The SPP Charity Initiative 

We're raising money for the Margaret Carey Project from November 21 - April 22. The charity was nominated by Bill Schofield, a member of ARMG and trustee of the charity. Bill nominated the charity as "it gets to the heart of what is positive about rehabilitation". 

We'll be organising different fundraising challenges every month and hopefully there will be something that everybody can get involved in. We hope you will join in, have some fun and dig deep to support this important small charity. 

About the Margaret Carey Project 

The Margaret Carey Project work with marginalised adults and young people who are in prison or identified as being at high-risk of future involvement with the criminal justice system. Their work combines a social purpose with an environmental ethos. They collect bicycles that would otherwise end up in landfill and teach prisoners and young people to repair and refurbish them. The bike repair workshops provide young people with new skills and accredited qualifications which helps the people we work with improve their employability and break their cycle of re-offending.

The project currently works with 500 people annually in nine prisons, two Young Offender Institutions and Two Approved Premises across the north west of England, as well as other vulnerable young people in the community. The bicycles we refurbish are sold, with profits reinvested in their work. The project donates a proportion of the refurbished bikes to people in need, such as refugees and asylum seekers, across the UK and overseas. It also gives young people who attend the workshops the opportunity to own the bike they repair and refurbish, as well as providing bikes to key workers during the pandemic so they didn’t have to use public transport.