Sheffield Trails Get Huge Investment

Plans for the “RADmires” trail has been given a huge boost after Sheffield-local Vulcan Engineering pledged £22,500 towards the project.

Ride Sheffield successfully opened Lady Cannings –  the UK’s first ever crowd-funded trail – last summer, and the group have now set their focus on this new project in the Peak District.

President of Ride Sheffield Henry Norman, in a guest blog for V-Publishing, said: “On the back of the success of Lady Cannings, Ride Sheffield’s newest crowdfunded trail plans are for Redmires Plantation.”

“Affectionately known as RADmires, it will be a descending trail in the woods, which run alongside the byway up to Stanage Pole from Redmires Road. It will enter the woods at the top corner just below the existing gate in the byway, and descend 1.8km down to Redmires Road. This is fifty-per-cent longer than Lady Cannings Phase One, which opened earlier this summer.

“Design will be similar to Lady Cannings: blue-grade flow trail in that signature the-faster-you-go-the-tougher-it-is style, which makes that trail so much fun, yet so accessible to all abilities.”

This investment equates to almost half of the funding that is needed to turn the plans into a reality.

Following on from Lady Cannings near Sheffield, RADmires could become UK’s second crowd-funded trail but more funding is needed.

Read about the project in full here, including donation info.