Issue 217 • Friday 25 November 2022 Emailed to over 1,750 local homes
Queen Edith’s Warm Welcome launches
The Queen Edith’s Warm Welcome programme is a great new initiative which we’re sure will be helpful to residents across the area, whether you’re looking for a warm space, refreshments or just some companionship to while away the darkest days of the winter. We’re delighted by the way local organisations have come forward to open their doors and we hope to see lots of you at these events.
Regular Queen Edith’s Warm Welcome events already announced include cafés at St John the Evangelist, from 3pm to 5pm on Mondays, starting 5 December; at Rock Road Library, from 10am to 4pm on the second Tuesday of the month, starting 13th December; at St James’s, from 11am to 3pm on the first Tuesday of the month; at the Food Hub every Saturday from 10.30am to noon; at Queen Edith Chapel from 11am to 1pm, bi-monthly Wednesdays, starting 30 November; and at Heathlands House in Bullen Close, from 12.30pm to 2pm, fortnightly on Fridays, starting 9 December. We hope to bring you details soon of additional Warm Welcome events at Lichfield Road Community Centre. Please see the list here, as well as more information about the initiative.
Fantastical Forest Exhibition tomorrow
The 2022 Fantastical Forest Exhibition takes place tomorrow (Saturday 26 November) from 10.30am to 3pm at Wandlebury Country Park. The Fantastical Forest hangings, which this year include new artworks created by communities of all ages from across Cambridgeshire, will be suspended across the natural cathedral made by the avenue of beech trees at Wandlebury. Wander through an extraordinary world of ideas and celebrate the creativity of our community. More details here.
Homerton Singers kick off Christmas
Homerton Singers is a group based at Homerton College, made up of students and staff of the college, as well as singers from the local community. Its ‘Seasonal Concert’ takes place tomorrow (Saturday 26 November) at 2pm in the MAB Auditorium at Homerton College. The programme will include a delightful through-composed Christmas work by Douglas Coombes, called ‘Trig Trog and the Christmas Children’ comprising 6 songs with linking narration as well as a mixed offering of folk songs, spirituals and children’s music contributed by Gt Abington and Ridgefield Primary Schools. Entry is £5 on the door.
Saturday night charity orchestral concert
Mawson Road Community Orchestra is performing tomorrow (Saturday 26 November) at 7.30 pm at St.Johns Church on Hills Road. The orchestra’s enchanting music comes from countries such as Hungary, Turkey, and Spain, with a flavour of Gypsy, and includes classical pieces such as Ravel’s Bolero. Tickets on the door are £10/ £5 unwaged, and free under 16 yrs. The concert is in support of Camsight.
Ask the GCP as well as our councillors
There’s a City Council South Area Committee meeting on Monday night (28 November), which anyone can watch online, and optionally ask questions. Not only can these be directed at councillors, but the Greater Cambridge Partnership will be in attendance, so there’ll be the chance to ask their representative too. With the consultation on vehicle charging currently under way, many residents may have questions! Details on how to watch can be found here.
Alternatively, last week the Greater Cambridge Partnership held an online information evening about its proposals for the south of the city and beyond, and the event is now available to watch on YouTube. Subjects covered include the new ‘Making Connections’ plans, which include the controversial vehicle charging element, as well as Greenways, Travel Hubs and more. It’s very comprehensive and you can find it here.
Cost of living support afternoon
A city council pop-up ‘one stop shop’ for information, guidance and support to help us stay healthy through the winter visits Queen Edith’s next week. Council officers will be joined by partners who can advise on bringing down household bills, improving home energy efficiency (with free energy saving products available such as rechargeable lightbulbs, draught excluders, chimney balloons and radiator reflector panels), checking the benefits and discounts you’re entitled to, and much more. A huge range of organisations will be present – it’ll be a very valuable use of anyone’s time. The free event is at St James Church on Wulfstan Way on Tuesday (29 November) from 2pm to 5pm. Full details here.
Community lunch Christmas special
The popular community lunches at the St John’s Centre are held on the last Wednesday of each month, which means that next week’s is the big Christmas event! It’s open to all, and you’re welcome to come along and even bring a friend or neighbour if you wish. It’s only £5 per person for a delicious Christmas lunch. No need to book – just turn up at 12.30pm next Wednesday (30 November).
