Issue 209 • Friday 30 September 2022 Emailed to over 1,750 local homes
What’s the Food Hub like for its volunteers?
New video: Many people in the local area kindly support The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub with financial donations; others support it with their time. This wonderful initiative couldn’t work without all of you. For the volunteer helpers who turn up on Saturday mornings, it can be striking to find out just how important the Food Hub is to its users. In a new short video, two of our young volunteers describe their experience and demonstrate why financial support from the local community continues to be so important.
There will be one final fruit stand this Saturday at 36 Kinnaird Way, from 2.00pm. It will be selling Wallis Wonder and Purple President plums, four types of eating apples (Russet, Spartan, Lambourn and Cox), two types of cooking apples (Bramley and Howgate), and three varieties of pears (Conference, Concord and Superfin).
Fruit stand organisers Susan and Steve were recently interviewed on Cambridge 105 Radio’s excellent ‘Flavour’ show – listen to it here (item starts at 29 mins).
Burial ground the subject of history talk
Alison Taylor will be giving a talk on The Ascension Burial Ground, Huntingdon Road at the next meeting of the Cambridge Association for Local Historytomorrow afternoon, at The St John’s Centre on Hills Road. The talk starts at 2.15pm and is free to members, £2 for others. More here.
Friendship Cafe on Tuesday
There’ll be a ‘Friendship Cafe’ at St James’ Church on Wulfstan Way on Tuesday (4 October) from 2pm to 3.30pm. All are welcome to call in for a chat with a free cuppa.
Slimming World groups at Netherhall School
Slimming World runs at Netherhall School every Tuesday at 5:30pm and 7pm, where Becky Johns runs groups supporting members “to achieve their weight loss dreams and find healthy eating habits all at the same time.” Becky says the groups are warm and friendly, and full of support. Booking is not required, but if you would like to find out more, please contact Becky on 07737 856 096.
Volunteer apple picking at Wandlebury
There’s a chance to join Cambridge Sustainable Food next Wednesday (5 October) for a morning of apple picking at Wandlebury Country Park. Email becca@cambridgesustainablefood.org to get involved.
Artists talks at new gallery
‘Friday Lates’ is a series of talks on the first Friday of every month at the area’s new AKA Contemporary art gallery. It starts next Friday (7 October) at 5pm with a chat with Adam Green. More information here.
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Looking for local, reliable electricians?
DS Electrical are your local domestic electricians just around the corner, ready for any electrical work in the home. With over 20 years of experience in the trade, we can boast many satisfied local residents who come back to us time and again. More information here.
Find out about the Netherhall School
The Netherhall School has its Open Evening next Thursday (6 October) from 6pm. It’s a chance to see what Netherhall has to offer your child for their secondary education. There will be guided tours around the site, plenty of hands-on activities to try out, and an address from the Principal at 6.15pm, repeated at 7:00pm. More details here.
Open morning for Perse nursery/reception places
The Perse Pelican School has its Open Morning tomorrow (Saturday 1 October 2022) from 9am to 12pm. There’ll be a chance to meet teachers, to hear a talk from the Head, Francesca Heftman, and to take part in fun activities. The school is in Glebe Road, and the event is open to any families considering Nursery or Reception entry for their child in September 2023. More information here.
This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s lineup of films this week include Avatar; Bodies Bodies Bodies; Bullet Train; DC League of Super-Pets; Don’t Worry Darling; Elvis; Emily; Fisherman’s Friends: One And All; Inu-oh; Mayerling; Minions: The Rise of Gru; Moonage Daydream; Mrs Harris Goes to Paris; NT Live: Prima Facie; Official Competition; Ponniyin Selvan; See How They Run; Smile; Tad The Lost Explorer And The Curse Of The Mummy; The Greatest Showman; The Woman King; Ticket To Paradise; Top Gun: Maverick; and Where The Crawdads Sing
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes Andy Irvine; Black Sheep; Blancmange; Flo & Joan: Sweet Release – Extra Date; Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls – Sold Out; Glenn Moore; Hybrid Minds; James Rowland: Learning To Fly; James Taylor Quartet; Jesterlarf Comedy Club: October; Megson Family Folk Showmon 03 Oct; Neurodelicious Launch Pad; Polly Paulusma; Renegade Brass Band; Sarah Keyworth: Lost Boy
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 tinned beans (although not baked beans), tinned fish, breakfast cereals, tinned fruit and tinned rice pudding, but all donations are welcome.
