A FEW weeks ago, I and colleagues from York’s Holgate Windmill Society spent a freezing day in Parliament Street persuading passers by to vote for us in the “People’s Millions” lottery.

We subsequently won the vote and now have £46,000 to put the sails on next year. One passer-by proved to by Mike Usherwood, and we had a brief but enjoyable chat.

Mike chose to mention my association with this worthy project in his latest anti-cyclist letter (Letters, December 18). I doubt I can joyfully throw my bike clips over the mill, as he suggests.

In his letter, Mike has wrongly attributed York’s Cycling City grant to a national organisation called Sustrans.

This charity has built the York to Selby path and similar ones around the UK, to create the National Cycle Network. Much of their funding comes from individual supporters, as well charitable trusts and companies, the Big Lottery Fund, the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, and the EU. Further input has come from the cycle industry, including the Bicycle Association, the Association of Cycle Traders and the Consortium of Bicycle Retailers.

York’s Cycling City grant came from central Government, via the Department for Transport offshoot Cycling England.

Paul Hepworth, Windmill Rise, Holgate, York.