Kick off Christmas on the Biomedical Campus
There’s a big Christmas event on at the Jeffrey Cheah Centre on the Biomedical Campus next Friday (2 December), open to all and free to attend. From 2pm to 6pm there’s a Christmas Market with craft, charity and food Stalls, including The Hot Sausage Co, Waffle & Co and Scotties Scotch Eggs. Then from 6pm to 8pm there’s a free screening of the magical family Christmas movie ‘Elf’ – no need to book, first come, first served! More information here.
Christmas Market just a week away
St James’ Church on Wulfstan Way has its Christmas Market on Saturday 3 December from 12noon to 4pm. There’ll be a chance to make a Christmas wreath, as well as books, bric-a-brac, tombola, raffle, refreshments …and a visit from Father Christmas! Make a date in your diary.
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Family Christmas Show tickets on sale
Bursting with joy, dance and music that will blow your socks off, The Nutcracker takes you on a wild and festive adventure! This exciting, all-inclusive show takes inspiration from the original story from 1816 and cranks it up to 2022. Experience a high energy celebration with giant sweets, dancing nutcrackers and singing mice. It’s a fun-filled Christmas extravaganza that will leave you and your children feeling full of holiday cheer. Performances start on 7 December and run until 31 December. More information and tickets here.
Christmas Trees with delivery and collection
Hudson Timber Christmas Trees are doing a special deal with all trees this year, including a £5 donation to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. Their premium Nordman fir non-drop trees from Scotland are at least 6ft tall and include delivery and collection for £65, all in. Delivery will be on Monday 5 December and collection on Monday 9 January. Wreaths (£15/£20) and tree bases (£10) are also available. Email info@hudsontimber.co.uk to place your order.
Can your business help with work experience?
Netherhall School’s Year 10 students will be going out on work experience from 3–14 July 2023. Could the company you work for offer them a placement? If so, please contact Mr Daniel Carlson at the school for more details at dcarlson@netherhallschool.org
Exchange languages and ‘travel’ the world for free
VBuddies is a locally-developed ‘social metaverse edtech platform’ connecting young people to exchange languages and culture with native speakers. Using virtual reality technology, users can “travel” around the world without the cost or need to travel. It is available in English, French, Spanish, German and Chinese. VBuddies is about to start a pilot and will use the feedback from users, language teachers and pedagogical researchers to help them decide on phase 2 of the development. You can read more about it here.
Help with Queen Edith’s magazine delivery?
The third and final edition this year of Queen Edith’s magazine will be arriving from the printers in a couple of weeks’ time and should be ready for delivery on 9/10 December. We’ll be convening the usual team of deliverers, but we could always do with a few more of you! It only takes an hour or so to deliver a bundle, and we’ll try to get you a ‘delivery round’ in a street near your home. If you haven’t delivered for us before, and would like to help out, please let us know here.
This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s huge lineup of films this week includes A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story; A Concert for George; AMARYLLIS accompanied by LIVE score performance + director Q&A; Black Adam; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Bones and All; Cezanne – Portraits of a Life; Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Goodbye, Don Glees!; Living; Lyle Lyle Crocodile; Minions: The Rise of Gru; Nanny; Neil Young: Harvest Time; Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical; She Said; Spirited; Strange World; Superworm; The Banshees of Inisherin; The Menu; Triangle of Sadness
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes: Chase & Status DJ Set; Dr Feelgood/John Otway; Elephant Sessions; Garth Margengi’s Terrortome – Book Tour; H.E.A.T.; Jesterlarf Comedy Club: December featuring: Eddy Brimson, Kelly Convey, Tom Lucy and Marlon Davis; New Routes – Honey & The Bear And Josh Robins; Ozric Tentacles & Gong; Skerryvore; Spontaneous Potter; Work In Progress Double Bill; and Working Men’s Club.
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub is open tomorrow (Saturday) as usual, from 10.30am to 12noon at St James Church on Wulfstan Way. All in need are welcome, no questions asked. The Coffee Chat is open too.
Food donations may be brought to the church on Saturday mornings from 10.00am to 10.30am. The team tells us it’s usually particularly in need of items like condiments, jam, sauces in jars, tinned fish, breakfast cereals, tinned fruit and tinned rice pudding, but all donations are welcome. More details on food donations here.
