Chester Neighborhood Bike Works is starting the Cash Flow Club, a new program for Chester Earn-a-Bike graduates that are particularly interested in bike repair. Graduates fix and tune bikes to sell, learning economics of sales and money management, and earning a portion of the profits. Many residents around Chester and Swarthmore often ask us to purchase bikes, while our Earn-a-Bike graduates were looking for something to do over the summer besides Saturday Drop-Ins, so we thought why not make them both work together?
Visit the Chester NBW website for more information on the Cash Flow Club.
Neighborhood Bike Works has been awarded grants from the following foundations in support of the 2010 Summer Bike Camps in West Philadelphia and North Philadelphia:
Elsie Lee Garthwaite Memorial Foundation
The Seybert Institution
C.W. Schrenk and Marjorie J. Schrenk Family Foundation
Finish Line Youth Foundation
We would like to thank these foundations, as well as our generous base of individual supporters, for making the 2010 Summer Bike Camp a reality!
We are thrilled to announce that The Finish Line Youth Foundation has awarded Neighborhood Bike Works a $5,000.00 grant to support our 2010 Summer Cycling Day Camp. This grant will help provide scholarships to youth attending our Summer Camp, further our mission to provide opportunities to youth through bicycling. This is the second year Finish Line has supported NBW’s Summer Camp. Thank you to Finish Line Youth Foundation for your dedicated support!
It’s that time again! The Neighborhood Bike Works summer camp is starting this July and needs volunteers.
What do summer camp volunteers do?
In the morning, we take the kids on a ride to various locations around the city. Field trips include rides to Spriral Q Puppet Factory, The Urban Nutrition Initiative, Bartram’s Gardens, The Mill Creek Urban Farm, and The Sprinkler Park. Volunteers help to supervise these rides. In the afternoon, the kids return to the shop for lunch and a bicycle lesson. During the lesson, volunteers make sure that the kids are paying attention and help them with any difficulties that may arise. Working with the summer camp is a great opportunity to learn the basics of bicycle repair and to explore the city.
We are also seeking individuals who have a special skill to share with the campers. Do you have an awesome, kid-friendly recipe to share? Do you make awesome art? Do you ride bikes professionally? Do you have cool stories to share about biking? If you do something awesome that kids think is awesome too, we’d love for you to volunteer for a day and share your expertise with the campers.
Two of our stellar volunteers from last summer.
Camp Hours: 8:30am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday.
Dates:
Session I: July 5 - 16
Session II: July 19 - 30
Session III: August 2 - 13
Session IV: August 16 - 27
If you’re interested in volunteering with the summer camp, please send an email to volunteers@neighborhoodbikeworks.org and include which session you’d like to work with and your contact information. We will be holding a summer camp orientation for any interested volunteers!
We will also have a summer camp through our North Philadelphia shop. Contact Cat Bergeron for more information by sending an email to cat@neighborhoodbikeworks.org.
We look forward to hearing from you!
All sessions of Summer Bike Camp are now full for Summer 2010.
We occasionally have cancellations. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please email alison@neighborhoodbikeworks.org or call 215-386-0316.
Please come to this historical event! On Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 6pm, the very second Earn-a-Bike class at NBW’s North Philly Shop will be graduating! The shop is located at 1426 W. Susquehanna Ave, Philadelphia PA 19121.
Cat Bergeron, our North Philly Shop Manager, is excited to celebrate the achievements of our newest batch of graduates and to introduce our new space to all of you. We have transformed the former barbershop into a beautiful bike shop, a transformation which is still in progress.
The students graduating on Wednesday are a great group, and you may see them this summer at bike safety checks, bike parking and at our soon-to-be-opening-for-retail North Philly Bike Shop!
Neighborhood Bike Works Summer Camp is now accepting applications for Summer Camp 2010.
The application is available online, or you can call 215-386-0316, email dcb@neighborhoodbikeworks.org or visit our 3916 Locust Walk location to request a copy.
Session Dates:
Session I: July 5 - 16
Session II: July 19 - 30
Session III: August 2 - 13
Session IV: August 16 - 27
Fees: The fee for the 2-week camp session is $450 per child; scholarships are available. The fee includes breakfast and lunch every day at camp, as well as a bicycle, helmet, and bike lock for each camper to keep.
Neighborhood Bike Works Summer Camp will soon start accepting applications for Summer 2010.
If you would like to receive an application for Camp, please call 215-386-0316 or send your mailing address to dcb@neighborhoodbikeworks.org.
We will hold four 2-week sessions this summer. Each session runs Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:00pm.
Dates for the 2010 NBW Summer Camp:
Session I
July 5 - 16
Session II
July 19 - 30
Session III
August 2 - 13
Session IV
August 16 - 27
Details
The fee for the 2-week camp session is $450 per child; scholarships are available. The fee includes breakfast and lunch every day at camp, as well as a bicycle, helmet, and bike lock for each camper to keep.
For more info, please email dcb@neighborhoodbikeworks.org or give us a call in the office at 215-386-0316.
Neighborhood Bike Works was lucky to have the opportunity last week to bring twenty NBW youth and family members to the UniverSoul Circus at the Mann Center in Fairmount Park. Instructor Cat Bergeron led the trip. Nine youth rode to the Mann Center with Cat and one of our dedicated volunteers, while eleven more youth and family members met the NBW contingent at the event.
Thanks to Representative Vanessa Lowry Brown for making this trip possible by donating free tickets to NBW!
Here’s a note from one of the kids who went on the trip:
Thank you for giving me and my grandmother tickets to go to the UniverSoul! Circus. My favorite part was the magic and the contortionist. They were so flexible they made my neck hurt. We had a good time.
We are pleased to announce that Neighborhood Bike Works has been awarded a grant from the Women’s Sports Foundation to run girls’ Earn-a-Bike classes! The girls-only classes will incorporate the Go Girl Go! curriculum to teach and encourage healthy physical activity. The first class in this series has already started at the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philly.
Thank you to the Women’s Sports Foundation for the generous grant! You can read more about the recent grant awards here.
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