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.
For details of how to book first, second or booster vaccinations, please visit The Vaccinators website and click on your age group.
Green Tips
Making better use of leftovers which would otherwise go in the bin is good for your pocket and the planet. The FoodCycle website has some cracking ideas to get you started. FoodCycle also offer a weekly free hot meal, based on surplus food, at St Andrew’s Baptist Church on Regent Street, starting at 12.30pm every Saturday.
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.
Help with cost of living
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 208 • Friday 23 September 2022 Emailed to over 1,700 local homes
Bronze Age burial mound viewing opportunity
Following a major archaeological excavation at the Eddeva Park new homes development site on Worts Causeway, a Bronze Age burial mound with associated cemetery has been found. Developer This Land and Oxford Archaeology are now hosting two public open days offering guided tours at the site, tomorrow (24 September) and next Thursday (29 September). There will be 30-minute guided tours with space for 25 people per group, to allow the team of archaeologists to share their work with local groups, schools and local residents. To request a place on a guided tour, please book here.
This Land has also told us that the permissive footpath from Babraham Road up to Worts Causeway will now be closed until November, to enable water main works to commence.
COVID Clinic helpers needed again!
The volunteer response to the COVID vaccination clinics last year was astonishing, and we’ve got the chance to get the team back together again next month. The local NHS is holding a big combined COVID and flu clinic for local residents next Saturday (1 October) at Cornford House Surgery, and will need help for ‘meet and greet’ and car park marshalling, just as before. If you’ve got two hours to spare and would like to join in, please let us know here.
Do you have an unused bike?
A local resident is helping to find bikes for kids and adults arriving from Ukraine – it’s often an essential item for them to get around Cambridge, get to schools and jobs, and explore. They’re looking for donations of unwanted bikes of all sizes (preferably bigger ones, for age 7 and up). All offers are recorded in a spreadsheet and, when a bike is needed, the owner can be put directly in touch with the person who needs it. There are also two amazing volunteers who can fix bikes that need some light maintenance/mending. So far more than 50 bikes have been donated but the demand is still there. If you can help, please contact Maria at ionides.ma@gmail.com
A chance to see violins being made
Did you know that Queen Edith’s has a thriving violin making business? Now’s your chance to see what goes on. Cambridge Violin Makers is holding an open day tomorrow (24 September) from 11am to 4pm – it’s free to visit, and all are welcome. There will be a display showing how violins are made, real life demos of violin making, and students as well as staff can answer questions from visitors. Cambridge Violin Makers is at 70a Hartington Grove and you can find out more about them at their website.
Pop Up Fruit Stand tomorrow
There will be just one fruit stand this Saturday, at 36 Kinnaird Way, from 2pm. It will be selling damsons, two varieties of plums (Wallis Wonder and Purple President), four types of eating apples (Russet, Spartan, Lambourn and Cox), two types of cooking apples (Bramley and Howgate), and three varieties of pears (Conference, Concord and Superfin). Profits go the Community Food Hub.
Bring & Buy Sale tomorrow
Find yourself a bargain tomorrow (Saturday 24 September) at a Bring & Buy Sale taking place at St James’ Church on Wulfstan Way from 10am to 12noon. There’ll be books, cakes, bric-a-brac and a raffle, as well as a coffee morning.
Support local musicians at upcoming gigs
The area is showing its musical talent at several gigs in the city. Local resident Paul Elbro is part of the band Shoot The Pianist, who will be joining Blue Cinema for a fundraiser supporting the Cam Skate Donkey Common Skate Plaza Project, tomorrow (24th September) at the Portland Arms. Shoot The Pianist “faithfully play punk and new wave classics with the authenticity that only those who came of age with this music can deliver.” Sounds great. More information here.
Meanwhile, well-known local songwriter and performer John Meed will be performing in what should be a terrific ‘Acoustic Music Night’, sponsored by the Friends of Rock Road Library, next Friday (30 September). The evening takes place at the Quaker Meeting House in Hartington Grove, and also features The String Section (above), a Cambridge-based ‘transatlantic trio’ playing fiddle tunes, Americana and blues. Entry is free, and proceedings kick off at 7.30pm – there’ll be a retiring collection for the musicians.
