Category: NCCC News

Richie Milner Remembrance Ride Cancelled!

Very sadly due to the risk of ice on the untreated roads of our planned route this morning the club decided to cancel today’s ride in the interest of everyone’s safety.

Whilst our club members did not ride today we will always carry his memory in our hearts especially on this very sad day 🙏.

Richie Milner was our wonderful Ride Captain and will forever be honoured by North Cotswold Cycling Club 🙏.

Merry Christmas to all of our members, friends, followers and supporters and here’s to another fabulous New Year for us all!

From the NCCC Committee Team.

It’s Christmas week and that means one thing! “The Humphrey Haus Cafe Ride”.

You may ask what is this event?

Well, we are very fortunate to have a generous cycling loving family within our club “The Humphrey Family” who open up their home to host our members for coffee, tea and cakes during this festive ride.

Not only are they hosting our refreshment stop at their home but also making all the cakes too!

So a huge NCCC thank you to the wonderful Ian, Debbie and Alice for once again hosting this fantastic festive event for our members again this morning .

We mention it very often throughout the year what a wonderful friendly inclusive club we are, and here’s another example which really emphasises that.

As a gesture for their very hard work the Humphrey family suggested a small donation £5 per person and all proceeds to be made to our club charity for the club’s charity the MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY.

Check out the festive fun and attire too! Glitter, Tinsel all adding some wonderful Christmas Cheer to their morning ride.

The ride was 39.6 miles with 2,344ft of climbing and went anticlockwise through Adlestrop, Enstone, Spelsbury and down through Charlbury before reaching the furthest point away southwards through Leafield.

The return journey passed through the Wychwoods, Bruern, Kingham and Daylesford before returning back to Moreton-in-Marsh.

BREAKING NEWS‼️

Hot of the press! We’ve just received an update from our club treasurer and so far this ride has raised a total of £370‼️. 30 members turned out to support this fantastic event.

It’s absolutely brilliant to see so much generosity from our members which reflects  the wonderful time they enjoyed with our hosts Ian, Debbie and Alice once this morning.

Thank you to all of our of kind members who made donations today it’s very special and very appreciated by your club and of course the charity.

It’s excellent news for the MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE.

The ride started from our new club meeting site at the Dekomte office on the Cotswold Link, Cotswold Business Village, Moreton-in-Marsh.

For more information about our club rides click on the link below.

https://northcotswoldcc.org.uk/about-nccc/

Why not join us? Annual membership is only £15 per annum! (you will need your own insurance). It’ll be great to see you. Here’s the link.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/club/profile/6068/north-cotswold-cc/#join

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Morning everyone just a heads up that this Saturdays Christmas Cafe Ride (20th December) is being hosted once again by the wonderful Humphrey Family, Ian, Debbie and Alice all club members.

Not only are they hosting our coffee stop at their home but also making all the cakes too!

For those members that have been fortunate enough to have been hosted by the Humphrey’s before then you all know what a wonderful, welcoming and delightful time we’ll have and for those whom yet haven’t, then here’s your chance!

It’s truly fabulous and so kind thing of Ian, Debbie and Alice to host our club members and just emphasises what fabulous people and friends that we have within NCCC.

As a gesture for their very hard work the Humphrey family suggest a small donation £5 per person and all proceeds to be made to our club charity for the club’s charity the Air Ambulance .

Full ride information will be sent in the normal way via WhatsApp and email nearer the time.

(All rides are of course dependent on weather conditions)

Finally, it is the Christmas Cafe Ride so feel free to add some glitter, tinsel and festive attire to add to the Christmas Cheer, don’t forget it’s all for charity too!

ISOBEL’S HERITAGE RIDE TO CHRISTMAS CORNER.

This was the final Heritage Ride of the year and what a cracker it was!

Beautiful clear blue skies it really was a glorious sunny winter morning, albeit with a rather chilly start, and lots of wonderful apricity was enjoyed by the group along their way .

Despite the frosty start we saw a magnificent seven club members taking part today.

Today’s ride was a very appropriate ride out to Christmas Corner which is a site of a Second World War military airfield close to Shenington village in Oxfordshire.

The site opened in 1941 and closed in 1945. It was a satellite of Chipping Warden airfield, and functioned as the base for Operational Training Units of Bomber Command (92 Group). The airfield had three concrete and tarmac runways, Two type T2 aircraft hangars and one type B1 aircraft hangar. By 1978 part of the site was used as a motor car test track.

These days the site is used as a very popular kart racing circuit with competitors visiting from all over the UK.

