London Disability Cycling Forum
The LDCF is an informal network of people involved in supporting disabled people to cycle. Key stakeholders are the Interactive (previously London Sports Forum for Disabled People), the London Cycling Campaign and Transport for London. It is driven by providers of cycling services to disabled people and any disabled person is welcome to be involved. Members also include groups representing people with specific impairments such as the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
Terms of reference
Get in touch with Janet Paske, the chair of the Forum, if you’d like to find out more.
Next meetings
Minutes of previous meetings and other LDCF papers
Got a question about cycling for disabled people?
Fact sheets
Next meetings
Here are the speakers for our next meetings. We hope that by getting to know more about the various organisations involved in cycling we will be better able to work together:
- On Tuesday 7 September Peter Cattermole of British Cycling’s London Team will be coming along.
- At our December or January meeting, someone from Transport for London will give an update on the various cycling schemes in place, such as the Cyclehire Scheme and Cycle Superhighways, and how the needs of disabled people have been taken into account or are being considered.
Meetings are usually held in central London. More details will be provided nearer the time.
Minutes of our recent meetings and other LDCF papers
On 28 April a group of interested organisations met with TfL at a “Cycling round table” to discuss issues arising for disabled people in relation to cycling in the Capital. The documents below were circulated after the meeting. Janet Paske went along representing the Forum.
TfL Cycling Round table meeting summary 2010
plus Presentation notes from TfL showing the awareness of cycling following the 2009 TfL campaign
LDCF minutes 9 Mar 2010
plus Press release covering Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson’s visit
LDCF Response to the Mayor on his Transport Strategy (sent 4 Jan 2010)
LDCF Response to the Mayor on his Cycling Safety Action Plan (sent 25 Nov 2009)
LDCFminutes 22 Oct 2009
plus Wheels for Wellbeing submission to TfL for the Disability Equality Scheme
plus Roger Crosskey’s submission to TfL for the Disability Equality Scheme
LDCFminutes 22 July 2009
plus LDCF response to Sustrans Greenways Prospectus
LDCFmins21Apr2009
plus Sustrans Greenways Prospectus
and Transport for London’s LIP’s Reform presentation.
LDCFmins15Jan2009
LDCFmins10Dec2008
LDCFmins10Sept2008
LDCFmins21May2008
LDCFmins26Feb2008
LDCFmins22Nov2007
LDCFmins3Oct2007
LDCFmins13June2007
LDCFmins29Mar2007
Got a question about cycling for disabled people?
If you have a question then you can join the Cycling Tourist’s Club’s Inclusive Cycling Forum e-group. The group works for disabled people, with the purpose to make it as easy as possible to access, experience and enjoy the benefits of cycling. The group also aims to promote and demonstrate what is possible, and to help everyone to enjoy cycling.
Or just get in touch with Janet Paske, who may be able to help.
Fact sheets
We are beginning to create some fact sheets relevant to our interests. If there’s one you think is missing let us know, or if you have something that you think would be useful to others we can make a link to it from here.
Raising the profile of cycling for disabled people. This is a list of disability related magazines and other media where we can promote cycling stories to inspire others.
Cycle storage for trikes. This is a list of suggestions on what to consider when putting in cycle parking for trikes and other non standard cycles.