Melbourne, Australia
info@b4hmelbourne.org.au
Empowering Communities One Bicycle at a Time
About Us
Bicycles For Humanity Melbourne is a completely volunteer run, grass roots registered charity organisation focused on the alleviation of poverty through sustainable transport in the form of a bicycle.
Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne is an incorporated association and registered charity with ACNC and registered for fundraising within Victoria. We are completely volunteer run and governed by a boatd and leadership team that hold monthly meetings.
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Connect with Us
Stay up to date with the latest Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne news and events by connecting with us with our social media channels:
Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne Newsletter
Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne Facebook
Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne Instagram
Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne Twitter Feed
Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne LinkedIn Organisation Page
Our Supporters
Toyota Australia
www.toyota.com.au
Toyota Australia provides a fantastic storage site for Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne, that serves as the heart of our operations, with plenty of room to grow. With so much space and a great new location to store and pack all our donated bicycles, we are able to collect bicycles from all over Melbourne.
Sundowner RV
www.sundownerrv.com.au
Sundowner RV are a huge supporter of Bicycles For Humanity. Helping us out with logistics and storage space. When you’re looking for caravans for sale Sundowner RV are the ones to visit.
Bicycle Superstore
www.bicyclesuperstore.com.au
Bicycle Super Store Have been with us from the beginning. They take bicycle donations dropped off in all their stores across Victoria. Bicycles Super Store also sells our Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne T-shirts in their online store and manages the delivery of these purchases to our supporters.
VACRO Second Chance Cycles
www.vacro.org.au
The Second Chance Cycles workshop takes donated bicycles that are unsuitable for African conditions and restores them for community use. They provide people with the opportunity to give back to the community, offer hands-on training and a workshop environment for people looking for work. They give people from marginalised backgrounds an opportunity to socialise in a supported setting. The sales from these bicycles helps send others to communities in need.
Bicycle Network
www.bicyclenetwork.com.au
Bicycle Network is Australia’s biggest bike riding organisation, supported by more than 50,000 members nationwide. They share our passion for empowering people in being active and healthy through riding a bike.
Queenscliffe Men’s Shed Bicycle Group
www.qnhouse.com.au/mens-shed-bicycle-group
The Queenscliffe Men’s Shed Bicycle Group meets each Tuesday morning to restore donated bikes which are either sold or forwarded to charity programs including Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne.
WCBM World Freight
www.wcbm.com.au
WCBM World Freight help Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne out with reduced shipping rates. Our relationship with them has changed the playing field allowing us to ship more bikes, more often.
L Arthur Transport
www.larthur.com.au
Arthur Transport have provided great support over the past few years collecting, weighing and delivering our filled containers to port in Melbourne for no fee, and also assist to collect our incoming new containers for delivery to our storage site for no fee.
Flimsy Films
www.flimsyfilms.com
Skilled in video marketing, the creative team at Flimsy Films have been a great support in helping us spread Bicycle for Humanity Melbourne’s message.
The Growth Project
www.thegrowthproject.com.au
Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne is proud to be participating in The Growth Project – a one-year leadership development program that brings together leaders of emerging charities with business leaders so that they can share and learn from their previous experience, grow individually and have maximum positive social impact.
The growth project is the concept of collaboration and engaged giving where all involved share their time, knowledge and resources to help develop the future leaders of Australia’s non-profit sector.
Fluccs
www.fluccs.com.au
Fluccs provides free community web hosting to Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne’s website.
Based in Brisbane, Australia, Fluccs provides a full suite of web services with a specific focus on managed cloud computing and the provision of infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Thanks to Our Past Long Term Supporters
Parkvue Storage
http://www.parkvuestorage.com.au/
Parkvue Storage lent us vital storage space out in Dingley where we collected, prepped and packed all the bikes before they headed to the developing world. They are the best self storage facility in Melbourne and we could not have done the work we do without them.
Knog
http://www.knog.com.au/
Knog have been a valued supporter from the very beginning, helping fund our very first shipment of bikes to Namibia and their support donating awesome bike gear continues.
Minter Ellison
https://www.minterellison.com/
Minter Ellison provide pro-bono legal services to Bicycles For Humanity Melbourne. We’re endlessly grateful for their help.
Kennedys Accountants
www.kennedysaccountants.com.au
Kennedys Accountants make a valuable contribution to our 100% volunteer run organisation by paying our ongoing Xero accounting platform fees. We’re also thankful to Dean Kennedy’s (Principal Accountant) additional contributions to Bicycles for Humanity Melbourne.