More interesting information can be found on the link below.

https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1394994&resourceID=19191

The ride was 61 miles today with 3,500 miles of climbing and started at 9.00am depart from Milton-under-Wychwood village green.

Oh yes we almost forgot!

The refreshment stop today was the Corner Cottage Bakery in Kineton where some delicious cakes, bakes and drinks were very much enjoyed by the riders.

The real bonus was that the group managed to sit outside and bask in the sunshine too which was a pleasant and most enjoyable .

 Another huge NCCC shout out once again to Isobel Hunter for not only putting all our Heritage Rides together for us but leading the rides too .

Isobel plans all of our Heritage Rides for us all throughout the year.

Her work is voluntary and we’re so fortunate to have such brilliant enthusiastic members like Isobel, we’re truly grateful to her for everything that she does for our great cycling club.

Below are some sample pictures of today’s fascinating ride.

Find out more information about joining visit our website link below.

Be great to see you!

www.northcotswoldcc.org.uk

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WOMEN ONLY it’s back for 2026!

YES, we’re super excited to confirm that for the third consecutive year our Women Only Cycling Series “Couch to 50k” is back again and the first ride is on 10th January.

The series will be held on Saturday mornings at 10.00am and start from The White Hart Royal, High St, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 0B and the first ride will be on the 10th January is 6 miles (10k).

North Cotswold Cycle Club & Breeze Moreton-in-Marsh.

North Cotswold Cycling Club are very focused on encouraging more women’s cycling within the club and delighted to announce that based on last two year’s incredible success our women’s membership now represents 30% of the total club memberships .

All rides will be led by our own team of experienced women ride leaders and supporting riders. Everyone is welcome to come along and take part in these rides.

The series schedule for 2026 is below but we must emphasise this is very dependent on the weather.

Week 1 – 6 Miles / 10K (Saturday 10th January 10am)

Week 2 – 12 Miles / 16K (Saturday 17th January 10am)

Week 3 – 15 Miles / 20K (Saturday 24th January 10am)

Week 4 – 20 Miles / 30K (Saturday 31st January 10am)

Week 5 – 15 Miles / 24K (Saturday 7th February 10am)

Week 6 – 22 Miles / 35K (Saturday 14th February 10am)

Week 7 – 26 Miles / 42K (Saturday 21st February 10am)

• Week 8 – 31 Miles / 50K (Saturday 28th February 10am)

1. Watch out for more information.

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It was the final NCCC Women Only ride of the year today and what a fabulous festive turnout it was!
To a distillery too! Well it is Christmas!

It’s fair to say that our ladies section members that took part today certainly grasped the festive spirit with an abundance of Christmas costumes, tinsel, fairy lights and festive bells that really did bring lots of festive cheer through the various Cotswold villages that they rode through today.

A huge well done to all of our fantastic ladies who took part and looking at the amount that turned out today, once again it speaks volumes about our fabulous ladies section within our fabulous club.

Three groups took part with a choice of two routes available, which were a 20 miler and a 40 miler. The longer ride for the faster group.

The festive ride was arranged so that all groups met at the Cotswolds Distillery .

The groups are made up of various speeds below:

Group B > 10 – 11 mph average

Group A > 12 – 13 mph average

Group C >  14-15mph average

Short Route: Out to Great Wolford & Brailes which was an anticlockwise loop of

20 miles with 996 ft of climbing.

Long Route: A clockwise loop that headed out up to Batsford passing down through Chipping Campden and on through Mickleton, then skirted around Ilmington heading east towards Armscote and Whatcote before the fabulous refreshment stop in Stourton at the Cotswolds Distillery.

Following the wonderful stop the group headed back to Moreton via the Comptons and Chastleton.

Total ride was  40.1 miles and 2556 ft climbing.

RIDE LEADERS!

 Massive thanks to all of our amazing ride leaders today. Without you these incredibly popular events simply wouldn’t happen, here’s today’s wonderful lineup.

Group A: Laura, Cath, Caroline & Bridgette

Group B: Charlotte, Helen & Heather

Group C: Lisa & Victoria

The rides start from the Dekomte building on Cotswold Link, Moreton-in-Marsh at 10.00am.

The rides are official NCCC rides and held for club members. New riders to the club will be very welcome to come and try the rides, however will need to become club members thereafter (for insurance purposes).

We are a British Cycling affiliated club, you can join us via our club page below. Annual membership is only £15 per annum.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/club/profile/6068/north-cotswold-cc/#join

We are a friendly social inclusive club and everyone is welcome to come along and join one of our rides?

Here’s a link to our website for more information

www.northcotswoldcc.org.uk

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WOMEN ONLY it’s back for 2026.

