Each month, we email a bulletin to everyone who has signed up on this site. Below is the edition that we sent in January 2022. If you like it, please sign up on our Get Involved section – you will be showing your support for our work and you will receive our free monthly bulletins a month before they appear here.
HAPPY NEW YEAR – AND THANK YOU
We’ve been enjoying some time off over Christmas and New Year – and we hope you have too – but we couldn’t end 2021 without saying thank you to a few people.
🚴♀️ Firstly, to YOU. The ever-growing subscriber base for this monthly missive is incredibly important to us. It enables Richmond Park Cyclists to have a seat at the table among the park’s authorities and stakeholders, and create a meaningful dialogue with them. So thanks for subscribing – especially at this crucial time, with the traffic restriction trials coming to a conclusion in three months.
🚴Thank you to Simon Richards, the manager of Richmond Park, for taking the time to have regular quarterly meetings with us, and to his team for maintaining the roads, especially the de-icing of the tarmac on especially cold days recently. Thank you as well to Simon’s colleagues at The Royal Parks for their willingness to communicate and engage with us.
🚴🏾♀️Thanks to Sgt Peter Sturgess from the park’s police unit for agreeing to target drivers disobeying the road closure signs following our request. The deployment of unmarked cars with officers monitoring these infringements and unauthorised trade vehicles is much appreciated. And thank you to Sgt Pete’s colleagues from Operation Venice following the spate of attacks on cyclists by machete-wielding thieves on mopeds and scooters – the specialist unit’s high presence in the park has been seemingly successful.
🚴♂️We are the beneficiaries of expert knowledge and advice on a range of issues from Tim Lennon of the Richmond Cycling Campaign. Thank you, Tim, for your ongoing help and support in our bid to remove through traffic from the park.
🚴🏾♂️Lastly, thank you to our sponsors Cycle Exchange, Richmond Cycles, Bella Velo, Kingston Wheelers and Look Mum No Hands! for their support. Additional thanks to Pearson Performance, Sigma Sport and La Ciclista for stocking our Code of Conduct cards, and thank you to La Ciclista for hosting our first public meeting in the cafe.
Full bulletin service resumes at the beginning of February. In the meantime, hope you have a great year. Onwards and upwards in 2022!
All the best,
Richmond Park Cyclists