Bid made to wind up Velocity Cafe and Bicycle Workshop in Inverness and appoint liquidators
A well-known and popular cafe and bicycle workshop in Inverness could be wound up.
A petition has been presented to the Sheriff of Grampian, Highlands and Islands at Inverness for Velocity Cafe and Bicycle Workshop to be wound up and and interim liquidators appointed up.
The social enterprise, in Crown Avenue at the top of Stephen’s Brae, has been based in Inverness since 2012.
It combines three elements - a vegetarian cafe, bicycle workshop and range of projects to promote health, wellbeing and sustainability. It is also a popular venue for groups holding meetings on green issues.
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Velocity has been the focus of a mystery for the last month since failing to open.
On November 25, a petition was presented at Inverness Sheriff Court by Velocity seeking an order under the Insolvency Act 1986 that the company be wound up.
Anyone seeking to challenge the order was given eight days.
The petitioner’s agents are Stronachs LLP, of Fairways Business Park in Inverness.
Earlier this year, Velocity Cafe and Bicycle Workshop was awarded £7261 from the Inverness Common Good Fund towards its Cycle to Health project.
Over the last nine years, the flagship scheme has helped those who wished to cycle more but face barriers such as poor mental health, social isolation, low confidence, poverty or deprivation.
