Impact Stories

Bamboo, balance bikes and business plans: a hands-on day in Camden

We headed to Camden with Camden Council and the Euston Skills Centre for a hands-on day of bamboo, balance bikes and business plans —...

Trained with us, now building in Nairobi: Kirui's bamboo bikes for Kenya

A Kenyan innovator featured on NTV’s Earthwise Mtaani is building bamboo bikes in Nairobi as climate action — and he learned the craft with...

Article 25: Bamboo Bikes for Humanitarian Architecture

Charity Partnership | London | 2019In 2019, BBC worked with Article 25 — a humanitarian architecture charity that uses design to improve health, livelihoods,...

BBC Forms an Education CIC: Mission Made Official

Organisational | National | December 2025At the end of 2025, Bamboo Bicycle Club announced the formation of a Community Interest Company (CIC) specifically to...

Two riders, six countries: the 2 by Bamboo story

Adventure Expedition | South America | 2018In July 2018, two riders crossed six countries, finishing in Cartagena, Colombia on BBC-built bamboo bikes....

Building alongside Ghana Bamboo Bikes: the Imagine Bamboo Summit, Birmingham

International Partnership | Birmingham | July 2022In July 2022, BBC attended the Image Bamboo Festival in Birmingham and collaborated with Ghana Bamboo Bikes to...

Six Hilton staff, six bamboo bikes: a team build at Hilton London Bankside

Hospitality Partnership | London | 2018–2020BBC taught Hilton Bankside staff to build bamboo bikes — bikes guests could then borrow from the hotel, free...

Build to Bond: bikes built by fathers, ridden by their children

Prison Rehabilitation | HMP Lowdham Grange | 2025–ongoingHow a six-week bamboo bicycle building course is reconnecting incarcerated parents with their children — and earning...

The bamboo e-cargo trike: when the bike is the business

Gervase needed transport that could carry his mobile workbench to trade fairs and markets. He built a custom bamboo cargo trike. It didn't just...