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 6,400 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.

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Latest News - Updated Sunday June 28th 2009 at 2:37pm

**With immediate effect Quedgeley News has a new contact telephone number.  The new number is 01452 549899**

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for Quedgeley Community Trust is on Friday 10th July at 7.30 pm in the Community Room of Quedgeley Community Centre, School Lane, Quedgeley.  If you are interested in joining this small friendly committed group of people who enjoy producing Quedgeley News, run the Health & Fitness Club at Severnvale School, organise the Quedgeley Show, and most importantly give grants to worthwhile community groups and projects, why not come along to the AGM or contact us via the Contact Us page.   It costs just 50p a year to be a member of the Trust, but the rewards are worth a million!

This year's Quedgeley Show is being held on Saturday 12th September from 2 pm at Severnvale School.  More details in the Quedgeley News over the coming months.  The full show schedule is now available to download on the Quedgeley Show section of this web site.  If you wish to book a craft/trade stall (there is a small charge) or are an organisation/group in Quedgeley who would like to promote yourselves at the Show please ring Mike Skidmore on 07984 614109 or complete the Contact form on the Contact Us page.

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!

More new houses on the Kingsway development in Quedgeley so we need more volunteer distributors!  The new roads are Goose Bay Road, Lakenheath, Locking Drive, Syerston, Uxbridge Lane, Wittering Way, Wattisham Road, Fylingdales Gardens and Mona Avenue. These new roads are near to Kingsway School and we would like to welcome them to the Quedgeley community by delivering a copy of Quedgeley News to them each month. If you can help please contact Joy Barham, our Distribution Co-ordinator, on 01452 553241 or complete the Contact form on the Contact Us  page if you can help.  We promise it will take no more than 30 minutes or so each month so if you have recently moved to the area why not consider helping us.  It's a great way of getting to know your new neighbours. Also be sure to let Joy know in plenty of time if you are a distributor and have holidays planned when distribution is likely to be so that she can find someone to fill in for you.  Thank you!

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July 2009
£5,000 Quedgeley Community Trust Grant to Quedgeley Social Club

Within the constitution of the Trust, is one important line, 'to promote Social Intercourse'. This is why the Trust took over the failing Health and Fitness club at Severnvale School 3 years ago, then spent £24,000 on new equipment there, to help "to promote Social Intercourse" i.e. by providing somewhere for people to meet, and in this case, keep fit. The Trust has, for a while, been aware of the problems that Quedgeley Social Club has been experiencing, and recently saw the assistance being provided by the Parish Council, the clubs landlords, regarding a lower rent.

Therefore when the club recently asked for help it was considered. On legal advice the Trust cannot pay any of the club normal bills, the help had to be 'actual help'. It was therefore approved that the 12 year old carpet and other flooring be replaced and that the Trust gives a grant of up to £5,000 to cover the costs incurred. The predicament that the club found itself in falls within the term, if the club was to close 'people could not meet for friendly communication and activities". The club is open to anyone in Quedgeley to take part it, because of the licensing laws, it has to be a 'Private Members Club', a club which people pay a membership to join, the same sort of thing as the British Legion. It is not a public house and open to everyone, but a club you can join. This £5,000 grant from the Trust has enabled the social club to undertake plans for improvements to the club's premises that due to lack of finance they had been unable to implement.

Now with the grant they are able to take forward ideas that they have had for some time. A new dart board and electronic scoring system has been installed, these have enabled the club members to start a men and a women's' darts team, which enables them to take part in the local darts league, another flat screen television has been installed behind the bar, for the football/rugby supporters to watch different games. One of the main problems at the club has always been its size; this from day one has been a major problem. Unfortunately the club cannot be increased in size, however over the last few years there are so few functions held at the Community Centre which require a bar that the small function bar was redundant, so it has been taken out and that small area has been fitted with a few chairs and a small television, a bit of a television snug bar, small but beautiful. The club, built and fitted out some eleven years ago, had really started to look tired and in need of redecoration and a general spruce up. So the club's own members have undertaken a number of jobs to spruce it up, it been totally repainted, the furniture has been repaired and a number of the tables have received some carpentry work. One thing that was there from day one was the flooring so the grant has enabled the club to replace all the tired flooring. The club accounts and its paperwork had always been done at either the Treasurer's or Secretary's home, not a very satisfactory method, so again a small room normally used as a stock room has been converted into a small office.

With this facelift the club now hopes that it is fit for purpose and ready for the next ten years. With the redecoration and the new flooring the appearance of the club building will be greatly enhanced and will give the people of Quedgeley, a pleasant and friendly venue for a social drink and to take part in 'Social Intercourse'. The Club of course will want to 'show off' the new renovations once they are completed, so call in for a look at what they are doing and enjoy a drink Trefor Hughes for Quedgeley News

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