Financial donations are also more welcome than ever. The project continues only through the generosity of local residents and businesses.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOOD HUB WILL NOT BE OPEN ON SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER DUE TO A CHURCH EVENT
Coronavirus Update
The government’s recommended steps to reduce the risk of catching and spreading COVID-19 are as follows: get vaccinated; let fresh air in if meeting indoors, or meet outside; and consider wearing a face covering in crowded, enclosed spaces.
The Greater Cambridge Partnership has launched the consultation on the dramatic proposals to change transport in the city over the next 5–10 years. From as early as next year, they’re proposing to transform the bus network with more services to more locations, and cheaper fares set at £1 or £2. They’re planning to invest more in new sustainable travel schemes, such as better walking and cycling links, and possibly controversially, they’re proposing the eventual introduction of a ‘Sustainable Travel Zone’ in the form of a road user charge. You’ll want to know all about this. Find out how to have your say here.
The Sawston Greenway will provide a safer and better route for people walking, cycling and, where appropriate, horse-riding, linking Sawston, Stapleford, Great Shelford, Addenbrooke’s/ Biomedical Campus and Cambridge. There’s a survey open until 9 December to give your views on the design proposals, which you can find here along with the supporting documnetation.
There’s a wide range of educational and recreational classes and courses for adults available locally, this autumn and into next year. Find out more details here:
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here. Click the ‘Today’ box and select ‘Next two weeks’ for future works.
Cambridge City Council maintains a web page listing various forms of help that are available to anyone struggling to cope with the rising cost of living. These range from additional payments from the council or discounts on things like your Council Tax, to support from partners such as food vouchers, energy grants and help managing debt. The page can be found here.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your issue and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
Issue 216 • Friday 18 November 2022 Emailed to over 1,750 local homes
Queen Edith’s to remain in South Cambridgeshire
The Boundary Commission for England has reported back after its major public consultation, and has reiterated its plan for Queen Edith’s to remain outside of Cambridge for parliamentary purposes, in the South Cambridgeshire constituency as it is at the moment. Indeed, it will now be joined by Cherry Hinton. Many people argued last year that Trumpington should be moved out instead, and the Commission noted “strong arguments” to include Queen Edith’s ward in Cambridge, including from the Queen Edith’s News editor. However, this could not be accommodated. It may be of some consolation to voters that for the first time in a generation, the South Cambridgeshire constituency is likely to be highly competitive between parties, perhaps even more so than the city. You can read the Commission’s report here (pages 23–24 refer). There is a further round of consultations, but this is not expected to result in significant changes.
Order a Christmas Tree locally
Local Christmas trees are on sale again this year from the Morley Memorial Primary School, in support of Friends of Morley. Order online in the next week (deadline Saturday 26 November) and your tree will be available for collection on Sunday 4 December at the school. Click here to find out more and place an order.
Light up Nightingale Garden!
The garden in Nightingale Park is being lit up again for Martinmas tomorrow (Saturday 19 November) from 4pm to 6pm. Everyone is welcome to wrap up warm, pack a hot drink and snack, and join in with lighting up the garden, telling stories and singing songs. Check the website for more information before coming, as this event is weather dependent. You’ll also find a lantern-making guide there.
Financial crime talk at the library
Author Susan Grossey will be at Rock Road Library on Monday (21 November) for a talk: ‘Victimless crimes? Financial crime in the 1820s and 2020s’. For twenty-five years Susan ran an anti-money laundering consultancy, advising banks and others on how to avoid dodgy money, and now she writes historical crime fiction. What she has learned is that nothing really changes: when it comes to money, people are inventive, ambitious, greedy and gullible – whether that’s in late Regency London or in modern-day Guernsey. The free event runs from 7pm to 8.30pm and there will be refreshments on offer. Susan will be selling her books at a special discount (cash sales only). More details here.
Find out about local transport projects
The Greater Cambridge Partnership is hosting a series of online events to provide an update on its projects. The event for the south of the city is on Tuesday (22 November) from 6pm to 8pm, and will cover the current Making Connections public consultation as well as provide updates on the CSET busway, Greenways, Cycling Plus and more. To attend this Zoom-based event, please register here.
