31/10/2026
⚠️ Important announcement regarding Bike Revolution with Outfit Moray.
Please read our press release below in full. For more information about Outfit Moray and the current situation, please contact Tony Brown, CEO, Outfit Moray: [email protected]
Outfit Moray, the Lossiemouth based outdoor learning and adventure charity is facing significant financial pressure, due to rapidly rising costs and reduced income from fundraising and social enterprise.
The current economic and cost of living crises, coupled with changes to the National Insurance scheme, have combined to trigger significant rises in operating costs. In particular, those overheads that are traditionally difficult to fund, such as vehicle running costs, fuel, electricity, equipment supplies and staff costs.
As a result, the Charity is being forced to re-structure and will be closing down their secondhand bike sales and bike servicing for the public. The Charity will continue to operate its outdoor learning and adventure programmes, cycle training for schools, bike maintenance classes, adapted bike sales, servicing and repair, hire bikes and first aid services.
The reduction in bike services has necessitated redundancies, which are always unwelcome and it is very sad for the staff, to see the popular bike recycling programme stop, but the economics of recycling bikes no longer works. The Board of Trustees continue to work with the staff team to try to find innovative solutions to financial pressures, but reducing costs through efficiencies is no longer enough, and cuts to services have become essential.
The Charity relies on fundraising for about 50% of its income and social enterprise for the remainder. First Aid training is one of the ways the public can support the Charity whilst receiving excellent training in return. The Charity can provide the full range of physical first aid training courses and a range of different mental health first aid training courses, that can be delivered at business premises or third-party locations.
Similarly, booking private outdoor learning adventure activities enables the Charity to generate income using spare instructor capacity for occasions such as birthdays, workplace team building or family adventures. Everything we do for children and young people can also be done for adult groups.
The Charity currently holds a significant stock of used bikes for sale, which will not be replaced as they sell, so if you are looking for a good quality, fully refurbished, secondhand bike, do not delay in coming down to the shop in Lossiemouth.
Claire Alldritt, Chair of the Outfit Moray Board of Trustees, said “it is extremely regrettable that the Board have had to take the necessary step of re-structuring the Charity’s activities to assure the longer-term future of the Charity. The bike recycling programme has rehomed thousands of bikes since it started in 2012 and its loss will be keenly felt by customers who have donated, bought, and donated again over time as their children have grown up. This decision has been very difficult to make, but essential for the continued support of children, young people and their families for the next generation.”
Tony Brown, CEO of Outfit Moray said “the staff have worked very hard over 14 years to provide an excellent service to the local community, which has supported increased cycling for active travel and leisure. Thankfully, we will be able to continue supporting cycling through delivery of high quality cycle training, bike doctor and bike hire and adapted bike programmes whilst we adapt to future circumstances.”
www.outfitmoray.com/how-can-i-help
