Begging Bowl

With regret the Bike Aid participation in the Latitude Festival has been cancelled. See the relevant post for details. This remains here just as a record.

In order to create a Bike Aid cycling 'community centre' at the Latitude Festival, we need to obtain the following resources. Any offers of assistance or leads are welcome. 


We will need this by 11/7/12 in IP19. All the donors will be profusely thanked and linked to here and on the stand.


We believe doing this will greatly leverage the other resources we already have and so bring considerable benefits to the local community and wider Suffolk and cycling nationally. Ask us how.


Update: we are getting offers on some stuff. We'll tick off what we have secured soon as confirmed. Things marked ** are consumables, the rest we just need to borrow. It's all a matter of perspective; we think we don't need to buy anything new, most of these things we've seen thrown away or know they lying forgotten in storage somewhere.


done

structure
            tent or gazebo up to 6m
            groundsheets or waterproof matting
            rope
            stakes
            mallet
        decor
            bike aid banner
            bunting & flags
            poles
            bike aid pointers
            gaffer tape**
            cable ties**
            staple gun
        furniture
            folding tables
            folding chairs
            padlocks
        uilities
            powerstrips
            powercords
            smoke detector
        display
            leaflet display racks
            paper weights
            pinboards
            lighting
            projector screen
            projector
            laptop/dvd
        volunteer room
            sleeping bags
            airbeds
            billy set
            stove & gas**
            coolbox
            water carrier
            tea & coffee etc.**
            first aid kit**
            thank-you gifts**
            multi-plug solar charger
            hygiene supplies**
                wetwipes
                bin bags
                loo paper
                dry cloths
                hand wash
    bike aid facility
        bike tools
            bike workstand
            wrenches
            levers
            allen keys
            pliers
            cycle pumps w/ valve fittings
            puncture repair kits**
        bike stand
        tool collection tubs
        kit making demo
            clean empty Tetra Pak cartons**
            mailing tubes w/ caps**
            presentation liquor boxes or tubes**
            vinyl bike aid labels**
        refreshments**
            cupcakes & doughnuts
            local juices
            cups & spoons
            local food samples (non per)
    information facility
        leaflets
            topics
                arts
                amenities
                community development
                cycling
                tourism
                transition
                transport
        maps of local routes
        posters
        freebies
            local food samples (non per)
            beer mats
    comms
        hardware
            3G dongle
            mobile phone
                charge
        graphics/printing
            cost of
                leaflets
                signage
                pointers
                banner
                stickers
            someone to
                design a  leaflet
                design a sticker
                design & produce info boards
        media
            photographer to document
            people to tweet 
            press release writing and distribution
            festival programme
                content
                stand copies**
    transport
        small van
        wheelbarrow
    people
        onsite volunteers
            Weds
                schlep & set up
            very early thurs
                 schlep & set up
            Thurs
                Tour de Latitude stand
                bike aid stand
            Fri
                bike aid stand
           Sat
                bike aid stand
            Sun
                bike aid stand
            late Sun
                wrap & schlep
            Mon
                wrap & schlep
        support volunteers
            sustenance
            media
            transport
            art/design

Bike Aid sponsored by Suffolk ACRE

Suffolk Bike Aid can announce it has secured the rural development charity Suffolk ACRE as an in-kind sponsor to shoulder the small outgoings and insurance requirements so there will be a Bike Aid presence at the Latitude Festival at Henham from 12-15 July. It is now possible for Bike Aid to create a cycling community centre in the campsite amenity area for the 35,000 visitors to Latitude. Look for the banner above we've just ordered.

We are asking for any support that cycling-focussed organisations can give us with supplying local cycling and tourism literature, tents, folding tables, info boards, bike tools, puncture repair kits, folding chairs, lighting, bunting, banners, bike stand, stickers etc.

Along with information about Suffolk ACRE's work with rural communities, we aim to include information about local transition, local food groups and other things that fit in with the Bike Aid ethos of building communities and social capital by cycling; in the hope of course those groups will support Bike Aid somehow in kind. Bike Aid will be collecting unwanted bike tools and bike bits from the Tour De Latitude riders to recycle as bike aid kits or deliver to a local cycling workshop providing training and employment to disabled people.

We also need to recruit a few local-cycling-knowledgeable volunteers (i.e. people who actually cycle in Suffolk sometimes) to man the stall.

If you can help us in anyway, please get in touch, email is best, from the contact page.