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.

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Chipping Campden Cricket Club

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.