YES, we’re super excited to confirm that for the third consecutive year we are hosting our Women Only Cycling Series “Couch to 50k” and the first ride is on Saturday 3rd  January 2026.

The series will be held on Saturday mornings at 10.00am from our club meeting point the Dekomte Offices, 6 Cotswold Business Village, Cotswold Link, Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 0JQ.

The first ride will be on the 3rd January is will be 6 miles (10k).

North Cotswold Cycle Club & Breeze Moreton-in-Marsh.

All rides will be led by our own team of experienced women ride leaders and everyone is welcome to come along and take part in these rides.

These rides have proven to be incredibly successful over the past two years and our fabulous group of ride leaders are really excited to be running this initiative again.

We have more exciting news too!

We are also hoping to announce a new venue in Moreton-in-Marsh for our post ride social and banters!

Watch out for more information shortly.

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MINUTES FROM THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF NORTH COTSWOLD CYCLING CLUB

TIME: 09:00 AM ON THE 23RD NOVEMBER 2025 @ DEKOMTE, MORETON IN MARSH

Apologies received from: Caroline Clare, Jim Tierney

1. Chairman: Review of the Year – Jeremy Griffiths (JG)

JG stated it was good to see so many people in attendance of the AGM. Huge amounts had happened within the club during the course of the year, including record membership levels, club members travelling abroad and good numbers turning out across all club rides.

It was announced that JG would be stepping away from both the position of chair and NCCC committee. JG commented that he had an amazing time as chair of the club and enjoyed every minute – solid foundations had been built moving forwards but would take some time to regroup after a busy and difficult year.

2. Treasurer: Presentation of the Annual Accounts – Marcus Hearle (MH)

See appendix.

MH also stated that he would also be stepping down from his position as chair and on the committee.

3. Summary Reports:

Club Ride Captain – Martin Lewis (ML)

ML noted that it had been a good year ride wise with membership the highest it had ever been.

During the summer months, there were rides available every day of the week. Also commenting that the success of both existing and new rides could not happen without ride leaders and thanked leaders for giving up their time to do this. ML stated he was proud to be ride captain and it was superb to see such welcoming and friendly riders across all groups.

Membership Secretary – Martin J Lewis (MJL)

MJL was absent from the meeting, but JG commented that the BC membership renewals had been seamless.

Publicity and Communications – Paul Flint (PF)

The clubs social media platforms (Facebook and Instagram) were being recognised more and more. The increase in engagement does not just happen overnight, and PF commented that the club had been beating the drum for some time to see the increase in followers and noting the engagement with BC South.
The social pages allowed NCCC to acknowledge the clubs activities over the course of the year, such as volunteer in focus, Cotswold Radio shows, Chris Sidwells events, winter racing to name a few.

PF noted the work being done to increase the women’s membership through the couch to 50K program and the introduction of the monthly ladies ride over the last 2 year period.

Total     Members Total     Women Members

2023        190                   38 (20%)

2024        218                   63 (28%)

2025        231                   70 (30%)

PF signed off with TWMD (Together we make a Difference), stating that as a club, we have made a difference which was clear to see in the numbers and increased engagement.

4. Setting of the Annual Subscription:

Proposed to keep annual subscriptions at the existing rate – Agreed.

5. Election of Officers:

Committee Role Name

Chairperson – James Barlow

Vice Chair – Simon Jones

Club Secretary – Laura Baskeyfield

Treasurer – Martin Angell

Club Welfare Officer – Simon Jones

Chair of Youth Initiative – James Garstin

Race Secretary – Will Biggart

Club Ride Captain – Martin Lewis

Membership Secretary – Andrew Bray

Time Trial / Hill Climb Secretary – Will Biggart

Publicity and Communications Officer – Paul Flint (noted he would be looking to step back in future)

Social Secretary – Henry Eve

General Committee – 1 Jeremy Taylor

General Committee – 2 Ian Humphrey

General Committee – 3 Rachel Davies

General Committee – 4 David Hanson

AOB:

• Richie Milner ride will take place on 31st December. JG expressed his wishes for this ride to stay in the clubs calendar forever.

• James Barlow expressed his thanks to JG for a great tenure as chair of NCCC, sure that some riders have continued to retain their membership as a result of his position. He asked for a final round of applause for the work put in.

• Ian Humprey commented on the absence of women at the meeting, especially given the high levels of female membership. It was suggested that the timing / location was right for the AGM to take place.
The new committee agreed to discuss this.

Meeting finished at 09:50am

NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING: MONDAY 5th JANUARY

7PM AT THE WHITE HART, MORETON IN MA