Category: Organisational

One Stop gives Taunton Area Cycling Campaign grant

We are dead chuffed to have received a grant for £602 from store chain One Stop’s Carriers for Causes fund. This has significantly increased our campaigning capacity. Pip Sheard, TACC member, said: “TACC is extremely busy promoting cycling and we have to raise all our own funds. It is great to receive funds and support from the One Stop Shop group raised by their sale of plastic bags.”

TACC receives grant from One Stop Shop

Be part of the movement

Join the TACC, we're looking for volunteers

We are looking for new members of our ‘core group’ to help bolster our campaign for better and more cycling in Taunton. We are a friendly and enthusiastic group and we have built good (and challenging) relationships with the local authorities. By getting involved, there is an opportunity to make a difference using your own skills.
We have around 20 Core Supporters working on current campaign issues and looking at future local developments but we need more helpers to ease the pressure.

There are three groups:
Infrastructure, which looks at current plans and presents our views in emails and at Council meetings.
Communications, involved in increasing the supporter numbers, funding and stalls to promote our group.
Police Liaison, which deals with issues like near misses, badly parked vehicles and legal issues.

They are lots of ways you can help:

  • Join one of the Core groups – you do not have to attend all meetings.
  • Show your support at Council planning meetings where TACC is representing local cyclists.
  • Help at one of our supporter recruitment stalls.
  • We need help with graphics
  • We need help with putting news and articles onto our website
  • We need help with writing letters/emails

If you are interested, we would love to have an informal chat over a cuppa. There is no commitment! We can explain how the group works and how you might get involved. Simply email us and we will get back to you.

Christmas comes early for TACC

Our goal of signing 500 supporters by Christmas has been achieved with a few weeks to spare; our supporter base now totals 504!

Needless to say the more supporters we sign up the more chance we have, hopefully, of achieving our aims of Better – for the environment and the Garden Town of Taunton and surrounding area, Quicker – door to door and no need to find a parking space and Fitter – feel fitter and healthier so work will continue to expand our supporter base.

Next stop 1,000 …

TACC’s new website name goes live

For those of you that have tried to search for the Taunton Area Cycling Campaign website using Google it will come as no surprise to you that only references to the site and not the actual site itself were found. As our supporter base grew it was becoming more and more frustrating that news items and valuable information featured on the website were not being found and viewed.

That has now all changed as we launch our new website name which is www.thetacc.org.uk  A big thank you to our volunteer web master Paolo who masterminded this change.

Unfortunately our promotional material is now out of date so when handing out these items, business cards for example, please point out our new website name.

New website of TACC launched in December 2017.
There we are … page one!

Sustrans volunteers discover Foxglove Cycle Trail

On Saturday 18 November Sustrans held their annual regional meet-up. The meeting was well attended and was a great opportunity to network with other Sustrans volunteers as well as to gather useful information. Bob Steele (Mid-Somerset co-ordinator) gave a presentation about the work of the group which was well received. There was also a presentation about the Taunton Project from Ruby Tobin.

Representatives of Sustrans, including James Cleeton, Regional Director, reminded and inspired all attendees about the core aims of Sustrans as well as issues around land and the cycle network management. A workshop covering the planning process and how to influence planning decisions was also held.

Sustrans held their annual regional meet-up with volunteers.

The day finished with a ride around the Taunton Foxglove Cycle Trail led by Mike Ginger of TACC.

It was a great opportunity to test the trail on another group of people and the response was very positive. Even people who have lived locally for years said that they were discovering green spaces that they didn’t know existed.

 

TACC have funding for the way marking and we are now seeking funding to produce a map of the route together with a sizeable print run with a launch date hopefully achievable by Spring 2018. This is supported by Visit Taunton who receive lots of requests for cycling information.

For a map of the Foxglove Cycle Trail click here.

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