Figures: BBC programme records and evaluation, September 2026. Scope and limits are shown with each figure below.
We're a Community Interest Company with a bike shop attached, not a charity with a gift shop.
Bamboo Mobility Project CIC · 16257348: programmes, education and community delivery. Bamboo Bicycle Club London Ltd · 10809302: the workshop, kits and designs.
Prison results and lifetime reach have different scopes. The dates and limits are shown with each figure. Completion and confidence are BBC’s own figures; no independent evaluation is claimed.
A selection of programme delivery, team building and published coverage. Dates and limits belong to each example; press coverage is not an outcome evaluation.
prisonsThe Financial Times featured BBC's prison education work at HMP Lowdham Grange on 5 September 2025. This is coverage of the programme, not an independent outcome evaluation.
HMP Lowdham Grange · coverage, 5 September 2025
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communityJames Marr has led team builds for Hilton London Bankside. This is an example of corporate delivery; no participant total or measured social outcome is claimed.
Historical team build · event date not stated in the approved record
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The bamboo bike course offers more than just technical training – it provides an avenue for creativity, teamwork, and self-expression.
communityBBC delivered a one-day Enterprise and Balance Bike Building pilot for Camden Council at Euston Skills Centre. Six young people were recorded and one completed the full day; the pilot produced redesign lessons for future supported delivery. BBC-authored debrief; no commissioner endorsement or successful cohort outcome claimed.
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prisonsInside Time published Bamboozling way to build bikes on 17 November 2025. This is press coverage, not an outcome evaluation.
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prisonsLord Timpson publicly endorsed the programme. Lord Timpson OBE, Prisons Minister 2024–2026; endorsement reported in the Financial Times on 5 September 2025.
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prisonsInvestec Beyond Business 2025 selected Bamboo Bicycle Club from 148 applicants, with £24,000 and mentorship.
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as reported in Financial Times · Inside Time · Investec Beyond Business
These examples use approved programme records and attributed published coverage. The wider archive contains historical stories, not a verified outcome total.
People in prison who received social visits were significantly less likely to reoffend within a year of release: 25% compared with 28% (Ministry of Justice and Lord Timpson, March 2026, matched analysis).
Impact of Social Visits in Prison, 20 March 2026. External research, not a measured BBC outcome or an estimate of the effect of our courses.
36.5% of people leaving prison were in work six months later (Ministry of Justice, year to March 2026).
Excludes people unavailable for work, of unknown status or eligible for Probation Reset. External statistics, not BBC employment outcomes.
The course and setting determine the activities and time involved. Our prison evaluation and programme records are separate from wider ambitions for work and learning.
Practical making and workshop skills.
Six-week prison training: 108 contact hours per Maker (6 weeks × 18 hours). Programme design, not an outcome.Prison delivery: two OCN London bespoke Level 2 courses. Schools: a design-and-make programme run in class.
Course accreditation applies to the two prison courses.26% measured confidence uplift across evaluated prison cohorts.
BBC programme evaluation; measurement period and sample size not stated.10+ Makers have become peer mentors across the prison programme.
James Marr's count, 2 September 2026; programme aggregate.
We've taught in schools since 2014 — a design-and-make programme run in class, taught by us or by your own staff.
BBC delivered a one-day Enterprise and Balance Bike Building pilot for Camden Council at Euston Skills Centre on 1 July 2026.
Two programmes, both accredited by OCN London at Level 2: the six-week training (1130735) and the two-week Build to Bond (1131207).
Commissioned by prisons through the DPS and their own purchase orders.
vocational skills and pathways built through hands-on engineering
hands-on engineering and STEAM learning
Innovative projects, such as Build to Bond, support rehabilitation and help people leave prison as better citizens, boosting the economy and keeping our streets safe.
Lord Timpson OBE, Prisons Minister 2024–2026 · Financial Times, 5 September 2025
Completion comes from BBC programme records; confidence comes from BBC programme evaluation of prison cohorts. The approved record does not state the measurement periods or sample sizes. Staff and peer-mentor counts are programme totals, not single-site outcomes. We do not claim a measured BBC reoffending or employment-after-release result.
Teaching bamboo bicycle fabrication since 2012. Public workshops in London, Amersfoort and Toulouse.
Press and researchers: contact info@bamboobicycleclub.org for enquiries.
Featured in more than 40 publications.
Investec Beyond Business 2025 · selected from 148 applicants, with £24,000 and mentorship
The National Lottery Community Fund awarded £18,000 to Pedal Forward in 2025.
Two programmes, both accredited by OCN London at Level 2: the six-week training (1130735) and the two-week Build to Bond (1131207). Both courses are bespoke and non-regulated. Accreditation applies to the prison courses.
One-day pilot at Euston Skills Centre · 1 July 2026. Six young people recorded; one completed the full day. BBC-authored debrief.
A balance bike built by men at HMP Lowdham Grange was gifted to the National Justice Museum and is on public display in its Working Through It exhibition (opened June 2026).