Finally, Anna Hester (above), who we wrote about last year in Queen Edith’s magazine, is finally performing the material from her Postcard Songs album with a live band on Saturday 15 October at Storey’s Field Centre. Listen to the album here and there’s full information on the gig here. It should be a great evening.
Community lunches are back
The popular monthly community lunches at the St John’s Centre on Hills Road commence again on Wednesday (28 September), and will be held every month on the last Wednesday. There’s no need to book, just come along from 12.30–2pm. There is a charge of £5 for two courses.
See what CAST has to offer at Year 9
There’s a Year 9 and 10 Open Evening next Wednesday (28 September) at the Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology on Long Road. The specialist science academy offers a programme of GCSE, A level and T level courses along with a unique opportunity to work with nearby business organisations involved in science, engineering and technology. Register your interest here.
Public meeting for hospitals
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is holding its online Annual Public Meeting on Wednesday (28 September) from 5pm. They will be reflecting on achievements over the past year and discussing the progress of the hospitals’ strategy and finances. There will be a live question and answer session at the end of the meeting, and you can also submit questions in advance by emailing cuh.foundation@nhs.net – to attend the meeting itself via Zoom, just register here.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
TLC Cherry Hinton Care Home on Cherry Hinton Road has a Macmillan Coffee Morning next Friday (30 September). There’ll be a range of homemade cakes to accompany the hot drinks – admission is free, but do come along with a donation for Macmillan Cancer Support. Open from 10am. More information if required from Amber at bdm@cherryhintoncarehome.co.uk
Mindfulness in the Garden
As featured in the recent Queen Edith’s magazine,‘Naturally mindful in nature’is an introduction to self care with mindfulness meditation taking place in Nightingale Garden this autumn. There are free taster workshops on Saturday 1 October and Saturday 22 October at 10am with David Lynch, mindful coach and wellbeing trainer, in partnership with Nightingale Gardeners group. Join a small group to practise mindfulness in the quiet beauty of the community garden with beginners and experienced meditators. To request a place on a workshop, email David on naturallymindfulnow@gmail.com
Council funding to improve the area: ideas needed
The City Council has launched its Environmental Improvement Programme(EIP), which gives residents the opportunity to identify where to invest £170,000 in grant funding on “small-scale physical improvements to the city’s streets and open spaces.” Anyone living in Cambridge can suggest projects for EIP funding, such as work to improve war memorials and recreation grounds; planting trees and wildflower areas; and installing gates, benches, notice boards and wayfinding lighting. Let’s have some great ideas for our area! Read more about what to do here.
Share your Emergency Care experience
Addenbrookes and the Rosie Maternity Hospital are inviting patients and carers to join one of its upcoming ‘Emergency Care listening sessions’. These offer the opportunity to share experiences and opinions (online) on how you were supported when seeking urgent and emergency care, to help the Trust to respond to current and future patients’ needs. The sessions take place in October, but please email cuh.foundation@nhs.net by next Friday for more information.
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Your Local Airport Transfer Company
Cambridge Premier Chauffeur Agency is based locally in Cherry Hinton, and provides a professional and friendly executive chauffeur service for airport transfers, business/corporate travel and wedding car hire. There’s nothing better than being met at the airport and not having to drive home! More information here.
This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s lineup of films this week include Avatar; Bodies Bodies Bodies; Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva; Bullet Train; Clerks III; DC League of Super-Pets; Don’t Worry Darling; Elvis; Fishermans Friends One And All; Grease Sing-A-Long – Charity Screening; Inu-oh; Jaws; Madama Butterfly; Mamma Mia!; Minions: The Rise of Gru; Moonage Daydream; Nope; NT Live: Prima Facie; Official Competition; See How They Run; Smile; Tad the Lost Explorer and the Mummy’s Curse; The Lost King; Ticket To Paradise; Top Gun: Maverick; andWhere The Crawdads Sing
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes Annie Dressner With David Ford; Arts & Minds: Creative Café; Cambridge Ska Festival 7; Civilisation; Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls; Glenn Moore; Mitch Benn; Aoife Scott & Karen Macwhinnie And Friends; Short Scratchings; Siobhan Miller; and The Music In You With Dr Jen Wills Lamacq
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 tinned beans (although not baked beans), tinned fish, breakfast cereals, tinned fruit and tinned rice pudding, but all donations are welcome.
