Organization NGO with headquarter in Copenhagen and around 40 local representations all around Denmark. Based mainly on voluntary work and a small group of paid staff in the Copenhagen office. All activities are financed trough membership fees, private sponsorships and profits from the sale of bicycles and bike equipment in the federation shop.
Short Summary
Danish Cyclists Federation is one of the oldest cyclist organisations in Europe. The main goal of the organisation has always been to strengthen the cycling culture in Denmark. We assisted the introduction of traffic rules in 1910. From the 1960s car traffic grew fast – and so did the concerns for the environmental costs and the rising numbers of traffic accidents. For a while the Danish Cyclists Federation joined the battle against cars.
Nowadays our work is not against cars, but for the happy coexistence between different ways of transportation – with the wish for a healthy and sustainable development of the Danish transport sector as guideline. Cycling should be a safe, fun, easy and obvious choice everywhere in Denmark.
Example activities
Danish Cyclists Federation runs two large campaigns every year. One runs in May and is very successful in making around 100.000 Danes cycle to work every day for a full month. The other encourages more than 5.000 school classes around Denmark to compete in cycling to school for to weeks in September. Alongside the organisation successfully lobbies for better safety and infrastructure for cyclists – both on local and national level.
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