Aberdeen Cycle Forum is having our annual litter pick on Sunday 12th April at 1pm on Riverside Drive near the BP service station and The Queen Elizabeth Bridge. We’re doing the south bank of the river this time starting opposite the boat sheds.
See the map below and street view for the meeting point.
We’ll provide all the bags and litter pickers. Please come along. Everyone is welcome!
We enjoyed participating in the Celebrate Aberdeen parade yesterday alongside hundreds of other local groups and organisations. It was a fine day: not too hot, not too cold and everyone marched with much merriment from Albyn Place to Marischal College behind a terrific pipe band.
This is the first year Aberdeen Cycle Forum has participated in the event. I’m sure we’ll do it again next year so if you missed out this time please join us next year.
We had a very successful litter pick along the River Dee yesterday. Thank you to all the volunteers and to Aberdeen City Council for providing the pickers, bags and for taking the rubbish away.
Next year we’ll do it in early spring before all the vegetation has grown as some of us had unpleasant encounters with stinging nettle and bramble.
Next Saturday we’re joining the Celebrate Aberdeen parade so please come along to that if you can. The meeting point is Albyn Place from 10:20am onwards with the parade starting at 11am. It’s in alphabetical order so we’ll be near the front.
We’re organising a litter pick tomorrow along the River Dee just beside Victoria Bridge in Torry at 1pm. See litter pick 2025 for a map with the meeting location. The more the merrier!
We’ve also got tshirts that we’re selling for £20. These are made with 100% organic cotton and will help to raise money for Aberdeen Cycle Forum. Here’s Ben modelling a size medium.
The dimensions of the size medium are in the photos below.
I need to order a minimum of 4 in one go to get free postage but we have two spare size mediums currently so if you want one of those let me know. I’ll take them with me to the litter pick tomorrow.
It’s summer and time for our annual litter pick. Please join us on Saturday 16th August at 1pm on the south side of the River Dee just beside Victoria Bridge, Torry. See the annotated map below for the location. It’s the same spot we cleaned up two years ago and we’ve had a request to go back. I found £10 here last time so you never know, you may get lucky!
We will have rubbish bags and litter pickers. Just bring yourselves and gloves if you want them. Hope to see you there!
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Aberdeen Cycle Forum is hosting the Best in Cycling Awards for 2024 next Tuesday 24th September at 7:30pm where we’ll announce the winners in the following categories: Best Business, Best Employer, Best New Cycle Infrastructure, Best Public Cycle Parking, Best School, Cycle Hero, and The Cycle Raspberry.
We’ve also got two guest speakers lined up: Linda Moreno Sanchez who worked for the Transportation Department in Mexico before coming to Aberdeen and Fiona McBain who delivers Bikeability in schools for Sustrans.
The venue is Aberdeen Methodist Church on Crown Terrace. Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.
Our annual litter pick is now done and dusted and we had another successful cleanup along the banks of the River Dee. Thank you to all the volunteers. As you can see we collected a lot of rubbish.
We even managed to do a bit of pruning of the overgrown path.
Let’s hope it stays clean for a long time.
Aberdeen Cycle Forum is organising another litter pick for Saturday 7th September at 1pm beside the River Dee just south of the Bridge of Dee.
You can get to this spot via a path beside the bridge near the pedestrian traffic lights.
We’ll have pickers and rubbish bags. Come and join us!
Aberdeen Cycle Forum is pleased to announce the launch of the 2024 Aberdeen cycling awards. We’re looking for nominations to recognise improvements in conditions for cycling.
We last ran the awards in 2019 with winners announced in 2020. This year entries close at midnight on 31st July 2024 with winners announced at a special event in September.
Register and submit your nomination now at the link below.
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