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.
For details of how to book first, second or booster vaccinations, please visit The Vaccinators website and click on your age group.
New Green Tips
It’s not too late to book yourself on an Cambridge Open Eco Homes tour,including a couple of houses in Queen Edith’s which have been retrofitted for energy efficiency and comfort. You can also find case studies of how almost 70 other Cambridge houses of all different types and ages have been adapted, or built from scratch to high environmental standards. More at the website 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.
Help with cost of living
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 207 • Friday 16 September 2022 Emailed to over 1,700 local homes
State Funeral on Monday
The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II takes place on Monday (19 September) and it will be a bank holiday.
Cambridge City Council will be operating to a bank holiday schedule, and all council leisure facilities, community centres and offices will be closed. Household waste and recycling collections will not take place, with all collections next week being one day later than usual. More information here.
Cambridgeshire County Council’s services will be closed including libraries, Household Recycling Centres and Child and Family Centres. More information here.
The Royal Family website contains an online Book Of Condolence for those who wish to leave messages to the family.
Anyone wishing to lay flowers locally can do so at the Green & Gardens outside Royal Papworth Hospital on the Biomedical Campus. Please do not leave any packaging.
Her Majesty The Queen’s Lying-in-State at the Palace of Westminster is open 24 hours a day until 6.30am on the day of the funeral. Please make sure you read this guidance before starting a journey to attend the Lying-in-State.
The funeral will be shown live at Queen Edith Chapel on Wulfstan Way, starting at 10am. Tea and coffee will be served. All welcome.
Pop Up Fruit Stand tomorrow
There will be a single fruit stand running this Saturday – at 36 Kinnaird Wayfrom 2pm. It will be selling shropshire damsons, two varieties of plums (Wallis Wonder and Purple President), eating apples (Lambourn and Cox), cooking apples (Bramley and Howgate), and three varieties of pears (Conference, Concord and Superfin). Also the very last few bottles of apple juice, which have been very popular this year! All profits go to the Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub.
Walk with a Warden at Wandlebury
There’s a gentle guided walk with a Warden to explore the wildlife and history of Wandlebury Country Park next Wednesday (21 September). This is a great opportunity to see and learn about the work that the charity does to protect and improve the park for nature, heritage and people (including the Highland cattle). It’s free, and no need to book. More information here.
Brain Cancer talk
There are around 12,300 new brain, other CNS and intracranial tumours cases in the UK every year. Very little progress in new treatments has been made and Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has designated brain cancer as a Cancer of Unmet Need. In a free online seminar next Wednesday (21 September), join Consultant Neurosurgeons Mr Stephen Price and Mr Richard Mair, co-leads of the Brain Cancer Virtual Institute at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, to hear about pioneering research in Cambridge that’s aiming to improve outcomes for brain tumour patients. This webinar is part of the ‘CBC on Virtual Tour’ series – the chance to learn more about the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. More details here.
Wildlife talk starts new RSPB season
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Cambridge group is back at St Johns Church on Wednesday (21 September) for its first meeting of the new season.This will include an illustrated talk by Ian Barthorpe, the Visitor Experience Officer at RSPB Minsmere about some of the amazing wildlife he’s been lucky to see. The meeting starts at 7.30pm and there is a charge of £3 on the door for non-members of the Cambridge Group. More details here.
Learn more about the Biomedical Campus
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) is the largest employment site in Cambridge, undertaking world-leading research. Next Thursday evening (22 September) sees an opportunity for local residents to visit and speak to some of the amazing people who work there at a ‘market stall’ event: organisations from across the site will be in the atrium of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology for informal chats. It’s free, and you can find out more and register here.
Help with dementia research
World Alzheimer’s Day takes place on 21 September as part of World Alzheimer’s Month, and for those impacted by the disease, the Alzheimer’s Society website has lot of useful resources. In conjunction with this, a local research nurse has suggested that readers may be interested in Join Dementia Research, a national service which allows anyone over the age of 18 of the public to register their interest in taking part in dementia research studies, with or without dementia. More information here.
