London Cycling Campaign borough groups organise hundreds of free leisure
rides for members and friends all year round - very much organised by
locals for locals
These rides are typically organised by a separate committee from those
that run local campaigns and lobby borough councils - although naturally
there's crossover in personnel
I have no idea how this activity fits into a definition of a cycling club
Cheers
Mike
> ok feel free to use wiki, doesn't seem to be whole lot between the
> definitions really. maybe we should use the one in Organising Around
> Enthusiasms instead.
>
> CTC comments - bit of jump there, I wasn't attacking the CTC which you
> seemed to imply. And yes I have been out on CTC rides. Perhaps I should
> have clarified it better, but thought it was obvious. CTC I see as more of
> national organisation , admittedly with very local and social activities,
> I don't want to study them. I am interested in the types of clubs I
> listed ie what might be called local cycling clubs.
>
>
> Graham Berridge
> National Teaching Fellow 2010
> Programme Leader Events Management
> Senior Lecturer
> University of West London
> uwl.ac.uk
>
> 'Education that works'
>
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>
> ________________________________________
> From: Cycling and Society Research Group discussion list
> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of burton richard
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> Sent: 31 October 2012 11:15
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Cycling club membership
>
> I think that your definition of a club is extremely narrow, but I'm not
> sure why you think CTC doesn't fulfil even your own narrow definition as
> it's members meet regularly for social events. Perhaps your viewpoint
> might be slightly skewed? Have you ever been out for a ride with CTC?
>
> I much prefer the wikipedia definition "A club is an association of two or
> more people united by a common interest or goal. A service
> club<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_club>, for example, exists for
> voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and
> sports, social activities clubs, political and religious clubs, and so
> forth."
>
> On 31 October 2012 10:51, Graham Berridge
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for comments so far.
>
> For some clarification, I hope.
> I agree a club doesn't need to meet the needs of whole community, just its
> members.
> So the essence of the enquiry was what, if any, research exists on
> cycling clubs and their members' needs. This could of course link to
> motivations for joining and what they expected to get out of being a
> member. Similar studies exist for say Health and Sports ( Gym) clubs and
> there is material on various other voluntary organisations, but we
> couldn't immediately find anything specific on cycling clubs, other than
> via some of the personal accounts/stories already mentioned.
>
> I was thinking of a club along the lines of this:
> An organization composed of people who voluntarily meet on a regular basis
> for a mutual purpose other than educational, religious, charitable, or
> financial pursuits. A club is any kind of group that has members who meet
> for a social, literary, or political purpose, such as health clubs,
> country clubs, book clubs, and women's associations
>
> So rightly or wrongly I don't see the CTC in this light. From a London
> perspective then the types of cycling clubs would be such as CC Hackney,
> London Phoenix, Kingston Wheelers, Addiscombe etc etc.
>
> Regards Graham
>
>
> Graham Berridge
> National Teaching Fellow 2010
> Programme Leader Events Management
> Senior Lecturer
> University of West London
> uwl.ac.uk<http://uwl.ac.uk>
>
> 'Education that works'
>
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> On Behalf Of John Meudell
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> Sent: 31 October 2012 10:23
> To:
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Cycling club membership
>
> Sorry, but I don’t understand why a club needs to meet the needs of the
> whole community. A club is an association of like-minded individuals in
> pursuit of a common endeavour….
>
> There’s clearly a need for some definition of club in this
> correspondence…..if not the focus of the research itself.
>
> Cheers
>
> John Meudell
>
>
>
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> On Behalf Of burton richard
> Sent: 31 October 2012 07:56
> To:
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Cycling club membership
>
> Not sure I'd describe them as meeting the needs of the entire community.
> From their website, they seem to be almost totally dedicated to
> competitive cycling: no family rides, no beginners rides.
> On 30 October 2012 19:47, Richard Lewis
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>>
> wrote:
> Mirela,
>
> If anyone can tell you the answer to this, the organisers of Cycling
> Club Hackney can. Have a look at their website to see how they meet the
> needs of the entire community.
>
> cyclingclubhackney.co.uk/<http://cyclingclubhackney.co.uk/><http://cyclingclubhackney.co.uk/>
>
> Regards
> Richard.
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 14:28 +0000, Mirela Oliver, Research Assistant
> wrote:
>> Does anyone know of any research into cycling club membership needs and/
>> or member's requirements when joining a cycling clu?
>>
>> Mirela Oliver, Research Assistant on behalf of Graham Berridge, School
>> of Hospitality and Tourism, University of West London.
>
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