A family of Ukrainian refugees are settling into their new life in Cumbria wheely well after they were given four bikes.
Solomiia,14, Demian,10 and seven-year-old twins Andrian and Markian were thrilled to receive the gifts which were donated by the Men In Sheds group, part of the Northern Fells Group.
The youngsters are learning English and Solomiia said: “It is good, thankyou”, while smiling Demian added: “Very good.”
The children and their mum, Tanya, arrived in Cumbria at Easter. Their father, Yuriy, is still in Ukraine where he works as a forester and also trains younger men to fight.
The Shukh family escaped their wartorn home near Lviv and were offered a safe haven in Cumbria by Hannah Osborne at her farmstead close to Ireby, near Wigton.
Locals have donated clothes and living essentials and the family is steadily settling in.
The regulars at the Men In Sheds group repair bikes, furniture and all sorts of general items that are brought to their base on the village green at Caldbeck. All donations go straight into the NFG fund.
When they heard that the family had moved into the area, they picked out the four nearly-new bikes specially for the youngsters.
The NFG is a community charity serving 3,700 residents in a rural area that covers Ireby and Uldale, Boltons, Westward and Rosley, Sebergham and Welton, Caldbeck, Castle Sowerby and Mungrisdale.
Its aims include combatting rural social isolation and deprivation, to improve access to services, to enable people to remain independent, living in their own homes and in the area.
