Suggestions for Campden's Future Way Forward

The Chipping Campden Area Partnership was formed in 2004 to write a community plan for our town identifying priorities for the future.  “The Way Forward” is now nearing completion.  The Action Plan will be published in its final form once you, the members of the local community, have had the opportunity to comment. We want to ensure that the final action plan reflects the needs of the whole community.

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Blues gig raises more than £1,000 for Chipping Campden Music Festival

CHIPPING Campden people got the blues at a sold-out concert that raised more than £1,000 for the town’s annual music festival.

A Blues Evening with Connie Lush was staged in the main hall at Chipping Campden School.

Connie Lush is an award-winning blues musician who headlined the Liverpool City of Culture opening ceremony.

Rhys Froggatt, an information technology technician at the school, organised the gig with William Bennett who is the son of Charlie Bennett who owns Campden’s Bennett’s Fine Wine shop.

Rhys is also a pianist and plays the organ in the town’s Saint James’ parish church, where he is also a church warden and which is Chipping Campden Music Festival’s usual venue.

He and William made a two-course meal, from locally sourced food, for the 200 guests who enjoyed beer supplied by Campden’s Eight Bells pub.

Rhys, who thanked Campden’s W.Haines and Sons for donating the vegetables, said money raised at the concert would enable the festival to attract more accomplished musicians.

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Campden marks 70th anniversary of Green Howards' arrival

A display is running, until the end of September, in the Old Police Station, High Street, to commemorate the arrival of the Fifth Battalion, The Green Howards.

Two companies of these territorial soldiers, many only eighteen years old and mostly from Yorkshire's Scarborough area, were stationed in Campden from late September 1939 until January 17 1940.

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