Tour de Yorkshire - We want YOU!
Fri 13th March 2015
The Tour de Yorkshire comes to town on 2 May and we want YOU to get involved.
Did you watch last year when Le Grand Depart went through parts of Yorkshire? Did you see the banners on top of York Minster, visible from the sky? Perhaps you were impressed by the huge chalk drawing of a sheep on a bicycle, on a school playground? Or the umbrella-based bicycle performance art in the middle of a field? Or maybe it was the array of yellow bicycles popping up on the sides of houses and shops which caught your eye?
With your input, we can help put Beverley on the map this May. From decorating old bikes, or even your own, to a large community event on Beverley Westwood, get into the spirit of the Tour de Yorkshire and help to promote our town to the millions of people who will be watching from the sidelines or on TV.
The event is being shown on Eurosport and a terrestrial TV channel, and there will be helicopters buzzing around taking videos and photographs to mark the momentous occasion.
We want to create a fanfare around the event, and we want to make it big and bold. We want to make a real statement and show the rest of Yorkshire what we are made of.
Whether you are a school, a community group, a business or even an individual, get set for the cycling event of the year coming through Beverley. Schools could make it part of an educational project, community groups can get everyone interested, maybe you could make it a teambuilding exercise for your business. However you can get involved, do!
It is your chance to be creative and show what us Beverlonians can do. Suggested themes include cycling, blue (Pantone 306) and yellow (Pantone 604) - the official Tour de Yorkshire colours - or the history of Beverley. But don’t just stop there; let your imagination run wild. There really is no limit to what we can do.
We are encouraging businesses to find a bicycle wheel and decorate it, as part of a town-wide competition. See the picture accompanying this article for ideas. Plus, there will be more photos in this month's edition of Just Beverley magazine - out 20 March.
Additional details will be available on justbeverley.co.uk, where you can keep up to date on all things Tour de Yorkshire. For more information, or to get involved, contact Julian Minshall (Chairman of Beverley and District Chamber of Trade) on 07925 471975.
