Impact Stories
Build to Bond: The Full Story of How Bamboo Bik...
Prison Rehabilitation | HMP Lowdham Grange | 2025–ongoingHow a six-week bamboo bicycle building course is reconnecting incarcerated parents with their children — and earning national recognition from the Financial Times,...
Build to Bond: The Full Story of How Bamboo Bik...
Prison Rehabilitation | HMP Lowdham Grange | 2025–ongoingHow a six-week bamboo bicycle building course is reconnecting incarcerated parents with their children — and earning national recognition from the Financial Times,...
Gervase's Bamboo Cargo Trike: When the Bike Is ...
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 move his business — it became...
Gervase's Bamboo Cargo Trike: When the Bike Is ...
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 move his business — it became...
The Bamboo Wheelchair: Designing Mobility for t...
An estimated 100 million people globally need a wheelchair and don't have one. In 2019, BBC began applying its frame-building expertise to this problem.
The Bamboo Wheelchair: Designing Mobility for t...
An estimated 100 million people globally need a wheelchair and don't have one. In 2019, BBC began applying its frame-building expertise to this problem.
Teaching Kenya to Build: When the Knowledge Sta...
BBC spent time in Kenya teaching community members to build bamboo bicycles. The goal was not to produce frames — it was to leave the knowledge permanently in the community.
Teaching Kenya to Build: When the Knowledge Sta...
BBC spent time in Kenya teaching community members to build bamboo bicycles. The goal was not to produce frames — it was to leave the knowledge permanently in the community.
From Sustainable AI to London-Brighton: Manish'...
Manish is the founder of a sustainable AI company. He built a bamboo gravel bike because carbon fibre contradicted everything his business stood for. Then he rode it to Brighton.
From Sustainable AI to London-Brighton: Manish'...
Manish is the founder of a sustainable AI company. He built a bamboo gravel bike because carbon fibre contradicted everything his business stood for. Then he rode it to Brighton.
UCL Masters Students Build a 100kg Electric Bam...
Over three consecutive years, UCL Mechanical Engineering Masters students partnered with BBC to build increasingly ambitious bamboo bicycles — culminating in a fully electric cargo bike.
UCL Masters Students Build a 100kg Electric Bam...
Over three consecutive years, UCL Mechanical Engineering Masters students partnered with BBC to build increasingly ambitious bamboo bicycles — culminating in a fully electric cargo bike.