Each year Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company, present an award to those primary healthcare professionals who have have done most to integrate people with schizophrenia into their local community, reports today’s edition of The Times.

This year that award has been given to a Glagow community project run by GP Colin Gunthrie and Dr Alastair Wilson, the community psychiatrist.

What makes this story interesting to us as cyclists, is that the project in question is a bike shop owned and run by the doctor’s schizophrenic patients.

The shop, situated in a poor area of Glagow, has proved to be a valuable asset to the community: they don’t charge children for repairs, nor do they charge adults for small repairs.
As well as giving the staff new skills and a feeling of self-worth, the shop has made a profit of around £1200 per month from repairs and bike sales.

This sounds like a fantastic scheme to us and we’d like to take this opportunity to offer our congratulations on its present, and continuing, success.