The Queen Edith’s Community Forum is teaming up with Cambridge Junction and artists Hunt & Darton to bring another fun, free event for all next month, this time taking place on Nightingale Recreation Ground. The event will take on the much loved format of the Dog Show – but much sillier. And you don’t even need a real dog! More details here.
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Let’s talk about Dementia
Nearly one million people in the UK live with dementia. How much do you know about the condition? Join a free session at Heathlands House, the neighbourhood’s newest care home, to understand how dementia affects people, and ways you can help. It’s on Tuesday 27 September from 2pm to 3.30pm, and to attend, please call 01223 624680 or email tanya.jackson-turner@careuk.com
This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s incredible lineup of films this week include A Royal Night Out; Bodies Bodies Bodies; Bullet Train; Clerks III; DC League of Super-Pets; Don’t Worry Darling; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s); Elvis; Fishermans Friends One And All; Jackie Brown; Jaws; Minions: The Rise of Gru; Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan’s Island; Moonage Daydream; Nope; NT Live: Prima Facie; See How They Run; Spider-Man: No Way Home; Tad the Lost Explorer and the Mummy’s Curse; The Woman King; Thor: Love and Thunder; Three Thousand Years Of Longing; Ticket To Paradise; Top Gun: Maverick 12A; and Where The Crawdads Sing
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes Bodies; Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook; Club Urania: September; Colin Hoult: The Death Of Anna Mann; Eek-A-Mouse; Hibernation; Jordan Brookes: Fix; Lisa O’Neill; Lonely The Brave; Mitch Benn: It’s About Time; Rob Newman: Live On Stage; The Fiver – September; 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 tinned beans (not baked beans) and tinned fish, but all contributions are welcome.
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.
For details of how to book first, second or booster vaccinations, please visit The Vaccinators website and click on your age group.
New Green Tips
Sam Davies writes: “It was disappointing to have to cancel our A Greener Queen Edith’s Day, and we’re working on finding an alternative. In the meantime, we thought we’d add a ‘Green Tips’ spot in the email. This week we highlights bumblebee-friendly approaches to tidying your garden this autumn. Enjoy!
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.
Help with cost of living
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 206 • Friday 9 September 2022 Emailed to over 1,700 local homes
Greener Queen Edith’s Day POSTPONED
Sam Davies, Queen Edith’s Community Forum Chair, writes: “In the light of yesterday’s sad news, we have taken the decision to cancel tomorrow’s Greener Queen Edith’s event, and will look to rearrange at a later date. However, we will still be running the Food Hub and the café that runs alongside it, so if you would like to join us for a coffee and company, perhaps to reflect on what the Queen’s passing means to you, we’ll be at St James’s Church between 10.30am and 12noon as usual.”
Contacting the organisations
A large number of organisations would have been present at tomorrow’s event. If you’d hoped to talk to them, here are their website details:
U3AC – over 300 courses for those no longer in full-time employment, in topics from art to yoga, via current affairs, fitness, leisure, science, and much more
And finally, our thanks as ever go to Cambridge City Council and Queen Edith’s Chapel.
Pop Up Fruit Stand tomorrow
There will be a single fruit stand running this Saturday – at 253 Hills Roadfrom 10.30am. It will be selling greengages, plums, apples and new season pears, including Conference and Concord. All profits go to the Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub.
Remembering The Queen at St John’s
St John The Evangelist Church on Hills Road will be holding a special commemorative service on Sunday at 6pm, marking the death of the Queen. There will also be other services over this weekend. The church will be open throughout next week for prayer, and flowers may be left in remembrance. Full information can be found here.
Please note that the following events were announced before yesterday’s news, and may be affected by the period of National Mourning. Do contact the organisers before attending.
Cambridge Science Centre is back
Re-opening after the summer break, Cambridge Science Centre at Clifton Road launches its Our Living World Exhibition this Saturday (10 September). Explore life from the basic building blocks to endangered species in hands-on exhibits, interactive shows and fun activities. Shows at set times include Balance of Biodiversity, Leaves and Seeds, Plants and Pollinators and Fabulous Fungi. Find out more here.
