Our Team
Our project is primarily powered by volunteers. When you come in to get help to fix your bike with us, you’ll be interacting with our wonderful volunteer team. If you’d like to join our team, you can register by clicking below.
We also have a brilliant team of Trustees and Staff. You can read about them below! We’re recruiting for trustees, if you are interested please click below.
Ella Wright
Co-Chair of Trustees
Ella co-chairs the board of trustees alongside Joy, bringing a wealth of experience from her career in the charity sector. She also works at Sheffield Cycling for All, running inclusive cycling sessions for people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. Despite spending an impressive amount of time around bikes, Ella insists she’s not as passionate about them as it might seem — but she firmly believes they’re the most affordable, environmentally friendly way to get around, and that everyone should have access to them! Ella began volunteering with the project in 2023 as a way to meet new people and brush up on her bike skills. While she didn’t know much about mechanics at the time, that’s slowly changing! It wasn’t long before Ella got involved behind the scenes, contributing to our social media, helping make sessions more welcoming, and even planning our launch party. She enjoys figuring out how we can improve, and fostering a space where it’s okay to make mistakes and learn. Ella often leads the monthly women’s sessions and the odd drop in session too. You can get in touch with her if you have any feedback for SCBP, concerns you want to raise, or questions about governance or the board of trustees.
Joy Kimberlee
Co-Chair of Trustees
Joy is co-chair and one of the founding members of SCBP. With a background in the charity sector, she has contributed to various causes, from improving access to community resources for those with mental health needs to supporting fundraising efforts in the active travel sector. While Joy has been actively involved in the hands-on running of maintenance sessions, she now supports the project remotely from Devon— from administrative tasks to strategic planning and promoting SCBP’s inclusive, volunteer-led approach. She loves how SCBP is about more than fixing bikes: it builds community, breaks down gender norms, promotes active and sustainable transport and so much more.
Pete Nolan
CEO
Pete is the CEO and co-founder of Sheffield Community Bike Project, leading the organisation’s vision to create an inclusive, volunteer-driven space for cycling in Sheffield. With a background in project management and sustainable transport, he has worked to develop active travel networks across the North of England as well as to develop the Brighton Bike Hub (a similar project to SCBP). His experience spans community-led initiatives, environmental advocacy, and strategic development. Passionate about making cycling accessible to all, Pete focuses on championing our participatory decision making approach, securing funding, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of SCBP. When he’s not working on community projects, he can be found tinkering with broken things and going for long walks in the hills.
Lewis Watson
Treasurer & Trustee
Lewis has been with SCBP for over two years. He started as a volunteer at the weekly bike maintenance sessions, where he enjoyed getting his hands dirty teaching people how to fix their bikes. While his role has evolved to focus more on administrative tasks, he still loves hands-on work with bikes and stays closely involved with the workshops. Lewis brings his experience as an accountant to his role as treasurer at SCBP. He holds industry-accredited qualifications in audit, ethics, and project management, and he’s currently working towards his accounting chartership. This expertise helps him manage the charity’s finances, ensuring everything runs smoothly and that trustees remain well-informed. Outside of SCBP, he enjoys walking and running in the Peak District, along with DIY projects and reading.
Dan Robinson
Trustee
Dan is one of the founding members of SCBP. He is a keen amateur cyclist and mechanic who wants to help build and share these skills amongst the people of Sheffield. Dan has been part of voluntary organisations for many years, involving himself in everything from coordinating volunteers, managing finances, organising fundraisers and writing funding bids. He also works as a data analyst, managing complex data and transforming it into useful analysis. He hopes to use these skills to help report the project's progress so that its good work can be shared with its stakeholders.
Chris Varney
Trustee
Chris has been with SCBP since October 2022, and has been working on bikes since he was a teenager. He loves riding 90s MTBs and has an extensive collection of bikes that he's built up himself. As a regular volunteer, both as mechanical lead and session lead - Chris has a really good understanding of how the workshop runs and SCBP's do-it-together ethos. He also seems to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of compatible bike parts and is very good at the The Wikipedia Game and describing biscuits.
Olly Tanqueray
Trustee
Olly has lived in Sheffield on-and-off since arriving as a student in 2011. He loves seeing people ride bikes and doesn’t love car-centric urban planning. Olly works in the environmental charity sector, where change is important but often feels slow and difficult to measure. He joined SCBP as a trustee, where the immediate & tangible impacts of the project provide a welcome balance. He’s excited to see the project grow, so it can help more people learn how to keep their bikes running smoothly, to build a community of people excited about sustainable & active travel and to have fun fiddling around with grubby bits of metal. At some point he might also manage to get his own gears running smoothly.
Hannah Amey
Trustee
Hannah has been a keen cyclist for practical transport since being a young teenager. At uni Hannah first encountered the magic of DIY bike maintenance projects in Brighton, learning basic skills as part of a community. After moving to Sheffield and meeting Pete, Hannah joined the early planning sessions with SCBP project helping to organise initial open sessions. Being a part of SCBP provides a positive community of like minded people invested in cycling as a sustainable method of transport. Hannah has worked with different environmental, community and voluntary projects in Sheffield and has since relocated to Devon. She maintains a trustee role, supporting behind the scenes admin tasks.
Zoe Roberts
Volunteer Coordinator
Zoe first attended SCBP’s meeting in August 2022 and soon got involved as a volunteer, motivated by a desire to help create a community space in Sheffield that improves access to cycling. Although she began with limited bike repair skills, she gradually built up her experience through SCBP. In 2024, she went cycle touring from Spain to Morocco and then to Sweden. After returning, she took on the role of Volunteer Coordinator. In this position, she is responsible for recruiting and onboarding new volunteers, coordinating bike maintenance sessions and events, and supporting volunteers in running the project. With a background in climate campaigning, she views active travel as a key part of reducing carbon emissions. Passionate about cycling, she enjoys being in a role where she can help more people get on bikes by running pay-as-you-feel maintenance sessions and selling affordable bikes.
Jack de Aguilar
Project Coordinator
Jack applied to be part of SCBP because he is passionate about cycling inclusivity and truly believes in the power of community. Since joining the Project in September 2024, he has been amazed by the generosity and dedication of the volunteers. The welcoming and inclusive atmosphere at King St is something special – it’s clear that everyone involved genuinely cares about creating a space where people feel supported and valued. Cycling is such a unique hobby to Jack because it also doubles as a sustainable and healthy form of transport. It’s not just expensive gear and Strava Kudos. But not everyone has easy access to it, and that’s why SCBP’s work is so important: breaking down barriers and making cycling accessible to more people in Sheffield. Jack is really proud to be part of such a meaningful project.