Back in July I tried to nominate this site for an LCC Best Cycling Facility
Award. Why not, eh?

Three months later I get an email (see below) asking for a more detailed nomination. I replied saying I was too busy and she should HTFU and and have a look at the site herself.
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David, it's a very good idea to nominate the site. If you still want to follow it up, you should do this under 'Best Community Cycling Initiative'--the 'Facility' category is for physical infrastructure.

The request for more info that you received from the office is because we get a lot of nominations and we simply don't have the volunteer time to follow them all up. The judges are provided with a pack containing the information that you give. I shouldn't think that it would be too difficult to compile this info, as detailed above, between a couple of willing and knowlegeable forum members, if you don't have time? Guidelines here: http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1164

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Criteria for Best Community Cycling Initiative

This category will recognise community groups or organisations who best implement a program or project to involve the community in cycling. The winner of this award will have developed the initiative in order to:

 improve and increase interest in cycling
 support and encourage people to try or take up cycling

Please include relevant photos and testimonials, along with a brief description (one side of A4) of the initiative and how it meets the criteria. You should include the numbers of cyclists involved and the dates and locations of any events relating to the project. Where appropriate, please provide evidence of an increase in cycling activity, preferably in the form of a before and after comparison.

In addition, please indicate the name and address of the organisation or individual to be credited for this award in your nomination.

The deadline for nominations is the 24th October--Friday week.

The sorts of community projects that usually get nominated tend to be based around religious groups, ethnic minority groups, disability groups, schools or local areas and often address social exclusion (and obviously achieving inclusion through cycling), widening participation, and so forth. However, I don't see why a web-site shouldn't be worth a nomination--it's still not such a widespread way of organising a community, but this site is clearly very successful at that--plenty of events, social rides, etc. It would be important in a nomination to demonstrate how this works, perhaps using a few examples.

For instance, how many new people are taking up cycling around London because they like FGSS bikes and the scene around them? I'm sure there are some. Even if this seems less worthy than, say, cycling for disability groups, the judges may well be impressed by it.

Happy nominating,
Oliver
LCC
(Please note that I'm not involved with the London Cycling Awards in any way.)