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Cotswold residents will soon benefit from new and improved health and leisure services in the Cotswolds following a district-wide review into leisure provision.
At a meeting on Monday 1 March, the Council’s Cabinet unanimously supported the adoption of the Cotswold Leisure Strategy – an all-new vision for leisure that will provide sustainable physical activity and sport opportunities for residents and local communities in the Cotswolds.

A Cotswold resident has been presented with a Community Connectors Award by digital network provider Openreach in recognition for their support for parents and teachers during lockdown.
Melissa Ormiston, who is part of the not-for-profit organization Rock the Cotswolds, campaigned to support those struggling with remote learning. She worked with local parents to identify their issues and concerns so that they could be fed back to local schools and the Local Education Authority.

Members of Cheltenham Lacrosse Club are putting on their running shoes to raise funds for Cheltenham-based National Star.
Earlier in the season, lacrosse club members voted for a local charity to support this year and chose National Star.

Cotswold District Council is launching its new online crowdfunding platform next week to give residents the chance to seek financial support for their ideas to improve local places.
The new platform ‘Crowdfund Cotswold’ launches on 22 February. In partnership with the UK’s leading civic crowdfunding platform Spacehive, the Council is holding a virtual launch event for anyone with ideas about how to improve their communities.

This summer’s Royal International Air Tattoo, which was due to take place at RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire on July 16-18, has been cancelled by organisers, the RAF Charitable Trust
Enterprises (RAFCTE).
RAFCTE directors concluded that the ongoing uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 meant there were too many risks associated with pressing ahead with the airshow. It is the second year running the event has been unable to take place.

There’s an old-fashioned adage for most situations – and one which could be used in connection with coronavirus is that clouds sometimes do have silver linings. In this case it’s been the resurgence of home-cooking and baking which has been inspired by the lockdowns.

As Valentine’s Day comes around, it’s natural to feel a little lovestruck – and this Cupid figurine certainly caught the eye of archaeologists working for Highways England.
The almost 2,000-year-old figurine depicting Cupid, the Roman God of love was discovered in Gloucestershire along with a bow-shaped brooch, and a Roman or early Saxon skeleton.

Cotswolds-based bakery and tearooms, Huffkins, has launched a new initiative to help keep children entertained at home during lockdown. #HuffkinsAtHome offers a range of free printable activity sheets aimed at children aged 3-11 years.
For younger children, including those of pre-school age, a range of colouring-in and spot the difference sheets are available. Each colouring-in sheet also includes additional activities of varying difficulty and effort, such as spelling, writing and maths tasks, suitable for primary school aged children.

Cotswold District Council is launching an exciting new online crowdfunding platform that enables residents to raise money to improve their neighbourhoods.
Working in partnership with the UK’s leading civic crowdfunding platform Spacehive, ‘Crowdfund Cotswold’ aims to give residents with ideas to enhance local places the opportunity to seek financial support.

Residents in Siddington are being warned to prepare for flooding as the River Churn has risen following heavy rainfall overnight.
Those in Cirencester, South Cerney and Cerney Wick also continue to be on high alert with flood warnings issued.

Join The Door’s 3 directors at 8pm on Tuesday 22nd December for the Stroud-based charity’s final virtual quiz night of 2020 – full of the festive themed questions we all love (or love to hate!)

For the seventh year running a Cotswold family is making their home shine bright this Christmas with a beautiful light display dedicated to a much-loved wife, mother and grandmother, Sandra Wearing.
The dazzling display in South Cerney, near Cirencester, is put together by Kelvin Wearing, with the help of his family, to raise funds for Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice who cared for Sandra.

Swell C of E Primary School gained headlines across the UK, India, France, Brazil and Portugal after launching its Swell Christmas Raffle in November, but is now appealing to the local community to buy tickets before the draw on 16th December.
The raffle, which offers a signed Fender guitar from Coldplay as its coveted prize, has sold 6,000 tickets to date, but the school is hoping to sell all 20,000 tickets on offer to really kick start its fundraising campaign to raise money to build an extension and replacement toilet block, originally added to the small village school in the 1960s.

Organisers of the Cotswolds’ much-loved Cornbury Festival are thrilled to bring a little joy to the end of 2020, with the announcement of Bryan Adams as headliner of the festival’s Friday night line-up on July 9 2021.

Yes, there will be a live Christmas show this year at the Roses Theatre Tewkesbury!
(Almost) a Christmas Carol – an adaptation of Dickens’s famous tale – will open on 12 th December, and tickets cost just £12 each.

The Good Grief Project and The Sub Rooms are collaborating to honour those who are experiencing grief during the pandemic by lighting up the historic venue at the heart of Stroud.
This evening (Tuesday, December 8) from 5pm Stroud Sub Rooms will be flooded with yellow light as part of National Grief Awareness Week (December 2-8) which will also see other historic buildings such as St Paul’s Cathedral in London and Blackpool Tower illuminated. There will be a minute’s silence at 6pm.

At the Queens Hotel in Cheltenham, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The 1st December saw the launch of the Christmas advent projections on the hotel’s Georgian façade, running from 4.30pm to 10.30pm each evening.
In collaboration with local partnership project, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), that helps young people in the area thrive, the Queens Hotel team has partnered with 13 local schools* to create a Kindness at Christmas advent calendar that showcases artwork from 24 primary schoolchildren*.

Over the past 50 years, millions of people from across the globe have marvelled at the incredible aviation spectacles that have seen the Royal International Air Tattoo grow to become the world’s greatest airshow.
For the first time ever, the complete history of the Air Tattoo, from its birth in 1971 to the present day, has been captured in a beautifully illustrated book written by renowned aviation journalist Ben Dunnell and features hundreds of dramatic photos, many taken by some of the world’s leading aircraft photographers.

Four students from Chipping Campden School have helped raise several hundreds of pounds for Campden Home Nursing and the school’s new Performing Arts Campaign by designing Christmas cards which have sold like hotcakes!

Coldplay, one of the most famous rock bands in the world, has donated a signed Fender guitar to a small village school in the Cotswolds as a prize in its Christmas raffle.
Swell C of E Primary School, in the north Cotswolds, which has just 29 pupils, has opted to make 2020 a year to remember, not forget, by hosting the huge online raffle to raise vital funds.