Prodigal Bikes

24/03/2026

When a shipment of our bikes arrives in Africa, that is just the start of the programme.
To truly change people's lives through bikes, enabling access to education, employment and healthcare, the bikes need support to keep running for many years. This means having trained teams of mechanics with equipped workshops and regular supplies of bike components.
To fund all this, we sell the high value bikes donated to us, such as the ones pictures below, here in Somerset. Our bikes are all in great condition, fully serviced and ready for years of use here in the UK. Buying a bikes from us pays our mechanics in Africa and buy lots of spares from the bike shops out there, creating prosperity in the countries we work in.
Photos of all this happening our in Africa over the past few months are below.
Surely this is THE most ethical way to buy your next bike.
Drop us a message of you are looking for one.

08/03/2026

We now have a football team named after us!!!!!!
Introducing the Jamie Prodigal Boko Mnemela Sports Club....
Our team out in Tanzania have a real heart for the kids in the community where we sent our bikes in December '24 - Boko Mnemela in coastal Tanzania. As well as monitoring and maintaining the bikes we sent, they started a football team for the kids in Boko. Our Operations Manager Anthony Raybould put the word out that we were looking for football kit, and the public, plus two local Somerset teams from Ilminster and Merriott donated large amounts of old football kit. Jamie Bachelor, a Prodigal Bikes volunteer who was instrumental in delivering the bikes, got some new tops made up with the Prodigal Bikes logo on and the village name, Boko, on the back. All of this got posted out to Tanzania.
Today was the big handover day with the local community leaders. Football appears to be THE most important thing in Tanzania, so the boost this gives to this very poor community cannot be understated. Pictures and video below.
Thanks to everyone who donated the kit and made all these kids so happy.

03/03/2026

A big thank you to Leonardo's Leandro Seguro, who is running the Paris Marathon on 12th April, raising money for Prodigal Bikes.
At Prodigal Bikes, over the last 12 months we have been working towards our biggest ever shipment of 360 bikes, going to three projects in Kenya in May this year. The bikes will, once again, help people there with access to far away healthcare, employment and education. We are nearing our target of bikes and fundraising, but we will put all the money raised by Leandro towards funding this shipment.
If you would like to sponsor Leandro, his Just Giving page is here.

Help Leandro Seguro raise money to support Prodigal Bikes

30/01/2026

When we send our containers of bikes off to Africa, we always have a bit of space to pack smaller items too. One thing we send is sewing machines. Have a look at these photos to see what we do with them.

05/12/2025

One of our African team members, George Okoth from the Langas Gorofani Luo charity in Eldoret, Kenya, sent us this article today. It is the most comprehesive, perceptive and well researched article we have seen about the many benefits of giving people bikes in Africa and in the developed world.

A two-year study from the World Bicycle Relief charity showed significant returns on investment and the bike's power as a "catalytic tool"