New gents barbers in Wulfstan Way
MB Barbers is opening inside YOLO Hair design at Wulfstan Way shops next Tuesday (22 November) with over 30 years of combined experience from qualified stylists Danni and Stace. There are reduced prices for under-16s and under-5s, and for seniors. For more information, there’s a Facebook page here or call 07776 434843.
Monthly drop-in Dementia Café
If you’re living with dementia or supporting someone who is, there’s a monthly Dementia Café at TLC Cherry Hinton Care Home on Cherry Hinton Road, next Thursday (24 November) at 2.30pm. Enjoy a cup of tea and exchange experiences. Free; email bdm@cherryhintoncarehome.co.uk to reserve a place.
Saturday morning yoga classes launch
After setting up evening yoga classes successfully at The Netherhall School, Vedanta Wellness is starting a Saturday morning class from 3 December. There’s full information about the background and techniques of teachers Promila and Dharambir at their website here, where you can also contact them to ask for more information about the Saturday morning classes.
Show your support for the children’s hospital
The East of England is the only region in the country without a specialist children’s hospital. There are plans to change this with the development of Cambridge Children’s Hospital, and the team behind this is asking people of all ages, from all over the region, to sign a simple pledge form to say you support the hospital. You can sign it here.
Hand-crafted fundraising for the Rosie
‘Rosie in Stitches’ is a loyal team of knitters and sewers who make children’s clothes and toys to raise money for The Friends of the Rosie Maternity Hospital. They’ve joined the Virtual Shop Local – East Anglia online Christmas market on Facebook until 24 December. Join this Facebook group here to grab yourself locally sourced, unique, beautifully crafted gifts for special friends and family.
Stallholders opportunity at Christmas Fair
L’Alliance Française Cambridge is organising a Christmas Fair on the 10 December at the Bell School on Red Cross Lane, and there are opportunities for stallholders, such as anyone selling Christmas cards, crafts, etc. If you’re interested, contact Gaël Blaison at culture.alliance.cam@gmail.com
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National TV success for Taj Tandoori
Cherry Hinton Road’s Taj Tandoori restaurant this week won The Restaurant Star Show 2022 on Channel S, the UK-based television channel targeting the British Bangladeshi community. After battling through the qualifying rounds, executive chef Julal Syed was up against restaurants from Windsor and London in the final, winning with his exceptional “Mackerel Three Ways” dish. You can watch the show here (sorry about spoiling the result). It’s another feather in the cap for the restaurant which is also rated No.1 in Cambridge on TripAdvisor. Why not give them a visit or order a home delivery today?
Tell the council how to spend our money
A chance for all Cambridgeshire residents to give their views on the future direction of the County Council’s spending is live on the council’s website. Overall, the council is predicting the need to find additional income and savings of more than £28m to balance next year’s budget. There’s an independently conducted doorstep survey of 1,100 residents across Cambridgeshire, and these are the same questions to give everyone a chance to take part. More here.
This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s huge lineup of films this week includes Armageddon Time; Black Adam; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; DC League of Super-Pets; Decision to Leave; FUSE presents Candyman (2021) + discussion; Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Liam Gallagher – Knebworth 22; Listy do M5 15; Living; Lyle Lyle Crocodile; Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!; Minions: The Rise of Gru; She Said; Spirited; Strange World; Tad the Lost Explorer and the Mummy’s Curse; The Banshees of Inisherin; The Menu; The Snail and the Whale; and Tim Minchin BACK
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes: Alpha Steppa X Sista Awa Fall X Nai-Jah; Clinton Baptiste Vs Ramone; Danny Bryant; Fest En Fest; Hearty (Digital); Liz Cotton: Last Stand On Honey Hill; Mapping Gender; Skinnyman; The Fiver – November; There’s A Rang-Tan In My Bedroom & Other Stories.
Cambridge Junction is once again aiming to invite 500 young people and their families to attend its Christmas show. This initiative can often mean giving someone their first live experience of the performing arts, and previous recipients have included young carers, refugee families, children in care, young people with disabilities and children who are entitled to Pupil Premium. Just £10 buys a child a theatre trip and also an ice cream! More details on how to donate to the scheme here.
Food Hub news
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub is open tomorrow (Saturday) as usual, from 10.30am to 12noon at St James Church on Wulfstan Way. All in need are welcome, no questions asked. The Coffee Chat is open too.
