We’ve helped a diverse range of businesses make their deliveries and collections greener through our Bikes for Business cargo bike project. Our team has also spoken at a number of face-to-face and online events to share our expertise and successes from the project alongside some of sustainable transport’s most notable industry leaders.
Cargo Bikes work for many different business types
From yoga to coffee making, from architecture to catering and from window cleaning to office supplies, we’ve worked with almost 200 businesses across the Low Line in SE1, SE16 and SE17 to either use a cargo bike courier service or purchase their own bike. Cargo bikes have been particularly popular with food and beverage producers, including award-winning brewery Orbit Beers, The Fruit Tree and Dr. Juice.
Total breakdown of Bikes for Business project participants:
- Food and beverage producers: 31%
- Office: 19%
- Hospitality: 17%
- Retail: 14%
- Creative Arts: 9%
- Other: 6%*
- Charity: 4%
*This includes a variety of businesses including landscaping and gardening services, technology and furniture crafting.
Hear from and read about two business owners who have really benefited from using cargo bikes to make their businesses work better:
E-cargo bike strengthens yoga business and helps it thrive – Clara of Clara Lopez Yoga in Fulham about how investing in an e-cargo bike has helped her grow her business
Perfect coffees from an e-cargo bike – Allan Rudolf, owner of En’route Coffee is providing perfect coffees from an e-cargo bike for his customers. He sets up his e-cargo bike with built in coffee machine at festivals and farmers’ markets around London and the south east.
Cargo Bikes for the everyday and the extraordinary – Mikkel Juel Iversen tells us about his charity, Under One Sky, which is supporting people affected by homelessness and working to end homelessness. Mikkel uses a cargo bike to get around London for his work.
