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@charlie_lcc
First have you seen the Space4Cycling web map for Kensington and Chelsea http://action.space4cycling.org/data/borough/61 for this month's borough elections. It highlights issues in each ward and can link you emails for every candidate standing in those wards. London Cycling Campaign have set this up for all 629 wards in London with 6-7000 candidates standing.
Most of the demands linked to Space4Cycling in Kensington and Chelsea support the changes you would like but perhaps lack the ambition to see removal of the whole one way system as the crucial demand for K&C. The whole purpose of the Space4Cycling election campaign is to show councillors and candidates that cycling matters. If everyone goes to the site and sends some emails then councillors will know that there are votes in doing good things for cycling.
London Cycling Campaign only has a few good people in K&C partly because, as you say, cycling is pretty difficult there and also there is a large turnover in population so we need all the help we can get. Welcome on board. You have come to the right place, Oliver knows more and understands more about removing gyratories than anyone else in London.
The LCC has local yahoo groups in every area and also a planning and engineering group where experienced campaigners and engineering experts help each other learn how to change things. There is an infrastructure review group that coordinates our engagement with TfL etc over plans for 'better' junctions, cycle superhighways, perhaps even the central London grid when (if) TfL and the boroughs get round to doing anything.