For more, better and safer cycling in and around Cambridge
We’re delighted to announce the candidates for election to the Camcycle board of trustees in 2021. Each year, the board is elected as part of our annual general meeting.
This year, our elections will be conducted using the OpaVote online system. The process is broadly the same as with our previous paper-based ballots, but
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The next Camcycle AGM will be held online on Saturday 23 January, 2021 at 2pm. Our guest speaker will be cycling communications specialist and co-author of Building the Cycling City, Melissa Bruntlett.
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Sam Davies is a resident of Queen Edith’s who wears many hats in her day-to-day life including Chair of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum and long-standing member (and former committee member) of Camcycle. We welcomed Sam to speak at our monthly meeting in December 2020 to share her thoughts on cycling issues in Queen Edith’s
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Dave Walker, author of The Cycling Cartoonist, has been drawing diagrams about cycling for many years. Dave’s cartoons have gained a strong following on social media, been published in a book – The Cycling Cartoonist, featured in The Guardian‘s Illustrated City series and used as campaigning tools by Cycling UK. During the pandemic, he’s
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Cycle Sisters is an award-winning charity which aims to inspire and support Muslim women to cycle. Much of their work focuses on providing regular group rides and on tackling stereotypes to make cycling more inclusive. In this Camcycle meeting, trustee Khadijah Zaidi explains what they do and how they do it, and shares advice on
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A School Street is a road outside a school with a temporary restriction on motorised traffic at school drop-off and pick-up times. The measure helps school communities to tackle air pollution, improve family health and reduce road danger around the school. The government is encouraging as many families as possible to walk, cycle or scoot
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All cycle campaigning comes down to local issues at some point; a truth made even more apparent to Camcycle as we’ve worked for Spaces to Breathe. Collaboration with local groups has been essential to this campaign and encouraging communities to champion emergency measures in their areas is still vital today.
The guest speakers at
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We were delighted to welcome Tony Eva from Carbon Neutral Cambridge as the guest speaker at our online monthly meeting in July 2020. Streaming live to our Facebook channel, Tony explained how the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region has a carbon emissions budget of only 15 million tonnes for transport for 2020 onwards. After decades
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In June 1995 a new organisation was formed in Cambridge to work for more, better and safer cycling in the area. 25 years later, our online monthly meeting was a special celebration of all those who have supported Camcycle – the Cambridge Cycling Campaign – over the years, as members, volunteers, partners, people who cycle
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We were delighted to host Mark Philpotts, aka the Ranty Highwayman for our online monthly meeting in May 2020. Streaming live to our Facebook channel, Mark introduced himself as a highways engineer who rides a Dutch bike and a Christiana tricycle, bringing his own set of perspectives to cycling, but working hard for all
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