Thank You for Another Successful Year!

Our goal in 2007 was 2310 bikes. We will be posting a report on 2007 shortly

We are looking for additional opportunities to expand this joyful enterprise into other communities and will assist financially the first year. Winston-Salem and Raleigh are proud examples of this expansion effort.  Raleigh began an operation in 2007 to distribute 200 bikes.

In 2006 we officially raised $141,781.

100 cents of every dollar ever raised by the Spokesgroup has bought bikes and helments. All expenses of the organization are donated.

In 12 years The Spokesgroup had given away 14,082 bikes. At an average of $70 per bike, that represents $985,740.

For the most part this has been in $10, $20 and $70
donations by a LOT of supportive, loyal, and very generous folks.

"FOLLOW THE BIKES"

LETTERS FROM CONTRIBUTORS:

"I am a 77 yr. old lady that was raised in a country preacher's home in eastern N. C. I never had a bike. I always filled out the form in the Montgomery Ward catalog, but never got to send it in. So now I can buy a bike, but I can't ride it. Funny how life goes. So last year I bought a bike for a little boy in Virginia through my grand-daughter-this year I do it thru you."   

  Laverne L. Talbert  March 15,1924-July 21, 2005

We are writing to let you know what a wonderful and positive project you are undertaking and to offer a suggestion for other businesses that buy holiday gifts for their clients. Every Christmas our company buys corporate gifts for folks we work with during the year. However, as we all know, there is an abundance of fruitcakes, cookies and other holiday confections to go around. Last year we decided to give that money to the Spokes Group to buy bicycles and helmets for needy children.

We mailed one of your ‘in honor of’ cards to each person we bought a gift of a bike in their honor. The response we received was amazing! Folks wrote us saying how appreciative they were for this honor, and no one seemed to miss the corporate gifts we usually sent! Beverly Phillips wrote “What a wonderful idea! I can’t think of anything I would like better.” We believe in a season of plentiful gifts, it is much more rewarding to help those with so little.

Jim & Anne Comer/CBH Pensions

Greetings Spokes Group!

My Student Council at Community House Middle School has decided to support the Spokes Group this holiday season. CHMS is in south Charlotte and is a brand new school. We currently serve 5th and 6th grade students and will add a grade level for the next two years.

This is a very caring community. We have raised close to $20,000 for Katrina victims, Unicef, Jump Rope for Heart and the Loaves and Fishes Campaign. We are excited about our latest project. Our goal is 30 bikes and we will begin our project on Monday, December 5th.

Please let me know if there are any specific guidelines we must follow. I have thoroughly read your web site and look forward to many years of a positive relationship.

Gifford K. Lockley, Principal
Community House Middle School
9500 Community House Road
Charlotte, North Carolina 28277

Click to Read the Charlotte Observer   Mecklenburg Neighbors Article

Just click Give a Bike! to learn more about how you can help.

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