We held our AGM on 8 April 2026 in the Town Hall.
The new committee was elected as follows:
Coordinator: Eilidh Murray, Treasurer: Amir Shamsuddin, Secretary: John Hartley
Committee members: Steve Knattress, Jay Hoffman, Marcus Schodorf, Nick Kocharhook
There was a vote of thanks to retiring committee member Alice Duperray.
Coordinator’s Report
Here’s some data presented during the Coordinator’s round-up of the year
- 8 Meetings with officers
- 4 Active travel meetings with Islington Living Streets and the Council’s Transport Exec
- 12 monthly meetings
- One Christmas social
- One AGM
- 8 led rides
- 6 outreach events (not linked to campaigns)
- 10 newsletters – trying to do them monthly – don’t always succeed !
- 1,000+ Posts/reposts on Bluesky
- 8 posts on Instagram
Treasurer’s Report
The Treasurer reported that our closing balance at 31 March 2026 is £3,533.31. We have had a strong year for donations both direct and via marshalling activities, while our campaigning has again been very volunteer rather than materials focused, thus leaving us with a stronger balance year-on-year.
Our key infrastructure campaign has continued on improving Finsbury Park Junction, for which we’ve incurred costs printing flyers, while other work has been responding to the council directly and raising awareness through rides, which didn’t incur monetary costs.
We have continued our ongoing general awareness raising and outreach campaigns, such as a stall at the LCC replacement “Ride London” event, a stall at the Islington Kids Run for which we funded drinks, and also at Gillespie park and Wray Crescent. Regular miscellaneous costs include refreshments at the Xmas meeting and website hosting, the bulk of which has now been paid upfront for 3 years in order to get a better price.
We’ve been quite successful in fundraising this year, notably including a £800 anonymous donation and another of £350 to be used for AGM hall hire. Many thanks to both anonymous donors! As such, we didn’t apply for the LCC central grant due to our healthy balance, and are unlikely to do so for 2026. Thanks also to Steve for marshalling at an event in March ‘25 for which he donated his fee, and also for his TfL Route feedback session for which we also got a payment.
The AGM in 2025 went quite well, but unlike the previous year did not cover its costs by approx £334. Again we raised money through ticket, raffle ticket, food and drink sales, and incurred costs for hall hire, food and drink supply. Many thanks to all the people who donated raffle prizes last year and also this year, and of course to the volunteers who help run it and the speakers who help make it a success. This year (2026) we’ll be running events for CI’s (technically ICAG’s) 50th birthday as a main summer event instead of the AGM.