Love Cambridge Members E-Bulletin - April 2011 Issue  

Featuring an update from Love Cambridge and your news, success stories and offers this bulletin keeps you up to date with what's happening at Love Cambridge and it contains information you have given us to share with your fellow members. We hope you enjoy the April edition and as always we are interested in any feedback you have, as we are keen that you find this monthly update useful.   

With thanks, Emma, Becky and The Love Cambridge Team.  

Update from Love Cambridge

	Members Meeting Thank you to everyone that attended the Love Cambridge Members Meeting on Tuesday 22nd March.  We hope you went away knowing more about Love Cambridge than you did before you arrived and we hope you are as excited about the up and coming projects as we are.   As you may remember, we had some question sheets up at every project table, we gathered some great feedback and will now feedback into each project group to ensure your thoughts and ideas are fed into our business plan.  A copy of the feedback can be found here.
	Wonderful Wednesdays The latest offers for April are now on the Wonderful Wednesdays webpage! New offers are being added all the time so please check regularly here for updates!   To see more about what Wonderful Wednesdays is about you can read our case study here. If you have any questions about Wonderful Wednesdays or if you have any offers / promotions you'd like to donate please contact Becky at becky.burrell@love-cambridge.co.uk  or call 01223 457179
	FAB Weekend The FAB weekend was a great success! The Fashion and Beauty exhibition on Saturday welcomed 402 visitors from Cambridge and surrounding areas. The activities taking place across the city were very popular keeping visitors and shoppers engaged all weekend long. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the local businesses who supported our FAB event, this was much appreciated.
	Best Practice Forum Love Cambridge would like to hear from you. As the next part of the Love Cambridge Charter looks at climate change we are currently compiling a list of useful businesses that we can share with members. Do you have any contacts you would like to share? Do you know an excellent cardboard recycler? Please send any details through to info@love-cambridge.co.uk or call 01223 457198
	Meeting Calendar for 2011 The meeting schedule for all project groups has now been set and is available online.  Please click here for more information.   All meeting agendas and minutes will also be posted within the members area of the website as and when they are available.

