See our website We normally meet very informally every Wednesday evening at The Exmouth Arms
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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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We are supporting LEGLAG in their call to protect a designated area to the South of Cheltenham as 'Leckhampton Country Park' Please click here to read and sign their online petition
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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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We are actively looking for people to help us grow. If you can help in any way let us know
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Cheltenham Connect is the proud recipient of a second Cheltenham Borough Council Community Pride Grant
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SEPT/OCT 2010Two successful grants! The big news for the month is that we have been awarded two grants! Cheltenham Council have given us a £4668 Community Pride Grant (making £5000 with the remaining amount from last year) and IBM have given us £500 towards a customised community laptop. Both of these will enable us to begin phase 1 of the DIY Streets Project that we have been planning. For this we will be looking at what we can do to make the Bath Road a more pleasant and community-friendly place. We hope to actively involve local artists and craftspeople in the project. 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 are now starting to put together a working group (which will include BARTA, the local residents association and the churches) and will be seeking ways to involve the whole community. Due to Wendy's commitments, and all the other things that we have going on in the next couple of months, we won't really be able to start the project until the new year though. New TreasurerWe are holding an EGM after the Skillpsace meeting on the 12th October to formally nominate and elect our new treasurer and everyone is welcome to attend. One of the core group has offered to take over the role but other nominations are welcome. Think Locally Project Although not strictly a Cheltenham Connect Project (as it covers the whole of Cheltenham) Wendy has been working with Think Locally to create a Cheltenham version for their book series celebrating local independents. About 50 businesses have now signed up, Martin Horwood has provided an introduction and Cheltenham Festivals have just agreed to be the main sponsor. If you are a local independent business who would like to be included please contact Wendy for more details. You can read more about Think Locally hereSee some sample pages from the new Bristol book Examples of forewards Find 'Cheltindies' on Twitter and Facebook! Duplicate emails
We apologise to those of you who have joined more than one group if you are receiving duplicate event postings. This is a result of the way that we have had to set up the website as each co-ordindator currently posts their own events and some are shared. We hope to soon find a solution.
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CC Buy Local
CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR
3rd, 4th and 5th December
We already have about 25 craft tables taken for the Christmas Fair so if you are a local craftsperson who would like to be involved please contact Scarlett as soon as you can for an application form. We only accept craftspeople working within a 20 mile radius of Cheltenham and everything has to be locally made. As before Santa will be finding time in his busy schedule to meet the children in the very magical Christmas Grotto!
This year the whole fair will have a Regency/Victorian theme and we hope that the Bath Road traders will join in the fun. Due to concerns about numbers the BARTA Christmas Lights event is now being held on Thursday 2nd and we will be lending them our main craft marquee on the night.
We have a few slots left for singers/musicians/bands/street performers who would like to entertain people and are particularly interested in finding more choirs to sing carols during the event.
Please contact Wendy for more information.
LOCAL TRADING HISTORY PROJECT
The history website will be launched in November along with the South Cheltenham walking trail leaflet that we developed to commemorate the bicentenary of the Tramroad.We are hoping to invite everyone that has been involved to a celebratory event.
If you have any memories or old photos of the shops in our area please let Wendy know. We are currently looking for people who are interested in history and would like to help collect and organise the materials that are sent in.
In the longterm we would like to start digitally recording the stories of local residents who have lived in the area a long time and then make these available on the website. We also hope to create active links to local school history projects.
To join the Buy Local group click here
CC Go Green
We held a special planning meeting on the 7th October in readiness for the 10:10 Campaign date of 10:10:10 (10th October 2010). During this we looked at what we had achieved during 2010 and what we were planning to do during the year ahead. We then sent out an email to the whole community inviting them to do the same. What have we done so far? Created a Green Charter Run a street energy saving project Shown films Held a Low Carbon Open House Event Run a pre-election Green 'Question Time' event Connected with schools and churches Held 10:10 School assemblies Created monthly 10:10 'Thing to Think About' Lists What are we going to do?Work much more closely with the other Cheltenham Connect groups so that we can share ideas and work together to reduce carbon emissions Work closely with Transition Cheltenham to ensure that everyone in the community knows about all the things that are going on Follow up our pilot street energy project Run more Low Carbon Open House events Run film showings/tea parties/quiz nights/walks and workshops What can you do?  Start living a green and climate friendly lifestyle. That means really thinking about what you do and making changes that matter. Help us to become Cheltenham's most successful low carbon community. Start a low carbon diet, start a car share, share shopping trips, share your garden, get to know your local shops, connect with local people, travel less, need less, buy local, share skills and resources, walk and cycle more, smile more, laugh more - enjoy a simpler life!To join the Go Green group click here
The September Business & Freelancers Networking Evening was well attended with Member Mike Reed giving a talk on '3 Ways to Make More Profit' and Becky Gardner talking on "Lessons learned from the Emerald City".
The next evening is on Tuesday 12th October when Catriona Murray will explore 'How can the Job Centre help small businesses?' and local trader and craftsperson Richard Jackson will share his personal story.
'Chaplais Tuesdays' are now held at Maison Chaplais in Tivoli from 10am on the 4th Tuesday of each month. This is an opportunity for anyone who normally works alone to bring their laptop and enjoy coffee and company! Click here for more details.
The 'Evening with Martin Horwood' was a great success and proved very interesting for all concerned. Martin told us about his own journey into politics and shared some stories about the very fascinating 18 months that MPs have been through. A big thank you to the Beehive for hosting the event.
To join the SkillSpace group click here
CC Community
An evening (and book sale!) with Marice Gran
Friday October 22nd, 7.30pm - upstairs at The Exmouth Arms
£2 entrance and limited space. Please come early to guarantee a seat.
We are co-hosting an evening with local resident and BAFTA award- winning comedy writer Maurice Gran. Maurice will talk about his transition from creator of hit sitcoms, including Birds of a Feather, Goodnight Sweetheart and The New Statesman, to maker of serious stage plays (well fairly serious).
The evening includes a hardback book sale, the proceeds of which will be divided between the SPJARA Trees fund and the development programme of St Philp and St James Church.
See here for more details
Murder Mystery Evening at Morans
Sunday 31st of October - theme 'Black, White and Diamonds'!
This event is now open to the wider community. Tickets are £30 (or £25 each for a party of six) to include 3 courses and a glass of wine. Tickets are available from Morans in the Bath Road or ATC Floors and Doors in Tivoli but numbers are limited so please book quickly. Please email angela for more details.
The new Spiritual Development Group is now meeting regularly. Please contact Carol Daniels 0845 052 5346 for more information carol@caroldaniels.co.uk See the leaflet
To join the Community group click here
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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 be 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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