At The Mount, everyone is encouraged to live in conscious awareness of the earthly materials and spiritual resources we share.

The Mount’s Green Agenda refers to our long-term commitment to sustainability, including reducing carbon emissions, promoting environmentally responsible practices, and embedding ecological awareness into daily community life.

The first Campaign for the Green Agenda is to provide a fleet of five Volt E-Bikes and one Estarli E-Cargo Bike.

By introducing e-bikes, we aim to reduce time spent in transit, improve efficiency, reduce reliance on cars and fuel, and enable co-workers to focus more on care, community life and resident support and will have an impact across our community.

• Environmental Leadership: This project allows our co-workers to lead by example. By choosing low-carbon transport, they actively demonstrate the community’s commitment to the Green Agenda.

• Enhancing Coworker well-being: By encouraging active travel, we are supporting coworker’s health, reducing commute related stress, and improving overall quality of life and resulting in the highest quality of care and presence for our students and cohousers.

• Site-Wide Maintenance Support: We include a heavy-duty cargo bike in the fleet for our maintenance team to move tools and supplies across the site without the use of a van.

• Ethical Manufacturing Partnerships: To ensure this project leaves the smallest possible footprint, we have partnered with Volt (a Certified B Corporation) and Estarli (UK-based assembly). These companies were chosen specifically for their commitment to ethical supply chains and the longevity of their components.

This project serves as a launchpad for the community’s wider environmental strategy, which is propelled forward by our Green Agenda Group.

Our fundraising appeal target is £16,500 which includes all the equipment mentioned and contingency for other bike related equipment, such as helmets, lights, hi Vis vests, bells, puncture repair kits, and VAT. And a contingency for any additional costs for the shed groundworks and electrical fit-out.

Any surplus fundraising money raised will be allocated to further equipment or be used for further Green Agenda projects.