Cycling UK
| Motto | The cyclists' champion |
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| Formation | 1878 |
| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | Private company limited by guarantee & Registered charity |
| Purpose | Support cyclists and encourage bicycle use in the UK. |
| Headquarters | Guildford |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 51°15′36″N 0°35′24″W / 51.260124°N 0.590059°WCoordinates: 51°15′36″N 0°35′24″W / 51.260124°N 0.590059°W |
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Membership (2014)
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67,128 |
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President
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Jon Snow |
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Chief Executive
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Paul Tuohy |
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Main organ
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Cycle Magazine |
| Website | cyclinguk.org |
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Formerly called
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The Bicycle Touring Club, Cylists' Touring Club |
Cycling UK, formerly known as the Cyclists' Touring Club or CTC, is a charitable membership organisation supporting cyclists and promoting bicycle use; it is the largest such organisation in the UK. It works at a national and local level to lobby for cyclists' needs and wants, provides services to members, and organises local groups for local activism and those interested in recreational cycling. The original Cyclists' Touring Club began in the nineteenth century with a focus on amateur road cycling but these days has a much broader sphere of interest encompassing everyday transport, commuting and many forms of recreational cycling. Prior to April 2016, Cycling UK operated under the brand CTC, the national cycling charity. As of January 2007, the organisation's president was the newsreader Jon Snow.
Cycling UK promotes cycling in the UK, and had about 68,000 members in 2016. Its objectives (registered with the Charity Commission) are to:
Cycling UK works to encourage more people to take up cycling, to make cycling safer and more enjoyable, and to provide cyclists with the support and resources they need. Its activities vary from road safety promotion to the provision of organised cycling holidays. Cycling UK does not focus on competitive cycle sport, since that has its own organisation, British Cycling.
Cycling UK's successes have been a benchmarking project to spread best practice in cycle-friendly infrastructure design, and a grant of nearly £1 million to promote national standards for cycle training, standards Cycling UK helped to develop. In 2015, Cycling UK received funding of £1million for their social outreach project, the Big Bike Revival. The Big Bike Revival ran over the summer of 2015 and held over 1,600 events throughout England, benefiting over 50,000 people by "reviving" people's old bikes and giving them the skills and confidence to cycle more. The project was awarded a further £500,000 by Cycling Minister Robert Goodwill in February 2016 to continue in summer 2016, and in June the Scottish Government awarded Cycling UK Scotland £450,000 to bring the Big Bike Revival to Scotland.
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