TFL Cycle Challenge - Nominations

asprilla

Nothing delivered so far. Have dropped an email to the contact at TFL to get her to pull her finger out.

asprilla

Update: I've got an out of office from the bint who was supposed to sent the prizes out. She's out of the office until August 22nd.

Bloody public sector workers and their lack accountability.

asprilla

I should have just got an RSS feed for this.

Apparently the woman who is on holiday arranged for them to be posted today. Of course that's no guarantee that they will be. Means that I should have my hands on it on Monday evening.

asprilla

A big box from TFL has arrived today and is sitting on my wife's desk.

My wife doesn't work Friday. Guess we'll find out on Monday what goodies there are.

Ian.B

Congratulations to you all, sorry I didn't join in this year

HeatherG

Hi everyone, it's Heather from Wheels for Wellbeing here.
Just been catching up with this thread and just wanted to say congrats on your success with the TFL Cycle Challenge again this year!
Also, just to let you know that we have been using the vouchers you gave us last year as raffle prizes. At the last one we managed to raise over £150, so they're proving very useful and a pretty quick way of raising money for us.
Thanks again so much for donating them to us.

Just to add, I'd +1 for Companion Cycling too, but then I would really, wouldn't I?!

prj45

Companion cycling.

deptfordmarmoset

HeatherG wrote:

Hi everyone, it's Heather from Wheels for Wellbeing here.
Just been catching up with this thread and just wanted to say congrats on your success with the TFL Cycle Challenge again this year!
Also, just to let you know that we have been using the vouchers you gave us last year as raffle prizes. At the last one we managed to raise over £150, so they're proving very useful and a pretty quick way of raising money for us.
Thanks again so much for donating them to us.

Just to add, I'd +1 for Companion Cycling too, but then I would really, wouldn't I?!

Even though I didn't take part in last year's cycle challenge, I'm sure that your positive feedback will be much appreciated by those that took part, this year, last year or both. Thank you.

asprilla

Ok, Mrs A opened the box this morning and it's an assortment of cycling bits and bobs like lights, saddles and locks. Am going to drop Cycling Companions a line.

asprilla

Right, here's the contents of the box in all it's glory:



3x Halfords accessory packs (lights, mini pump & small lock)
4x Quantum Masterlocks (given 1.5 stars by BR review)
4x Multitools
4x 26" tubes
4x Bottles
2x Saddles
5x Puncture repair kits (like the ones CTC give away in sportive goodie bags)
5x Reflective bands
1x British Cycling membership

deptfordmarmoset

I hope those are your daughter's sandals. If not, your feet are minute

asprilla

OK. Unexpectedly Companion Cycling have said that they are lucky enough to be quite well funded and so have turned down my off of the prize.

So, anyone got any other nominations?

coopster_the_1st

Asprilla wrote:

OK. Unexpectedly Companion Cycling have said that they are lucky enough to be quite well funded and so have turned down my off of the prize.

So, anyone got any other nominations?

The charity that we sent the prize to last year?

MonkeyMonster

Coopster the 1st wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

OK. Unexpectedly Companion Cycling have said that they are lucky enough to be quite well funded and so have turned down my off of the prize.

So, anyone got any other nominations?

The charity that we sent the prize to last year?

They even nicely came back to remind us they wouldn't say no again...

Bassjunkieuk

MonkeyMonster wrote:

Coopster the 1st wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

OK. Unexpectedly Companion Cycling have said that they are lucky enough to be quite well funded and so have turned down my off of the prize.

So, anyone got any other nominations?

The charity that we sent the prize to last year?

They even nicely came back to remind us they wouldn't say no again...

Indeed unless anyone has a better suggestion? Their offices are near Brixton so not a million miles away. Was great taking the vouchers in last year and being shown what they do :-)

kelsen

Yeah, +1 for Wheels for Wellbeing. Donate the prize to somebody who at least appreciates it!

HeatherG

Thanks again guys!
Unlike Companion Cycling, WfW are not so well funded and we're in the midst of trying to raise funds to enable us to go to the Cycle Show which is at the NEC this year.
Quest 88 are underwriting the cost of the stand (called The Inclusive Cycling Hub) and we've made a contribution to it which was made possible thanks to the wonderful Dan Ames (member of LFGSS forum) and his 3 day London-Cumbria ride!
The problem we now face is raising the funds for staff travel up there and accomodation for them.
We were in two minds as to whether to do the Cycle Show this year as its at the NEC, but we decided that more had to be done nationally to raise the profile of inclusive cycling, so we're going to fly our flag!
I've just got back from a site visit and the 3 halls we'll be in equate to a huge amounts of space and the organisers are expecting over 30,000 visitors this year. We've even got our own inclusive cycling track where anyone can try out the different cycles that are available. Exciting times!
Anyway, thanks again for your support. WfW are so grateful,
Heather - WfW Manager

gbsahne001

Asprilla wrote:

Right, here's the contents of the box in all it's glory:



3x Halfords accessory packs (lights, mini pump & small lock)
4x Quantum Masterlocks (given 1.5 stars by BR review)
4x Multitools
4x 26" tubes
4x Bottles
2x Saddles
5x Puncture repair kits (like the ones CTC give away in sportive goodie bags)
5x Reflective bands
1x British Cycling membership

Is that really £350 worth of kit?

cjcp

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

MonkeyMonster wrote:

Coopster the 1st wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

OK. Unexpectedly Companion Cycling have said that they are lucky enough to be quite well funded and so have turned down my off of the prize.

So, anyone got any other nominations?

The charity that we sent the prize to last year?

They even nicely came back to remind us they wouldn't say no again...

Indeed unless anyone has a better suggestion? Their offices are near Brixton so not a million miles away. Was great taking the vouchers in last year and being shown what they do :-)

Another +1 here.

stuaff

+1 here too.

deptfordmarmoset

Just a passing thought: if TfL do it again next year, how about using the SCR team as the core of a Wheels for Wellbeing team ? It would give WfW a higher profile for a month and if we could link up with other forums like lfgss and CycleChat we might have a pop at the biggest prize.

And while we would be cooperating for the big prize for WfW, there would be nothing to stop us competing against each other within the '' WfW league.''

Any thoughts?

HeatherG

Well, personally, I LOVE this idea! WfW did have their own team this year, but it was all staff and although I think we did really well, there was no way we would be able to comete with the 'big boys' out there. So next year we were trying to think of ways to get our numbers and miles up - this would certainly be one way of doing it.
We'd probably be able to get some pretty good publicity out of it too, I reckon.