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Our newsletter is published four times a year and covers the latest developments in Pittville, project updates, forthcoming events and longer feature articles. If you would like to contribute to the newsletter or help us to distribute it, please contact us.


  • Following our recent AGM we have a keen, very willing and even more able committee. With just one missing Trustee. After a long and dedicated run our membership coordinator has Read More

  • On a pleasant autumn evening in early October, Chris Chavasse, Senior Trees Officer for CBC, kindly led a delightful and informative walk on and around Pittville Circus, discussing the trees Read More

  • We were delighted to receive news from Wayne Sedgwick, the Senior Ranger with the Green Space Team at CBC, that work is due to start immediately on a new path Read More

  • On 30 September, the mayor of Cheltenham, Dr David Willingham, came to the park to officially open the Sensory Garden in front of the aviaries and unveil the carving of Read More

  • First, an anniversary.  19 November 2009 was the start date of the Green Space Volunteers with just six members, two of whom, Judy and Terry Langhorn, still volunteer regularly with Read More

  • We wanted to mark the bicentenary of the laying of the Pump Room foundation stone in 1825. So we decided, with the agreement of Cheltenham Borough Council, to design and Read More

  • Nestled between the children’s play area and the aviaries in Pittville Park, Cheltenham, a new sensory garden has taken root — combining planting, sculpture, and community spirit to create a Read More

  • The volunteers, as always, have done a grand job this month, with around twenty people turning up for each session.  Amongst other things, we have pruned the laurels on the west Read More

  • I noticed there have been regular volleyball sessions in the park over the last few months so I stopped and asked Andrea, one of the organisers, more about it. At Read More

  • Fiona Clarke, one of the founders of Friends of Pittville, worked very closely with Chris on all Friends of Pittville matters until her departure for Australia a couple of years Read More