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,...

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...

A corporate team built balance bikes — then gave them to Brixton

A corporate team built bamboo balance bikes at BBC's workshop. The finished bikes were donated to Upcycle Brixton — getting children cycling in South...