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Voucher scheme 2025

This year we have a number of vouchers available to give you £40 towards buying a refurbished bicycle or cycling accessories from Leeds Bike Mill, or get help with repairing your bike at the Pedallers’ Arms volunteer-run workshop.

These vouchers are aimed to help anyone on a low household income, who does not have savings or a family or community safety net, and who doesn’t cycle regularly or at all due to not having a bike or the equipment they need.

Who can get a voucher?

You qualify for a voucher if 2 or more apply (this is based on trust, we do not need proof):

  • I frequently struggle with meeting basic needs (including food, housing, clothing and transportation)
  • I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs
  • I rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing
  • I am unemployed or underemployed
  • I qualify for government assistance (e.g. benefits, local welfare schemes)
  • I access voluntary assistance
  • I have no access to savings
  • I have no or very limited money for small luxuries
  • I have no recourse to public funds

How can I get a voucher?

Contact our team and we will advise you about getting the help you need with either getting a bike or accessories, or repairing your existing bike, and we will check we have a voucher available for you.

If you’re wanting to buy a bike or accessories, you can also check our website in advance to see what we have in stock (if you can’t see a bike that’s suitable for you, keep checking back as we regularly update the page with more refurbished bikes).

If there’s something you want to view, call us to book an appointment and mention you’d like to use a voucher so we can reserve one for you.

How long will the scheme last?

We only have a limited number of vouchers, so the scheme will last as long as we have available vouchers to distribute. Only one voucher per person, available to Leeds residents aged 16+.

This 2025 voucher scheme is part of Leeds Bike Mill’s Community Active Travel Hub project, supported by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

Leeds Bike Mill is a Community Active Travel Hub
Leeds Bike Mill is supported by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority
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Active travel with children

We are now holding monthly weekend drop-in sessions on the first Saturday of the month, and our first session is themed all around cycling and walking with children!

When: Saturday 5th April | drop in from 10.30am – 2pm

Where: Leeds Bike Mill, 37 Mabgate Green, Leeds, LS9 7DS

Family cycling

We have a range of kids bikes and our staff can share tips for cycling and touring with children. We can also share advice about how to move your kids around by bike, including using child seats, bike trailers and cargo bikes.

We’ll have a range of second hand child seats and tag-alongs to browse, and a trailer and trailgator (which turn a standard kids bike into a tag-along!) for you to have a look at and help you decide what is the best option for your family.

Tag-along bike
Child seat
Bike trailer

Advice on walking

Also, come along to meet Joe, from our partner organisation, Touchstone, who will be joining us for part of the day, with information about walking, including local group walks and advice on building confidence and fitness through walks in nature.

If you have any questions feel free to contact us!

Leeds Bike Mill is running this event as a Community Active Travel Hub, a project supported by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, aimed at enabling more people to cycle, wheel and walk more often.

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Leeds Bike Mill becoming a Community Active Travel Hub

We are over the moon to announce that we have been awarded funding by West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) to be one of their Community Active Travel Hubs over the next 18 months. Aiming to help people cycle, walk and wheel more often, WYCA have given grants to organisations across West Yorkshire that will support people to gain the skills, confidence and equipment they need to make more active journeys.

Tracy Brabin meeting with the Active Travel Hubs at TCV Hollybush in Leeds

Here at Leeds Bike Mill, we’re passionate about cycling as a way of getting around our city every day, and we believe that by making cycling more accessible and affordable, we can empower people to enjoy the freedom that cycling offers.  Cycling is the most energy efficient form of transport, and we aim to make cycling even more green by recycling disused bikes, finding them new owners and diverting them from landfill.

But it’s not all about cycling… We’ve teamed up with Touchstone to deliver a series of guided group walks around Leeds to showcase some of the beautiful walking routes and green spaces in our local area.  Touchstone provides an array of health and wellbeing services to a diverse set of communities around Leeds, and we’re excited to work with them over the coming months!

We’ve also teamed up with Pedallers’ Arms to set up a voucher scheme for people on low incomes to be able to learn how to maintain their bikes. Pedallers’ Arms are a DIY bike workshop where friendly volunteer mechanics help cyclists in Leeds to diagnose and fix problems with their bikes whilst developing their knowledge of bike mechanics along the way.

We’ll be sharing more details about events and opportunities over the coming months, join our newsletter to stay in the loop! 

This project is being delivered with the support of West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and is aimed at enabling more people to cycle, wheel and walk more often.