May & June Workdays

Another month passes and has seen another set of workdays throughout May. Thanks to those who have been able to join in and make a difference along the NCN in the Grantham area on these days. Although we only had 3 this has managed to fill in some pot holes along the old railway line between Woolsthorpe Top Lock and Muston, cleared away over hanging vegetation on the entrance to NCR 15 just of Harlaxton Road and finally recycled an old tree trunk into a seated area.

Looking onto June I have set out the following dates and tasks below, a bit more painting and some of that vegetation clear back too. I do hope you can join in and look forward to seeing you at the workdays.

Sunday 12 June, 10:30- 13:30
at Running Furrows Gate entrance on North Parade. Map here.
Paint and brushes will be supplied so just bring gloves.

Wednesday 22 June, 18:00- 20:00
at wooden bench near Stenwith tunnel on NCR 15. Map here.
Please bring tools along for ground clearance cutting around the wooden bench.

Sunday 26 June, 10:30-13:30
at Woolsthorpe Top Lock. Map here.
Please bring tools along for clearing back vegetation on the NCR 15 entrance to old railway line.

 Bob and Peter make light work of the low hanging trees.

 Sure we can make a seat out of this!!!

 A seat appears from nowhere.

 Peter and myself try it for size.

 Me and Bob.

New Riverside Signs

Four new signs have been installed along the NCR 15 riverside path within the town centre, showing a large map of the riverside cycle and walkway they also give detailed information of the areas along the path.

Sleaford Connect2 Portrait Bench

Our nearest Sustrans Connect2 project you may remember is situated at Sleaford which provides a much safer cycle, pedestrian and wheelchair user traffic free link crossing over the A17 via a bridge heading into Leasingham.
The work is very much complete and being used daily but as with all of the 79 projects around the UK the final piece of the project is to install a unique portrait bench, every bench will be different as it will have a silhouette portrait of 3 local people that have made their mark in their community.
News of the bench and those chosen are reported in the Sleaford Standard, the report can be viewed here.

Lidl Summer Cycling Offers

If you missed out the other week on Aldi's cycling offers then you might want to pop down to Lidl tomorrow (Thursday 19) as there will be cycling gear on offer.
More information on this here... I can certainly recommend the spoke reflectors as I have these on my Velorbis.

Nottingham Carnival of Cycling, Saturday 18 June

The Sustrans Ucycle team based at the Nottingham Trent University are organising a Carnival of Cycling on Saturday 18 June as part of the National Bike Week. The event will be open to all and will include various activities including a cycle jumble sale. (So potential there if you want to sell or buy any jumble).
For lots more details visit http://carnivalofcycling.wordpress.com/