Does your employer encourage cycling ?

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  • Mark_K
    Mark_K Posts: 666
    I run a small family business of 12 people and I have managed to get all bar one employee out of their cars for regular commuting using cycle 2 work secure bike parking lockers ect :)
    Oh and I Run a Car repair workshop and accident/breakdown recovery company lol
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  • phillarrow
    phillarrow Posts: 15
    I'm a teacher so, in a round-about way, work for the Government. My Education Authority said no when I emailed them about the Cycle2Work scheme so I emailed the Dep't for Transport explaining how ridiculous it is that a Government employer is unable to partake in a very admirable Goverenment scheme. They replied that it's not their scheme they just came up with the idea! What kind of a response is that? Surely it's their responsibility to ensure that all public sector workers are able to take advantage of schemes like these.
  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    Mithras wrote:
    My company is offering a free breakfast one day this year if you use your bike to ge to work...although several car users have been very vocal in saying how unfair this is.
    Just something else for them to moan about :-)

    I am a contractor so get no benefits as I would if employed, so no C2W scheme.
    However I do park my bike in the office.
    99% of the employees here are American, and cycling, ie not burning fossil fuels is seen as being unpatriotic ;-)
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  • spen666
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    phillarrow wrote:
    I'm a teacher so, in a round-about way, work for the Government. My Education Authority said no when I emailed them about the Cycle2Work scheme so I emailed the Dep't for Transport explaining how ridiculous it is that a Government employer is unable to partake in a very admirable Goverenment scheme. They replied that it's not their scheme they just came up with the idea! What kind of a response is that? Surely it's their responsibility to ensure that all public sector workers are able to take advantage of schemes like these.

    I too work for Govt and find same thing as do many other public sector employees

    Bizarre aint it
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  • GEPC
    GEPC Posts: 123
    Mine fall into the catagory of not encouraging but also not discouraging.
    We have bike racks in the undergroung carpark but they are usually full if you don't get in in good time. There are showers but no lockers so my towel gets draped over the cabinet by my desk to dry off.

    They have finally taken up the a cycle to work scheme after a concerted campaign by myself and a couple of others. Ironically I bought my latest bike off someone on e-bay just before they finally took it up so I never actually used it myself.

    I like the idea of free breakfast for cyclists!
  • GEPC
    GEPC Posts: 123
    Mine fall into the catagory of not encouraging but also not discouraging.
    We have bike racks in the undergroung carpark but they are usually full if you don't get in in good time. There are showers but no lockers so my towel gets draped over the cabinet by my desk to dry off.

    They have finally taken up the a cycle to work scheme after a concerted campaign by myself and a couple of others. Ironically I bought my latest bike off someone on e-bay just before they finally took it up so I never actually used it myself.

    I like the idea of free breakfast for cyclists!
  • DancesWithSheep
    DancesWithSheep Posts: 51
    Had an email this morning from the Buildings Maintenence company where our office is and they've just installed 35 bike racks in the parking garage. (Huzzah!)

    Twenty minuntes later, the MD walks in swearing about the Tube, reads this email and tramps into my office begging me for a route to work from his station and where he can buy a bike.

    Always one to spot an opportunity to perhaps get my greasy mits on a shiny new toy, I give him the whole shebang about cycle to work schemes and he's keen on getting one in place here.

    Does anyone have any experience of Evans' Ride2Work "scheme" ?
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  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    DancesWithSheep wrote:
    35 bike racks in the parking garage. (Huzzah!)
    Twenty minuntes later, the MD walks in swearing about the Tube, reads this email and tramps into my office begging me for a route to work from his station and where he can buy a bike.
    I give him the whole shebang about cycle to work schemes and he's keen on getting one in place here.
    That has got to be a result! :D Amazing how things get done when the MD say's "make it so" :roll:
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  • Beeblebrox
    Beeblebrox Posts: 145
    Beeblebrox wrote:
    Am moving to an office that apparently does have showers - but I'm yet to inspect them. Has been a while since I went there but I do vaguely remember a partially covered bike rack a fair distance from the road - but not exactly fantastically secure.

    Will have to report back at the end of next week when I've begun my new longer commute.

    As promised...

    Have a few good showers and a changing room. Plenty of lockers ('though I'm stuck with a half sized one 'til I prove my commitment to cycling) and also - probably the best bit - there is a set of tools, bike stand (the thing that holds them up to work on), spare tubes/brake cables/outer tyres/brake pads/pumps for use by anyone at no charge.

    I believe the guy who is in charge of much of the dedicated office money is a keen cyclist.
  • JoeSoap76
    JoeSoap76 Posts: 109
    JoeSoap76 wrote:
    My employer encourages the belief that they encourage cycling... :?
    It was raining (heavily) this morning so I got to work a little drenched. Had to wring out my soccks, shorts and tee-shirt before hanging them up.

    The only place I have where I can hang my clothes to dry (without using the backs of colleagues' chairs) is on a disused bookcase in the corridor.

    The boss's boss's boss has, I'm told, made a comment about the place looking like a chinese laundry and it has been suggested that I take them down. I've suggested that they find me somewhere else to hang them first and then I'll be happy to move them.

    The facade is slipping. :?
  • whome
    whome Posts: 167
    DancesWithSheep wrote:
    Does anyone have any experience of Evans' Ride2Work "scheme" ?

    No, but you don't need to find someone running a scheme (remember they take a share of the tax savings) - As I understand it all the salary sacrifice things are quite easy to set up yourself. Certainly our small office with a finance team of 2 handle salary sacrifice for Pension and Child Care vouchers and would be prepared to look into C2W if anyone wanted it.

    However I don't need another bike and would be concerned about the final transfer cost which can't be written into the agreement.
    Training, highway design and increasing cycle numbers are important to safety. Helmets are just a red herring.
  • whome
    whome Posts: 167
    Some links that might be of use (I hope)

    C2W info
    - http://www.bikeforall.net/content/cycle ... scheme.php

    lots of stuff including C2W
    - http://www.londonanalytics.info/cycle-to-work

    reasons not to use a facilitator (e.g.Evans).
    - http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14864373
    Training, highway design and increasing cycle numbers are important to safety. Helmets are just a red herring.
  • DancesWithSheep
    DancesWithSheep Posts: 51
    Top stuff - virtual pint for that :lol:
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  • mustryharder07
    mustryharder07 Posts: 20
    There are some facilities at the place I work, but, and it is a but... where you lock your bike is right next to the busiest main road in the world where every bike is in full view of all the TWOCers in the area, no CTW scheme (we share a building with British Gas (they have the scheme).
    There is a shower room, but from some of the rumours I've heard I'm a little dubious about using it....lol

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