Margaret Carey Foundation

Margaret Carey Foundation

At a glance

Causes

  • Criminal justice
  • Local / community
  • Training / employment support
  • Young people

Other details

Organisation type: 
Charity
Geographical remit: 
Regional

Objectives

We are working for a world where:

  • Communities are safer because people in prison and excluded adults in the community have the self-esteem, skills and opportunity to break their personal cycle.
  • Unwanted bikes and wheelchairs are reused for good, instead of filling up landfills.
  • Vulnerable and disadvantaged people – and projects working with them - have access to affordable bikes, promoting a healthy lifestyle and car-free towns.

Activities

Margaret Carey Foundation (MCF) promotes restorative justice in prisons. We set up and support bike and wheelchair maintenance workshops across the North of England and Nottingham in prisons and the community. Our prison workshops provide meaningful activity to approximately 125 prisoners each week, saving around 250 wheelchairs and 1,100 bikes each year from landfills. A proportion of the refurbished bikes are sold at affordable prices through our community Bikerys in Shipley and Bradford. The Shipley Bikery offers low cost servicing and repairs and informal training and advice to help members of the public keep their bikes in good working order. The Bradford Bikery, is a training partnership in a Bradford housing estate in partnership with InCommunities, a social housing provider which offers accredited and informal training. And in 2016, we opened a community bike workshop in an approved premises in Greater Manchester with Achieve North West.

The majority of restored bicycles and all the wheelchairs are distributed, through partner charities, to communities in need in the UK and overseas. We bring feedback from the people who have received the goods, into the prisons so trainees can see the impact of their work.

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