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...

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris: BBC in a world-class exhibition

Cultural Impact | Paris, France | 2024BBC's home build kit was selected for Match: Design & Sport at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris —...

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,...

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...

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...

Kenya: teaching the build, not shipping the bike

BBC spent time in Kenya teaching community members to build bamboo bicycles. The goal was not to produce frames — it was to leave...