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Cycling UK has beaten off some stiff competition in this category to win the title of Community Builders of 2023.
This award is about people. Who is getting bums on saddles? Who is creating the opportunity for new people to discover mountain bikes? You have decided that it’s Cycling UK that deserves recognition this year for helping build the MTB community.
As well as piecing together long distance routes like the 130 mile Traws Eyri, Cycling UK has renewed its Trails For Wales campaign, and given its support to wild camping access on Dartmoor. They’re adept and navigating our arcane access laws, and at working to reinstate or create new routes where they have been lost. Their support and advice helped establish Britain’s newest bridleway, at Walla Crag in the Lake District. Keeping abreast of policy developments in Westminster, they’re helping raise awareness among the whole cycling community of the many legislative and budgetary decisions that affect us.
On hearing about this award, Sarah Mitchell, Cycling UK’s chief executive said:
“For the past 145 years, Cycling UK has driven meaningful change not just for those already cycling, but also on behalf of future riders too. From securing our right to ride on roads and bridleways to fighting for more access to the countryside, our work has always been about supporting the broad church that is the cycling community.
“This community is incredibly diverse and such a powerful force for good. Seeing our charity’s role in supporting mountain biking recognised by the readers of Singletrack is a huge honour.
“It’s a cliché, but as a community of all cyclists we are stronger together. I hope Cycling UK can continue to call on the support of Singletrack and the MTB community as we make the case for cycling to governments, and all those yet to realise that a bit of bike in your life can only be a good thing.”
Campaigning, delivering new routes, and challenging decision making at all levels of government, Cycling UK is doing plenty to support the MTB community in the UK. Thanks go to them, and to all their members who help support their work. Long may it continue.
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