Outline Hair is a hair salon based in Edinburgh’s Old Town, and winner of Business Champion of the Year.
Having experienced difficulty with storing her bike at previous workplaces, owner Kay Corbett was determined to make her new salon as cycling friendly a space as possible when opening the business in 2020.
In providing dedicated indoor space for cycle parking for both customers and staff, Kay has helped foster a welcoming environment for anyone choosing to travel by bike, with nominations commending her proactive and positive support for the wider health benefits of cycling.
Find out more: https://www.cycling.scot/news-and-blog/article/charity-empowering-more-women-to-cycle-recognised-as-scotlands-cycling-champion-awards-are-announced
The winners of the 2023 awards were announced at the Cycling Scotland conference in October 2023.
The awards are promoted and presented jointly by Cycling Scotland, Cycling UK, Scottish Cycling and Sustrans Scotland.
My name is k Corbett you are in my salon outline here in Edinburgh and I have won the business cycling Champion award coming up for a few years open i’ kind of always cycled to work it’s been a problem when I’ve worked in salons in
The past that I’ve had to chain my bike up outside it’s so happened that the space that we have really works well for not just me bringing my bike but also so my colleagues and the clients coming into the salon as well I think it it
Makes you feel a lot safer at least being able to bring your bike into the salon we all use our bikes on a regular basis when you end up with like-minded people that you want to work with I think often you’ve got the same ideals obviously for me bringing my bike and
Giving them somewhere to put the bike it’s made it a lot easier for them to cycle as well anything that we can do that would encourage people to cycle I would like to think that we’re trying which is putting pictures of bikes in the salon putting pictures of us with
Our bikes um and just talking a little bit about cycling on our social media which I think is probably quite unusual for a salon but I think that there could be a lot more done to encourage cycling if I say to a client I’ve won this I’m hoping
That gives them some inspiration maybe to get their own bike and start cycling if they’re not already doing it winning the award came is quite a surprise but it was felt really really good