A Message From Our board
may 2024
GSW $2,500 Grant Recipient Results
GSW Grant Awardees Selected
The biennial $25K GSW grant program drew 13 applications from bike-ped related organizations with ten $2,500 winners now selected. Profits from our Seacoast Century have been given back to deserving groups since 2006. Publicity is scheduled for mid-May, that being National Bike Month. Presentations of the awards will be done virtually via a recorded Zoom session, date TBD.
The 2024 awardees are:
Bike the North Country
-- Bike safety program and loaner bikes
Bike-Walk Alliance of NH
-- Kid’s bike-ed safety programs & helmets
Central NH Bicycle Coalition
-- Kid’s bikes for training in local school districts
Concord-Lake Sunapee Rail Trail, Friends of:
-- Equipment and tools for trail maintenance
Cross NH Adventure Trail
-- Trail user counter on popular 83-mile trail
Merrimack River Greenway Trail, Friends of:
-- Work on bridge connecting to the Northern Rail Trail
Northern Rail Trail, Friends of:
-- Extend trail to Boscawen trailhead
Queen City Bicycle Collective
-- Bike repairs and kid’s Earn-A-Bike program
Salem Bike-Ped Corridor, Friends of
-- Development of rest area in Salem Depot
Seacoast Area Bike Riders
-- Repaired bikes for those in need
ABOUT OUR treasurer and GSW Office, DAVE TOPHAM
Dave Topham receiving the NH Governor's Council on Physical Activity and Health's Outstanding Achievement Award.
Most of you know Dave as one of the founders of Granite State Wheelers and Bike-Walk Alliance of NH. As Scot Foster, Community Strategies Coordinator, NH Department of Health and Human Services said of Dave, "He is everything cycling, but he's also a great person and a true professional."
Dave has been on virtually every committee related to walking and biking in New Hampshire. Among many other accomplishments, Dave was instrumental in getting the "3-foot law" passed that requires motorists to keep a safe distance from cyclists.
You would be hard-pressed to find a bicycle and/or a pedestrian advocacy-related activity that Dave Topham did not have a hand in or in some way helped make successful.