without the need for a car. Years later, a partnership with a global movement called Cycling Without Age aimed to improve the quality of life of the elderly population through outdoor activities and social interaction. With the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the non-profit had to paralyze most of the active projects to ensure the safety of the population. BEST currently has three main active projects: The Bicycle Valet, Living Streets, and Seniors On The Move. Programs The Bicycle Valet Founded in 2006, The Bicycle Valet operates free, safe bicycle parking services at festivals, events, Vancouver Whitecaps and BC Lions games, and many other happenings around the Metro Vancouver area. The program promotes cycling as an environmentally friendly transportation option and as an alternative to driving. In the 16 years of the project, more than 280,000 bicycles have been parked with The Bicycle Valet throughout British Columbia. It is run by both staff and volunteers. The Bicycle Valet has had seasonal locations at Granville Island since 2015, and recently expanded its seasonal valets in 2022 to run pilot valets in Richmond and Victoria. It also works with Garage 529 to further prevent bike theft in the Lower Mainland. Living Streets Living Streets promotes walking for myriad benefits: enriching and experiencing public spaces; creating community ties; as a feasible method of transportation, and as a catalyst for physical and mental health. Living Streets also works to identify opportunities for education and public engagement in the pedestrian realm. Selected to be part of the 2021 Women4Climate mentoring program by the City of Vancouver, Living Streets has grown and positioned itself as one of the referents in walkability in the Metro Vancouver Region and beyond. Living Streets oversee the following: 1) Knowledge strategy: research, communicate and engage. 2) To read, learn, and provide updates from peers and best practices around walkability and what walking means to the program, both individually and collectively. 3) To share knowledge through communications channels, both online and in-person events. 4) To promote engagement at the municipal and provincial levels. Living Streets has 4 established projects whose focus is walking, each operating with different lenses and audiences: Walk30 involves health authorities, school districts, and transportation departments to record their walking minutes through a friendly community competition for municipalities and a city-wide walking promotion campaign. Walk30 has successfully run in Burnaby, New Westminster, and the City of