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RAD Bikes Community Bike Workshop

RAD (Recycle a Dunger) Newsletter

Winter / Hōtoke 2024

Kia ora RAD whānau!

Welcome to our overview of RAD’s universe.

What a winter! RAD’s been thriving in our new warm, dry home.

Despite the dark, cold days, we've seen a steady stream of repairs, volunteers, and bikes flowing through our doors, keeping our impacts and outputs high—no head torches, heavy jackets, or gloves needed!

With spring around the corner, RAD’s gearing up for what’s likely to be our busiest seasons yet! We have loads of bikes and our amazing team ready to help, so come on down and find what you need to ride more.

(Thanks again to Mackersy Property and Life in Vacant Spaces for our amazing space, it’s made such a difference to our RAD community)

RAD NEWS

Keith’s Volcan Award!

We’re stoked Keith’s been recognised with a Volunteering Canterbury Award for his outstanding commitment to RAD! Keith has been a dedicated RAD volunteer for years, and now kaitiaki of Bike Bridge’s bike fleet. He’s so RAD.

In The Spotlight!

Some of our RAD crew have recently featured in Cycling in CHCH’s ‘In the Spotlight’ series. Big thanks to Angela Cassidy for helping share Meg’s, Lois’s, Jess’s and Dave’s stories.

Community Outreach

Have clients who’d love a bike? RAD’s now actively reaching out and keen to connect with social services providers to get more bikes to those in need and grow our RAD impacts. All kids and community referrals now include a free lock, thanks to Frequency’s support!

RAD EVENTS

Find a Bike Sessions

RAD’s latest session is now part of our regular weekly schedule! Every Monday - 3-6.30pm, come find sweet secondhand bikes for yourself or others. We have loads, all types and budgets. Help us get more bikes out into the community and keep growing our RADness!

Community Surveys

Some awesome U.C Geo students are researching the demographics of RAD to help us reach more people in our community! We’d absolutely love you to fill in their surveys for RAD volunteers and users, as well as the general public. Thanks for your RAD input and insights!

Mobile RAD Pop Ups

Our RAD Wāhine recently popped up at Tūranga as part of the Women of the Wheel Exhibition! (go check it out…) And if your company or community would love a visit from our RAD crew, check out these mobile services we offer.

RAD LOVE ❤

A snippet of the regular goodness happening at RAD…

Helping Haeata Kids…

“We are just so grateful. The bikes look amazing and will be distributed to our students next term. You can't imagine how much that will mean to some of our families. Thank you so much for all your support!! Arohanui””

Peggy Burrows from Haeata: Recipients of 12 bikes from RAD’s recent kids fix event.

LOVE RAD? SUPPORT US

Donate

Donations keep our wheels spinning!  Every bit helps and is greatly appreciated. So if you’re keen to support our kaupapa, click to check out how to donate.  Thanks!

Volunteer

Volunteers are at the heart of RAD and we love them all!  You don’t have to be a pro-mechanic to be RAD; there are heaps of ways to get involved and it’s a great way to learn.  So click the link if you're curious about how to volunteer. So RAD!

Use RAD

Check out all RAD’s services via our website . Get the lowdown on upcoming events via our calendar (updated regularly). And follow us on Humanitix to get updates and tickets for our mechanic courses / workshops. See ya soon.

Huge mihi to our RAD supporters!

A Huge Thank You to our RAD supporters!

These are lean times and RAD’s feeling the pressure too. We’re incredibly grateful for the grants we’ve recently received from Rātā, CCC, and MoEC, as well as all the specific support from other awesome charities, corporates, communities and individuals. (you know who you are!)

We’re thrilled with how RAD is thriving in our new space, but as community funding becomes more competitive, we’re hustling hard to boost our own income streams to keep achieving our big goals.

So if you’re loving our new setup as much as we are, we’d love your help! You can join our regular giving scheme, recommend us as the go-to place for bikes, volunteer your time or suggest a permanent home to help us keep rolling and make Ōtautahi more RAD for everyone.

Stay RAD and keep pedalling!

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