Ride
Small groups, fully supported, real roads. A guide who has ridden every kilometre, and a support van that follows close behind or meets you at set points along the way.
Impact · the reason we exist
Your ride supports the work you'll see with your own eyes
The organisations you meet on the road, and what riders have contributed so far.
How it works
Ride. Learn. Contribute.
Learn
Every ride visits local, grassroots NGOs. You see the work, meet the experts, ask the hard questions.
Contribute
At the end of the ride, you choose the organisation that impacted you the most, and we'll contribute 200 AUD on your behalf.
Running totals
The Numbers So Far
6countries
22NGO partners
304riders supported
84,633 AUDdonated to date
As at 2 October 2026.
Running totals since our first ride, including gifts above the 200 AUD set donation.
The partners
Grassroots and Visited
Small organisations doing unglamorous, effective work. Every ride visits the project it supports.
Asral
Mongolia
Asral works with community leaders in Ulaanbaatar on education, training, medical care and family support. Its core aim is to keep families together and children off the streets. We visit on day 2 of the Mongolia ride.
CAMDA
Mongolia
CAMDA supports Mongolia's herders and brings resources to them. One of its main projects refurbishes old wells and builds new ones, so herders can reach water in winter when the streams and rivers are frozen.
Chumkriel Language School
Cambodia
Chumkriel Language School is one of the NGOs we visit, based in Kampot, Cambodia.
Free the Bears
Laos
Free the Bears rescues and rehabilitates bears from bile farms. We visit its sanctuary on the ride from Luang Prabang to Kuang Si Falls.
Friends International
Cambodia
Friends International, based in Phnom Penh, or one of its official partners gives every Social Cycles group its responsible-tourism presentation. Social Cycles is an official partner of ChildSafe.
Hope Box
Vietnam
Hope Box helps Vietnamese women who have experienced gender-based violence make a fresh start, through a six-month programme that includes safe accommodation and job skills.
Lao Conservation Trust for Wildlife
Laos
Lao Conservation Trust for Wildlife works with the authorities to rescue, rehabilitate and release animals caught in the illegal wildlife trade. We visit on the ride out of Vientiane.
Lone Buffalo
Laos
Lone Buffalo is one of the NGOs we visit, based in Phonsavan, Laos.
Mekong Plus
Vietnam
Mekong Plus runs a community development programme across more than 800 villages in the Mekong Delta. It is based in Ho Chi Minh City.
Quality of Life Association
Laos
Quality of Life Association is based in Phonsavan, Laos.
Sustainable Cambodia
Cambodia
Sustainable Cambodia was founded in 2001 as the Sylvia Lasky Memorial School in Osdao village near Pursat, first serving about 60 children. By its own published figures it now runs three education centres with more than 4,000 enrolled children.
This Life Cambodia
Cambodia
This Life Cambodia centres on community involvement, education and empowerment, building solutions from within the communities it works with. It is based in Siem Reap and runs a bicycle distribution programme, Pedalling Out of Poverty.
Child protection
Travelling Child Safe
Social Cycles is an official partner of ChildSafe, the child-protection movement started by Friends International.
In the places we ride, tourists can do harm without meaning to. Giving money to a child who is begging, visiting an orphanage or taking photos in a classroom all make it pay to keep children on show and out of school.
So on every ride the group sits down with Friends International, or one of its partners, to learn how to travel without causing that harm. Our riders do not visit or interact with children at schools or nurseries, do not photograph children during NGO visits, and we do not offer short-term unskilled volunteering.