Like any project, lots has happened to us. This timeline gives an idea.
 
 
March 1997 The basic concept of Bicycle Re-Cycling as occupational therapy was developed at a meeting between Colin Guthrie, general practitioner, Alistair Wilson, community psychiatrist, and Neil McDonald, cycle enthusiast.
February 1999 We tested the concept with a pilot class at Riverside Resource Centre one afternoon a week. This proved popular with patients and showed encouraging clinical signs.
May 1999 Glasgow City Council suggest operating from an industrial unit in Maryhill
August 1999 We met with local Councillor Robert Gray to gain his support for the project.
January 2000 The lease was granted for our industrial unit, at a concessionary rate of one fifth the market rent. We start collecting bikes in earnest and equipping the unit as a workshop, with help from patients.
June 2000 We received a development grant from a private foundation. This allowed us to employ a full-time member of staff.
July 2000 We held the grand opening of the project by Cllr Gray, attended by representatives of the City Council, Sustrans and other interested parties
September 2000 We assisted Community-can-cycle in Castlemilk develop their project and gave their mechanic some training.
March 2001 We received a grant of £1000 from the Roads Dept of Glasgow City Council We appeared in VeloCity brochure and video as part of the advance publicity for this major international cycling conference.
April 2001 An article about us appeared in the journal of the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland and lead to a great deal of interest and further articles in the medical press
May 2001 We were granted in perpetuity funding by GGHB
June 2001 Our charitable status was gained
August 2001 We were awarded the National Schizophrenia Fellowship Award for excellence We advised Queen’s Cross HA on their bike project and offered ongoing help
September 2001 We appeared on BBC Reporting Scotland Drs Wilson and Guthrie presented a paper at the VeloCity international conference
October 2001 We were a finalist in the Doctor magazine award
November 2001 A patient started work experience in commercial bike shop, and acquitted himself very well.

January 2002 At the request of their Occupational Therapy Department, we started a pilot project with acute patients in Parkhead Hospital We start a course in welding and bike making as an experiment to see how difficult it is, funded by Glasgow City Council. This is very popular with the patients and we made some interesting machines
February 2002 woodworking division gets underway.
We are offered a metalworking lathe, but have to turn it down due to lack of space.
We have our first meeting with the Parks Dept about cycling for the disabled.
April 2002 We are chosen as that year’s charity by the Glasgow South Branch of the Soroptomist Internation. we are visited by the people who eventually set up the Bike Station in Edinburgh.
June 2002 We take part in the West End festival parade for the first time, using our big trike to carry a big drum for Sheeboom, the women’s drumming group.
December 2002 We paint the floor of the workshop green. It looks great for a few weeks.
April 2003 We join the Glasgow Community recycling forum.
July 2003 A chance conversation with a customer about old lorries leads to the possibility of a branch being established in the Vintage Vehicle Trust’s East End bus museum.
August 2003 The merchant’s house of Glasgow contribute £500 towards buying machines for Pedal in the Parks. They feature us in a video about their charitable work.
November 2003 We are asked to speak at the AGM of the Glasgow Cycle Campaign.
January 2004 We collect the remnants of the stock of the Queen’s Cross Housing Association Bicycle Project, which folded. We give our surplus stock to Glasgow the Caring City to be sent to Africa.
February 2004 We start a special class for the Adolescent Psychiatry Unit of Gartnaval Hospital. This is a new client group for us. As the young people are extremely vulnerable, an Occupational Therapist, Karen Shaw attends and co-teaches. The results are extremely good. one particular effect is that the young people’s symptoms are reduced or even eliminated while they are in the workshop.
March 2004 We start work on establishing a branch in Drumchapel. Our Pedal in the Park cycling for the disabled project, a joint venture with the Parks Dept of Glasgow City Council and the Adult Learning Disability Team, is officially opened by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Elizabeth Cameron.
June 2004 We start making our first dragon for the West End Festival with the help of local artist Jayne Taylor.

August 2004 Ann McKeckin, the local MP, visits.
September 2004 Having secured 3 months funding from the Social Inclusion Partnership, we recruit Alan Thoms to run our Drumchapel branch.
December 2004 We secure three years Lottery money to continue our Drumchapel branch.
April 2005 Having been enthused by last year’s dragon, the Adolescent Unit decide to make one themselves. We lend them a tricycle to base it on and help with construction.
June 2005 As part of National Bike week, we run a Dr. Bike session at Gartnaval General Hospital. For the West End Festival this year, we make a big dragon. Senga is a scary mummy dragon 17 feet (5.7m) tall. She is joined on the parade by Enya the adolescent dragon and a baby dragon made in Drumchapel.
August 2005 Alan Shields, a popular member of the project, died of natural causes.
November 2005 Glasgow University start to do a research project on the effect we have on people’s mental health.
December 2005 We get a grant from the Lottery to start up the manufacturing of special bikes, and pay a designer one day a week. We start filling a new unit in Chapel Street with welding and cutting equipment.
 
We will bring this up to date at some point.