 Who we are The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) is the world's largest urban cycling organisation. It has a local group in most of the London boroughs, with larger memberships in the inner London boroughs. Hackney has more LCC members than in any other borough - currently bubbling around 1000. (Why not consider the benefits of joining the LCC?) Thousands of people cycle in Hackney daily, and Hackney not only has the highest percentage of people cycling to work in London out of any London borough (6.83%), but also the UK's largest increase in cycling from 1991-2001 based on a comparison of census data from these years. The areas enclosed by the borough boundary Hackney (Hackney, Homerton, Wick, Stoke Newington, Clapton, Dalston, De Beauvoir, Hoxton, Shoreditch, etc) make up a good area in which to get around by cycle, with few hills and a high density of development. Of course much of the group's activity is directed towards our local council, the London Borough of Hackney, and Transport for London, lobbying and advising on how to improve things for people who want to travel by cycle. But there's plenty besides, including promoting the benefits of cycling, working to improve skills and training, helping to put on events such as Car-Free Day and Look Both Ways, and holding social events and fundraisers like Burns Night. Other projects we're involved in include our popular self-help maintenance workshop. We make decisions at our monthly meetings, and we have an email discussion group which enables swift dissemination of information and ideas. People who are active in the London Cycling Campaign in Hackney give freely of their time. If you have energy and ideas to contribute to help make cycling in Hackney even more popular and pleasurable, we'd like to hear from you. |
Some of the people
involved...
We have a committee which is elected every year at our annual general meeting. Co-ordinator Secretary Treasurer Membership secretary Council liaison Publicity co-ordinators Many other members contribute varying amounts of time to the group's activities - for example Adam Thompson and Ross Corben who run our workshop. There's lots more useful stuff to be done if you have some time and enthusiasm for it. If you've got anything in mind, come to a meeting and let us know or get in touch with one of our joint co-ordinators. Our previous
borough co-ordinators are still around, giving help and advice to the
group. Patrick
Field was borough co-ordinator until 1995. Among his many
activities are writing about cycling, promoting
events and training people to ride, especially as part of the London
School of Cycling
and the coalition of organisations, co-ordinated by STA Bikes, which is
spearheading cycle training and promotion in Hackney's schools. You can
e-mail
Patrick or call him on 020-7249 3779.
Douglas Carnall was borough co-ordinator for five years up until 2000. His blog is a fount of informative musings on matters medical, transportational, technological and artistic. Tim Evans held the co-ordinating post from 2000 to 2004, bringing a diligent and no-nonsense style to the conduct of business. Among his specialisms is membership data management, on which he has been working with the LCC centrally to improve local LCC groups' ability to communicate with its members. Oliver Schick, our current council liaison co-ordinator, was our group co-ordinator until March 2006, and was absolutely tireless in the role. He helped the group become more effective and influential at a time of soaring LCC membership in Hackney and an ever-increasing workload of consultation and partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations. |
