Meet The Team

CTC Committee Members

Chairman - Richard Calvert

Richard has been chairman for CTC Swale since 2010.

Dick Calvert joined the club in 2007 when it was still part of the West Kent section and has ridden with the club ever since. When Swale became a separate group in 2010, Dick was asked to chair and has done so since then, seeing CTC Swale increase in membership, popularity and coverage over the years. 

The main jobs of chairman are to ensure the smooth running of the club by having a competent committee covering all the essentials of organising rides, maintaining membership and finances and maintaining contact with Cycling UK.

Club Secretary - Deborah Franks

Deborah joined the CTC Swale Committee from May 2022, taking over from the previous long serving Club Secretary.

The club secretary role is a link between Cycling UK (CTC Swale) and the club members. Responsibilities also include taking notes from all meetings and having them available to all committee members and all CTC Swale members.

Deborah has been cycling with CTC Swale since 2016 and is a very popular and well respected member of the club.

Safeguarding Officer - Jo Maw

Jo has been riding a bike since she was a child but joining CTC Swale took away all the self consciousness that she has as an adult. She has been riding with the club since 2014 and has been so grateful for all of the encouragement, help and advice. To repay that debt in a small way Jo has been our Welfare Officer for the club since 2017 (in 2020 this role changed to Safeguarding Officer).  

Safeguarding is about making sure the club and its members have safe, happy rides, and enjoy a great atmosphere.  All members can talk and confide in Jo and she is always there to listen.

Rider Leader Co-ordinator - Ian Ward

Ian Ward was voted in this role full time at the AGM in 2023, having covered the role in the previous year.  Ian has been an active rider with CTC Swale since October 2021.

This role is the heart of our little group, keeping the spread sheet up to date and trying to keep the ride leaders in check can be a daily task at times.  Please see the current "Ride List" for the latest planned rides.

Treasurer - Kevin Andrew

Kevin has been treasurer since 2018 and has been keeping the clubs funds safe. The money that we raise through events helps pay for the web site, first aid kits, first aid training, AGM Meetings, trophies and advertising.

Kevin has been riding for more than 30 years in all weathers, the first 20 years were mostly on mountain bikes.  He has ridden throughout much of the UK and Ireland, a little in Switzerland, Austria and Canada.  After he retired he had much more time to go riding, so considered joining a club for the social aspect as well as the riding, and became a member of CTC Swale in December 2016.

Members Secretary - Paul Lane

Paul has been members secretary since 2020. The main role is to ensure that members of CTC Swale are also paid members of Cycling UK.   Good news, that even through a world wide pandemic members of the group have stayed high but we always m new members to the club.

Paul moved to Swale from West Kent where he found CTC Swale on the Internet and did 3 guest rides and then joined in July 2018. The club is a great way to explore the Swale area and he found all club members friendly and the rides accessible to drop into as and when time permitted.