“Missing Links” – we need you!

Update: You did it! After only 10 days of crowdfunding you helped us get to our first goal of £1000. This means we’ll definitely be able to print copies to deliver to some key people in the Council, organisations like ScotRail and local NHS Scotland executives, and third sector groups. Now we’re on to our stretch goal. The more copies we print, the more decision makers we can reach. Any amount helps and just as important as the amount we raise is the number of people we can show backing the campaign for better active travel infrastructure. Please continue to give so we can get copies to community councils, head teachers and PTAs.

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A key pillar of our work is to lobby for better cycling connections in and around Dumfries. Over the part 10 years we have distilled all the route knowledge of our volunteers into a project called Missing Links. These are a collection of network improvements, some stretching as far as a safe route from Dumfries to Lockerbie via Lochmaben, others as small as a junction improvement at Dockhead. Combined, these gaps in the network would form a huge contribution to the cycling networks in Dumfries if they were closed.

Over the past few months we have been reviewing and editing all of these routes into one cohesive, professionally designed document which we now want to get printed and into the hands of the people who can help to close those gaps.

The Missing Links book is the start of a new phase in the project’s life. It brings 26 route improvements together in one easy to read book which will be distributed among key decision makers in the the region; people can who directly influence the kind of changes needed to join up all of the wonderful partial routes that we have for active travel.

Design of the book was made possible with grant funding from Dumfries and Galloway Climate Hub. We’d like to thank them for making it possible to raise our game and help get a very professional looking document in the hands of policy makers.

However, printing costs money – and that’s where you come in! We’re running a crowd funder to raise the costs of printing and distributing the Missing Links. Every £10 donated will mean we can print another copy of the book and get it to the people who need to see it. And we’re giving you the chance to say which key person you want it to go to – in your name, if you want. That might be one of your councillors, a council official or leader, or your local community council.

You can donate here – and please do spread the word to anyone you know who can help. We’re running the funder until Friday 24th May, after which we’ll print and distribute all the copies we’ve raised money for. And that’s when the real campaigning can begin!