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...

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 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...

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...

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...