Staff
Charlie Bolton Administrator
Charlie has lived in Southville, Bristol since 1991. He spent many years working as a systems analyst for a large financial services organisation but then decided to get a life. He took a degree in Environmental Policy and Management, stood for Parliament for the Green Party, got elected to Bristol City Council and (surely his crowning achievement) got a job as administrator at Life Cycle UK. In his spare time, he has an allotment, a cat and a folding bike.
Poppy Brett Director
Poppy was appointed Director in August 2011. She previously worked at Life Cycle for 8 years during which time she raised funds and played a vital part in developing and managing various Life Cycle projects including our youth project, BikeBack, Two's Company and Bike Minded.
Josh Katz BikeBack
Josh grew up in Bristol and then spent the later part of his teens and early twenties in the French Alps snowboarding in the winters, mountain biking in the summers and paragliding whenever possible. His passion for bikes began at an early age when, through necessity to keep his bicycles on the road, he learned basic bike mechanics from his father. He went on become a professional mechanic and has worked in the cycle trade since he was 16 Years old. Now settled back in Bristol Josh runs BikeBack, Life Cycle's bicycle recycling project.
Sally Oakes Two's Company Co-ordinator
Sally moved to Bristol in 2007 from the beautiful Dyfi Valley in mid Wales, where she worked at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Previously she moved around a lot, teaching English in the Czech Republic and in Portugal. When not negotiating the streets of Bristol on her black badger (a bike with high handlebars especially for people with dodgy backs), she enjoys cycle touring, swimming in lakes and playing French folk music.
Sally co-ordinates Life Cycle's Two's Company project, a programme of tandem rides for blind and visually impaired people.
Tamar Thompson Training and Development Manager
A utility cyclist for much of her life, things took a turn for the better when she went to live in Japan and took up cycle touring. Having quite literally cycled the length and breadth of the country during her three year stay she returned to the UK in 2000 fired up with the joys of cycling. When the job came up at Life Cycle she knew it had her name on it. She set up Life Cycle's training programme and has personally trained hundreds of people: children, teenagers and adults. Tamar was a member of the Reference Group that created the new National Standards for cycle training.
