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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 7,300 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 Tuesday March 13th 2012 at 10:02am
**PLEASE NOTE The contact telephone number for Quedgeley News is changing on the
1st March 2012 to 01452 720044 (answer phone, but someone will get back to you asap)**
This year's Quedgeley Show is on Saturday 30th June at Severnvale School. Show schedules and entry forms are now available on this website under the Quedgeley Show section.
Thank you to all those volunteers who came forward to help take on producing Quedgeley News. From the April issue we have a new Editorial team in place led by Dave Talbot. If anyone is still interested in getting involved please let me, Andy Jarrett, know. Tel: 01452 883450 or email andy.jarrett@ymail.com
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We are currently short of volunteer distributors in a number of roads in Kingsway, and despite a number of appeals only a 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:
- Aldergrove
- Buchan Drive
- Northolt Way
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May 2012
WATERWELLS SPORTS CENTRE - WORK STARTS ON NEW SPORTS HALL
Waterwells Sports Centre at Quedgeley was provided to improve sports facilities for local residents several years ago with the help of the Parish Council, Quedgeley Wanderers FC and Gloucester City Council. It started off with four football pitches and changing rooms and a couple of years ago an all weather, floodlit multi-use synthetic pitch was built. Then last year the City Council installed a large playground and now the site is one of the best sports and recreation centres in the county.
The Chairman of the Parish Council's Sports and Recreation Committee, Julian Powell, says " We are always looking at ways in which we can improve the facilities and working with Quedgeley Wanderers it was agreed that a Sports Hall would be a valuable addition". In this time of recession this was a rather challenging project but with the help of a donation of £250k from the Robin Greaves Sport Foundation, Gloucestershire Environmental Trust with landfill tax contributions of £35k from Cory Environmental, £10k from Summerfield Charitable Trust, £5k from Garfield Weston and other contributions from the Parish Council, the City Council, Quedgeley Wanderers FC and the Gloucester Old Spot work will start on the 19th March. Thanks are also due to Crest Nicholson who provided the land under a planning agreement and have allowed the building of the hall on what is public open space.
Terry Cawkwell, Chairman of Quedgeley Wanderers says "The Sports Hall will bring great benefit to the local community that has only come about through the commitment and determination of Quedgeley Parish Councillors and staff, Cllr Debbie Llewelyn and members of our club. It just goes to show what a community can achieve when it works together".
The building has been designed and constructed by Kilbury Construction Limited, who are based in the area and have been liaising closely with all of those involved. It is expected that construction will be completed by the middle of September, this year, and the sports hall, meeting room and kitchen will then be available for hire.
Anna Mozol, Chair of the Parish Council says " We are extremely proud of what has been achieved up until now at a sports centre that is the envy of most other parish councils and the latest facility can only support this and I am sure will prove to be very popular.
Any enquiries concerning the above please to Peter Richardson, Parish Clerk on 01452 721552 or by e-mail to quedgeleypc@btconnect.com
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