Food donations may be brought to the church on Saturday mornings from 10.00am to 10.30am. The team tells us it’s usually particularly in need of items like condiments, jam, sauces in jars, tinned fish, breakfast cereals, tinned fruit and tinned rice pudding, but all donations are welcome. More details on food donations here.
Financial donations are also more welcome than ever. The project continues only through the generosity of local residents and businesses.
The government’s recommended steps to reduce the risk of catching and spreading COVID-19 are as follows: get vaccinated; let fresh air in if meeting indoors, or meet outside; and consider wearing a face covering in crowded, enclosed spaces.
The local councils, through the Greater Cambridge Partnership, have launched the consultation on their dramatic proposals to change transport in the city over the next 5–10 years. From as early as next year, they’re proposing to transform the bus network with more services to more locations, and cheaper fares set at £1 or £2. They’re planning to invest more in new sustainable travel schemes, such as better walking and cycling links, and possibly controversially, they’re proposing the eventual introduction of a ‘Sustainable Travel Zone’ in the form of a road user charge. You’ll want to know all about this. Find out how to have your say here.
There’s a wide range of educational and recreational classes and courses for adults available locally, this autumn and into next year. Find out more details here:
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here. Click the ‘Today’ box and select ‘Next two weeks’ for future works.
Cambridge City Council maintains a web page listing various forms of help that are available to anyone struggling to cope with the rising cost of living. These range from additional payments from the council or discounts on things like your Council Tax, to support from partners such as food vouchers, energy grants and help managing debt. The page can be found here.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your issue and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
Issue 215 • Friday 11 November 2022 Emailed to over 1,750 local homes
Funding success for Cambridge Junction
Local arts and cultural organisations have been awarded vital multi-year funding by Arts Council England. This includes fantastic news for Cambridge Junction, which has been awarded £1,947,438 over the next three years. This will see Cambridge Junction establish its work with young people with complex needs, engaging and delighting audiences, and continuing to be an inspiring platform and creative partner of choice for artists, musicians and performers. Last week alone, Cambridge Junction presented packed gigs and shows, co-produced a major participatory film project with Ibsen Award-winning Australian company Back to Back Theatre and engaged with nearly 200 young people through its Creative Learning programmes. As well as Cambridge Junction, two of the arts centre’s resident companies New International Encounter (NIE) and Collusion have also been successful in their applications to Arts Council England.
Remembrance Sunday in Cherry Hinton
The closest Royal British Legion Remembrance Sunday events this weekend will take place in Cherry Hinton. Starting at 10.55am at the War memorial on the High Street, there will be prayers, last post and reveille, two minutes silence, wreath laying and the reading out of the names of those Cherry Hinton residents who gave their lives for their Country. Later at St Andrews Church, there will be a special service starting at 4.00pm. Various youth groups will be represented as well as members of the Royal British Legion together with their standards. A wreath will be laid beneath the scroll of names of those Cherry Hinton Residents who gave their lives for their Country. Exit music will be played on bagpipes by Russ McPherson. All are welcome.
Robots take to the streets
Earlier this year, a pilot programme took place in Cambourne of autonomous robotic delivery of groceries. The little zero-emissions wheeled robot vehicles deliver small amounts of shopping direct to people’s homes, which helps to take cars off the road and contribute to carbon reduction targets. Residents in Cambourne gave really positive feedback, so on that back of that, Cambridgeshire County Council has approved a similar pilot here in Queen Edith’s. Starship’s robots will be delivering Co-op groceries in the area from next Thursday (17 November). You can see the robots in action in Milton Keynes here.
The Cooks Nest is on Cherry Hinton Road tonight (Friday 11 November) near the Cambridge Wine Merchants wine bar. They specialize in pita bread–wrapped gyros, chips with tzatziki and other Greek street food. Food can be brought to the wine bar.
Pop-Up Fruit Stand – Last of the Season
There will be a pop-up Fruit Stand at 253 Hills Road this Saturday (12 November) from 10.30am. This will be the last of the season, featuring a celebration of the Cambridgeshire apple and pear harvest. There will be a wide range of varieties on sale, available as pick-and-mix, all at £2.50 per kg. Pre-orders are advised by contacting martin.roach1@outlook.com. All profits go to the Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub.
