Newsletter – April 2018

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Shipley Re-imagined: Sat 28th April (2-5pm)

Come join us at St Peter’s Church as we re-imagine Shipley!

Free Bike Servicing and Repairs from Margaret Carey’s Doctor Bike.

Free “have a go” cycling sessions for kids

  • Draw the future – visualise and imagine what Shipley could become! Share your ideas about how we can make Shipley a better place for walking and cycling.
  • Learn about the Shipley Greenway route which will allow a traffic free route all the way from Shipley to Bradford
  • Free route planning/tutorials and workshops – let us help you map and active travel commute
  • Bike activities for kids in the grounds of the church. Bring your bike for assessment/minor repairs

Would you like to walk or ride a bike around Shipley but don’t know where to start?  Are you put off by traffic or is there some other obstacle? It’s known as active travel – that is, getting out of your car and still getting about!  It has many health and environmental benefits, but did you know it can make your community a better place as well?

 

Litter-pick – Sunday 29th April

Hop aboard and help clean up our streets and playing field!

2:00pm Shipley C of E School (back gate, near Birklands Road) to clean School surrounds
2:30pm Playing field clean-up
3:00pm The Norwoods (meet by playing field, Norwood Place)
4.00pm Clifton Place and Bargrange Av.

What to bring: Decent shoes/boots, we’ll provide gloves, bags and litter picking tools.
Any brushes or things you think might be useful to bring are welcome.

If you need more info contact Dave on 07743471764 or danger.robison@gmail.com.

Join the Shipley – Bradford Bike Bus

Live in Shipley and commute to Bradford? Why not join the Shipley Bike Bus on Mondays?

If you’d feel safer cycling into work in a supportive group with more experienced riders, this could be just the thing you need.  Needing somewhere to store your bike on arrival?  Not sure of the most pleasant route?

  • 8:00 from Saltaire roundabout
  • 8:08 top of the Norwoods (Quix)
  • 8:30 arrives into Bradford

The return journey sets off from Bradford at 5:30.

See Full Timetable and details at www.capitalofcycling.org/bike-bus.

If you’d like any more information about the bike bus, you can contact Dave@capitalofcycling,org / mob: 07743471764.

Friends of Northcliffe Events

Charity Fun Day! Friday 1st June 2-5pm

A fantastic afternoon of fun for all the family with a range of stalls and activities in Northcliffe Park.

Northcliffe Miniature Railway will be running with train rides with small kids (and considerably bigger ones), Pony rides will be available, Children’s Activities, Face Painting and much more!

Rae Gala – Northcliffe Park 1st July 2-4.30pm

Another great event with Northcliffe miniature railway and much more.  Check out the website http://www.friendsofnorthcliffe.org.uk for more information about FoN events.

Air Quality & The Branch

You may have noticed that The Branch pub has been purchased.  The plan is to demolish the pub, to widen the road.  Community members and Friends of the Earth Baildon have been involved in measuring air quality at this junction and it is well over the legal limit for NoX particles which are extremely harmful to human health (especially young lungs such as the kids walking to Shipley C of E).

The standing traffic on the main roads by our streets is a problem but academic research shows that widening the roads and junctions usually makes problems worse and could make it harder for residents and the kids who do walk to school.  You can leave comments on the Council website. If you have thoughts about this or want to discuss what’s going on – get in touch, comment on our Facebook group or attend our event on the 28th of April at St Peter’s Church where more detailed information will be available.

Shipley Re-imagined – Active Travel & Cycling Event

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Come join us at St Peter’s Church on 28th April 2-5pm as we re-imagine Shipley!

Join our facilitators as we draw a possible future – visualise and imagine what Shipley could become, and share your ideas about how we can make Shipley a better place for walking and cycling.

It’s known as active travel – getting out of your car and still getting about. It has many health and environmental benefits, but did you know it can make your community a better place as well?

Free Bike Servicing and Repairs from Doctor Bike/MCF Bikery.

Bike activities for kids in the grounds of the church with BeCycling – bikes and kit provided.

Would you like to walk or ride a bike around Shipley but don’t know where to start? Are you put off by traffic or is there some other obstacle?  We can offer free route planning/tutorials and workshops – let us help you map an active travel commute.

Learn about the under-construction Shipley Greenway which will allow a traffic free route all the way from Shipley to Bradford.

Bike activities for kids in the grounds of the church. Bring your bike for assessment/minor repairs.

Inside the church will be a focus on active travel and re-imaging how Shipley could become with more walking and cycling and a bit less vehicle traffic. Norwood Neighbourhood Association and Bradford Cycling Campaign will be there to have a chat along with academics from Leeds University, Cecil Green Arts engagement activities, Capital of Cycling, Sustrans and more.

The event is being organised by the Norwood Neighbourhood Association and the Shipley Links group – find out more at www.norwoodneighbourhood.org or call Dave on 0774 347 1764.

We would welcome involvement from other local groups if you would like to display material or have a table at the event.

If you can’t make it but support the aims of the event, we’d still be interested to hear from you and don’t forget to tell your friends and colleagues about the event.

Project supported by CityConnect Community Grants

 

Please share the event on Facebook (and click ‘going’ if a Facebook user:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1480702645388729 

 

Please register here (although you can still turn up if you don’t get the chance to register):

 
Project supported by CityConnect Community Grants

Funding Success to Support “Shipley Reimagined” Project

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We’ve recently been successful in an application to the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s CityConnect Community Grants scheme, to support the delivery of the Cycling and Walking to Work fund. This scheme is aimed at community or non-profit organisations, enabling them to provide grass roots support within communities across West Yorkshire, to help different groups’ access employment, training and apprenticeships through active means.

Project Description

“Shipley Reimagined” seeks to excite the citizens of Shipley with ideas of what their town and neighbourhoods could become with the help of active travel (which basically means getting out of our cars and still getting around!). In stage one it will promote, generate ideas and consult about how residents can create personal and community changes, be better connected to education and job opportunities and achieve greater levels of fitness and wellbeing.

Informed by this process, stage two will involve the provision of cycling resources, events, linking community groups and projects and engaging local employers in actions.

The overall project is to be managed by the Shipley based Norwood Neighbourhood Association and if you’d like to get involved or share ideas, you can email norwoodneighbourhood@gmail.com or contact Dave on 07743471764.

The NNA will spearhead a “Shipley Links” community forum to act as a steering group for the project.  The group would consist of representatives from community organisations, local Cllrs, employers, walking bus proponents and existing people already working to improve Shipley.

This group would seek to progress negotiations regarding infrastructure improvements and signage to facilitate better walking and cycling links where need has been identified by members of the community, and to join up and cohere the Shipley Reimagined vision. The project will help identify opportunity, provide support and initiate action; e.g. by facilitating a neighbourhood litter-pick down an under-used shortcut to Shipley train station and requesting a sign to let more people know the off-road short-cut exists.  It could also include identifying the best spots for signage to entice cycle commuting via the