24/06/2026
The Community Bike Recycling and Skills Project, Torfaen
The Community Bike Recycling and Skills Project is a newly formed a community-led initiative at Garnsychan Partnership Community Hub and Recycling Centre.
Working in partnership with Active Travel and Lloyds British Cycling, the project is expanding access to bike recycling, skills development, and volunteering opportunities across Torfaen. In light of previous structural changes within Changing Gearz a once Torfaen Borough led project, there was a clear need to strengthen and diversify pathways of support for young people, ensuring continuity, stability, and progression opportunities.
The Garnsychan Community Hub operates as a trauma-centred community hub, with over 12 years’ experience delivering employability, skills, and progression programmes for young people and adults facing multiple barriers stepped up to offer this support. Our expertise underpins the safe, inclusive, and supportive delivery of the bike recycling project, ensuring participants are engaged in a way that builds confidence, resilience, and long-term progression.
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