COLEG Llandrillo students have been busy fixing donated bicycles for those without access to them.

80 students from the college’s Independent Living Skills (ILS) department – who all have additional learning needs – spent months working on the ‘fix-it-up’ project at the Rhos-on-Sea campus learning the skills to renovate and then maintain old bicycles.

Sixteen bikes were donated from various sources, from mountain bikes to BMX and road bikes.

From the original 16, the students managed to fully replenish 12 of them, while ILS students who didn’t have a bike were given first refusal.

North Wales Pioneer: Students test their bikes having fixed them.Students test their bikes having fixed them.

Tutor Robin Murray said: “Due to the pandemic, the students could no longer work on any external projects, so we had to look for ‘on-campus’ projects, anything that wasn’t classroom-based.

“The students have been amazing from start to finish.

“Learning life skills like these – from using a range of tools to changing a tyre - will be invaluable to the students.

“Hopefully this is just the start and we can go on to recycle many more bikes.”

Independent Living Skills programme area manager, Jane Myatt, said: “We are extremely proud of the students and all the hard work they have put in during the project.

“They really enjoyed learning how to repair and maintain the bikes.”