Tickets are now available for Made in Dagenham, this year’s staff-directed musical at Hills Road Sixth Form College. Everyone is welcome! The show is inspired by the true events and based on the hit movie, and tells the story of the women machinists’ strike of 1968. Made in Dagenham shows how ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they stand together. Showtimes are Weds 7 – Sat 10 December at 7.30pm with an additional matinee performance on the Saturday at 2pm. Ticket information can be found here.
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This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s huge lineup of films this week includes Black Adam; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Call Jane; DC League of Super-Pets; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (20th Anniversary); Hunt; Living; Lyle Lyle Crocodile; Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!; Minions: The Rise of Gru; Mrs Harris Goes to Paris; Nutcracker; One Piece Film: Red; Prey For The Devil; Royal Ballet 2022/23 Season: A Diamond Celebration; Smile; The Banshees of Inisherin; The Wonder; and Zog and the Flying Doctors
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes: Brett Young; Clinton Baptiste Vs Ramone; Club Urania; Father Earth And A Q&A With Graham Fellows; Freya Beer; Gary Delaney: Gary In Punderland; Hearty (Digital); Is This A Dance?; Jen Brister: The Optimist; Liz Cotton: Last Stand On Honey Hill; Lydian Collective + Jasper Høiby’s Planet B; Mark Thomas: Black And White; Shy Fx; The Fiver – November; The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In; and Thea Gilmore
Cambridge Junction is once again aiming to invite 500 young people and their families to attend its Christmas show. This initiative can often mean giving someone their first live experience of the performing arts, and previous recipients have included young carers, refugee families, children in care, young people with disabilities and children who are entitled to Pupil Premium. Just £10 buys a child a theatre trip and also an ice cream! More details on how to donate to the scheme here.
Food Hub news
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub is open tomorrow (Saturday) as usual, from 10.30am to 12noon at St James Church on Wulfstan Way. All in need are welcome, no questions asked. The Coffee Chat is open too.
Food donations may be brought to the church on Saturday mornings from 10.00am to 10.30am. The team tells us it’s usually particularly in need of items like condiments, jam, sauces in jars, tinned fish, breakfast cereals, tinned fruit and tinned rice pudding, but all donations are welcome. More details on food donations here.
Financial donations are also more welcome than ever. The project continues only through the generosity of local residents and businesses.
The government’s recommended steps to reduce the risk of catching and spreading COVID-19 are as follows: get vaccinated; let fresh air in if meeting indoors, or meet outside; and consider wearing a face covering in crowded, enclosed spaces.
The local councils, through the Greater Cambridge Partnership, have launched the consultation on their dramatic proposals to change transport in the city over the next 5–10 years. From as early as next year, they’re proposing to transform the bus network with more services to more locations, and cheaper fares set at £1 or £2. They’re planning to invest more in new sustainable travel schemes, such as better walking and cycling links, and possibly controversially, they’re proposing the eventual introduction of a ‘Sustainable Travel Zone’ in the form of a road user charge. You’ll want to know all about this. Find out how to have your say here.
There’s a wide range of educational and recreational classes and courses for adults available locally, this autumn and into next year. Find out more details here:
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here. Click the ‘Today’ box and select ‘Next two weeks’ for future works.
Cambridge City Council maintains a web page listing various forms of help that are available to anyone struggling to cope with the rising cost of living. These range from additional payments from the council or discounts on things like your Council Tax, to support from partners such as food vouchers, energy grants and help managing debt. The page can be found here.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your issue and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
Issue 214 • Friday 4 November 2022 Emailed to over 1,750 local homes
A Greener Queen Edith’s Day – tomorrow morning!
A host of local organisations will have stalls tomorrow morning at this year’s free “A Greener Queen Edith’s Day”, alongside the opportunity for local residents to recycle belongings in various ways.
Organised by the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, the event runs from 9.30am to 1pm at the Queen Edith Chapel in Wulfstan Way. Cambridge City Council will be providing skips and facilities for small amounts of household waste, and there’ll be the very popular ‘Take It Or Leave It’ stall, where you can donate unwanted items in good condition, or pick up anything that takes your fancy, for free. Bring down usable household items and see if there’s anything there you might like to take home, all for free.
