1. NEXT MEETING ... If you were not at the Oct 12 meeting, please let me know ASAP which of the following dates suit... Wed 2 Nov Thu 3 Nov [this is currently the most likely] We probably won't have any paperwork, and Mies has offered for us to have the meeting at her house. There are likely to be 2 main topics for discussion... a. Audrey Fyfe money - potential project to raise motorist awareness (see below) b. Possible continuation of Weans on Wheels project [Katherine to explain at meeting] - it has unspent money - possibly a factsheet How to be a Cycling School Child ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. CYCLING SCOTLAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE http://www.cyclingscotlandconference.org/ I am going, but if any other regular Resources Group member is keen to go we could pay the registration fee (£52). There are also information stalls - we could hire a space. Cost is quite expensive (£150 including fee for one delegate) but I think it might be worth it politically to have that presence, given the wide range of people who will be there. Obviously we could have the autumn bulletin, our factsheets, maps, and maybe buffs too!! If anyone strongly agrees/disagrees let me know; also, if we did have a stall, would anyone be willing to be the delegate who would be at the stall during all the breaks when people are looking round the stalls. We'd have to book a stall soon as last year all the spaces went quickly. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. OCTOBER 12, 2011 MEETING - outcomes DATES... Sat Oct 29 - autumn mailout Thu Nov 17 - autumn public mtg - Richard Mann from Oxford + Cllr Mackenzie from Edinburgh; at Augustine United. Tim doing poster. Mark organising [not here tonight]. STALLS... Farmers Market Nov 5. If you can help please contact judy.cantley@btopenworld.com. BUFF Claire organising a sample. We didn't have price details, but decided we could purchase them at a cost of up to £7, subject to it looking ok (with discretion to go up to £8 if really good). Decision to be taken jointly by Judy (as the stalls organiser) and Claire (with Ian input if possible) once the sample is here, so we get them as soon as possible. We wouldn't be expecting to make a big profit - the idea is to have an appealing and easy-to-carry item for stalls, plus the added benefit that it advertises spokes maps. [NB later - I noticed the Bike Coop are selling theirs for 12.99, though obviously selling at a stall would expect a lower price]. BIKE COUNT Our bi-annual bike count is Tues 15 Nov. If you can help please contact judy.cantley@btopenworld.com. Judy would like someone else to take over organising future counts, having done it herself for some years. She will be approaching some of the more reliable counting volunteers, but if anyone in Resources Group is interested please contact Judy. There is a fair bit of work to do, and it has to be reliable, but it only comes up twice a year, November and May. SUMMER COMPETITION Martyn has organised the prizes, Mies is doing the consolations. Dave has put entries on the website, with article based on Katherine's ideas. http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/2011/10/my-cycling-solution-2011-competition-results/ MAIN DISCUSSION ITEM - COLLECTION FROM AUDREY FYFE MEMORIAL Nearly £1500 had been collected and given to spokes by Mr Fyfe for a project to raise cycling safety (e.g. increase motorist awareness). Main idea is a motorist/cyclist leaflet and trying to get this incorporated into opportunities such as driving schools, test centres, police driver-rehabilitation courses, etc (as well as circulating through cyclist channels). Need person/subgroup in overall charge. Initial tasks would be... ...investigate these and other opportunities to see if the idea is feasible ...devise draft leaflet content. Mies reported on Ed Uni official student volunteering arrangements, which will be included in a student's leaving-certificate when they graduate - meaning that we could hope for student volunteer(s) who took the task seriously. Mies subsequently obtained further info on this - this is pasted in below. Mies would be willing to coordinate the project if done on this basis and a suitable volunteer found. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO FROM MIES ON ED UNI VOLUNTEERING ARRANGEMENTS 'EUSA Volunteering', part of Edinburgh Uni Students Association, a well-used brokerage service that aims to put students in touch with organisations in the voluntary sector, and vice versa, put the organisations in touch with students who have declared an interest in doing a particular kind of work and a certain amount of commitmentto it (e.g. weekly) and availability for doing this work (e.g. only wednesdays). As organisation you can register your volunteering positions (e.g. helping out at stalls), and the student can search for particular things (e.g. surveying, home visiting, sports coaching), or publish what they are interested in, and that is then matched and the student is put in touch with the organisation's proposed volunteering position. Link to the Volunteering site: http://volunteering.eusa.ed.ac.uk/ There are a couple of requirements for organisations who want to make use of this service, when you register as an organisation; - they require a 'volunteering policy' (and offer a template) and an 'expenses policy'. (I have emailed them for the examples). - you need insurance to cover the student - you have to promise to contact the student within 5 days I don't think any of these should be too hard for us? I could see how we can come up with a description of 'volunteering opportunities'. I am happy to coordinate this, once we have brainstormed and agreed on ideas of how we might want to make use of a volunteer (e.g. to carry out some particular legwork for a particular project). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER ITEMS postponed... HGV PROJECT - we forgot to discuss whether to continue this, given time spent on the above item. Ideas from last time... Andrew and Martyn to take the lead. Others in group offered various contact points - to spokes members, to Ed Council, to Scot Govt, etc. Judy to inform Mr Fyfe. - In London HGVs form ?4% of vehicles but cause ?43% of cyclist deaths. Have been at least 2 in Edinburgh in recent years. - LCC very successful in getting cyclist awareness included in certificate of competence for council-run HGV drivers. This could be an aim here. - Possibly produce/commission video to raise HGV-driver and cyclist awareness of each other - could be on spokes website and in driver training. TALKS ABOUT OR BY SPOKES Euan to speak to Drylaw/Telford CC. Dave offered to put notes from talks on website for people to use as models for other taks. People who may have notes to include - Euan, Katherine, Judy, Mies (from exhibn), Dave (from Cyclenation). Eventually we could make these into more formal 'materials.' FAMILY FACTSHEET - Katherine awaiting reply from NHS contacts, hoping to get into GP surgeries. TENEMENTS - awaiting autumn and the council onstreet application form. AGM - to hold in new year. Will advertise it in a fairly low key way in spokesworker accompanying autumn mailout. Venue - hire room in a pub or in Teviot (Mies has investigated Teviot) - need access to an existing bar, nothing special to be laid on for us. The meeting would be business followed by general chatting/ socialising. BIKE/RAIL SURVEY - hope to do Survey Monkey at some point, but maybe not till next year. Katherine to prepare ideas. This could also be used for evidence to the EGIP consultation and the ScotRail franchise consultation. TABARDS (blank ones, not spokes ones) - we have maybe 30 - don't need them. To include in a spokesworker or circular asking for anyone who could use up to say 10 free for a good cause.