Deacons Boatyard is offering itself up as a
short term depot for the collection of unwanted Bicycles.

In conjunction with “re-cycle”
based in Essex ( www.re-cycle.org ), the boatyard on the river Hamble is hoping to get all its partners in the marine industry to get together and
find as many bicycles as possible to send to Africa
where they can make a serious difference to peoples lives. Deacons will be
transporting the donated bikes up to the warehouse in Essex ready for transportation
to Namibia and Ghana 
during the month of August. The cut off date for accepting donated bicycles
will be the end of July 2011.

‘Get yourself out and about, talk to all
and sundry and get as many bicycles together as you can and bring them down to
Deacons Boatyard on the Hamble river (www.deaconsboatyard.co.uk)’, says Lucas Shotts, MD of Deacons.

Currently Re-cycle has shipped 36000
bicycles to Africa , we need to get this
figure up to 40,000 before the end of the year!

Please see the re-cycle website for help in
deciding whether the bicycle you are donating is worthwhile, as it goes without
saying that a scrap bicycle is just that, scrap!  The website gives a very good
idea of what is acceptable and what is not.

Lucas adds: ‘When you turn up at Deacons with all those
Bicycles please remember we are also running a very busy boatyard with
machinery and boats all over the place , do not just dump bicycles anywhere, we
have a place for them to go but you need to come up to reception to find out
where that is.’