See our website We normally meet very informally every Wednesday evening at The Exmouth Arms
7pm to 9pm.
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Who are we?
| Wendy - Chair
Clare - Secretary
Angeline - Treasurer
Scarlett - Buy Local
Becky - Go Green
Belinda- Skillspace
Angela - Community
plus all the other members of the CC Networks
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Global Dimension Trust
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A free Your Green Future evening event is being held on the 29th September 2010 from 6pm til 8pm at the Pittville Pump Rooms, Cheltenham. It is open to all those interested in green careers and a greener future.
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Leglag walk
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Join a guided walk on Sunday 26 September to look at some of the local fields LEGLAG is trying to protect.
Click here for details
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Find out about local history!
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Leckhampton Local History Society's new booklet is now available from the Bath Road Post Office for £3 and includes items on:
'Beneath the Devil's Chimney'
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Robert Cary Barnard · A link with Sherlock
Holmes
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Eminent Cheltonians buried at Leckhampton
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Leckhampton's Manors · Ornamental Woodwork on
Local Houses
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Cheltenham Connect is the proud recipient of a £4000 Cheltenham Borough Council Community Pride Grant
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Become a Sponsor of Cheltenham Connect
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We are actively looking for people to help us grow. If you can help in any way let us know
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REVIEWING AUGUST 2010
With lots of people away August has been a pretty quiet month. We do have a lot being planned for the rest of the year however!
New TreasurerDave Savell, who has been a member of our core team from the beginning, has now offered to take over the role of treasurer. A massive thank you to Angeline Fuller for looking after our purse strings over the last six months. Dave will be formally elected at our next steering group meeting on the 16th September. Increased costsAs we haven't been able to find an equivalent alternative we have now had to commit all our networks to the new $19.95 monthly cost that the network providers Ning are charging (in fact we have paid everything in advance to receive a discount). Due to the success of our two major events our insurance costs have also now doubled. That means that we our ongoing running costs have suddenly risen to about £1500. Fundraising has therefore become much more important (!) and we are now looking for people who can help with this. Please let us know if you have any expertise in this area. Christmas FairThe Christmas Fair is taking shape nicely and we already have 19 craft tables booked. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are a local craftsperson who would like to be involved. This year we are running the fair as a themed Regency/Victorian event in association with the turning on of the Bath Road Traders Christmas lights and we are therefore expecting even larger numbers of visitors. DIY StreetsFor the last few months we have been exploring the idea of South Cheltenham running a DIY Streets initiative. You can read about DIY Streets on http://www.sustrans.org.uk/what-we-do/liveable-neighbourhoods/diy-streets and http://www.flickr.com/photos/sustrans/sets/72157622514056113/We think this could be a really powerful way to engage the whole community in thinking about our local landscapes and we have now applied for a new Community Pride Grant that might help us set up a pilot project. |
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CC Buy Local
CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR
We are already taking bookings for the next Christmas Craft Fair (which will be held on the 3rd, 4th and 5th December) and, to add to the fun, we are currently planning for it to be a themed 'Regency/Victorian' event.
If you are a local craftsperson who would like to be involved please contact Scarlett for an application form.
Or if you are a singer/musician/band/choir who would like to entertain people during the event please contact Wendy
HISTORY PROJECT
The History Project is going well and we hope to have the main website launched in November. Let us know if you have any old photos of any of our local shops (or stories to tell about the old days). Once the site is launched we will also offer local traders the chance to have framed histories of their sites.
CC Go Green
Jo Worthy-Jones, the Cheltenham Community Wildlife Officer from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust attended
the latest Go Green group meeting. There was much
discussion around potential opportunities for working in partnership
with the Wildlife Trust and the following three topics were agreed upon:
- Support for the University's Park Campus bird nesting installation project
- Creating wildlife-friendly gardens
- Generally working on greening our area
The
Go Green group is supporting the Cheltenham Transition Town initiative.
See the notice board at The Exmouth Arms and the Go Green or Vision 21 web-pages for information on interesting and entertaining films to be shown over the coming weeks.
The next Go Green group meeting will be on Thursday 7th October at 7.15pm at Becky's houses - please contact Becky (becky@cheltenhamconnect.co.uk) for
location details if you'd like to attend. This meeting will be a key
one as it will be used as an opportunity to plan our activities for
2011.
CC Skillspace
The informal August networking meeting at The Beehive turned out to be a real brainstorming session on how we could set up mentoring and skill-shares. Watch this space! The next Business & Freelancers Networking Evening is at 7.30pm on Tuesday 14th September when member Mike Reed will give a talk on '3 Ways to Make More Profit' and Becky Gardner will talk on "Lessons learned from the Emerald City"! See the website for more details
Jonathan Pollinger hosted the Moka morning while Belinda was away and you can now attend the new 'Laptop Fridays' at Maison Chaplais in Tivoli. This group has also been supporting the 'Cotswold Jelly' co-workers events at the Norwood Arms (the 2nd Tuesday of each month).
Tickets are still available for the 'Evening with Martin Horwood' at The Beehive on Tuesday 5th October at 7.30pm, but space is limited so if you want to come please don't leave it too long to book. 'This will be an opportunity to talk to our local MP and ask him what it is like to suddenly be the party in government. What is it like being in the coalition? What has changed about their green ambitions? Not a party political evening, but a find out about politics evening!!!'
