04/11/2025
The Board of the Charles Arthur Rhodes Memorial Award will soon be meeting to select this year's recipient. Hope you don't mind me posting this reminder to raise awareness, but if anyone has any unsung heroes you want us to consider, please post here or contact me privately by Saturday 8th November.
The award is presented annually, and previous recipients include high profile World and Olympic champions, such as Beryl Burton and the late Brian Robinson and more recently Lizzie Armitstead, Ed Clancy, Ben Swift and Tom Pidcock, in addition to administrators like Bradford’s Mandy Parker who make the sport and pastime so popular in Yorkshire.
The Memorial was instigated in 1961 as a tribute to the memory of Charles Arthur Rhodes (1895-1961), doyen of the Yorkshire Road Club, co-founder in 1932 of the Yorkshire Cycling Federation and a nationally recognised timekeeper and administrator. The award is regarded as the greatest distinction which Yorkshire cycling can bestow.
The Board of Trustees meet annually and select the worthy recipient.
The criteria is that the Award may be made to such person or persons that have shown themselves worthy of special recognition by:
a. Of having rendered signal service to the furtherance of cycling in Yorkshire, or
b. Of having attained an outstanding level of achievement in Yorkshire cycling, or
c. Of having brought exceptional honour to the County.
The Award shall consist of an inscribed testimonial, appropriately prepared and presented.
MANY THANKS. Elaine Ward
