as part of a contract with Renfrewshire Council, to fix those which have been thrown away, rescuing them from skips and upcycling them.

The bikes are then donated to charity, or sold at heavily discounted prices, with over 140 being given to low income families so far.

Kibble fixes the bikes at a warehouse in Paisley as part of KibbleWorks, a collection of social enterprises which offer services to the local community, while providing supported employment to young people.

The enterprises help young people to upskill and improve their job prospects through an integrated programme of vocational training and work placements.

Eileen Cummings, executive director of young workforce development at Kibble, said: “It’s fantastic to see the primary students engaged and having fun as they learn these new skills.

”National Bike Week spreads the message that cycling is for everyone, and that is what we hope to do as well, by making bikes accessible to low income families and charities.

“The workshops at Fordbank give our young people at KibbleWorks the chance to showcase the skills they have learned throughout their time within the social enterprise, creating a better pathway to employment as they build on their current skillset.”

National Bike Week runs from 9 to 17 June in partnership with Cycling Scotland, and consists of a series of family-friendly cycling events.