The Cyclenation newsletter and CCN News, the federation's bulletins

The newsletter had two names. CCN News was the bulletin of the Cycle Campaign Network, the federation of local cycle campaign groups, and it ran from 1992 to 2008. Cyclenation News took over in November 2008, and its issues ran to March 2016. Both titles were bulletins built from national news, reports sent in by local groups, notices of meetings and conferences, and items on consultations that groups could respond to.

The audience was the groups themselves, and the people who ran them. A typical issue told a campaign in one town what a campaign in another town had achieved, and which national decisions were coming that would land on a local council's desk.

The federation's newsletter index for the earlier title lists issue 41, dated July 1999, through to issue 96, dated September 2008, with a new issue every two months. Issue 96 was the last under the CCN News name. The index does not list issues before number 41, and this page does not describe their contents.

Cyclenation News number 1 appeared in November 2008. The numbering started again from one, and the newsletter described itself as the newsletter of Cyclenation, the federation of UK cycling campaign groups.

Issue 3, March 2009, led on 20 mph. Warrington's unitary authority had started a pilot on 140 roads across three areas of the town, setting a 20 mph limit by an experimental traffic order, with leaflets to residents and enforcement by Cheshire Constabulary with fixed penalty notices. Warrington Cycle Campaign welcomed it as an important milestone. The same issue reported the Welsh Assembly Government's walking and cycling plan for 2009 to 2013, which pledged to triple the percentage of adults cycling to work by 2013.

The May 2009 issue covered the Department for Transport consultation "A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain's Roads the Safest in the World". Its proposals included 20 mph limits in residential areas, a review of speed limits on single carriageway rural roads, and changes to the theory and practical driving tests.

Issue 27 appeared in May 2013, and later issues ran to March 2016.

The federation's list of highlights from the later issues, set out in the log above, gives the run of national campaigning in those years. 2012 opened with The Times and its "Cities fit for cycling" campaign, the Winning the Arguments conference and the helmet debate. 2013 brought the Get Britain Cycling inquiry and two-way cycling in Brighton. From 2014 the issues followed Space for Cycling, and the last ones, in 2016, covered the AGM, a women's cycling conference and the Mini Hollands.

Four issues give a clear sense of the newsletter, from the first months of the new title to the last years of the run.

March 2009, issue 3, is the Warrington issue described above, with the 20 mph pilot on the front page and the Welsh plan inside.

May 2009 is the "A Safer Way" issue, with the Department for Transport's speed limit and driving test proposals.

February 2013, issue 26, came out at the start of the Get Britain Cycling inquiry run by the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, then co-chaired by Ian Austin and Julian Huppert. The front page showed the members of the UK Cycling Alliance, which brought together Sustrans, British Cycling, the Bicycle Association, CTC and the federation, and said the inquiry report was expected at the end of April. The same issue gave notice of the federation's AGM on 27 April 2013 at the Friends Meeting House in Birmingham.

The October 2015 issue carried the conference and the interview with Julian Huppert.

For the conferences these issues advertised, see the conferences page. The news log carries the dated items from 2014 onwards, and the history of the federation covers the organisation behind the newsletter.