Black Canon Collective

Category: Archive

Old posts previous to 2015 relaunch.

  • Head Forester Meeting

    07:30 this morning Neil, Ben and I met up with Rodney Garton, Head Forester at the Longleat Estate, for our site walk. The point of this meeting was simply to establish which parts of the site we can use at the moment and when the rest will be free from forestry activity.

    We are pleased to say that there is a relatively large area that we can begin working on, once we have completed the risk assessment, and so are working flat out to get this finished!

    A map will be posted up shortly to give a clear picture of the planned areas of felling and associated times…(this has now been done – see here)

  • Temporary Signs

    We now have 8 temporary signs in place around the site which will shortly be replaced by permanent signs.

    We hope that these signs will inform people of our existence and point them in the direction of this site where they can learn more .

  • Licence Now in Place

    We now have the licence back from the Longleat Estate; this means that we’ve succeeded in saving the site and will be able to ride there again soon! There are still many things to do before we can though; complete the risk assessment, repair the tracks and wait for the felling to stop but this is a major step.

  • Raising Awareness

    We are trying to raise peoples awareness of the BCC and so we’ve printed off some business cards to give out to local riders. If you’ve received one of these then you’ve come to the right place. If you have run out of cards then please send us an e-mail and we’ll send you some more!

  • Kind Donation

    I am pleased to announce that the BCC has today accepted a £500 donation from Mr Graham Batt.

    Graham (father of Ben and Tim) approached the club about a month ago, asking if he could help in some way by making a donation.

    This most generous donation has been made specifically to help the club get up and running by bridging the gap between our start up costs and current bank balance.

    On behalf of the club and all its current members I have said a big thank you to Graham, however please leave any comments bellow and I will make sure that Graham receives them.

    Grahams Auto Repair business can be found here

  • British Cycling Affiliation

    We are now affiliated with the British Cycling federation (BC) , you can see our club details here.

    This gives us our Third Party Liability Insurance as stipulated by the Longleat Estate and many other benefits including reduced personal British Cycling membership fees and many more. See www.britishcycling.org.uk for more details.