1. Welcome & Introductions
18 attended
2. Notes of September and October meetings and matters arising from October Meeting.
September notes were agreed.
October notes were agreed.
Matters arising October notes:
Point 4 - A subgroup has been agreed but a date has not yet been set for the first meeting.
Action: Andy to set a date for the meeting.
Point 10 - A draft policy for female ride leaders and safety will be sent to the management committee.
Action: Kate
3 .Pedal Power
November edition is delayed because of technical hitches. We need volunteers for distribution. Liz has agreed to coordinate the distribution of Pedal Power and will ask for volunteers for next Tuesday using the e group email. She has volunteered to complete a cycle count at the same time.
Steve will put 120 copies in our pigeon hole at the forum for collection.
Julian has taken over the publication of the pedal power and is asking for news and campaigning issues. He will set a deadline date for submissions via the egroup.
Action: Liz to distribute Pedal Power and complete cycle count
Steve to photocopy and leave at the forum for collection
All to collect and distribute
Julian to post reminder to submit articles to him for the December Pedal Power
All to submit articles
4. Schools Project
The council is insisting that kids wear helmets and kids are being turned away because of this. The school has decided that they are going to buy some helmets (15) and we have got 4 donated from Halfords. We have got some money set aside, which we could use to buy helmets. This week is the last week of the first set of bike training for the kids and next week starts a new 5 week session.
Dr Bike maintenance is going ahead and cycle training are taking care of this aspect of the project for us.
There is no news from the Neighbourhood renewal fund as yet.
5. Get Fit Campaign
It was suggested that a ?Get fit campaign? be set between Christmas and the New Year to coincide with kids getting new bikes for Christmas. The idea would be to teach kids how to safely ride their new bikes. It was agreed to set up some easygoing rides for this purpose. (See 9 rides for details). It was also suggested that we could repeat the campaign in the spring with "Spring into Action".
Action: Kate to contact the Greenwich PCT physical activity coordinator.
6. Cycle Training
One person attended the last cycle training session. The next session is 16th November and 6 are booked in the morning (3 kids and 3 adults). The 2-4pm session is still empty.
7.Ceilidh
The action plan from last year was tabled and it was suggested we adopt this as this year's plan as it had worked well. This was agreed. Volunteers are needed. Please contact Karen M.
Volunteers are needed for:
We need to ensure that we advertise the Ceilidh. Poster to be sent to the e group. Poster to be printed (600 copies). Press release issued.
The caterers have been agreed.
The posters will be available for distribution via the website and hard copies will be left in the Forum for collection.
Action: Karen M to coordinate the volunteers.
Karen S to send poster to e group.
Karen S to get poster printed and leave at the Forum for collection.
Liz to issue press release.
All to collect and distribute the posters.
8. Finances
It needs to be confirmed that the LCC DfT money (£70) is on its way
Action: Hilary to investigate
9. Rides
It was suggested that we design a poster to advertise the easygoing rides for during Christmas and New Year. This was agreed. It was agreed that we should also issue a press release.
Action: Karen S (poster)
Liz (press release)
10. Anything else
Pete Millbrook has resigned from the management committee
It was suggested that Julian should be co-opted onto the management committee.
15 of the 18 present agreed. The remaining 3 abstained.
Car congestion charging. It was suggested that we do something to celebrate the 1st birthday of congestion charging. Agreed to discuss this at the next meeting.
11. Maintenance classes
It was stated that the new monthly maintenance classes are not being well attended. It was agreed that the next class on 20th November would take place but that after that we would revert back to running 4 week block sessions. It was agreed that a set of 4 maintenance classes would be arranged for the spring, as part of the "Spring into Action" campaign.