Starbeck school Promote Cycling - Hooray

An excellent meeting last night with Mrs Carolyn Sandford the head at Starbeck School.  The School are now keen to encourage cycling and we will work with them to try and promote safe cycling for the school's pupils. Hopefully the Knaresborough Rd improvements will help and we will see what else we can do. Initially we are working with MrsSandford and the School to try and get some cycle racks installed as soon as possible. We also had a...

Wanted Businesses who want to get their staff cycling

If you would like to work with us to get your workforce cycling to work we would love to hear from you and there is a potential 25K if you do a really good job. Now its not our 25 Grand. Nesta (no I'd never heard of them either) are running a competition, well they are calling it a challenge, for businesses who want to work to increase the number of their staff who cycle to work. They are after innovative and effective ways to get some...

GOOD NEWS Harrogate Primary School agrees to look for solutions

We got a letter today from Mrs Sandford the Head at the primary school that we posted about recently. She has asked if we will try and arrange a meeting with her over the next two weeks to look at possible ways we might move the cycle storage issue forward. This is excellent news and we look forward to working with the school and other agencies to try and get a speedy solution and see if working together we can promote cycling in the local community. Image...

Money for Cycling in Harrogate, What do you want most?

A few days ago North Yorkshire County Council were succesful in winning £1.6 million to be spent on sustainable transport initiatives in Harrogate and Knaresborough. The original bid was for £3.9 million and proposed a range of initiatives including upgrades to some of the main routes into Harrogate to make them more cycle friendly. This is great and welcome news, but obviously as the bid has only been funded in part, some of...