Our Impact

Further Insights and Stats

Young People

The Bike Collective focuses on and encourages long term and in-depth engagement. The below stats shows a picture of participant engagement in a 12-month period at the Risdon Vale Bike Collective:

• We had 31 regular participants
• Each averaged over 58 hours of learning, development, mentoring and encouragement
• Total of 1268 hours of engagement across those 31 participants
• Of the 31 involved in this time period:

• 16 of them were in their first year
• 5 in their 2nd year
• 4 in both 3rd and 4th years of involvement
• 2 had been involved for over 5 years
  

In addition to our regular participants, the RVBC also facilitates:

• weekly bike rides with a group of 7 to 10 primary school students.
• servicing and access to tools for local young people to drop in and use on an ad-hoc basis. Anecdotally, our estimate is that anywhere from 4 to 8 young people use this service every week.

Volunteers

The Risdon Vale Bike Collective was supported by over 300 volunteer hours in the same 12-month period. This allows us to maximise our funding, but also provides additional enrichment for young people as they interact and learn from people from a wide range of backgrounds and across a variety of life stages. Our volunteers assisted in the following key ways:

• Weekly mentoring through workshop activities
• Board and governance
• Collection of bike donations
• Assistance in fundraising and community events

Bike Donations

In that same 12-month period over 350 bikes and numerous parts were donated

Financial and In-kind

Below is an average percentage breakdown of the different contributions received each year

1. 1. Tasmanian State Government – 60%
2. 2. Income self-generated through bike sales and hire – 17%
3. 3. Private Financial Donations – 5%
4. 4. Volunteer Hours (when allocated a value of $20 per hour) – 7%
5. 5. Bike Donations (when allocated $20 per bike) – 7%
6. 6. In-kind Business Support – 4%

In addition to these regular contributions we also received one-off grants to purchase equipment such as our hire bikes, vehicle and a shipping container.