Forest Referral Code

Forest gives the biggest e-bike referral reward in the UK — £10 of free riding for both you and the friend who invited you — which is why it ties near the top of our mobility sector. The two things to know before you bank on it are that Forest is London-only and that the credit comes with a seven-day clock, so it rewards riders who can use it soon, not people stockpiling for later.

What you get, and the seven-day clock

When a new rider completes their first trip, £10 of free riding lands for each side in Account → My credits. In practice that is worth about 30–34 minutes at Forest's 29p-per-minute pay-as-you-go rate. The credit applies automatically to your next rides — but it expires seven days after it lands, and the £1 unlock fee on each ride (plus any daily service fee) is not covered by it. So it is best thought of as a week of nearly-free riding, not a single free journey end to end.

How to claim it

Join through the link or enter code iCJtXwST — and crucially, enter it during sign-up, because Forest cannot apply it afterwards. Then download the app, find a bike on the map, and unlock it for £1 to take your first ride. The moment that ride ends, the £10 credit appears for both of you, usually within minutes.

The most common reasons a referral fails are simple: you already had a Forest account, you tried to add the code after registering, or you are outside the London service area. The code is tied to the referrer's account and works as many times as Forest allows — it is not a one-time voucher that "expires".

The '£1 for 30 minutes' offer is separate

Forest also runs a pay-as-you-go promotion — £1 for 30 minutes on selected bikes, flagged in the app — and people often confuse it with the referral. They are different things, and you can use both: take the £1-for-30 deal on your first qualifying trip, and still receive the £10 referral credit afterwards.

Where Forest operates, and why that matters

Forest is a London-only B Corp operator with around 20,000 e-bikes across 18+ boroughs as of late 2025, and it is the only micromobility company globally with Verra validation for its carbon-offset programme — its model is partly ad-supported, which subsidises the free riding. It won the Hounslow (2024) and Richmond (2025) tenders from Lime, so its London footprint is growing. But if you live outside London, the £10 has nowhere to be spent — which is the one mark against an otherwise excellent offer, and exactly why our table separates Forest's value from Lime's and Voi's reach.

What we checked

We verify this against Forest's Help Centre article 110 and the live in-app pricing, re-checking monthly with a daily link test. We publish the help-centre figure of £10 of riding rather than the app's rounded "30 minutes", and we explain the 29p-per-minute maths and the seven-day expiry plainly, because both are things first-time riders get caught out by.