Newcastle Cycling Campaign

Newcastle cycling conference

Our chair Katja will give a presentation at the Cycle City / Active City conference in Newcastle. She will speak in her capacity of PhD researcher at Northumbria University. Newcastle City Council is kindly sponsoring the attendance of three campaigners, and we will report back from the event, including Katja’s presentation, at a later date.   Katja’s abstract – Lessons about cycle commuting from the 2011 UK Census Dipl-Ing Katja Leyendecker CEng EurIng, [email protected] and Dr Seraphim Alvanides, [email protected] Both Northumbria University at Newcastle, Architecture & Built Environment The 2011 UK Census contains valuable information for researchers, practitioners and decision[…]

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Cycling Infrastructure Event

This event is co-organised by Sustrans and NewCycling. We are delighted to welcome three urban transport experts talking about urban design for streets and cities with, of course, a fair share of cycling infrastructure in the mix. Han is currently the chair of Fietsersbond (Dutch Cyclists’ Union) Haarlem, and is a former chair of the stop der kindermord campaign. John is a traffic engineer, transport planner and urban designer with 29 years’ professional experience that spans from strategic transport planning to concept design. Well known as a champion of better town and city streets, he was Director being responsible for[…]

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AGM 2015

It’s our AGM! Open to all members, come and help us shape our campaigning plans for the year ahead. We’ll be meeting at our partner’s place, the fabulous Cycle Hub on the Quayside, You can download the agenda below, as well as the draft minutes of the last year’s AGM. Newcycling_AGM14_minutes_DRAFT NewCycling_InviteAGM15 NewCyclingAGM2015_agenda Newcycling_AGM2015_financialreport_FINAL   Event hashtag #newcc15  

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MEDSIN conference plenary

Katja has been invited to speak at the medical student conference “entitled, “Changing Cities: building a healthy future together”. MEDSIN Newcastle is proud to present MEDSIN National Conference 2014 “Changing Cities: Building a Healthy Future Together” on November 15th-16th For more information and tickets, visit www.medsin.org/nc14 Contact : [email protected] Follow on Twitter: @medsin @medsinNC14   Katja’s presentation Medsin2014 Newcastle from Katja Leyendecker

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