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The Friends
of Pittville AGM
will be held at Dunalley Primary School, Main Hall, on Tuesday 21 October
2008 at 7.00 p.m.
Rob Bell, Assistant Director Environmental
Maintenance, will address the meeting to update everyone on the details of
the Stage 1 application recently submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund in
support of the bid for a grant of £3,000,000, as part of a planned £4,000,000
facelift and upgrade of the park facilities, and give a brief overview of the
next phase of the process. Rosemary Mansbridge, who has been coordinating the
project, will also attend.
The
meeting is not restricted to FoP Members. Anyone with an interest in
Pittville and St Paul’s is cordially invited to attend.
Please bring a friend.
Notice
is hereby given of a proposed change to the constitution as follows:
Para G (1) revised to read:
“The Executive Committee shall consist of not
less than 5 and not more than 14 current members of the Friends of Pittville consisting of:
(a) The Honorary Officers specified in
clause F
(b)
A maximum of
seven other members who have been formally proposed by a member of the Friends and elected at the Annual General
Meeting.
The members of the elected
Executive Committee shall hold office from the conclusion of that meeting.”
Delete para G (1) (c) and
add as new para G (2) (d)
Reword para G (6) to read:
“No person shall be entitled to act as a
member of the Executive Committee whether on a first or on any subsequent
entry into office until after signing in the minute book of the Executive
Committee a
declaration of acceptance and of willingness to act in the trusts best interests of the Friends.”
(This declaration will be incorporated in a
new proposal form for Executive Committee members)
The full
Constitution can be viewed at http://www.friendsofpittville.org/constitution.aspx
Election
Of Executive Committee Members
Most of the current Executive Committee (Excom) have submitted proposal forms
for re-election to the committee for the year commencing the end of the AGM.
If you are a member of the Friends then you are entitled to submit an
application to join the Excom also. The maximum number of ordinary Excom
members is 10. You may download an application form from the website at www.friendsofpittville.org/docs/excomproposal.pdf.
Please fill in your details and the proposers details also, as requested,
plus signatures. If you are not sure what your membership number is, or that
of your proposer, then contact secretary@friendsofpittville.org.
Completed forms should be returned to The Secretary, 17 Pittville Crescent,
Cheltenham. GL52 2QZ not later than one week before the AGM.
Membership fees
Members are reminded that membership subscriptions
are now due. A suggested subscription of £2, or a mere 50p for concessions,
should be returned, with your name, address and email address, to:
The Treasurer, 11 Monica Drive. Cheltenham GL50 4NQ.
This will cover the period until end of December
2009.
If you have difficulties returning your
subscription, then please contact the Treasurer directly by email to arrange
payment. He can be contacted at treasurer@friendsofpittville.org
Members
will also have the opportunity to renew their membership subscription of £2,
or 50p for concessions.
St Paul’s to be represented on Friends
of Pittville Executive Committee
Daud McDonald, who moved to St Paul’s three years ago from
Reading in Berkshire, will be standing for election at the AGM. He is an
importer and retailer of goods from India and has a shop in the town centre.
Daud is also the founding member and community spokesperson for the St Paul’s
road area residents association.
New Co-opted Excom Member.
Cllr. Tim Cooper, newly elected Ward Councillor for
Pittville, has joined the Excom. Along with his brothers, he set up a
local company running sales, marketing and promotions. He has further
business interests in sports travel and property development businesses. Tim
is a keen cyclist and footballer, and is secretary of Charlton Rovers FC.
Update on the HLF Bid
The submission date for the Stage I bid was 30
September and it was delivered by hand to ensure safe arrival! We now have to
wait until March 2009 to learn if we are successful. In the meantime there is
time to read the submission - this runs to several volumes and hundreds of
pages!
The final Pittville Park Master Plan lists nineteen
projects which range from enhancing the setting of and renovating the
Pittville Gates to creating a new and distinctive gateway adjacent to the St
Paul’s residential area, and refurbishing the skateboard park and tennis
court area to reconstructing the bridge across the lower (west) lake.
The application focuses on four areas, reflecting
the priorities of the Parks for People programme, by which the bid will be
evaluated: the historic nature of Pittville and St Paul’s; increasing ease of
access into and around the park; encouraging greater constructive use of the
park by a wider range of people; and increasing the involvement of the local
communities in Pittville and St Paul’s in its maintenance and development.
The nineteen projects were agreed after consultation
and much discussion between various national and local government agencies,
borough council teams and community groups, such as ours. Inevitably there
have to be compromises and some people will be disappointed that their favoured ideas did not
appear in the final list.
Watch the Friends of Pittville website for full
details when they become available at www.friendsofpittville.org/news.aspx.
Help for community groups (http://www.community-spaces.org.uk/)
Community Spaces is an organisation that we might tap into,
whether or not we are successful in the HLF bid. It provides funding
for community groups across England that wants to create and improve their
local environment. Grants start at £10,000. The process is similar
to the HLF bid but is only open to groups in the community, not local
councils or other governmental bodies.
Have you visited the exhibition, “Line
by Line”, at the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum?
This exhibition is a small selection from the
gallery’s collection of drawings of Cheltenham from the 1740s to the present
day. It includes four delightful views
of Pittville – Pittville Gardens
and Lake, by Greta Delleany (1883-1968); Pittville Parade,
by R. Mackay, about 1826; Cheltenham and Leckhampton Hill, taken form
Pitville (sic) Spa, also by Mackay, about 1827, and an untitled drawing
of the Pittville Pump Room, about 1830.
The exhibition runs until 7 December
and is in the Long Gallery on the second floor.
Historian Steven Blake is giving an
associated illustrated talk on artists and printmakers in Regency Cheltenham
on 26 November, from 1.00 – 2.00, at the gallery. Booking is advised and it
costs £4. Telephone: 01242 237 431.
Anyone for tennis?
‘Refurbish the tennis courts’ appears
in the Master Plan. For the more nostalgic amongst us, sadly perhaps, this
will not back to the 1913 location on Pittville Lawn or to 1913 standards, as
shown in this old postcard!
There are some more wonderful old photographs on our
web site at www.friendsofpittville.org/gallery.aspx.
R W B Pattinson
Hon Secretary
Friends of Pittville
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