Southwestern Housing Society (SWHS) is a registered, social landlord that provides affordable housing throughout the South West and, in particular, in Somerset. Each year they put aside a sum of money into a Community Fund and allocate this to support projects or services that benefit their tenants and the community generally in which they live. The Society welcomes applications for funding from not only it’s own tenants and tenant groups but also agencies and other organizations working in areas where they have homes.

Doug Harding, a volunteer rider for Freewheelers, works for Southwestern Housing Society and felt that an application for funding would be appropriate and was subsequently successful in securing a cheque to the value of £500 to be put towards the cost of installing ‘state of the art’ GPS and communication systems to the operations bikes.

Shown in the photo which was taken at the housing society’s head office in Weston-Super-Mare is Phil Yorke, Chief Executive of SWHS presenting the cheque to Doug Harding.