Organisations you’ll be able to talk to include the Cambridge Canopy Project, Cambridge Eco Homes, Cambridge Living Streets Group, Cambs County Council ‘Community Connectors’, CamCycle, Friends of Rock Road Library, the Greater Cambridge Partnership’s Making Connections consultation, the Queen Edith Medical Practice – Patient Participation Group and U3AC. It’s going to be a great event.
You’re probably aware that the Greater Cambridge Partnership is currently proposing to create an extended bus network for the region, funded by a charge on vehicle movements in a ‘Sustainable Travel Zone’ across the whole city. This includes Queen Edith’s, where we will all be charged £5 a day to use our cars. This could come into operation in 2026. GCP officers have agreed to come along to the “A Greener Queen Edith’s” event (above) to discuss the proposals. This is a great opportunity to have your say; the only other in-person event the GCP is running in the south of the city is at Trumpington Meadows on the evening of 16 November.
One more fruit stall…
The Kinnaird Way pop-up fruit stall will be making a final appearance for this year at the A Greener Queen Edith’s day on Saturday, from 9.30am. Four varieties of pear will be available (Superfin, Concorde, Conference and Comice), and 8 types of apple (Bramley, Cox, Howgate, Cherry Cox, Russet, Spartan, Crispin, and Allington pippin). The fruit is supplied by Heath Fruit farm, Bluntisham. All profits will go to the Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub.
New swimming pool gets the go-ahead
The Perse School has had planning permission granted for a new sports centre to include a swimming pool, sports hall, and climbing wall. This will be situated near the school’s Long Road entrance, and will be open to the public for specific sessions. The plans can be seen on the City Council planning website here (scroll down and click “Design and Access Statement”).
Volunteer Work Party saving flowering plants
Help wildflowers by joining a volunteer work party with Cambridge On the Verge and Cambridge Past, Present & Future, tomorrow morning (5 November) at Wandlebury Country Park. Participants will be cutting back scrub on the edge of Wandlebury in order to save the fragile flowering plants that live on the chalk grassland. More details here.
Palliative Care in MND talk
The Arthur Rank Hospice Charity Annual Lecture this year is an online event with Dr David Oliver, talking about Palliative Care in Motor Neurone Disease. It takes place next Tuesday (8 November), and the evening will also feature a personal story from Lee Taylor, who says: “People ask what’s is like living with MND? But I’m not living with MND, MND chooses to live with me”. Find out more here.
Lunchtime Chamber Music Recital
There will be a chamber music concert next Wednesday (9 November) at 1.15pm in St John the Evangelist church, performed by chamber groups from The Perse School. Entry is free and donations will be invited for the church. All welcome – just turn up.
Afternoon tea for those on their own
Next Thursday (10 November) sees another “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” afternoon tea, open to all, at TLC Cherry Hinton Care Home, on Cherry Hinton Road. The event is aimed at anyone feeling isolated or lonely, and will give you the chance to meet some new people. It’s complimentary, but please email bdm@cherryhintoncarehome.co.uk to say you’re coming.
Choral music of the Slavic world
Music for Peace, an exploration of the religious choral music of the Slavic world, comes to St John the Evangelist Church next Friday (11 November) at 8pm. The performance will explore the many facets of that fascinating musical landscape, from the choral concertos of the eighteenth century to the grand sounds of the Moscow Synodal Choir, charting the turbulent history of this under-appreciated choral tradition. Tickets are available here. Please ask for free tickets if you are one of our Ukrainian guests.
Puddings and Board Games at St James!
Whether you like something quiet, like chess or a jigsaw puzzle, or love a good noisy game, like Dobble or Linkee, come and join in at the first evening of Puddings and Board Games, next Saturday (12 November) from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at St. James Church, Wulfstan Way. Games will be provided, but please bring a pudding/cake to share. Hot drinks and soft drinks will also be available. Everyone welcome – just turn up.
Free folk music double bill
The String Section and Karen Macwhinnie and Friends will be performing in a folk music double bill next Saturday (12 November) at St John the Evangelist church, Hills Road. The String Section is a Cambridge-based trio of musicians that play a mix of fiddle tunes, folk, country, blues and Americana. Karen Macwhinnie & Friends are a trio performing American Country, jazz, folk and blues music. Entry is free, and the event starts at 7pm.
