Community comes together to help deliver new bikes to Walsall club hit by theft
A Black Country community group’s cycle club has taken delivery of new bikes to replace ones stolen by thieves.
The Agenda 21 group, based in Reedswood Park. in Birchills, Walsall, provides free ‘Learn to Ride’ training sessions for local youngsters, hosts bikes maintenance classes and has scores of people of all ages attend its regular guided rides for all around the park.
However, 45 of its community bikes were stolen from a sealed container outside the community centre in Bentley Lane last month.
Kind-hearted members of the local community have rallied round and 20 secondhand bikes were donated and are being readied, and in some cases repaired, for use.
Following a request for help to West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, the group has also taken delivery of 14 brand new Raleigh bikes, plus helmets and equipment, courtesy of Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and The Active Wellbeing Society through the region wide Cycling For Everyone scheme.
