A BIKE project that gives homeless people vital skills to help them turn their lives around has had a hole in its finances plugged by a coronavirus grant. The Julian House Bike Workshop in Trowbridge has been awarded £8,600 from Wiltshire Community Foundation’s Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund towards running costs after it lost vital income during the pandemic. Workshop staff run six-week courses that teach bike repair and servicing, aimed at giving people from across the area suffering complex emotional problems, mental health issues and addiction the skills to set them on the road to employment. The project had been hoping to become self-funding in the next year, but that has been put back 12 months, although the bike sales and repair operation at Duke Street, Trowbridge, has been able to remain open.