Cycling UK
In 2015, Cycling UK received funding of £1million for their social outreach project, the Big Bike Revival.
The members' magazine, Cycle, covers subjects including ride reports, product reviews and legal and technical advice.
Members benefit from public liability insurance, which is extended to cover rides organised under the auspices of Cycling UK Local Groups.
Cycling UK reviewed the current Highway Code before it was published, and helped reword some sections that could have been detrimental for cyclists.
Cycling UK has been known by various names over the course of its history: 2016's branding change is intended to reflect the organisation's current activities and avoid placing an undue emphasis on its historic touring focus.
Cycling UK was founded at Harrogate, in Yorkshire, on 5 August 1878 by an Edinburgh medical student, Stanley Cotterell, under its original name of the Bicycle Touring Club.
The uniform was a dark green Devonshire serge jacket, knickerbockers and a "Stanley helmet with a small peak".
[14] This did not present itself as a cycling organisation, instead focusing on production of technical literature distributed to highways boards and surveyors to promote improved construction and maintenance methods.
[21] From 1887,[22] the Cyclists' Touring Club gave seals of approval, in the form of a cast iron plaque (later replaced by an enamel plate) showing the winged-wheel symbol of CTC, for mounting on an outside wall of hotels and restaurants which offered good accommodation and service to cyclists.
The CTC no longer puts up general road signs—although the right to do so is retained—and approved establishments are offered a plastic window-sticker carrying the blue and yellow logo shown above.
In 1898 CTC became embroiled in a court case to defend a member denied what she thought adequate service at a hotel carrying the club's badge.
Florence Wallace Pomeroy, Viscountess Harberton (1843–1911), of Cromwell Road, Kensington — wife of James, 6th Viscount Harberton, an Anglo-Irish peer, and president of the Western Rational Dress Society — cycled on the morning of 27 October 1898 to have lunch at the Hautboy Hotel in Ockham, Surrey.
The court ruled that CTC could not protect the interests of cyclists and drivers at the same time and denied permission.
[24] The first (and one of the very few) dedicated roadside optional cycle tracks was built in 1934, as an experiment for the Ministry of Transport, located in London beside Western Avenue between Hanger Lane and Greenford Road.
[26] Local CTC branches organised mass meetings to reject the use of cycle tracks and any suggestion that cyclists should be forced to use such devices.
[27] In 1935, a packed general meeting of the CTC adopted a motion rejecting ministerial plans for cycle path construction.
[29] It was stated that conversion to a single unified charity would result in financial savings, allow the income of CTC to be boosted by up to £100,000 by reclaiming Gift Aid, and help to build public recognition and support.