Tickets are £15 to include a buffet supper and are available through belinda@cheltenhamconnect.co.uk
CC Community
Angela Rimmer has been doing a great job of developing the activities of this group. The existing Naunton Park Swap, Share and Save concept is now going to be further developed in the area and there is now a Spiritual Development Group starting on Tuesday 14 Sept in
Leckhampton. For more information please contact Carol Daniels 0845
052 5346; carol@caroldaniels.co.uk See the leaflet
This group is also organisaing a Murder Mystery Evening at Morans on the 31st of October with the theme 'Black, White and Diamonds'.
Tickets will be £30 (or £25 each for a party of six) to include 3 courses and a glass of wine and we anticipate that they will be going fast! Please email angela for more details (currently available to Cheltenham Connect members only)
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Fundraising
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With the increase in our ongoing costs we are now looking for people with the time and experience to help us develop our fundraising activities. It would be especially helpful to find someone who is knwoledgeable about writing grant applications.
Please contact Wendy if you would like to b involved.
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Sponsors |
It's
hard to keep up with our list of sponsors! We are immensely grateful
for everyone's help. Please let us know if we have missed you off the
list.
Jane from Jam Creatives
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for such amazing design work for our summer festival , The Norwood Triangle
Project and the local history project
The
Exmouth Arms for the use of their meeting room and sponsoring our events
The Norwood Arms for sponsoring our summer festival
The Bubonic Wind Band, Rebus, Unjust William, The Coronettes, Materplan,
Corraine Collins Dance Studio, Egyptian Spirit Belly Dancing Troupe, Salsa del
Sol, Tone's Calypso and Reggae, The Incredibelles, Ezekiel Butler. Macaroni
Wood, Sam Jones, Life O'Reilly,
Maya Mogambo, UkeGlos, Thrill Collins, Dram, Neil Morris - for
playing at our summer festival
Dale at Cheltenham Bouncy Castles for his help with the summer festival
Ryan at RS
Audio for his expert technical help with all our events
Duncan at Paperbox for helping us with all our printing jobs over the
last year
Ade at In2DigitalandMailing - for helping us with our printing jobs over the past
year
Taylors Fancy Dress - for supplying the
outfits for the Christmas fair and summer festival
Pip and Jim's Playgroup - for lending us items
for the toddlers play area at the summer festival
The Daffodil - for hosting the
dinner for the Norwood Triangle and local history project
The
Local Church Partnership for helping with the 10:10 Initiative
St
James' C of E Primary School, Naunton Park Primary School, Leckhampton Primary
School and Richard Pate Primary School
for helping us with the 10:10 Initiative.
Robin and Sue at Mobenn
Marquees for helping us with the marquee for
the Christmas Fair and tables for the summer festival.
Richard Walter for D.J'ing at our Christmas party and teaching us
to Salsa!
Greenway
Nurseries for providing the Christmas trees
for the Craft Fair
GlosUke for offering their time at all our major events
The
Dixies for playing such cool jazz at our events
The
Incredibelles for singing at
our events
The La La Lunchtime Chorus for singing at the Christmas Fair
Pip
and Jim's (St Philips and St James' Church) Choir for singing at the Christmas Fair
Thrill Collins for playing at
tour events
The
Music Man - for
entertaining the children at the Christmas Fair
Tivoli
Trading - for providing the signage for the
Craft Fair
Taylors Fancy Dress- for providing the elf costumes for the Craft Fair
Cooks Kitsch-In for providing Christmas lights for the Craft Fair
Morans for providing Christmas decorations for the Craft
Fair
Chris at
Dodwells for regularly providing us with
stationery at cost price
The Beehive for offering their upper room for our monthly CC Skillspace
business network meetings
Graham Boston (from Gloucestershire Connections) for designing the logo
Belinda
at GlosOffers.co.uk for our noticeboard
on The Bath Road
Clare at Cheltenham Directories for providing a page of editorial about Cheltenham
Connect each month.
The Sign Studio for the banner that we used at The Suffolks Fair
Karen at Colourmatters for helping us with the printing costs of our first T
shirts
Matt at The Brown Jug for his help with our events
Mike and Louise Preston at Independent Eye Care for providing two beautiful Bugattis for our launch
adVANce+MAN (01242 517 886) for supplying a man
with a van to pick up the exhibition stands for the launch
ILEC for the loan of their van for the launch
St Philips and St James' Church - for the loan of tables for the launch event and the
Big Picnic Lunch.
Bethesda
Church - for the loan of tables for the
launch event and offering their venue for our Green Group events.
Jan
Vaisey and Ian Harvey for singing at
our launch
St James' Primary School PTA for lending us their pergolas for our events
The University of Gloucestershire for loaning us their exhibition panels and providing
the Park Campus for The Big Picnic Lunch
Simone Williams (freelance artworker)simone@hockeyhouse.co.uk - for designing The Big Picnic Lunch poster
Angeline Fuller from Entire Credit - for giving us a large cash box!
Cheltenham
Bowling Club for the use of
their clubroom as a meeting venue.
St
James' Primary School for the use of
their hall for the Auction of Promises.
Cotswold Linen Care for the tablecloths
for the Auction of Promises.
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The Cheltenham Connect Team
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