Celebrate Heathlands House’s 1st Birthday
Next Wednesday (14 September) sees Heathlands House, the care home in Bullen Close, celebrate its 1st birthday, with an old fashion fairground theme. It’s free to all to attend! There will be activities from 2pm to 4pm such as a coconut shy, hook a duck and carnival performers such as stilt walkers. It’s a chance to meet the team, have a chat and view the home. For more information or to book your free place email tanya.jackson-turner@careuk.com
Watch Mamma Mia outdoors
TLC Cherry Hinton Care Home on Cherry Hinton Road is showing Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again at its outdoor cinema next Friday night, and it’s free for local residents to attend. The screening starts at 8pm and you can book a seat by emailing bdm@cherryhintoncarehome.co.uk
Wandering Yak returns to Cherry Hinton Road
The Wandering Yak food truck will be cooking up a storm on Cherry Hinton Road tonight (Friday) from 6pm, and customers will be able to bring the food to the nearby Cambridge Wine Merchants wine bar to enjoy a nice tipple or two with their meal. It’s mouthwatering Middle Eastern and North African-inspired street food which is well worth trying.
Queen Edith’s magazine now out
Copies of the latest Queen Edith’s magazine were distributed to over 5,000 homes this week, and all local residents should have received a copy. If you missed it, there’s an online version here, which is also the place to find web links to all the items mentioned in the issue.
South Area Committee video available
For residents interested in local governance, last Monday’s City Council South Area Committee meeting is now available to watch on YouTube. Click to go directly to:
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This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s incredible lineup of films this week include Bodies Bodies Bodies; Brahmastra; Bullet Train; Clerks III; DC League of Super-Pets; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Elvis; Fisherman’s Friends: One And All; Jaws; Jurassic World Dominion; Lightyear; Minions: The Rise of Gru; NT Live: Prima Facie; See How They Run; Spider-Man: No Way Home; The Forgiven; The Railway Children Return PG; Thor: Love and Thunder; Three Thousand Years Of Longing; Top Gun: Maverick; and Where The Crawdads Sing
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes Arts & Minds: Creative Café; Chris Wood; Club Urania: September; Family Catwalk Extravaganza; Fountain (:) Live; Goo:Ga – Parent & Baby Screening And Artist Talk; Hannah Jane Walker: Sensitive – Book Event; Pizza, Paint & Postcards; Powerhouse Queer Arts Festival; Producer Gathering; Starsailor; The Fiver – September; 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 tinned beans (not baked beans) and tinned fish, but all contributions are welcome.
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.
If you haven’t already, please take just five minutes to fill out the police’s online survey to help them understand what crime is happening in your area.
You are then invited to attend an online meeting on 6 September at 7pm where there’ll be a presentation on recent policing activity from the team, who will listen to concerns, present the results of the survey and allow you to have an influence. Register your attendance in advance here if you wish to attend.
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.
Help with cost of living
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 205 • Friday 2 September 2022 Emailed to over 1,700 local homes
Road user charge to fund bus improvements?
Much has been written and broadcast over the past few days about proposals from the local councils’ Greater Cambridge Partnership (‘GCP’) organisation for a massive improvement to local bus services from next year, and the introduction of a road user charge to fund it starting in about five years’ time. This eventual charge would affect most road users (including residents) in the city, and would include Queen Edith’s. In exchange, more and better bus services are promised to have been established by then, with a flat fare of £1 within the city and £2 over a wider area. A report detailing the plans is due to be presented to the GCP’s Joint Assembly next week, where a public consultation on the proposals is likely to be recommended.
The public consultation will give us an opportunity to express our views, and we would encourage readers not to rush into ‘for’ and ‘against’ campaigns and petitions. Unfortunately some local politicians are already lining up on the proposals, seemingly aiming to make them as divisive as possible. If you do have any urgent opinions or questions at this stage, there are details on how to contact the GCP here, how to contact our local councillors here, and how to contact our MP here. Our MP Anthony Browne is also scheduled to be at A Greener Queen Edith’s Day (see below).
Police appeal after cyclist seriously injured
Police are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist was left with serious injuries following a collision with a bus on Wulfstan Way at the junction with Godwin Way on Wednesday. The cyclist, a 16-year-old boy, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital where he remains in a stable condition. Police would like to hear from witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage as soon as possible. Details of how to get in touch are here.
