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Cheltenham Literature Festival​2-11th October 2020Summerfield Trust is sponsoring the Hashi Mohamed event at the Pillar Room in the Cheltenham Town Hall

19/11/2020

 
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Hashi Mohamed: People Like Us (E013)
Ask a politician, and they’ll tell you it’s hard work. Ask a millionaire, and they’ll tell you it’s talent. Ask a CEO and they’ll tell you it’s dedication. But what if none of those things is enough? Raised on benefits and having attended some of the lowest-performing schools in the country, barrister Hashi Mohamed knows something about social mobility. In People Like Us, he shares what he has learned: from the stark statistics that reveal the depth of the problem to the failures of imagination, education and confidence that compound it. 

Chair: Julia Wheeler, Venue: Town Hall, Pillar Room, Date: 7 October, 17.00 – 18.00 

Summerfield Charitable Trust has sponsored a fascinating talk by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw on Black Holes! ​Listen to the Cheltenham Science Festival @Home on YouTube on June 2nd 7p.m. ​

19/11/2020

 
Listen to the Cheltenham Science Festival @Home on YouTube on June 2nd 7p.m. ​
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Chipping Campden Cricket Club

1/9/2018

 
Summerfield Trust funded project Dudbridge Locks Hydro Project
The summer of 2018 was an enjoyable and successful season for Chipping Campden Cricket Club, with exciting times ahead.

The 1st XI enjoyed their first season in a different league. After nearly forty years in the Cotswold Hills League, for several reasons including strong support from the GCB, the development of the Club was felt to be better suited to the tiered system of the Gloucestershire League. We were warmly welcomed into Division 3 and despite a few concerns about extra travelling the team enjoyed playing at the new grounds and against new teams. Sam Nicholls finished top batsman and Jack Groves top bowler in the division, and the team gained promotion to division 2 for 2019.

The 2nd XI also enjoyed a new start in the Cotswold District League division 2. In only its second season since reforming the 2nd XI the team continues to go from strength to strength.

The junior section continues to build on their good foundations built over the last few years. New junior co-ordinator Andy Parsons along with the rest of the committee would especially like to thank our regular sponsors as well as the generous donations from Chipping Campden Community Trust and The Summerfield Trust. They helped us buy new mobile nets and a bowling machine which significantly enhanced the coaching of the children.

LINKS:
Chipping Campden Cricket Club

Gloucestershire Gateway Trust - Listening to the voices of our communities

5/12/2017

 
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FUNDING NEWS:
The Gloucestershire Gateway Trust - the charity partner behind the multiple award-winning M5 Gloucester Services - celebrated its 10th birthday by handing over the first of many major grants to local community groups.

Part of the unique business and charity partnership means the Trust will be able to plough an estimated £10m share of the Services’ turnover over the next 20 years into local community initiatives.

The first £60,000 has just been handed over - £10,000 each to the Trust’s six core community partners: the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, The Nelson Trust, GL Communities, Play Gloucestershire, All Pulling Together in Stonehouse and Fair Shares Time Banking.

Each of these six partners will get a total of £100,000 from the Trust over the next five years, making their work supporting local people and the environment more sustainable.
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To find out if your community group or charity could benefit, visit the Trust's website:
Gloucestershire Gateway Trust
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Gloucestershire Gateway Trust 
Westmorland Limited
Buckingham Group Contracting

Gloucestershire Gateway Trust (GGT) is a unique charity working to create charitable benefit in the county by supporting regeneration and creating new long term income sources for some of their local community partners.  

The £40 million project, in partnership with Westmorland Limited, has built a motorway service area between Junctions 11a and 12 of the M5, to generate income to support nearby target communities.  The project also has charity partners in Gloucester and Stonehouse.  During the build, many jobs were created to support it, and now the build is over, the project will create as many permanent job opportunities as possible for these areas.  

​The Summerfield Trust supported the initiative at it's inception back in 2007 and again in 2016 to help develop the community initiatives provided by the Service Stations.  GGT Chief Executive Mark Gale explains, "This project would never have even started within out the visionary support of the Summerfield Trust. At the beginning of the development process in 2007, when our six trustees had only a vision, an identified opportunity, but not a penny in the bank, the Summerfield Trust secured and held the project site in trust to give the communities time to develop their proposals and find the right commercial partner to work with. Their support has made possible every benefit that flows now and in the future".

