Membership Information
This page has information about your membership and how the club works.
Club Kit
Sponsorship
Start Racing
Club Management
Members' List
Data Protection and Privacy
Club History
Your Membership
Membership runs for a full year from the date you join. To compete in events in the club name, make sure your membership is renewed. Whether you want to ride the club run just a few times a year or spend a full season racing at home and abroad, it's up to you. In the meantime this page sets out a bit more information about the club and how it works.
Kit
The club has its own cycle clothing, exclusive to members. It is made by Nalini, an Italian supplier to several professional cycling teams and cycling clubs alike. As a club, we keep a stock of basic items like shorts, jerseys, gilets, skinsuits and socks in various sizes. We also place two orders per year for special items like winter clothing. Click here to see the current design.
Club members Martin Anscombe and Keith Griffin handle the distribution of the kit. For prices, sizing and ordering information visit the club kit page.
Sponsorship
The club has four sponsors: Sigma Sport, the NSPCC, Telford and PredictorPro.com.
Sigma Sport
Sigma Sport are a local bike shop in Hampton Wick, just by Kingston Bridge. The shop is dedicated to road cyclists and triathletes with a range of the best kit and expert advice. They also do mail order. As well as sponsoring the club, they back a national racing team, which includes two former club members.
Members get a discount. When you join, your details are collected by the club and, in accordance with club privacy rules, passed on to Sigma Sport. Just ask for a discount and they will cross-reference your membership details. If you want to opt out from having your personal details sent to a third party, email info@kingstonwheelers.com.
Sigma Sport website
NSPCC
As you’d imagine, a sponsor normally gets exposure on our kit, website and more in return for a cash payment to the club. But this is reversed with the NSPCC, we offer them valuable free space on our kit and website. In addition, we help to raise funds for them throughout the year. When you join, you can opt to donate a proportion of the membership fee to the NSPCC, and there's a similar choice on the sale of each club jersey.
The NSPCC (registered charity #216401) was chosen as it is a major charity with hopefully as wide a breadth to members as possible, but also interest to us at a local level. The club has asked that any funds raised are spent, where possible, locally.
As this is a unique form of sponsorship, please ask if you have any questions about it. Club member Nick Hussey is the charity contact point, he is responsible for administering this sponsorship and helping with any enquires, especially how to help raise funds via sponsored rides.
NSPCC website
Telford
Telford is a long established, quality provider of commercial Painting and decorating services. They undertake contracts throughout London and South East England. Typical decoration and refurbishment contract work includes housing projects, hospitals and schools, which range from £500 to £500,000. Clients can expect a quality service, coupled with an ability to achieve the highest standards within agreed time limits.
Telford website
PredictorPro.com
PredictorPro.com is a sports prediction website where you can register to play the fun and competitive games for free.
PredictorPro website
Start Racing
Coming soon.
Club Management
The club has a Management Committee where members are elected every year at the AGM. The current members are:
| Derek Griffiths | President |
| Tim Lawn | Chairman Road Race Secretary |
| Dave Wylie | General Secretary (Membership) |
| Will Meers | Treasurer |
| Naz Peralta | Time Trial Secretary |
| Peter Anderson | Coach |
| Glenn Chamberlin | Kitmaster |
| James Beaumont | Webmaster |
| Nicola Wadham | Cyclo Cross |
| Sheila Hunt | General Member |
| Danny Conway | General Member |
| Lindsay Pullen | General Member |
What does the Committee do?
The Committee is charged with running the club. This ranges from day to day administration, like handling membership applications and keeping the club affiliated to the revelevant governing bodies, to running other aspects of club life, dealing with sponsorship and handling kit. In general the idea is to keep the club a fun place where lots of people can enjoy cycling in all forms but it takes some behind the scenes work to make sure it all happens, there's a lot more admin than you'd imagine. There are club rules which set out some of the duties more formally but essentially the committee takes decisions about how to run the club.
The committee meets formally about once every two months but discusses things outside these meetings. If you have any questions, comments and suggestions please get in touch with some of the committee to discuss things, they will welcome any conversation.
In case you're wondering, all committee members are volunteers, there are no expenses or attendance fees either.
Members List
The club has a director of members, the Members' List. When you join your details will be added to this and roughly once a month, this is sent out to members so we can all contact each other if necessary. To make it easier to recognise eachother, the list also includes a passport-style photo which you can email in if you want. Just reply to Danny Conway, who produces the list and he'll add your photo. Similarly, if you move home or change email address, don't forget to contact Danny with the new information.
Data Protection - Your Information
The club passes on details of members to Sigma Sport so they can send out the card offering you a 10% discount. There are club privacy rules about sending personal data to third parties. When members join, the small print lets the club share your personal details with Sigma Sport and fellow club members via the Members' Listbut it's worth repeating here. If you want to opt out from having your name and address sent to Sigma Sport - to refuse the discount card - please contact info@kingstonwheelers.com as soon as possible.
A brief history
The Kingston Wheelers Cycling Club was formed in 1924. Six cyclists met in a cafe on the Portsmouth Road near Kingston police station. Bill Orpin was amongst these and Gil Jessop - to whom our open 'Sporting 14' time trial is a memorial - joined the club in about 1930.
Stuart Bedingfield on his Lock TT bike at Shepperton in 1935
The second world war curtailed activities for a number of years. The last club run was in 1941 and most members were called up for service. Two members were killed in service, one in the English Channel and one in Burma.
Bill Orpin and Gil Jessop served in the armed forces and after demob, they reformed the club in Chessington in 1953. Although the club only had a few members at this time, it grew steadily until there were 18 members and they could no longer meet in a member's house. The club met in different pubs and schools until it found a more permanent home in the Latchmere social club in Ham, where it met during the 1980s.
This brief history was given by one former president, Gil Jessop, to another, John Bornhoft, on 20 January 1990. Both are sadly missed.
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