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Annual Report 2013 2014 ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014 1 CHAIR’S INTRODUCTION 05 2 CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S INTRODUCTION 06 3 CYCLING SCOTLAND MEMBERS 08 4 BIKEABILITY SCOTLAND 10 5 PEDAL FOR SCOTLAND 2014 12 6 CYCLE FRIENDLY SCHOOL AND EMPLOYER 14 7 CYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY 16 8 NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND 18 CYCLING SCOTLAND CONFERENCE 9 ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY RULING 20 10 TRAINING CASE STUDIES 21 11 GIVE ME CYCLE SPACE 22 12 PLAY ON PEDALS 2014 24 13 TRANSPORT PLANNING AND ENGINEERING 26 14 BUSINESS PLAN AND KPIs 28 15 CYCLING SCOTLAND PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK 32 16 CAPS ACTION TABLE 38 17 BOARD MEMBERS 42 18 STAFF MEMBERS 43 19 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS 44 Cycling Scotland ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 3 THE LEGACY THAT“ THE GAMES CREATED FOR THE PEOPLE CHAIR’S OF SCOTLAND INTRODUCTION IS WHAT WILL 1 CONTINUE TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON n late July, the roads around Cycling Scotland’s offices EVERYDAY LIVES in Blythswood Square were electric – tens of thousands LONG AFTER THE I of people from around the globe packed each corner, incline and descent to watch of some of the world’s greatest APPLAUSE AND professional cyclists winding their way through Glasgow’s CROWDS HAVE streets for the Commonwealth Games Road Race. DISSIPATED. ” The Commonwealth Games certainly car trips replaced by cycle trips by public organisations to help boost lived up to its billing as a spectacle, those training for the ride and cycling their sustainable transport offering to but the legacy that the Games created becoming firmly ingrained as a part employees and students. In addition, for the people of Scotland is what of their lives throughout the year. Cycling Scotland and Sustrans will will continue to make an impact on coordinate a roll-out of commemorative everyday lives long after the applause Recently, the Minister for Transport and cycle stands celebrating the success and crowds have dissipated. Veterans launched the Legacy Active of Team Scotland at the Games, with Travel Programme which consists of a medal-winning athletes nominating But what does an Active Travel Legacy wide range of projects and programmes public spaces across the country truly look like? that facilitate and encourage more where a stand in their medal colour people to walk and cycle as part of their will be installed. Just over a month after the road race, daily lives. Cycling Scotland’s projects thousands of people were again on the included in the Programme such as The CAPS vision of 10% of journeys by streets of Glasgow, but this time they Bikeability Scotland, Cycle Friendly bike by 2020 gives us all something to were on their own bikes participating School and Employer Awards and the work towards, and the Legacy Active rather than watching. Nearly 7,000 Give Me Cycle Space campaign support Travel Programme will contribute to people taking part in the 16th annual and enable thousands of people to cycle this by encouraging people to walk and freshnlo Pedal for Scotland Challenge more often. cycle more. During the Games, it was Ride took advantage of five miles encouraging to see so many people in of fully closed, traffic-free roads in Partnership working is a key aspect of Glasgow pedalling to and from venues, Glasgow after setting off on their 47 the Legacy Active Travel Programme, beating the traffic to work or making mile journey from Glasgow Green to with a number of key stakeholders use of the Legacy cycle racks and Murrayfield. These first five miles were and partners delivering projects within the city’s brand-new public bike hire just the beginning as 70% of this year’s the Programme. The Legacy Cycle scheme. It seems that the Glasgow Challenge ride route was traffic free, Parking Scheme is a great example of 2014 Commonwealth Games have making a hugely popular ride – the partnership working between Cycling inspired people in Scotland to think largest mass participation cycling Scotland, Sustrans and Transport about cycling, and Cycling Scotland, event in Scotland – an even better Scotland. Workplaces across the along with partners, will continue experience for participants. freshnlo country were given the opportunity to to deliver and develop projects that Pedal for Scotland offers a ride for receive one of the cycle racks used to ensure all people are able to choose everyone of all ages and abilities and provide parking at the Commonwealth cycling as a mainstream, everyday research on the event has shown that Games this summer. The scheme lifestyle option. those taking part in Pedal for Scotland has seen a total of 83 cycle racks cycle more throughout the year in (830 spaces) awarded across 17 Bill Wright preparation for, or as a result of, taking universities and colleges, 14 NHS sites, Chair, Cycling Scotland part in the event, with over 40,000 13 private companies, 11 SMEs and 9 4 Cycling Scotland ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 