Ronald Summerfield Collection at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum

11/9/2013

 
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum Logo Summerfield Charitable Trust Summerfield Collection
Ronald Ernest Summerfield (1916-1989) began collecting antiques as a boy in Derby where he later opened an antique shop. In 1952 he moved with his parents to Cheltenham where they bought a house in Bayshill Road, and Ron opened an antiques shop in Montpellier Avenue. Collecting, and especially the excitement of the auction room, remained Ron’s lifelong passion. His collection grew rapidly as he rarely sold anything except to finance further purchases. Eventually antiques, pictures and books filled every room in his house and shop and by the time of his death his collection numbered almost a million items.

Following his death in 1989, museum staff were allowed to choose items from his collection and these were donated to the Art Gallery & Museum through the Friends of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums, a registered charity. The remainder of his collection was sold at auction, the sales taking 25 days and comprising over 14,000 lots. It was the longest auction sale of a single collection held in Britain in the 20th century and attracted considerable media attention. The sale realised almost £7,000,000.

A highlight of his collection and one which had great meaning for Ron Summerfield personally is the portrait by Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877-1958), the Ugly Duckling.

He particularly wanted to give this painting to the town as it reminded him of his mother.

It was painted in 1950 of Valerie Tarantolo (then Valerie Anderson) aged 16.  The artist, who lived in Cirencester, spotted Valerie working in Boots and asked her to sit for him. Now living in America Valerie had been searching for her portrait for many years and eventually found it via the internet. Her return to see it after nearly 60 years in April 2008 made national news in the UK, and can be seen by clicking on the link below to view the short film by David Grange.


Frank Cadogan Cowper Ugly Duckling Portrait Summerfield Trust Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
'Ugly Duckling' portrait by Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877-1958)
American beauty finds lost picture after 50 years
This video by David Grange records Mrs Valerie Tarantolo, the sitter in one of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum's favourite paintings, returning to see her portrait after more than 50 years. She is the sitter for the Ugly Ducking by Frank Cadogan Cowper which hangs in Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. The painting was bequeathed by Ronald Summerfield through the Friends of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum in 1989. Ron Summerfield wanted the painting to be hung in the Art Gallery & Museum in memory of his mother.
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Right: Mrs Valerie Tarantolo in 2008 posing in front of the Ugly Duckling portrait that was bequeathed by Ronald Summerfield to Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.

Far Right: Mrs Tarantolo in the 1950s
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Photo by David Grange
Summerfield Charitable Trust Projects Funded Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum Ronald Summerfield Collection Ugly Duckling Portrait
Photo courtesy of Mrs Tarantolo

THE QUENINGTON TRUST

11/9/2013

 
This Trust in Quenington, a small village near Cirencester, has run a biannual outdoor sculpture exhibition since 1999 in the garden of the Old Rectory.  Exhibits include high quality sculpture, textiles, and ceramics. 

In 2003, in collaboration with Brewery Arts, the Trust launched their education programme, which offers workshops for groups of children and students, and guided tours around the exhibition by trained tutors.  The Summerfield Trust gave a donation to fund the costs of four specialised workshops for special needs children.  Schools include Alderman Knight school in Tewkesbury; Heart of the Forest Community Special school; Cotswold Chine school and the Roses School in Stroud. 

LINK: Quenington Sculpture Trust

THE NELSON TRUST

11/9/2013

 
Since 1985, the Nelson Trust, based in Stroud, has been providing an integrative care programme for people with addiction problems. It offers a resettlement programme, education, training and employment, family therapy, aftercare and a specialist women's service. 

In 2009 the charity was awarded a contract by the Ministry of Justice to establish a new service for women resident in Gloucestershire who are considered to be at risk of offending.  The ISIS centre was opened in Gloucester in March 2010.  

The Summerfield Trust awarded a three year grant to support the Centre’s work with vulnerable women in their own homes.

