Tower Hamlets Wheelers Meeting & AGM April 2013
TOWER HAMLETS WHEELERS Annual General Meeting Minutes Wednesday, 10 April 2013 7.30pm Held at St Margaret's House, 21 Old Ford Road. PRESENT: David T (Co-ordinator), Dave A (Treasurer), Owen (Secretary), Caroline (Rides), Keith (Events), Gerry (Campaigns), Rob (Newsletter), Alex, Darren, Guy, Mark, Olawale APOLOGIES: Terry, Richard, Bob, Tomomi CHAIR: David T MINUTES: Owen 1. Matters arising from 13 March 2013 None. 2. Workshop Next one on Saturday, 20 April. 10th anniversary celebrations to take place. Keith has been inviting "friends of the workshop" to arrive at 12.30pm. Several people have volunteered to bake cakes etc. Get refreshments on the morning. ACTION: Keith to organise. ACTION: Bakers will bake. 3. TfL Junction Review Gerry updates: Since the publication of the Mayor's Vision for Cycling some junctions will need to be re-reviewed as the chosen schemes don't now meet the required standards e.g. Mile End Road/Burdett Road. Aldgate gyratory currently under review. Will be best to have input from regular users of the area. Next LCC Junction Review Group meeting on Thursday, 25 April. ACTION: Gerry/Owen to forward Aldgate info to THW engineering group. ACTION: Gerry to see about organising an Aldgate site visit next week. 4. Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling (SLSC) On 20 March, THW and LCC representatives met Councillor Shahid Ali, Cabinet Member for Environment and Jamie Blake, Service Head, Public Realm. A letter was handed over urging the council to publicly engage and lead on reducing the danger from lorries in the borough a sign up to LCC's SLSC pledge. A follow up response from LBTH was promised. A letter has subsequently been received from Jamie Blake outlining LBTH's position on HGV/cycling safety. They are not in a position to sign the pledge as it currently stands. With the new information provided LCC will upgrade Tower Hamlets to "amber". Charlie Lloyd, LCC will lead on the following negotiations to help get the council up to the standard LCC's pledge and TfL requires. 5. Bike Week planning Bike Week, 15-23 June 2013 Sat 15: Workshop Sun 16: Alex easy-ish ride Mon 17: Tue 18: Breakfast (St James Gardens) Wed 19: Keith afterworker Thu 20: Fri 21: Glamour Ride ? (Midsummer Madness ride?) Sat 22: Glamour Ride ? Sun 23: Darren working on an "Island Adventure" event, family-oriented exploration of the Isle of Dogs. Children 9-12 age group. Suggest to also contact Tower Hamlets Cycling Club and Sustrans Bike-it team. ACTION: Owen to circulate first draft of this calendar. 6. AOB Guy reported on the launch of the LCC Policy Forum seminar series where Andrew Gilligan, London's Cycling Commissioner spoke. Positive outcomes and Gilligan highlighted that happy to work with people/groups that want to work towards solutions. Gerry noted there are leaving drinks for Gerhard Weiss, LCC's Cycling Development Officer on Thursday, 11 April. THW wish to minute thanks to Gerhard for his work with the LCC and the borough groups. 7. Annual General Meeting i. 2012 AGM minutes Approved. ii. Accounts 2012/2013 Opening Balance (01/04/12) 8107.74 Income/Expenditure Income Expenditure Account No. Account Desc. 1 Campaigns 0.00 287.00 2 Workshop & Recycling 555.81 553.49 3 Newsletter 0.00 0.00 4 Events 0.00 614.74 6 Admin 463.20 456.04 9 Club activities (rides etc.) 0.00 0.00 24 LCC grants 315.80 0.00 28 Doddington May 2012 230.00 1040.24 Totals 1564.81 2951.51 Profit/Loss -1386.70 Closing Balance (31/03/12) 6721.04 Liabilities: None Balance minus liabilities: 6721.04 Other Movers & Shakers Brompton reported stolen last month - initial discussions no plans to replace LCC suggested that we do not take annual grant for this year - but then paid it anyway Doddington weekend in fact made a profit - most of income was received in 2011/2012 Dave noted that not all grant money has been spent and this should be reviewed. Gerry raised the issue of the stolen Brompton and requested this is discussed further. Agreed to carry over to May's meeting. ACTION: Brompton discussion to be carried on to next monthly meeting. iii. Year review Co-ordinator's report David T gave an overview of the last year highlighting more cyclist fatalities in the borough, consulations work including TfL Junction review, Wood Wharf, Goldsmiths