Henrietta,

Some support might be possible from the Cycle Touring and Countryside Trust, which I chair. We are always looking for worthy causes to support which further the academic position of cycling as a serious subject, application should be made to the Secretary, Andrew Millward. If you contact me off group I will give details. That goes for anyone else considering such events, by the way.

Nicholas Oddy

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Sent: 19 April 2007 09:45
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Henrietta

Apologies for late reply. I've been away on a fieldtrip with our 
postgrad transport students to none other than...Bristol!

At the inaugural C&S symposium in Lancaster in 2004 I believe we had 
around 30 people. Cardiff and Chester followed and experienced similar 
numbers. Dave Horton, Ben Fincham and Pete Cox (resp) will be able to 
fill you in on their specific funding arrangements but I was simply 
after a sizable room at Brookes with catering for morning coffee, buffet 
lunch and afternoon tea and had a figure of £500 in mind. The remainder 
of the budget was to be used for an evening meal for the core group and 
stay overnight (paying their own accommodation costs in Oxford) for a 
meeting and tour of the city by bike the next morning.

I think Bristol would be great particularly having seen the development 
going on in the city centre and possibly to experience the land use 
planning disaster of Cribs Causeway and your own fine campus (in terms 
of location policy and unsustainable transport) courtesy of Nicholas 
Ridley and the free marketers of the 1980s!

Tim

Henrietta Sherwin wrote:

>Tim - as a relative novice and as someone who has not attending the event, how many people are involved, is it just during the day and would it require lunch/coffee break and tea.  I ask because I've talked to my supervisor and there are several people here interested in cycling and we might be able to host it but before asking re finance etc I need to know a bit more about how it works.
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>Henrietta
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>Sent: 12 April 2007 09:58
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>Alex
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>Funny enough I was trying to twist the Oxford Brookes Travel Planning 
>Group's arm to spend some of their parking revenue (£500 out of £100K 
>per annum i.e. <1%) to provide modest catering so that we could host the 
>event here at Brookes. However, to my amazement they refused after it 
>was put to the vote! So much for 'making the links' between education 
>and awareness and travel behaviour! Pity but I decided not to go 
>groveling to them anymore.
>
>Tim Jones
>p.s. rhetoric of the Brookes Travel Plan here - 
>http://www.brookes.ac.uk/brookesnet/environment/sustainable_travel
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