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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.

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  • Our Pittville History Works project made the national news today with an article in the Sunday Times about communities who are creating online archives to unlock the history of their streets. The article features 6 Evesham Road, where a blue plaque… Read More

  • Our Plant Sale on Saturday 21 May was a great success, raising nearly £390 for Friends of Pittville funds and over £120 for the new play area. Many thanks to everyone who contributed. Here are some photos from the day. Read More

  • Following  a successful preview day for invited school children, the new play area in Pittville Park will be open to the public from noon this Friday. It may get very busy over the coming weekend and half term holiday! Read More

  • Our Plant Sale on Saturday 21 May will be going ahead despite the wet weather forecast. All the stalls will be under cover, so please come along and pick up some bargains. We will be at the Scout Hut opposite… Read More

  • The project to refurbish Pittville Gates has earned a 2016 Civic Award for the Restoration of an Existing Structure. The project team received the award at a ceremony at the Town Hall on 20 April. As well as Friends of… Read More

  • We invited Friends of Pittville to suggest names for the boat (actually a wreck) in the sandpit in the new play area. The final choice was The Jolly Joe – appropriately piratical with a reference to Joseph Pitt. There is… Read More

  • During the evening of Thursday, 21st April, Cheltenham will be joining over a thousand other towns, villages and communities in lighting beacons to celebrate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty The Queen. The Prince of Wales will invite Her Majesty… Read More

  • Thanks to a grant from the Gloucestershire Environmental Trust, the aviaries in Pittville Park are being refurbished. The work will include replacing all the mesh, repairing and repainting the metal work, repairing all the timber structures, improving the facilities for… Read More

  • Thanks to our efforts, the new play area in Pittville Park will be fully complete when it opens in late May. This is only possible because Friends of Pittville have managed to raise over £90,000 from grants, council funds and… Read More

  • Some of our regular Green Space volunteers and a few residents came out last Sunday to ‘clean for the queen’, a national event in which forty-seven Cheltenham groups participated.  We were in Pittville Lawn and enjoyed a coffee at Central Cross… Read More

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