The Big Bike Giveaway and the Squeeky Wheel Bike Co-Op are partnering with the City of London to centralize bike donations.

Bikes and bike parts can now be dropped off at any of the city's four EnviroDepots, where they'll be picked up by volunteers who will fix them up and give them away to those in need.

London EnviroDepots 28 Clarke Rd.

3502 Manning Dr.

1450 Oxford St. W.

21462 Clarke Rd.

The depots will take both used bikes with all working parts attached, used bikes that are missing parts such as seats or wheels, as well as accessories such as helmets and bells.

"One of our biggest challenges is collecting bikes when we're doing pop-up bike donations, so this partnership with teh City of London will really streamline that," said Monica Hodgson, who has run the Big Bike Giveaway as a social enterprise with her husband for the last six years.

"We have two streams of give-away. Throughout the year we connect with social agencies and we give away 10 or 15 bikes at a time to those who need them, to the agencies that ask," she said.

"And in the fall we have one day where we give out a lot of bikes, on a first-come, first-served basis."

This year the Big Bike Giveaway is taking place on Sept. 8 at the Argyle Community Arena, at 1948 Wavell St., starting at 8 a.m.

Bikes dropped off at the EnviroDepots also go to the Squeaky Wheel Bike Co-Op, which fixes bikes and gives them away to newcomers to Canada.