MINUTES FROM COMMITTEE MEETING OF NORTH COTSWOLD CYCLING CLUB: 7:30PM ON THE 2nd MARCH 2026,
WHITE HART HOTEL, MORETON-IN-MARSH
Attendees: James Barlow, Laura Baskeyfield, Martin Angell, Andrew Bray, Henry Eve, Rachel Davies,
Ian Humphrey, Mel Wilson, , Charlotte Lewis, Jeremy Taylor, David Hanson
Apologies: Paul Flint, Martin Lewis, Will Biggart, Simon Jones
1) MEETING DATES & FREQUENCY – JAMES BARLOW (JB)
It was proposed that we now meet on the first Monday of every month, rather than every other month due to the volume of discussion points. The dates of the next meetings are as follows:
Monday 13th April (Due to Easter Monday Bank Holiday)
Monday 11th May (Due to Early May Bank Holiday)
Monday 1st June
Monday 6th July
Monday 3rd August
Monday 7th September
Unless otherwise stated, meetings will be held at the White Hart Hotel, Moreton in Marsh @ 7:30pm
2) AWARDS & ANNUAL DINNER DE-BRIEF – ALL
Annual club dinner was well organised and went well, James thanked Henry and Rachel for organising. Agreed that trophies would be returned a month prior to next year’s dinner for engraving. Total cost of the dinner to the club was ~ £900. An increase on previous years due to now needing to pay for venue hire, alcohol license and plates.
As a result, there may need to be increase to ticket prices and / or removal of a drink with the dinner ticket next year to support the additional incurred costs.
The raffle raised ~£1,053.77 after transaction fees. This would be equally split between CFC and MAA. Simon to organise a ride to CFC on the 4th April to donate their share of the money. Martin to contact MAA with the view to arranging a similar ride.
Ian mentioned that only ~20% of the club was in attendance, and may not be the right time of year and future events could be combined with an AGM. The committee agreed the attendance was normal, but it was proposed that next year’s date would be shared in advance. Saturday 30th
January 2027 was proposed.
3) PUBLCITY & SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES – ALL
James acknowledges that Paul had now stood down from his publicity and social media responsibilities and would share an update thanking him for his efforts. Charlotte had asked someone to pick up on some of the social posts, but this had not progressed. Following the previous
meeting between Simon and Paul earlier in the year, it wasn’t clear on who was taking on this responsibility and what was discussed. It was agreed this would be parked until the next meeting.
4) KIT – JAMES / WILL
Simon to open a club kit order window and advertise to members to allow for any spring kit to be purchased. James mentioned that he had been contacted by Kallas with regards to them supplying our club kit, one of the benefits of this would allow stock to be held at TY Cycles. The committee
agreed more information was required with regards to this. James to ask Kallas for some sample kit (including a winter jersey), prices and clarify who would pay for any stock held. Simon to also provide feedback on actions from the last meeting regarding kit.
5) MEMBERSHIP UPDATE – ALL
Total of 168 members, 70 had not rejoined. Andrew to remove anyone no longer a member from club communications.
65% Male / 23% Female / 12% Unspecified
6) RELIABILTY RIDE – ALL
The committee discussed potential replacement venues to continue to host the reliability ride, but agreed to pause the ride for 2026 given these options and the later time of year. Ian offered to contact Andrew Milner to update him of this. James suggested that we could look to organise a
charity ride later in the year instead.
In order to bring our members back together on club rides it was agreed that we would bring back the “Grand Tour” rides for 2026:
• 17th May – Giro d’Italia. Laura and Rachel agreed to look into options for a venue and
catering to host this.
• July – Date TBC – Tour de France
• August – Date TBC – La Vuelta
7) AOB
1. Sunday Ride Finish – Jeremy volunteered to discuss options for returning from rides with the White Hart and if this was still feasible for them.
2. Routes via Email – Nobody had responded with regards to the club ride routes sent out via email. Andrew would put out a final email to say that this will be stopped.
3. Chain Gang – it was proposed chain gang would be restarted on Friday 3rd April4. 5. 6. 7. Paceline – it was proposed that paceline would be restarted on Tuesday 7th April. If there were enough riders for two groups, then only the second group would be a no-drop ride.
Paceline would include a development group, with either Lisa or Jez offering to lead this.
WhatsApp would be used with a “thumbs-up” indication for those wishing to ride.
Couch to 50K had seen lower numbers, likely due to venue change but had still been
popular. Bridgette had offered to put on a 50K to 100K series, starting in April. Laura will promote this on the clubs social channels.
Jeremy to circulate Saturday ride proposal to the committee before the next meeting.
Laura to gauge interest for British Cycling RL1 (ride leader) training within the clubs members before the next meeting