Row/Ion Square development, Olympic Park bye laws and the Bethnal Green Road western cycle track which resulted in a site meeting involving LBTH officers. However still a lack of consultation from LBTH about planning schemes unless they include a cycle facility. Consultations that are received from LBTH come from various sources. There has also been the involvement with LCC's Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling campaign. The community and social side of Wheelers, workshop, rides etc. continue to be well attended keeping people riding and encouraging more to cycle. The amount of campaigning and engineering issues highlights a need for more activists to help. Ride Co-ordinator's report Outgoing rides co-ordinator Caroline reports: In total we held 32 general rides plus a further 9 during our May weekend away in Kent. In 2012 we started keeping a pretty accurate log of how many people came on each ride, the male/female split and how many miles we covered. This has enabled us to put together some interesting and impressive statistics: • 1364 miles of rides – but note that no one person could do all of these as some were run in parallel! (and some were only for women) • 568 person rides – divided almost equally between the men and women • A total of 18500 miles ridden • The single ride contributing the most person miles (1655) was the ride to Cambridge with the Ely extension in September. The Jam Factory ride in March 2012, with a large crowd of 31 cycling a very respectable 50 miles each, ran it a close second with 1550 person miles. • Mile-eater of the year was Gerald who clocked up 995 miles (but no doubt added several hundred more on his way to and from the starts and finishes) But it wasn't all about the miles, we also had plenty of cake and plenty of fun along the way and welcomed many new faces, some just for one or two rides, others becoming regulars. There were plenty of short rides which were just as (some would say more) enjoyable as the long ones. Some highlights for me were: • The huge turnout on a very cold but sunny January day to cycle up the Lee Valley (and eat the Whitewater centre café out of food) • The feeder ride and the amazing Go Dutch ride in central London • Beating the boundary in December (a two Vesuvio visit ride) • Lazing in the sunshine in Ladywell fields having taken some of the Tower Hamlets Cycling Club women south of the river for their first time on one of our joint venture women's rides • Exploring Milton Keynes, concrete cows included, on a blisteringly hot summer's day (yes we did have one) Hopefully everyone who came along also has their own memorable moments and favourites. My thanks to everyone who helped with the programme along the way by leading, backmarking, being a mobile signpost, suggesting routes, and just coming along. I'm stepping down as Rides Coordinator after about 5 years in the post, but I'm sure the programme will keep going. Campaigns Officer report Gerry announced that she will stand down as Campaigns Officer but would like to take up a more specific committee role based on engineering. She suggested a review of committee roles as all campaigning/engineering has come to her and way too much workload. Rob added that he would be able to contribute but needing guidance/help etc. with the engineering side of things. ACTION: David T and Owen to arrange a date for a committee role/workload distribution/communication review meeting. Events Keith reports on a quiet year where we only attended Arnold Circus Picnic and St Barnabas Community Fete. He'll be hoping to lead some afterworker rides this summer. iv. Election of officers Co-ordinator post left vacant in-lieu of full discussion of committee posts/roles in relation to campaigning/engineering issues. ACTION: David T/Owen to organise a separate meeting date for committee roles discussion. Management committee: Co-ordinator: Post vacant Secretary: Owen - nominated by David T, seconded by Caroline Treasurer: Dave A - nominated by Alex, seconded by Keith Committee roles: Chair: David T Campaigns Officer: Post vacant Rides Co-ordinator: Alex Events Co-ordinator: Keith Newsletter Editor: Rob Press Officer: Post vacant Workshop Co-ordinators: Keith, Caroline, Owen Meeting ended at 9.38pm
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