Chris Barrett
Director of Operations, Bamboo Bicycle Club
From plan to delivery. Across every programme.
Chris is a director of Bamboo Mobility Project CIC, the social enterprise behind our programmes, education and community work. He has been a director since February 2025 and looks after operations: partners, funding, scheduling and impact reporting.
Based in London
“I never really wanted to be a businessman. I wanted to be involved with something that had a social purpose.”
Chris Barrett, speaking to Waltham Forest Council, 2020
How Chris got here.
Before joining us he taught English in South Korea, then spent six years as a freelance photojournalist covering social issues, for titles including the Guardian and the Telegraph.
In 2016 he founded thinkFOUND, a social enterprise that makes furniture from waste wood and gives young people work experience.
On the record.
- 2025Director, Bamboo Mobility Project CIC
- 2021UnLtd Growth Award, and the School for Social Entrepreneurs Scale Up programme
- 2016Founded thinkFOUND
- 2010–16Freelance photojournalist
- 2006–09Taught English in South Korea
Meet the team.
- James Marrfounder
- Liam MertensWorkshop Manager, London
- Tim van WoudenbergPartner workshop · Amersfoort, the Netherlands
- Guillaume DenneulinPartner workshop · Toulouse, France
- Vicky Mitchelladviser
- Alexandra Maitland Makgill CrichtonDirector, Bamboo Mobility Project CIC
Photo: Chris Barrett at thinkFOUND, Waltham Forest Echo, 2021.