Businesses in Kendal can take advantage of a new delivery scheme which aims to cut carbon emissions.
The Woolly Saddle Cargo project – a specially adapted e-bike which can carry parcels – is ready to help firms with deliveries and collections around the town to cut down on short car and van journeys.
Twelve volunteers have been trained by Phil Wade, of Breaking Cycles CIC, following growing demand for the service and is being run by South Lakes Action for Climate Change and Kendal Town Council.
The trial runs until October 6 and initially the bike, loaned from Raleigh, the National Trust Rangers at Sizergh for a few days, as well as the volunteers offering cropshare deliveries for Growing Well, post runs for Dirtbags, print deliveries for Absolute, gift parcels for Farrers, laundry runs for The Fleece Inn and waste food collections for the Waste into Wellbeing project.
The town council’s chair of environment and highways, Cllr Eamonn Hennessy said: “Kendal Town Council are pleased to support this initiative to enable Kendal businesses and organisations to experience the benefits of using electric cargo bikes for deliveries and everyday jobs. We will be using it for some of our allotment work and look forward to seeing if we too, can shift towards using cargo bikes to reduce our reliance on expensive and polluting vans.”
