Welcome to Quedgeley News!
Quedgeley News is a magazine published monthly by Quedgeley News Limited, a wholely owned trading subsidiary of the charity, Quedgeley Community Trust, and delivered free to all the 6,700 homes and many businesses in Quedgeley. Feel free to look around our web site where you will find more information about our trust along with information on Quedgeley and back issues of our publication.
This picture is of the church in Quedgeley, St James that dates back to 1210. Quedgeley was once made up of several farms, but is now home to over 6,100 houses and a population of nearly 12,000 people. It’s no longer a village; in fact it’s big enough to be a town.
Quedgeley Community Trust is 30 years old and is a continuation by a group of people who got together to arrange and celebrate the Queens Silver Wedding Anniversary back in 1972. They had so much fun that the concept of a community continues and it publishes a monthly 44 page magazine, a mixture of local news and adverts to keep this ever growing village of Quedgeley together. Any profit it makes it gives back in grants to deserving local groups.
Latest News - Updated Thursday February 11th 2010 at 10:57pm
**The contact telephone number for Quedgeley News is 01452 549899**
If you are an Advertiser in Quedgeley News you can now pay your latest invoice "on line". Click on the Advertiser tab at the top of this page - you only need your customer number (top left hand corner of invoice), the amount you owe and your credit/debit card details. It's that easy!
Date for your diaries - The annual Quedgeley Show will be on Saturday 10th July at Severn Vale School at 2 pm. Schedules will be available soon. Watch out for more details in the coming months issues of Quedgeley News and on this website!
We are currently short of distributors in a number of roads in Kingsway and despite a number of attempts few people have come forward. As you probably know, everyone who helps QN does so as a volunteer, no one is paid. However, distributing the magazine each month will take no more than 30 to 40 minutes and will help people to get to know their neighbours and build community spirit. The roads we are currently having problems with are:
- Goose Bay Drive
- Lakenheath
- Locking Drive
- Systerton
- Uxbridge Lane
- Wattisham Road
- Fylingdales Gardens
- Mona Avenue
We are also trying to find someone who could drop of bags/boxes of QN each month to around 10 to 12 distributors in Kingsway. Again this would only involve an hour or so each month. Our distributors for Acer Grove, Downy Close and Parklands Flats in "old" Quedgeley are also no longer able to continue. If anyone can help if any of the above please click on Contact Us or ring the Editor Sandra Hughes: 01452 549899.
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March 2010
Another Successful Quiz Night!
The cold bleak weather didn't stop the Annual Quedgeley Community Trust End of Year Quiz on Friday January 15th in the Village Hall from being extremely well supported. The Quiz has been running for a number of years and some years the number of teams has been as low as 5 or 6 which is disappointing for the Trust, but this year was even better than last year with 18 teams taking part! The hall quickly filled up with everyone still in good Christmas and New Year spirits and glad to be out after the snowy weather of the past few weeks so we knew we were in for an enjoyable evening. There were some new faces with teams joining the familiar ones from Quedgeley W.I. and the Methodist Church". All were going to battle it out for the "The Tony Stroud" Quedgeley Community Trust Quiz Shield.
Two members of last year's champions, "The Gladiators", had decided this year that as they had won on three previous occasions they would help the Trust out by setting the questions. Mark and Clare Medland had obviously put a lot of time and effort in to setting the questions for the night with rounds on sport, general knowledge and TV as well as the two brain challenging anagrams (see below) and a taxing photo round. Grateful thanks go to them both for a very enjoyable evening. The winners this year were "The Real Quedgeley", followed closely by "42" and holding up the rest of the teams were "Bowled Over".
The evening raised the grand total of £180 and Quedgeley Community Trust would be interested to hear from any group or organisation in Quedgeley who have a project or idea where this money could be well spent. Please contact Kevin Tudor, the Chairman of QCT, on 01452 728591 or email editor@quedgeleynews.com with your ideas and a decision will be made at the next Quedgeley Community Trust meeting.
Thanks to everyone who supported the quiz and once again special thanks to Mark and Clare, without whom the evening wouldn't have been possible. Next year's quiz will be around the same time so look out for details in Quedgeley News towards the end of the year.
For those of you who weren't there on the night we thought you may want to have a try at solving the 2 anagrams: (Answers on Page 18 )
- A EARACHE SANG NIGHT TIME (clue: certainly didn't have the X factor)
- CHEEKS MOSH ROLL (clue: Baker Street)