Pop Up Fruit Stands tomorrow
Both stands will be open this Saturday at 253 Hills Road (from 10.30am) and 36 Kinnaird Way (from 2pm). They will be selling greengages, Ct Althann gages, Victoria plums and damsons, plus eating and cooking apples and juice. All profits go to the Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub.
Hear what your council is doing
Our City Council has one of its public ‘area committee’ meetings for the south of the city on Monday night. These are still held online only, but all residents are welcome to watch. There will be specific presentations on policing and safer neighbourhoods, and on Cambridge Biomedical Campus developments, as well as an ‘open forum’ to ask questions of councillors if you wish. Details of how to watch and participate are here.
Autumn Wild Flowers in Wandlebury
Want to learn more about wild flowers? Enjoy a gentle walk around the woods and meadows of Wandlebury next Tuesday (6 September) with one of the Wardens who will help you to identify autumn wild flowers. Free event. More information here.
Free café on Tuesday
St James’s Church on Wulfstan Way has a Friendship Café next Tuesday (6 September) at 2pm. Call in for a chat with a free cuppa! Everybody welcome.
Learn a new skill or craft at Arthurs Shed
Arthurs Shed is the beautiful studio in the grounds of the Arthur Rank Hospice in Shelford Bottom. It offers the chance to learn a new skill such as Astronomy or Mindfulness, or even get crafty with clay, card-making or paper-crafts. Sessions are open to the public (you do not need a connection to the Hospice) and are free of charge. The September calendar is out now and can be found here. It includes details of how to book.
Make friends at afternoon tea
You’ve Got A Friend In Me is a regular afternoon tea at TLC Cherry Hinton Care Home on Cherry Hinton Road. If you are feeling a little lonely or isolated, this is the perfect club for you – it’s open to all and the next event is on Thursday (8 September) at 2.30pm. Email cdm@cherryhintoncarehome.co.uk to let the organisers know you’re coming.
More activities added to A Greener Queen Edith’s Day
This year’s Greener Queen Edith’s event is just a week away. In addition to the many organisations, stalls and activities already announced, more have been added. These include a second-hand uniform sale for Queen Edith Primary, and the chance to talk to Stagecoach and Cambridge Re-Use. Among the many regular features there will be recycling skips at the Queen Edith’s Chapel car park for small quantities of household items, and the much-loved Take It Or Leave It stall. Full information on the event can be found here.
Hatha Yoga Classes at Hills Road
You can now join local Yoga Teacher Helen Pomeroy at The Hills Road Sport and Tennis Centre for classes on Monday evenings or Thursday mornings. Both classes are Hatha Yoga and are suitable for all levels of yoga experience, including beginners. The classes will help you improve your body awareness, movement, breathing patterns and sense of overall wellbeing. Helen is a British Wheel of Yoga qualified Teacher, a Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a Yoga Sports Coach. More details here.
Dance and Yoga classes for kids begin
Dance and KidsYoga teacher Jessica Morgado has classes starting for the new term on Saturday 10 September. The classes are for 5–11 year olds and take place at Queen Edith Primary School. Creative Dance is at 9am and Kids Yoga at 10:10am. There’s more about Jessica here and direct booking forms for the dance classes here and the Kids Yoga here.
Home energy improvements you can afford
There’s local involvement in the Cambridge-wide Open Eco Homes which starts on 12 September. The autumn season features 9 homeowner-led tours of houses in and around the city, and 5 expert talks which will describe and discuss how it’s done. Find out more here.
Thriving through the menopause
Are you a woman aged 40 years plus (or maybe even younger) who is finding it more difficult to find joy in day to day life? The Queen Edith’s based Joyful Menopause programme will show you how to deal with this phase of your life, take charge of your health and wellness so that you thrive and not just survive. A new six-week course online begins on 14 September with a group no larger than 15 women to enable individuals to feel comfortable in sharing their experiences and create a community. Find out more about course organiser Emma and how to join at the Joyful Menopause website here.
Quiz teams wanted!
