It's been a big and beautiful year for BFC. To read the full Director's Report from our 2024 AGM, highlighting our work of the past year including the Shifting Gears project, Cycling Without Age, HopOn programs for children, Bike Week events and giveaways, route rides, our Bike Tool Lending Library, and some exciting news about the AT network plan in the city of Charlottetown, please click the link below!
A personal note
At this year's AGM, I officially finished my three-year term as BFC's president, making room for the wonderful Kate Shaw to take on the role. Kate has been a part of the BFC Hub from the beginning, and a key member of the team: projects like the Bike Tool Lending Library, BFC's educational video series, our Pride Parade bike brigade, and so many more of our outreach programs and materials have come into being because of her. Along with the rest of the passionate team at BFC, I know I am leaving our work in very good hands.
Five years ago, a grieving wife and a grieving brother got together with a few kind-hearted, like-minded humans to find a way to channel that grief into something productive, and something meaningful. While my late husband, Josh, might have been the catalyst for BFC’s creation, it has only grown and thrived because it is needed, and because people like you believe in this— believe that everyone should have the choice to move freely and safely about their community, however they may choose to do so. We have built so much in such a short time—relationships, community, expertise. We have become the go-to organization for the City of Charlottetown and the provincial AT Group and the local media when they want to know what the people want to see for AT infrastructure on PEI—our network plan is now foundational for this city’s future of AT. We have taught our fellow Islanders, newcomers, young and old how to bike and given them the bikes and the tools and the knowledge and the confidence to do it. We have found community in each other, in shared purpose and in the shared, simple delight of being free to ride a bike.
My Hub team, all of my BFC people, past and present, you mean so much to me. I don’t know how to thank you for all that you do and give to your communities, but I’ll keep trying. I hope you know how valuable your work is, and just how seen and appreciated you are.
We have created and accomplished so much together, and I know this is only the beginning. I am so proud to say that this is true: BFC has been, and is, a catalyst for real change on our beautiful Island. I am so proud of us, and I can’t wait to see what you do next.
Thank you, forever,
Karri Shea
President, 2021-2024
Bike Friendly Communities
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