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Fully Insured and DBS Checked Cat Sitters
The Fulbourn Cat Sitting Company, operating in the Queen Edith’s area, offers in-home cat sitting based on your cat’s individual needs, giving your feline companion safety, comfort, and familiarity of their own surroundings. As we know, most cats would much prefer their own home, toys, smells and territories. Our aim is to provide professional, reliable, and loving care while you are not available to do so. More information here.
Nightingale Garden News
The Friends of Nightingale Garden have a newsletter out, which discusses a future vision for the garden and ways to manage it that are sustainable in at least the short-term. There’s lots of great photos and description of everything that’s currently going on there. Have a read here.
This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s huge lineup of films this week includes Ania; Barbarian; Barbie: Mermaid Power; Black Adam; Blade Runner (40th Anniversary); Bros; Calamity Jane; Call Jane; DC League of Super-Pets; Decision to Leave; Doctor Who Am I; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Hunt; Living 12A; Lyle Lyle Crocodile; Minions: The Rise of Gru; Mrs Harris Goes to ParisMrs. Harris Goes to Paris PG; NT Live 2022: The Seagull; One Piece Film: Red (Subbed); Prey For The Devil; Smile; Tad the Lost Explorer and the Mummy’s Curse; The Banshees of Inisherin; The Lost King; The Seagull; The Woman King; The Wonder; Ticket To Paradise; Watcher; and Zog
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes: Arts & Minds: Creative Café; Circus • Extraordinary Bodies: Delicate; Club Urania; David O’Doherty: Woe Is Me; Fridge!; Gogo Penguin; Good Times • Love, Peace & Treason; Jesterlarf Comedy Club: November; Olga Koch: Just Friends; Palaver Party; Short Scratchings; The Brass Funkeys • Cambridge Jazz Festival Opening Night; and The Noise Next Door’s Comedy Lock-In
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub is open tomorrow (Saturday) as usual, from 10.30am to 12noon at St James Church on Wulfstan Way. All in need are welcome, no questions asked. The Coffee Chat is open too.
Food donations may be brought to the church on Saturday mornings from 10.00am to 10.30am. The team tells us it’s usually particularly in need of items like condiments, jam, sauces in jars, tinned fish, breakfast cereals, tinned fruit and tinned rice pudding, but all donations are welcome. More details on food donations here.
Financial donations are also more welcome than ever. The project continues only through the generosity of local residents and businesses.
The government’s recommended steps to reduce the risk of catching and spreading COVID-19 are as follows: get vaccinated; let fresh air in if meeting indoors, or meet outside; and consider wearing a face covering in crowded, enclosed spaces.
The local councils, through the Greater Cambridge Partnership, have launched the consultation on their dramatic proposals to change transport in the city over the next 5–10 years. From as early as next year, they’re proposing to transform the bus network with more services to more locations, and cheaper fares set at £1 or £2. They’re planning to invest more in new sustainable travel schemes, such as better walking and cycling links, and possibly controversially, they’re proposing the eventual introduction of a ‘Sustainable Travel Zone’ in the form of a road user charge. You’ll want to know all about this. Find out how to have your say here.
There’s a wide range of educational and recreational classes and courses for adults available locally, this autumn and into next year. Find out more details here:
One.network is the website which shows current and forthcoming road works. You can see the map here. Click the ‘Today’ box and select ‘Next two weeks’ for future works.
Cambridge City Council maintains a web page listing various forms of help that are available to anyone struggling to cope with the rising cost of living. These range from additional payments from the council or discounts on things like your Council Tax, to support from partners such as food vouchers, energy grants and help managing debt. The page can be found here.
How to contact our local councillors
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum guide to our local councillors will ensure you contact the right one depending on your issue and the street where you live. Find it here.
Queen Edith’s city councillor Sam Davies writes a weekly email discussing what she’s been doing and what issues have come up in the area. You can add yourself to the circulation of Sam’s free email here. If our other councillors produce anything similar we will also highlight it here.
Queen Edith’s News is produced by the Queen Edith’s magazine team, part of the Queen Edith’s Community Forum, chaired by Sam Davies. Contact Sam by email at hello@queen-ediths.info
Email us at hello@queen-ediths.info if you have any news you’d like to see included, or any updates to the information above.
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