The Sick Children’s Trust has a Quiz Night on Wednesday 14 September at the Perse School on Hills Road. Teams of up to 8 people can be entered, and it’s £15/head, which includes a ploughman’s supper. For an entry form, please email sctcambridge@gmail.com
Grantchester run supports local charities
The Grantchester Charity 10k and 3k Runs this year will be supporting Queen Edith’s based charities Maggie’s Centre Cambridge and the ACT Surgical Robot Campaign. There’s chip timing for all 10k participants, and to make it a family event, registration for the 3k for an accompanied under-12 is only £5.50! Find out much more here.
Art class place available
Local artist Susan Abbs has one place available on her Monday morning art class. Susan says: “If you would like to step out of your comfort zone and experiment with different media such as oils, inks and acrylics, this is the class for you. All materials are provided so all you have to do is come and play. The class is small to enable social distancing and to allow you to follow your own interests while receiving lots of one to one support.” To sign up and for more information, email susanabbs_art@yahoo.com
Cheap bus season tickets for September
Stagecoach buses have a special adult Megarider ticket promotion this month, offering adult 7 and 28 day ‘Megarider’ bus tickets at Youth prices on the Stagecoach Bus app and website. This means that adults can save 33% and travel by bus from £1.40 per day. For 7-day tickets use code EASTCTBM7 and for 28-day ones use EASTCTBM28.
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Our refurbished and renovated clinic hosts qualified, experienced practitioners offering treatments in Podiatry/Chiropody; Physiotherapy; Osteopathy; Sports Massage; Psychiatry; Clinical Psychology; Non-Surgical Cosmetic Treatments; Plastic Surgery Consultations, including skin lesion assessments; Consultant Dermatology; Microsuction Ear Wax Removal; Clinical Hypnotherapy; Thread Vein Removal using Veinwave; Medical Aesthetics; and Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery. Find out more at coachhousehealthcare.co.uk
This Week at The Light Cinema
★ Our multi-screen cinema’s incredible lineup of films this week include André Rieu’s 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days are Here Again!; Beast; Brian and Charles; Bullet Train; DC League of Super-Pets; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Elvis; End to End + George Ezra; Everything Everywhere All At Once; Fall; Fire of Love; Fisherman’s Friends: One And All; Good Luck To You Leo Grande; Hit The Road; Jurassic World: Dominion; Laal Singh Chaddha; Lightyear; Minions: The Rise of Gru; Nope; NT Live: Prima Facie; Official Competition; Orphan: First Kill; Spider-Man: No Way Home; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (40th Anniversary); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director’s Edition); Tad the Lost Explorer and the Mummy’s Curse; The Forgiven; The Invitation; The Railway Children Return; Thor: Love and Thunder; Three Thousand Years Of Longing; Top Gun: Maverick; Where Is Anne Frank; and Where The Crawdads Sing
★ The Cambridge Junction lineup this week includes Tom Lumley And The Brave Liaison; Sally Anne Hayward: Ever So Nice; Community Climate Talk With A Scientist; Vir Das: Wanted; and Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches On The Red Dress
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.
For details of how to book first, second or booster vaccinations, please visit The Vaccinators website and click on your age group.
This week’s government data on COVID-19 for this area can be found here.
The chief medical officers of the UK nations and the national medical director of the NHS in England have jointly recommended that the Covid alert level be moved down from level 3 amid falling cases. They said the Covid-19 wave of the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 was “subsiding”. The UK’s new Covid-19 alert level 2 means the virus is in “general circulation” but healthcare pressures and transmission are “declining or stable”. However, they said further Covid surges were “likely” as they urged people to take up the offer of vaccination. The autumn booster campaign is due to start within days. The move brings the UK to the lowest alert level it has been at since the system was introduced in May 2020. (Guardian)
Food Hub news
The Queen Edith’s Community Food Hub would like to thank the organisers and customers of the Pop-up Fruit Stands (see above), who have now raised £550 for our community-led initiative. Thank you!
The 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 tinned beans (not baked beans) and tinned fish, but all contributions are welcome.
If you haven’t already, please take just five minutes to fill out the police’s online survey to help them understand what crime is happening in your area.
You are then invited to attend an online meeting on 6 September at 7pm where there’ll be a presentation on recent policing activity from the team, who will listen to concerns, present the results of the survey and allow you to have an influence. Register your attendance in advance here if you wish to attend.
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.
Help with cost of living
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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