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Creating safe, secure and accessible cycle parking is an essential part of encouraging active travel within schools. With increasing focus on pupil wellbeing, sustainability and reducing congestion at peak times, providing high-quality cycle and scooter parking has never been more important. Falco fully supports schools across the UK with a complete range of cycle and scooter parking solutions, designed to suit a variety of environments, age groups and capacity requirements. From simple cycle stands to covered shelters and scooter parking systems, our products are built to be durable, secure and easy to use, helping schools promote cycling and scooting as safe, everyday travel options. We offer a complete, end-to-end service tailored specifically for educational settings. This includes free UK-wide site surveys to...
Falco becomes official partners with Modeshift in a bid to promote the use of sustainable travel throughout the UK. Modeshift is a national membership organisation that specialises in active and sustainable travel and provides behaviour change support for those working with children, young people, families, school communities, educational establishments and places of work. Modeshift seeks to influence national debate, government policy and public opinion and works with organisations to achieve two common goals: To increase active and sustainable modes of travel journeys. To support the provision of skills, training and experiences to enable young people to travel more actively, safely and independently. Modeshift is led by a Management Board of twelve voluntary members who are transport practitioners and leaders in the field of...
Falco is delighted to have been awarded the Cycle Parking and Infrastructure framework agreement by the NHS’s Shared Business Services for the second time in a row. The agreement which now runs for four years has been tendered to provide best value to NHS related facilities. This framework includes the delivery, supply, installation, management and maintenance of cycle parking infrastructure and services, from cycle racks to cycling hubs and everything in between. The framework is open to all NHS businesses as well as all Public Sector Authorities including; NHS Trusts (acute, community and mental health) Clinical Commissioning Groups Local Councils Further Education Colleges and Universities Academies Housing Associations The Blue Light Services Museums Prisons HS2 Botanical Gardens Falco has been supplying cycle parking and cycle hubs to NHS and local authority businesses for...
Falco cycle parking employees have raised £465 for the Trussell Trust’s Leek & District Foodbank - to help meet the local charity’s unprecedented demand this winter. The fundraising day at Falco’s Head Office in Leekbrook was filled with coffee and cake. Finance Manager, Netty Barlow, organised a raffle with fun prizes up for grabs, including locally produced Titanic ales, a bluetooth wireless speaker, family games, home essentials and jewellery. A cheque was presented to the food bank on Friday 10th November. Pictured here are Sue, Pam and Coral from the Leek & District Foodbank and Bryan and Gary from Falco UK. Commenting on the recent donation, Lindsey Stockton - Project Manager at the Leek and District Foodbank, said "We would like to say...
Falco has now bundled the knowledge about maintenance of materials for cycle parking facilities and street furniture products inside a downloadable PDF. Useful tips, safety, storage, what materials to clean and which cleaning agents to use are included within our comprehensive guide. The downloadable PDF “Maintenance & Installation” also includes topics such as storage, placement and assembly and information about the construction of Falco products, including how you can maintain the commonly used materials in Falco's street furniture and cycle parking products to receive an extensive lifespan. Click here to download the downloadable PDF guide. Falco is a manufacturer, supplier and installer of high quality cycle parking systems, cycle hubs, bike hangars, shelters, canopies, secure locable stores and street furniture. All products that are...
Falco has donated a new buggy shelter to Home-Start Staffordshire Moorlands – a voluntary organisation providing free, confidential support for families across the Staffordshire Moorlands. Home-Start approached Falco to see if they could provide a sheltered solution for the congregation of buggies increasingly parked inside the charity building. The team at Falco jumped onboard and worked together to provide a suitable product that can not only accommodate buggies, but also provide the charity with wheelchair storage and cycle parking too. The new buggy shelter, worth in excess of £5,000, is based upon the FalcoPod Bike Hangar design, offering the charity with unparrareled buggy storage for staff and visitors to use when visiting the Leek based charity. Eye-catching branding graphics have also been generously...
We are delighted that Falco’s Finance Manager, Netty Barlow, has (yet again!) raised an incredible £520 for Cancer Research UK, by participating in the Stoke-on-Trent Pretty Muddy 5k ‘obstacle mud run’ event at Central Forest Park in Hanley on Sunday 30th July. Netty put her best foot forward and joined hundreds of adults and children to tackle a 5k muddy obstacle course, hurdling over obstacles into piles of mud, weaving through spiders webs, scaling climbing frames, crawling through tunnels, scrambling nets and mud pits and finally racing down an inflatable mud chute! After the event, Netty said “Cancer can only be eradicated with more money being put into research, to find out what causes it, how we can stop it, and how to detect...
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.
