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Summerfield Trust Celebration at the Gloucester Cathedral Lady Chapel on the 24th May 2018

18/7/2018

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​​Katie Hicks Beach, The Very Rev Stephen Lake, James Millar, Vanessa Arbuthnott, Margaret Brown, David Owen,
​Edward Gillespie, Lavinia Sidgwick.
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Some Gloucester based charities supported by the Summerfield Trust gave a mixture of performances and talks to funders and supporters of the Lady Chapel project and friends of the Summerfield Trust.
 
The Celebration was led by The Very Revd Stephen Lake, Dean of Gloucester
 
Performances were given by:

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​Artshape – Via Dance Company
The Summerfield Trust have supported a variety of Arts projects since 1999.  The young people with mixed disabilities performed a dance piece called ‘Catfish’, which raised awareness of the dangers of young people using Social Media. 

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​Friendship Café – Street United presents a performance of street dance
The café and it’s various projects have been supported by The Summerfield Trust since 2002.  This was the first public performance for Street United, a group of talented dancers aged between 4 and 18 years old. The dance group offers its members people to talk to, a sign help or just wanting to raise children’s confidence.

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​Gloucester Bike Project 
The project is a not for profit social enterprise offering free bike maintenance and bike building courses for young people and adults. A donation from the Summerfield Charitable Trust of £25,000 allowed them to refurbish one floor of their new site.

Maureen Parker (on the right) gave an explanation of the charity.

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​GL4 Beats performed a beat box and singing set called ‘Strike a light’
GL4 Beat is a free singing, rapping and beatbox group who meet weekly at The Redwell Centre in Matson. The young people get a chance to work on vocal techniques and the venue at the Cathedral provided excellent acoustics to enhance their accomplished performance.

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​Gloucester History festival (GUST) 
Naisha Hussein gave a talk on the Asian suffragette, Princess Sofia.  The Summerfield Trust has helped to fund GUST in 2016 and 2017.  GUST is a charitable organisation set up by Donna Renney to support cultural development in Gloucester.

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Gloucester Music Society
Hannah Talbot-Cooper gave a Flute performance of CPE Bach Sonata in A minor.
Gloucester Music Society has been supported by the Summerfield Trust in order to provide the high quality and innovative concerts its members have come to expect. 

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11 Local Gloucestershire charities have received The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

18/7/2018

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​The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to local volunteer groups across the UK to recognise outstanding work done in their own communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the anniversary of The Queen's coronation.
Any group doing volunteer work that provides a social, economic or environmental service to the local community can be nominated for the award. Each group is assessed on the benefit it brings to the local community and its standing within that community.
The 11 noteworthy local charities will be presented with their award between June and October 2018:
 
Art Couture Painswick
Brain Tumour Support
Gloucestershire Youth Mini Bike Project
Home Start Cotswolds
Jigsaw Thornbury
Patchway Festival
South Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Peer Support Service
Tewkesbury Sea Cadets
The Cotswold Voluntary Wardens
The Friends of Bathurst Pool
The Holst Birthplace Trust
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