Good Cycles is a not-for-profit social enterprise that breaks down barriers for young people by providing safe and meaningful job opportunities. Good Cycles celebrated its 10th anniversary in November.
Starting in 2013, Good Cycles now employs around 180 people and has directly supported over 1000 young people through employment and training opportunities. Their Youth Employment Program (YEP) uses a work-first approach, providing jobs to young people aged 18-29 alongside tailored coaching and support.
Good Cycles began by training, upskilling and donating bikes to refugees, asylum seekers and young people from diverse backgrounds, including within the justice system.
After repairing thousands of bikes and training hundreds of young people, Good Cycles started creating jobs by delivering services by bicycle, such as carshare cleaning, environmental waste collection, asset maintenance, solar bin checks, delivery and logistics and more. Using bicycles as work vehicles also enabled Good Cycles to remove thousands of cars, vans, and light trucks from our roads preventing 20,000kg of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
Given young people are more than twice as likely as older people to experience unemployment with a range of barriers to entering the labour market, Good Cycles strives to help them see a brighter future and to be a key part of a workforce that is delivering positive change for their communities.
Congratulations Good Cycles!
Good Cycles recently won the Innovation Excellence Award at the 2024 Civil Contractors Federation Victoria People & Training Awards. The award recognised the social and environmental innovation Good Cycles has achieved with its business partners in supporting young people through stable employment.