Cycling Awards
About the 2024 awards
2022 Cycling Luminaires Awards winners L-R Roxanne Thornton – Canterbury-Bankstown Council, Marie Lawton – Northern Rivers Rail Trail, our MC Osher Gunsberg, Julia Dempster – Bikes Palya, Michelle Prior – WA Dept of Transport
The Cycling Luminaries Awards have been celebrated nationally since 2002.
As bicycle riding has grown across Australia, the awards have evolved and matured to reflect the bicycle community’s achievements from the smallest remote community to national programs in towns and cities.
The 2024 awards will celebrate achievements of the people, the places and the programs that got Australians riding in the last 12 months.
Hosted by WeRide Board, the awards will be held at an event in Melbourne in Melbourne on the 21st of November.
With TV personality Osher Gunsberg MC for the evening, the event will be a celebration of all riding across Australia.
Charlene Bordley (Adventageous) – 2023 Leadership Award
| Charlene Bordley from Addventageous made a significant impact on cycling and community development in Western Sydney. Her pioneering program, “Her Cycling Connections,” empowers women and breaks down cultural barriers to cycling. |
Photo: Andrew Taylor.
Causeway Link Alliance – 2023 Bulit Environment Award
| The Causeway Link Alliance is building Perth’s stunning $100m Pedestrian and Cyclist Bridges that will traverse the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River) via Matagarup (Heirisson Island) in two s-shaped curves that represent the movement of the Waugyl (rainbow serpent). |
Bicycle Network – Bike Culture Award
Photo: The Hon Angus Taylor MP, Dolet Manon, Bicycle Network and Andrew Wallance MP – co-chair Parliamentary Friends of Cycling.
Photo: Andrew Taylor.
| Bicycle Network’s Open Street’s program is changing the way families view their daily journey to school to reverse the dramatic decline of the last 50 years in walking and riding to school. 10 Open Streets Days have been conducted in the last 3 years with more schools interested. |
ReVOLVE Recycle – Special recognition for Social Impact
Zaneta Mascerhenas MP – co-chair Pariliamentary Friends of Cycling, Bronwyn Clark, CEO Growth Areas Alliance, with Guido Verbist and Sienna Young, representing Revolve ReCYCLING.
Photo: Andrew Taylor.
| Revolve ReCYCLING has ensured around 5500 bikes have been kept out of landfill, another 1500 bikes have been redeployed to riders including around 500 for free to kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. They have worked with 12 NSW Councils, 10 schools to distribute the bikes to disadvantaged kids. Revolve also employs three people from disadvantaged backgrounds in a staff of 10. |
Past Award winners and nomination procedures can be viewed for each category by following the links below: