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The UK government has recently confirmed a significant funding package designed to accelerate walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure across England — creating opportunities for local authorities, communities and partners to deliver more active travel routes and facilities. In December 2025, Active Travel England (ATE) announced that councils across England have been awarded over £626 million in central government funding to support walking, wheeling and cycling schemes. This multi-year investment is expected to deliver around 500 miles of new and upgraded routes and support an additional 170,000 greener, more active trips per day. The funding aims to enable safer streets, healthier communities and more sustainable travel choices by backing local authorities with capital funding, technical support and capability development. Local authorities rated more...
The UK’s leading designer, manufacturer and installer of high quality cycle hubs, cycle parking systems, shelters and bike hangars celebrated its 30th anniversary this week! The event took place at Falco’s UK office in Leekbrook where all staff members, including many long serving employees, celebrated an incredible 30 year anniversary and cut the Falco cake! Jeremy Green, Managing Director, added “Our parent company just celebrated 70 years and here we are with 30 years under our belt. It’s a fantastic testament to the strength of the business and commitment to cycling!” Falco, previously known as Arunhithe Ltd, began trading back in February 1992 at Winkhill - a small rural village near Leek. The company began trading bike racks and had a small portfolio...
Falco’s Finance Manager and longest ever serving employee, Jeanette Barlow, celebrates her 20th anniversary this week! Jeanette joined Falco back in January 2002 as an Accounts Clerk, before moving to other departments including administration and PA duties, before re-joining the Accounts department back in 2009. Over the course of the next few years Jeanette studied at Newcastle-under-Lyme College and Manchester BBP study centre, undertook 12 separate exams and hundreds of hours of distance learning, before graduating as a Chartered Management Accountant in 2019. In addition to becoming a Chartered Accountant, Jeanette was shortlisted for both the PQ Magazine Part Qualified student of the year 2018 and newly qualified Accountant of the year 2019. Furthermore, Jeannette has been at the heart of virtually all...
As the end of another year draws to a close, we thought we’d include a recap on some of the larger Falco projects undertaken, during what has been our most successful year ever! Listed below are just a few key projects from the hundreds of schemes we have completed across the UK this year alone, three of which are a UK first! Falco Launches UK’s First Cycle Hub with FalcoSmart App-Based Lock Bedford Borough Council took delivery of the UK’s first ever cycle hub to feature an app-based locking mechanism. The contemporary designed FalcoHub facility located in the shopping district of Bedford town centre was manufactured and installed by Falco and features the first ever UK application of an app-based locking and booking...
Falco’s design team has been working closely with the visualisation software company BetaStreets - the developers of the new purpose-built Computer-Generated Image (CGI) design and visualisation tool for use with street design, highways and placemaking. BetaStreets is a design tool which has been developed with the aim of simplifying the placemaking design process and making it accessible to anyone. The app-based tool enables personal high quality visualisations to be created in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional design practices. Falco’s client-base can now use the software to quickly visualise how a cycle parking facility such as a FalcoPod bike hangar or row of Sheffield stands would look in a particular location or setting, as demonstrated in the...
Falco is delighted that one of its long serving employees has been chosen to represent the main England’s mens pool team at next year’s European Championships. Sales Co-ordinator, Ben Duffield, successfully qualified for England after progressing through the mens England trials in Great Yarmouth back in 2020. Ben, who has been playing pool since aged 11, has represented various teams at local level, before representing his home town of Leek, then progressing onto representing his local county, Staffordshire, at junior level, then further progressing to represent Staffordshire at senior level and now qualifying to represent the mens national pool team at three international events next year. Ben will be travelling to Killarney in the Republic of Ireland to compete in the European Championships...
We are delighted to announce that despite the current problems with raw material prices and lead-times on stocks Falco has had no price increases on its FalcoPod Bike Hangars. Falco is a Europe-based OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) supplier, we; design, manufacture, deliver and install all our cycle parking products in-house and as such have full control over our stocks and supplies. The FalcoPod bike hangar is the most family friendly bike hangar available, with an ergonomically better designed space - the additional space/height means there is no need to remove child seats from the back of bikes or baskets and seats on the front. Additionally the FalcoPod can be delivered in any colour as well as the standard green, so if you’re...
Falco has been a family company with its own production site for over 70 years. Sustainability was in our DNA from the very beginning and this is reflected within our complete range of modular cycle parking and shelter products, all designed with full circularity in mind.
All products ranges are contemporary and durable, typical of a Falco product. Falco has been at the forefront of the cycle parking and street furniture market and has built up a renowned reputation for manufacturing products that exceed in both design and durability.
Falco’s operations have supported the Circular Economy for many years, simply manufacturing products with environmentally friendly products, that can last for decades and at the end of the product life can be 100% recycled and manufactured back into a brand new product.
