The Bike Station exists thanks to the outside financial and support in kind from the following companies, without them we would not exist. The images are links to the corresponding web-sites.

Funding News.

Edinburgh City Council have given the Bike Station £10,000 from their waste minimisation fund to increase the tonnage of bikes that recycle, helping the city meet its recycling targets.

The Edinburgh Fund awarded us a grant towards the costs of developing cycle training and the sale of refurbished bikes as part of a community enterprise.

The Community Health Fund have awarded us £4,000 towards our work promoting cycling and health.

The Roberston Trust has awarded us a three year grant towards our workshop staff, ensuring that the workshop continues to operate and increasing the numbers of bikes that we can refurbish.

Existing Funding.

Transforming Waste Scotland has awarded us money for a part time Project Leader Post. With the money and the new post we will be looking to expand our activities considerably.

West Lothian on the Move

West Lothian On The Move has agreed funding towards the development of a satellite Bike Station in West Lothian, along with a range of other cycling activities.

The Scottish Executive Sustainability Grant

The Scottish Executive has awarded us another three year grant from the Sustainable Action Fund, to develop and promote recycling and cycling as a social inclusion tool within disadvantaged communities throughout Lothian.

Waste Recycling Environmental Limited (WREN)

The money from WREN is used to pay the salary for a full time workshop manager. The Bike Station divided the post into two part-time job-share posts. Waste Recycling Environmental Limited (WREN) is a non-profit making Environmental Body that distributes Landfill Tax Credits under the 1996 Landfill Tax Act and its subsequent amendments. The money is also used for office expenditure and supervision for the workshop managers. The funding runs until October 2004.

Fresh Futures

The money from Fresh Futures has and is being used for volunteer training, tools and equipment and website management.
Fresh Futures is a Scottish funding body set up in 2001 to offer grants to community environmental projects. Funding for the various grant programmes they manage is received from the New Opportunities Fund under their Green Space and Sustainable Communities program and Transforming Communities program.

B&Q

The Bike Station with the help of B&Q was able to buy tools and equipment for the workshop.
The B&Q You Can Do It Community Awards form just one element of the company's commitment to their stores' communities, giving local organisations the chance to embark on DIY projects that can make a real difference to local people.

Valuing Volunteers

The Valuing Volunteers money was awarded to us so that we could put volunteers through various courses and pay for more equipment. Valuing Volunteers is a subsidiary of the Unemployed Voluntary Action Fund (UVAF). Ultimately it is supported by the Scottish Executive.

Unemployed Voluntary Action Fund

The funding from UVAF will bring the workshop a part-time volunteer manager. It will also pay for more volunteer training, some office costs, part office rent and improvement of the access to the workshop. The Unemployed Voluntary Action Fund (UVAF) is a trust which provides grants to assist voluntary projects in Scotland.

Community Health Development Grant - Lothian NHS

NHS Lothian have awarded us funding for a cycling for health project. The project is designed to promote cycling as a means to a healthier lifestyle as a sustainable form of transport.

Network Rail

Network Rail have given us an enormous amount of support in-kind. They have also been very generous as landlords. We are greatly appreciative of their support.

Scottish community foundation

Women's Fund for Scotland has awarded the Bike Station money towards the cost of two workshops specifically for women to coincide with International Women's Day, National Bike Week, and to carry out a project giving women the opportunity to learn to ride a bike, and acquire bikes at low cost.