Cycle Winchester: making Winchester and its surrounding settlements better by bike
We want more people cycling, more often, because it makes life better for everyone. Cycling improves physical and mental health and wellbeing, and it helps protect our environment by cutting pollution, congestion and carbon emissions.
We work in two ways:
- Engagement with local people and communities to promote cycling as a convenient, healthy, affordable and environmentally friendly way to get around Winchester and the surrounding area.
- Advocacy. Working with public bodies and other infrastructure providers to advocate improved cycling provision, so that more people of all ages and abilities can ride safely and confidently.
Whether you cycle every day, once in a while, or are thinking about starting, we’d love you to join us.
You can support our work – and gain discounts at local bike shops – by becoming a member, by signing up to our email list, by following us on social media, and by signing the Winchester Cycling Charter.
Latest updates
Sports and Leisure Park at Bar End – Update November 2018.
As you will have seen in the news, the new Sports and Leisure Park at Bar End has been granted planning permission. This followed a 3 hour public planning committee meeting where numerous objectors and a selection of councillors all raised the issue of access to the leisure centre for...
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City of Winchester Movement Strategy: Next phase of consultation starts on 12 November
12 November is a date that all cyclists in Winchester should mark in their diaries with three red stars. It’s the date when Hampshire County Council (HCC) will be consulting on the next stage of their City of Winchester Movement Strategy. Cycle Winchester understands that HCC will be asking people...
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Take your local councillor for a ride
Does your local councillor understand the challenges and problems of cycling around Winchester? Would you like to take them on a little ride so they can see for themselves? Rachel Remnant hopes to get as many councillors as possible taken out on individual guided tours round Winchester by their own constituents, to show them what it’s...
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Help wanted
Cycle Winchester is dependent on a tiny number of volunteers and we’re struggling to fit it in. We need help with organising events, with publicity and design, and … well, just about everything really. If you’d like to help make Winchester a better place for cycling and can spare us even a little time, get in...
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Great video of our mass ride in May
Local video-maker Laurent Metrich contributed a lovely video of our mass ride on May 12th, where 300 Winchester cyclists took to the streets to campaign to make Winchester better by bike. The video features footage from the day, along with an interview with Rob Jordan, explaining how Cycle Winchester is...
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