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School Street Projects – Wilson School

2 June 2024AliceLeave a Comment

Kat Heath interviewed Rodrigo Perez Vega about his involvement in Wilson School’s School Streets: Why do you marshal for the school streets? I received an email from Wilson Primary School, asking for volunteers to take part in the School Street initiative. My son goes to this school, and I have witnessed the benefits of having […]

School Streets Projects – Calcot

2 June 2024AliceLeave a Comment

Rob Hill contacted Cheryl Evans from WBC and Joe Lally from Calcot Schools about how the School Streets initiative had made a difference to child safety. WBC gave their own report on how it has worked: Positive Impact of the School Streets Initiative at Calcot Introduction and Implementation The School Streets initiative at Calcot Infant […]

Carole Richards volunteering at School Streets Crescent Road

School Streets Projects – Crescent Road

2 June 2024Alice1 Comment

Joe Edwards observed what happens in the environment of a School Streets initiative on Crescent Road in Reading. Carol Richards pulls the heavy metal no-entry sign to the middle of the road and places a traffic cone on either side. It’s now 2.45pm on a Thursday afternoon and another session of marshalling the Crescent Road […]

Reading Bike Kitchen

4 December 2019AliceLeave a Comment

Reading Bike Kitchen (RBK) is an entirely volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation founded to encourage cycling by making low cost bicycle maintenance available to all. You can find out more via our website: www.readingbicyclekitchen.org. I’m hoping everyone has heard about, visited or even volunteered with this fantastic community facility which not only supports making cycling more open […]

AGM Round Up

31 August 2018KeithLeave a Comment

On 20th June we had our Annual General Meeting to elect the committee for 2018/19. Well, not an election as such; the Reading Cycle Campaign is run by a small group of volunteers and there is always space and a warm welcome to anyone who wants to contribute their time and efforts in helping us […]

Bike Kitchen Update

9 March 2018AliceLeave a Comment

Many local cyclists miss the Bike Kitchen that took over Jacksons in 2014. There was no such thing as a quiet time when the doors were opened, and there was a lot going on behind the scenes when the doors were closed too. From the moment we tentatively opened the doors one Saturday in June […]