Note of Southwark Cyclists monthly meeting

7pm Wednesday 12 January 2005
Blackfriars Settlement

 

Present: Paul Ducker, Rebecca Lack, Adam Madison, Barry Mason, Tim McNamara, Eleanor Purser, Sue Richards, 
Jacqueline Saunders.

 

1. After introductions, Barry Mason, Chairing, asked whether the notes of the 8 December meeting were agreed, they 
were. BM welcomed the 2 newcomers but wondered where everyone else was.   

 

2.  Cycle Saturation project: all 9 Rotherhithe Primary Schools were first phoned then formally written to inviting them 
to bid to take part in the £20,000 training etc project using our grant from Rotherhithe Community Council. The 
deadline for bids is 14 January. Our Cycle Saturation sub-group will meet on 19 January to decide the outcome of those 
bids.

 

3. Planning Group: Eleanor Purser gave a quick report on progress after the meeting with Richard Thomas about 
consultation. Work on a menu of planning gains goes on, the next Planning Group meeting in on the fourth Wednesday 
as usual: 26 January, Blackfriars Settlement.

 

4. Bike Week 2005: 11-19 June. Lots if ideas were peddled around:

 

    * BM would try and encourage Southwark Council to organise a day of events at Herne Hill Velodrome
    * Agreed that we’d run Afterworkers every weekday evening, starting at the slightly later 6.30pm – most of us 
struggled to get to Southwark Needle by 6pm.
    * Agreed that we’d run our stall again outside Evans the Needle.
    * A poster of our events would be good.
    * BM to push Southwark Council to run events too.
    * Agreed we should pick a piece of bike infracture to improve: St George’s Circus?
    * Sue Richards would manage The Globe Bike Breakfast on 15 June
    * BM would lead several Afterworkers
    * Karen Price/Cheryl Williams will lead Michael’s Monster again: 45 mile Afterworker
    * BM will organise a north Southwark/City Treasure Hunt for Sunday 19 June..to be followed by a park picnic
    * London 8 sounds good: London Bridge to Woolwich Ferry to Tower Bridge to Putney to London Bridge
    * BM wanted to organise some pre-week maintenance classes on a self-financing basis. JW said that asking people 
to pay for classes discriminated against the unwaged etc
    * Fishy pre-dawnride to Billingsgate Market
    * Agreed that RL write to Southwark bike shops asking for contributions and easy hire-bike arrangements for the 
week

We’ll firm up the programme at the 9 February meeting 

 

5. Constitution: LCC central is increasingly keen to tidy up relations with “independent branches” as Southwark 
Cyclists constitution says. There are financial and insurance implications. After some debate it was agreed that:

 

    * we don’t feel too precious about “independent”
    * there is a solidarity about individual and group LCC membership that we want to maintain
    * separate insurance cover will be costly (around £2,000+ a year)
    * we’re confident that LCC won’t abuse its powers
    * weaker Borough groups will benefit from more quality control/oversight from LCC   

 It was agreed that we’ll decide what to do about “independent branch” in our constitution when LCC formally 
approaches us about it.

 

6. Newsletter: SR would produce a January/February edition in time for the next London Cyclist magazine. LCC 
needed copies by 20 January. (Postscript: done. 680 copies delivered to LCC office at 5.30pm on 19 January).

 

7. Southwark Cycling Officer: Roger Stocker sent his apologies.

 

8. Rides: 80 did the 25/12 ride. Time Out headlined it. Andrew’s Richmond Park ride is this Sunday. We’ll start regular 
Afterworker’s when the evening’s lighten. More weekend rides on the way.

 

Meeting ended 8.50pm.

 

 

BAM

20 January 2005