Victorian Bicycle Coalition

Victorian Bicycle Coalition Inc.
Association number A0037076A,
11 Ford St., Brunswick 3056

The Victorian Bicycle Coalition is a network of local and specialist bicycle groups from around Victoria. It includes BUGs, touring clubs, environmental and other groups with an emphasis on bicycling. The purpose of the Coalition is to help each of its member groups do their own, local work better through providing a structure for networking and sharing resources.

The VBC is not open to individual membership.

Involving people

The Victorian Bicycle Coalition is about involvement. Its strength is in the hard work of all the volunteers in all its affilliated groups. The Coalition exists to resource and coordinate the work of a lot of local and sectional groups to achieve wider change than they can effect alone.

Quality news

As a member of the Bicycle Federation of Australia, the VBC has working links with groups throughout Australia and the rest of the world.
As a member of a member group, you can subscribe to Australian Cyclist, Australia's leading bicycle magazine, at a discount price of $25.00 per year.

Volunteers needed

We need many keen volunteers for carrying out the work of the Coalition.
We need volunteers in all kinds of areas: maintaining the events calendar, keeping the website up-to-date, policy formulation, research, liaison, education.
We also need people who can help form new local groups where they are needed and to bring other groups into the Coalition. There is a place for you.

To find out more

You can subscribe to our e-mail list list by sending an e-mail to:vbc-talk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Aims of the VBC

The services we are building up in the Victorian Bicycle Coalition are:

Lobbying and advice

assisting or advising on lobbying
co-ordinating individual group strategies and responses across municipal boundaries and interest areas (touring, MTB, racing, lobbying, etc.)
co-ordinating responses with Bicycle Victoria, BFA, environment and othergroups

Information

infrastructure engineering standards
lists of politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders, etc.
current political issues
funding opportunities
relevant tenders and submissions being sought

Networking

events to keep people in touch
newsletter, including rides/events listing/publicity
website and newsgroup

Protection

Training

lobbyingskills
working with a volunteer team
negotiation skills
running effective meetings
handling finances
publication skills
internet/WWWskills
bicycling road skills/maintenance, etc.
insurance
legal advice and help

How to Join

There is no individual membership of the coalition, excepting where there is no local group and an individual wants to help set one up in their area.

You join the VBC by being a member of an affiliated group. Affiliation is open to all cycling groups although, for the present, we are concentrating on non-competitive cycling issues.

Membership costs $1 per paid-up member of your group up to 50 members and is negotiable for larger groups.

See our membership form