Christmas tree made of bike wheels
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Up-Cycled Christmas Tree Lights up the North East
- St Pauls Youth Forum have unveiled a unique beautiful Upcycle Christmas Tree.
- The Tree was created using 100% scrap metal including over 30 Bike Wheels.
- Tree made by Scrap Artist, Prashant Kumar, in colaboration with St Paul’s Youth Forum’s
Bicycle Workshops Coordinator, Christopher Gill.
St Paul’s Youth Forum and Indian Scrap Artist, Prashant Kumar, have built a stunning upcycled tree in the community of Provanmill/Blackhill in the North East of Glasgow.
The tree was designed using local scrap material from the award winning On Bikes project to highlight the opportunities upcycling can give communities.
What Christopher and Prashat have created here highlights that where some people see waste, empowered and confident communities see opportunities. These opportunities can lie in waste material but also the greatest resource we have, the amazing people of the north east of Glasgow. These people have often been ignored or dismissed. Prashant and Christopher have created beauty out of what others just see as waste.
Ben Raw, Transport Justice Coordinator, St Paul’s Youth Forum
The community of Provanmill and Blackhill have been desperate for a Christmas tree for
decades. St Paul’s Youth Forum decided to work with the community to create an upcylced and reusable tree. The reaction of local people has been overwhelmingly positive.
Local Resident, Jean McLean said, 'This one of a kind Tree is absolutely fantastic. It gives me and the community feelings of inspiration and hope; absolute belter!'
St Paul’s Youth Forum will look into creating more of these for the wider community in time for next Christmas!
Background St Paul’s Youth Forum
St Paul’s Youth Forum (SPYF) aims to improve the lives of everyone in the communities of
Blackhill/Provanmill through a wide range of activities to alleviate the worst effects of poverty.
We have four different project spheres:
• Bolt FM: giving young people a voice by running radio workshops with schools and youth clubs
across the north east of Glasgow.
• Diversionary Youthwork: reducing youth crime by providing young people with an alternative to spending time on the streets. We run a twice-weekly football club, two weekly age specific groups, and a drop-in youth club 4 nights a week. The group have been tackling crime behind closed doors with Gender Based Violence Prevention work.
• On Bikes: our community cycling project operates from our base in Blackhill, providing our community with support to access a healthy alternative to expensive public and private transport.
•Blackhill’s Growing: this project aims to tackle food poverty in a dignified way by focusing on food growing, cooking, sharing, and eating.
- St Pauls Youth Forum have unveiled a unique beautiful Upcycle Christmas Tree.
- The Tree was created using 100% scrap metal including over 30 Bike Wheels.
- Tree made by Scrap Artist, Prashant Kumar, in colaboration with St Paul’s Youth Forum’s
Bicycle Workshops Coordinator, Christopher Gill.
St Paul’s Youth Forum and Indian Scrap Artist, Prashant Kumar, have built a stunning upcycled tree in the community of Provanmill/Blackhill in the North East of Glasgow.
The tree was designed using local scrap material from the award winning On Bikes project to highlight the opportunities upcycling can give communities.
What Christopher and Prashat have created here highlights that where some people see waste, empowered and confident communities see opportunities. These opportunities can lie in waste material but also the greatest resource we have, the amazing people of the north east of Glasgow. These people have often been ignored or dismissed. Prashant and Christopher have created beauty out of what others just see as waste.
Ben Raw, Transport Justice Coordinator, St Paul’s Youth Forum
The community of Provanmill and Blackhill have been desperate for a Christmas tree for
decades. St Paul’s Youth Forum decided to work with the community to create an upcylced and reusable tree. The reaction of local people has been overwhelmingly positive.
Local Resident, Jean McLean said, 'This one of a kind Tree is absolutely fantastic. It gives me and the community feelings of inspiration and hope; absolute belter!'
St Paul’s Youth Forum will look into creating more of these for the wider community in time for next Christmas!
Background St Paul’s Youth Forum
St Paul’s Youth Forum (SPYF) aims to improve the lives of everyone in the communities of
Blackhill/Provanmill through a wide range of activities to alleviate the worst effects of poverty.
We have four different project spheres:
• Bolt FM: giving young people a voice by running radio workshops with schools and youth clubs
across the north east of Glasgow.
• Diversionary Youthwork: reducing youth crime by providing young people with an alternative to spending time on the streets. We run a twice-weekly football club, two weekly age specific groups, and a drop-in youth club 4 nights a week. The group have been tackling crime behind closed doors with Gender Based Violence Prevention work.
• On Bikes: our community cycling project operates from our base in Blackhill, providing our community with support to access a healthy alternative to expensive public and private transport.
•Blackhill’s Growing: this project aims to tackle food poverty in a dignified way by focusing on food growing, cooking, sharing, and eating.