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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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
Members of the core team meet very informally most Wednesdays from 7-9pm at the Exmouth Arms on the Bath Road. If you have an idea that you would like to discuss or would like to just meet us come do come along!
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
ABOUT US
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 2009-2011 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.
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 US ON TWITTER! #@cheltconnect
CONTACT US: you can contact us via contact@cheltenhamconnect.co.uk
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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
Counselling services
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Hi, I live locally and have my own counselling practice.If you If you or anyone you know could benefit from talking to me please see my website…Continue
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VOLUNTEERS FOR THE HULLABALOO MUSIC FESTIVAL
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2210: The Collapse? - National Geographic Channel
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A friend emailed me a link to this programme on You Tube. It is an hour and a half and I have only watched the first half of it so far, but I found it interesting. It looks at what is happening now…Continue
Request for Voluntary Stewards when Olympic Torch comes along the Bath Road
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Request for Voluntary Stewards when Olympic Torch comes along the Bath RoadIf you could circulate the request for volunteers to the other connect members that would be fantastic, especially as the…Continue
LOCAL INFORMATION
NAUNTON PARK SWAP SHARE AND SAVE
Latest Vision 21Newsletter
POLICING
THE OLYMPICS.
If you are going to be involved with organising community events, school visits etc to either the Olympic flame visit to Cheltenham, during the olympics in general or the Queens jubilee please contact Ian with basic details so that this can be considered along with planning for their resources during the Spring into Summer period.
Pc 88 Ian Miles Ian.Miles@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
Cheltenham South Local Policing Team, Gloucestershire Constabulary
Cheltenham Police Station|Talbot House|Lansdown Road|Cheltenham|GL51 6QT
0845 090 12348 www.gloucestershire.police.uk
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 - MARCH 2012
2012%20Mar%206th%20newsletter.pdf
PARKING
Current Parking Update
The County Council's proposals for the introduction of parking permits for residents and businesses in this area, and detailed changes to parking spaces, can be found on the website –www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/
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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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