Cycling Scotland ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 5 CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S 2 INTRODUCTION t is a privilege to be writing my first Chief Executive’s introduction, having joined the organisation in July. I Scotland has embarked on a journey to make cycling an easy, safe and natural choice for more people and I am determined to help achieve the transformation in everyday cycling journeys that Cycling Scotland, the Scottish Government, local authorities and key stakeholders aim to deliver. Whether it be a short trip to the I look forward to working with all shops, all or part of my commute to our members, partners, funders and work, or a longer ride with friends the wider cycling community in the and family, I have always enjoyed years ahead. cycling, and I want more people to It will be a long journey to change our enjoy it too. Enabling more people towns, cities and rural areas so they to ride a bike in their communities are more welcoming to people riding a safely and confidently should be a bike. However, the benefits to all of us clear objective for Government at all in investing in cycling, from supporting levels. Cycling is well placed to provide jobs, developing life skills, reducing solutions to the economic, health, inequalities to improving quality of life, social and environmental challenges make it an essential journey to take. facing Scotland and Cycling Scotland is uniquely placed to provide solutions Keith Irving to the challenges facing cycling today. Chief Executive, Cycling Scotland Together, we can help ensure that cycling becomes a possible, practical and pleasant choice for people of all ages and abilities. This report looks back at some of the key achievements of the organisation during 2013-14. From over-turning the Advertising Standards Authority ruling CYCLING (which may have required helmets “ to be worn and bikes to be ridden SCOTLAND towards the side of the road in all cycling advertising) to another massive IS UNIQUELY freshnlo Pedal for Scotland, raising over PLACED TO £110,000 for the STV Appeal, it was a huge year. PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO THE CHALLENGES FACING CYCLING TODAY ” 6 Cycling Scotland ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 Cycling Scotland ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 7 Cycling Scotland Members CYCLING SCOTLAND 3 MEMBERS 8 Cycling Scotland ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 Cycling Scotland ANNUAL REPORT 2013/14 9 BIKEABILITY Bikeability Scotland 4 SCOTLAND CASE STUDIES Teachers attend Cycle Training Assistant training day run by South 1 2 Lanarkshire Council CITY OF EDINBURGH USING BUS LANE FINES COUNCIL INCREASES TO SUPPORT CYCLE Cycling Scotland has continued Key facts RATE OF DELIVERY TRAINING to support the delivery of cycle The City of Edinburgh Council has Aberdeen City Council has training for children through the continued to make good progress used penalties paid by bus lane Bikeability Scotland programme. towards its target of delivering offenders to help increase the on-road Bikeability Scotland amount of Bikeability Scotland Through funding from Transport AN ADDITIONAL training in every primary school training delivered in schools. Scotland, Cycling Scotland has made in Edinburgh by 2016. They’ve They’ve increased the number of £360,000 available to local authorities secured support from a range of schools delivering on-road training to support an increase in the delivery departments across the Council from 31 to 58% since investing bus % in order to achieve this, including lane fines into this project. of on-road training through the 8.2% 3 7.6 Active Schools, Outdoor Learning, Support Plus scheme, to which 19 local authorities successfully applied in 2013- OF SCHOOLS DELIVERED Sports Development and Road 14. This has supported the training OF SCHOOLS Safety. Their rate of delivery of more than 1,100 additional Cycle LEVEL 1 TRAINING DELIVERING increased from 52 to 72% of Training Assistants and Cycle Trainers, LAST YEAR ON-ROAD LEVEL 2 schools in the past year. resulting in an extra 8.2% of primary CYCLE TRAINING* schools delivering Level 1 training, an extra 2.4% delivering Level 2, and nearly 6,000 additional pupils receiving Bikeability Scotland training. ADDITIONAL CYCLE New resources for Bikeability Scotland TRAINERS AND CYCLE Level 3 have now been developed and TRAINING ASSISTANTS 3 are being tested ahead of a full launch 1,100 TRAINED IN 2013-14 in 2015 along with an updated Cycle BIKEABILITY SCOTLAND Trainer resource to support instructors. Gaelic versions of the Level 1 and 2 DELIVERY IN LARGE resources were also published during the year. A new Bikeability Scotland PRIMARY SCHOOLS website has been launched, and The primary schools in East videos of manoeuvres from Bikeability Renfrewshire have very large pupil Scotland Levels 1 and 2 have been numbers, with Mearns Primary published online. NEARLY School in East Renfrewshire being the largest primary school in Cycling Scotland is currently Europe when it opened in 2002 introducing quality assurance processes with a capacity of 900.
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