MONTHLY CASH DRAW
HELP US TO COVER OUR COSTS!
Join our monthly cash draw and you can win 20% of the total take.
All you have to do is to commit to sponsoring us for £1 a month, print off the standing order form and send it in!
Events
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An Alternative Summer Fair
June 1, 2013 from 1pm to 5pm – Church House and Church Grounds
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Cheltenham Connect SkillSpace Group: Bob Lloyd-Smith: Former BBC editorial manager Bob Lloyd-Smith talks about working with the Corporation and how it has led to an interest in work psychology
June 11, 2013 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm – The Beehive, 1 - 3 Montpelier Villas, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 2XE
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LOCAL LINKS
THE STRUCTURE
Cheltenham Connect has been set up as an unincorporated membership association and is run entirely by local volunteers. You can see our constitution here. CheltenhamConnectConstitution.pdf
The current steering group consists of:
Wendy Ellyatt - Chair
Dave Savell - Treasurer
Clare McVey - Secretary
Scarlett Harris - Coordinator -Buy Local Group
Belinda Wilson - Coordinator - Skillspace Group
Rebecaa Gill and Stuart Manson - Coordinator and Secretary- Go Green Group
Vanessa Ball- Coordinator - Health and Wellbeing Group
and Debbie Smith oversees our PR
You can email any individual member by clicking on their name
Read our Vision
MEET US
We meet very informally from 7-9pm on the last Wednesday of the month at different pubs in the CC area. If you have any ideas of your own, or would like to meet members of the core team, do come along! Please email scarlett@cheltenhamconnect.o.uk for more details.
CONTACT US
contact@cheltenhamconnect.co.uk
FUNDING AND SPONSORSHIP
We are completely self-funded, although we have now been the recipient of two Cheltenham Community Pride grants. Up until now we have run two major events a year - our Summer Festival and a Christmas Craft Fair - together with a number of smaller fundraisers. And we have had the help of more than 100 local sponsors. You can see our current list of sponsors here. We are enormously grateful for their support.
As our running costs, such as printing and insurance, have slowly been increasing we have just started a new monthly cash draw (that you can read about above) so that we do not have to worry about covering our basic overheads.
MEDIA COVERAGE
We have had masses of media coverage since we started and you can see the list here.
About Cheltenham Connect
IT'S ALL ABOUT PEOPLE POWER
Cheltenham Connect is a highly successful local community initiative that was founded in 2009 and that has gone on to be one of the fastest growing and most active initiatives in Cheltenham. It was set up with the aim of strengthening and empowering the residential and trading community of South Cheltenham (which in Cheltenham Connect terms is Leckhampton, Naunton Park, The Bath Road (south), The Suffolks, Tivoli and The Park) and anyone living or trading in the area can become a member.
Since the time of our launch we have been doing a lot! From ‘Buy Local’ campaigns and craft fairs, to local business networking, history projects, low carbon initiatives, garden and crop shares, lunches, workshops and film showings there is always something going on. You can see a list of our 2011-2013 activities here.
We have four main action groups (including our new Health and Wellbeing Group) that you can sign up to below and each of these runs its own activities. We really care about the environment so have now also developed our own Green Charter. We produce a regular newsletter that you can sign up to here and you can also access our newsletter archive.
We have also developed two other websites for key projects and you can see these in the left-hand side panel and on www.cheltenhamsouthtown.org (our local history project) and www.connectmystreet.org (our 'greening the Bath Road' project. http://cheltenhamconnect.weebly.com/what-community-means-to-me.html
www.bathroadmusicfestival.co.uk
COME AND JOIN US!
What it is really about is showing how much we all care about the area and that people can achieve amazing things by getting together. We work hard but have a lot of fun so come and help us grow!
NEW EVENTS TEAM
We now also have a new events team that is busy thinking up fun ideas. Please let scarlett@cheltenhamconnect.co.uk know if you want to help.
SEE THE FOUNDER"S VIEW ON WHAT MAKES COMMUNITY here
SEE US ON TWITTER! @cheltconnect
CONTACT US: you can contact us via contact@cheltenhamconnect.co.uk
Groups
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HEALTH AND WELLBEING
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GOT AN IDEA?
Cheltenham Connect is all about ideas that we then help make happen so if you have something that you think would interest others and help our community please let us know via contact@cheltenhamconnect.co.uk.
Alternatively you can pop in and see members of the core group at one of our regular Wednesday evening get-togethers at the Exmouth Arms. We tend not to meet during the main national holidays or during July and August though.
Forum
Know anyone for this job? Cleaner urgently required in Leckhampton area of Cheltenham.
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Celtic Compliance blog: How to create a Business Continuity Plan
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Hello all,I'm a Risk and Compliance Consultant living in Cheltenham. I've just written a blog post about creating a Business Continuity Plan, which…Continue
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Green Deal: More information...
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We had a very interesting talk on the Green Deal at SkillSpace last night and it was pointed out that you can currently get a free energy assessment on yout house, with a view to qualifying for the…Continue
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Parking Issues
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In light of the recent email on extending the controlled parking zone, it seems that some key points have been missed.The Zone 8 expansion was not supported by the majority of peopleTraffic and…Continue
LOCAL INFORMATION
HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACTIVITIES
New Leckhampton meditation group starting in September. For more details contact Ivan Hatvany.
GREEN ACTIVITIES
NAUNTON PARK SWAP SHARE AND SAVE
Swap, Share and Save january 2013.pdf
SWAP, SHARE AND SAVE - NOV2012.pdf
Latest Transition Town Cheltenham Newsletter
Latest Vision 21Newsletter
POLICING
Crime Prevention
The police are currently offering free crime prevention surveys to reduce the levels of burglaries. Please let Ross Nicholl, our local community support officer, know if you are interested ross.nicholl@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
LATEST POLICE NEWSLETTERS
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Videos
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Free Hugs Campaign
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Beyond the Brink
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ENERGY SHARE
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INTERESTED IN BECOMING A CONNECT INITIATIVE?
We have just started to look for development funding to enable us to start similar initiatives in other communities. Let us know if you are interested!
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