LINK: The Nelson Trust website

CHELTENHAM FESTIVALS

30/7/2013

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"Support for Cheltenham Festivals from the Summerfield Charitable Trust has had a profound and lasting effect, transforming what we have been able to achieve for culture in Gloucestershire."
DONNA RENNEY, Chief Executive Cheltenham Festivals, 2009
The Summerfield Trust has been a supporter of Cheltenham Festivals for many years and was instrumental in funding the development of their far-reaching education programme, and also the establishment of what is now regarded as one of the world's leading Science Festivals.

CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL: THE SUMMERFIELD LECTURE

We have supported an annual lecture on important spiritual, moral or ethical issues at the Cheltenham Literature Festival since 1994.  Providing audiences with rich topics for discussion and debate, the lectures are given by thought-provoking speakers who are leaders in their field.  Setting the standard in 1994 for all future Summerfield Lectures was Will Hutton talking on his seminal work, "The State We're In". Other Summerfield lecturers include Julia Neuberger, Simon Jenkins, David Jenkins, Stanley Wells, Onora O'Neill, Jeremy Bowen, Andrew Roberts, Chris Patten, Henry Porter, A.C. Grayling, Susan Greenfield and Nicholas Stern.  In 2009 we sponsored an event in which Oleg Gordievsky, the highest ranking KGB officer ever known to defect to the West, discussed his life and career.

The Trustees request that a proportion of our grant to the Literature Festival be used to provide sixth form students in the county with free tickets to the Summerfield events.

CHELTENHAM FESTIVALS - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

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Cheltenham Festivals Education Programme sponsored by The Summerfield Trust
The Summerfield Charitable Trust has a long-standing history of supporting Cheltenham Festivals’ Education work. The Education Department was established with initial funding from the Trust, and has since built a strong reputation for their comprehensive education programme. 

The Trust has supported a range of projects through which the Festivals have inspired communities across Gloucestershire in the arts and science. The Festivals education work now engages around 25,000 children, young people and adults every year with high quality events and free activities.

In 2012 the Trust funded the appointment of an education consultant to review Cheltenham Festivals education provision which has enabled them to set new strategic objectives and to create a long term plan for the future  growth of their work.

CHELTENHAM SCIENCE FESTIVAL

The genesis of the Science Festival was, in fact, in the Summerfield Annual Lectures at the Literature Festival. Two lectures given by leading scientists, Lewis Wolpert and Susan Greenfield, entitled "Is Science Dangerous?" and "The Wiring of our Brains" respectively, became two of the hottest tickets at the Literature Festival. This convinced Jeremy Tyndall, then Head of Festivals, that there was sufficient public interest to take setting up a Science Festival seriously. The Summerfield Trust provided the vital seed-corn funding for the first Festival held in 2002.

The Summerfield Charitable Trust now sponsors a lecture at the annual Festival.  Click here to read Trustee James Millar's review of this year's Summerfield Lecture by Martin Rees.
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Trustee James Millar introducing Martin Rees at the 2013 Science Festival Summerfield Lecture.
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Cranham Common Trust

7/5/2013

 
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Cranham Common Trust 2011 Grant. Click image to read their progress report received in February 2012.
In 2011 SCT paid a grant of £5,000 to help towards the costs of erecting fencing on Cranham common. 
In May 2013 we received a full progress report of the project. 
Click on the image to view the progress report and photos of the project.

Matthew Elston: An unusual project in the early days of the Trust

1/5/2013

 
PicturePhoto courtesy of Boyd Gilmour Photography.
Matthew photographed with the violin & bow during a rehearsal with the BBC Concert Orchestra prior to a live Radio 3 broadcast in December 2012.

Matthew Elston grew up in Bishops Cleeve, near Cheltenham, where he attended the local comprehensive school and showed a great aptitude for music.  In 1994 his mother approached us for funds to help buy him a violin.  SCT agreed to buy a violin of the Panormo school (circa 1800) and a silver and tortoiseshell Fleur de Lys  bow - jointly valued at £11,000. The violin was loaned to Matthew and, in 2002, SCT agreed to sell him the violin and bow with repayment over a ten year period. 

Today, Matthew is a professional violinist with the BBC Concert Orchestra & English Chamber Orchestra. 
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