Impact Stories

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...

Grand Palais Paris: BBC in a World-Class Exhibition

Cultural Impact | Paris, France | November 2023In November 2023, BBC's home build kit was selected for inclusion in an exhibition at the Grand...

Corporate Build Donates Balance Bikes to Upcycle Brixton

Corporate CSR + Community Impact | London | December 2024In December 2024, a company completed a corporate team-building session at BBC. The session produced...

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 and 1,620 rice-based meals: the 2 by Bamboo story

Adventure Expedition | South America | 2018In July 2018, two riders completed 11,300 kilometres across 6 countries, finishing in Cartagena, Colombia on BBC-built bamboo...

Two doctors rode London to Singapore on bamboo they built themselves

Charity Expedition | UK → Singapore | 2014In 2014, two doctors built BBC bamboo bikes and cycled from the UK to Singapore to raise...

Ten frames in a day: The Macallan builds bamboo bikes

Premium Brand Partnership | London | April 2024Macallan Whisky brought participants in its UK advocacy platform, 'Masters of Their Craft,' to BBC's London workshop...

Kate Rawles built her own bamboo bike — then rode it the length of the Andes

Environmental Expedition | Colombia → Ushuaia | 2016–2018When Kate Rawles set out to cycle from Colombia to the southern tip of South America, she...