FONS Support Helps Deliver Repaired Bicycles to Refugees
July 9, 2025
Thanks to the Refugee Support Group and financial support from FONS, over 30 bicycles have been repaired for local refugees.

The generous funding of £400 from FONS has been put to the best of use during the past six months. The bicycle restoration project has truly been an inclusive undertaking: donated bicycles came from staff, pupils, the cathedral lost property office, visiting speakers, former parents and ONs (alumni).
The school’s Refugee Support Group – comprising of pupils, members of the refugee community and staff – received donations of 35 bicycles. 30 of these were mended and serviced using tools and replacement items such as brake shoes and cables, chains and pedals, that had been purchased with the money we received. Various workshops were organised after school on Wednesdays when the pupils and staff prepared the bicycles for their final destination: the two hotels in Norwich where asylum seekers are being housed whilst their cases are considered. The residents of these hotels, one of which is in Bowthorpe, regularly walk to City College for their English as a Second Language classes. For this reason, we have provided a pool of bicycles that can be used to provide independent transport.
The funds have also been used to purchase safety equipment such as helmets, lights and padlocks. The 5 remaining bicycles are almost ready to deliver.
The Refugee Support Group is very grateful to Friends of Norwich School for their support. It has been a very constructive, practical project that has had an immediate impact on both the members of the school community and the asylum seekers. Due to my retirement, I am very grateful that a parent, Mr Steve Martin, has expressed an interest in continuing the project next year.