Update from Love Cambridge Members

	Corporate Gym membership at Outlooks Gym Kelsey Kerridge From £21 a month   Outlooks Gym is situated on the top floor of Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre overlooking Parker's Piece, as you workout you will be looking out onto the best view in Cambridge. The glass fronted gym and clear balcony allows natural light into the gym, providing a stunning airy environment. The gym contains a full range of state if the art cardiovascular and resistance equipment plus free weights and Vibrogym. After training you can relax in our Sauna or Roof Terrace Hot Tub, come and relax at lunch time of after work this week. For a FREE 1 day trial to use before the end of April* contact Helen Jacobs at Kelsey Kerridge 01223 462226 or email direct helenjacobs@btconnect.com   Places are limited so secure your FREE day today. This is an exclusive offer for recipients of the Love Cambridge E-Bulletin   *terms and conditions apply
	April at Grand Arcade   Taster Treatments Offer at Sanctuary Spa   Treat your mum or yourself to a 25-minute Taster Treatment this month for only £25. Experience the stylish, all-women, boutique day spa, Sanctuary Spa, on the second floor of Grand Arcade, where a selection of blissful treatments including Warming Herbal Compress Facial, Sanctuary Hot Sugar Scrub, Holistic Body Experience or Trim or Tone Body Wrap, await.   The 25-minute Taster Treatment offer is available until April 23rd. To book an appointment at Sanctuary Spa contact: 01223 657054.  For more information, please visit their website   Enjoy 20% off Spring Collection at Coast   To mark the arrival of the new Spring collections, Coast, on the first floor of Grand Arcade, has a 20% off promotion, available until April 30th. Select key items for your new season wardrobe, including dresses, tailoring and separates, and make your Spring shopping spree more affordable.   Commemorative Charms at Links of London   Celebrate the Royal Wedding with a commemorative charm from Links of London, Grand Arcade, and enjoy 10% off a selection of wedding and alphabet charms between April 1st and May 2nd. Choose from a stylish gold W or K, regal silver crown or elegant carriage.
	Cambridge Buskers & Street Performers Festival 2011   Sponsorship Opportunity   In 2011 we plan to hold the 4th Buskers & Street Performers Festival and once again our aim is to celebrate all the local talent we have in Cambridge and for street performers to showcase their acts alongside professional artists from the local area and beyond.  We will also be drawing attention to the Buskers Code of Practice and holding a competition for the public to vote for their favourite busker/street performer.  Voters will then be entered into a draw to win fabulous prizes themselves.   For 2011 we have developed a number of packages for businesses wanting to support the festival.  You will have the opportunity to support a festival, which is incredibly popular and brings diversity to the streets of Cambridge.  Click here to download details
	Cambridge Wordfest 2011   Cambridge Wordfest spring 2011 takes place on 15/16/17 April. Headline events include: Dawn French on A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Ian McEwan with Sam Harris on morality and religion, Antonia Fraser on her life and marriage, Roger McGough at his wittiest best, Michael Frayn on his father, Simon Armitage at his poetic peak, Celia Imrie on acting, Will Hutton on the economy, Colin Thubron on Tibet, PD James on crime and Maggi Hambling on her career and the controversial Aldeburgh Scallop. All this plus the authors of The Kings Speech and Wikileaks.   Full details can be found here
	Fans bid to make United a Community Trust Club Cambridge Fans United has launched a plan to turn Cambridge United into a community football club. Responding to the recent announcement by the club’s Board that they were seeking partners to invest in the future and the invitation from Chairman, Paul Barry, to be part of that, CFU has published a brochure entitled “The Future of Cambridge United FC”. In it, the fans organisation sets out a vision of how the club could become run by a community trust, using the support and skills of supporters, local businesses and with the involvement of local authorities, with the goal of having a secure, sustainable and ultimately successful football club. Vice- Chairman of CFU, Robert Osbourn, said “This is an opportunity to se if we can set up and run the club in a new and more sustainable way. You only have to look around in football to see many examples of where the traditional style of a board which invests big chunks of cash on a regular basis to prop up an unsustainable business model has led to crisis upon crisis.” “Other clubs which have restructured as trusts, such as Exeter, Wimbledon and Telford are being successful and as Paul said at the General Meeting, this week, they are the clubs which we should seek to emulate. We have already been talking to local business people about the potential and there is a lot of genuine interest.” “We shall be handing copies of the brochure to fans at the home match with Rushden on Saturday and seeking their support for the plan to see if we can make it a reality. Obviously, if there is someone out there with some money and who might want to share in the vision, then we shall be pleased to hear from them.” Download an information brochure here.
	Changing Spaces becomes a not-for profit organisation!   Changing Spaces, the project initiated by Cambridge City Council and Love Cambridge installing creative projects and artwork in empty shops, has now become a social enterprise.    The organisation was set up in January and will continue the work of the project as an independent not-for-profit organisation run by the volunteers who have been managing the project with the Council since it began.   Changing Spaces’ vision is to promote Cambridge as a creative city through championing and exploiting the use of temporarily vacant space in Cambridge for creative purposes.  The organisation will continue to install creative exhibitions in shop windows and pop-up galleries but will expand to consider creative uses for any temporarily vacant space in Cambridge whether it’s a shop window, a warehouse, an office, an outdoor wall or building hoardings.    Changing Spaces is an inclusive organisation, open to anyone who would like to do something creative with a temporary space.  Anyone can apply to get involved through registering at the website or contacting the Directors Lisa Wilkens or Anji Jackson-Main.   Changing Spaces is committed to excellence and ensuring that its activities are for the benefit of the people of Cambridge.  Representatives from the City Council and Love Cambridge will maintain their involvement through the organisation’s Steering Committee, offering advice on maximising opportunities to liven Cambridge’s streets through their activities.   The project currently has exhibitions on Regent Street, Hobson Street and is working with Cambridge School of Art to initiate a new pop-up gallery for 8 weeks on Regent Street from April.  After the success of recent graffiti art murals along Newmarket Road, Changing Spaces will also be partnersing with The Blight Society to decorate any available outdoor hoardings and walls that landlords wish to see brightened.
	19 April 2011 – Pension or Porridge?   Compulsory pension schemes are on the way and will affect all employers. If you would like to learn about the implications for your business and how to avoid doing porridge, register to attend the Two-Twenty Club lunch meeting on 19 April.   Tudor Griffiths, Head of Corporate Clients at Money Wise Independent Financial Adviser in Cambridge will deliver a short, sharp talk “Pension or Porridge?”   The lunch meeting is being hosted at Gonville & Caius College from 12.30pm to 3.00pm providing plenty of opportunity to network with business leaders.     Money Wise IFA is one of  four Cambridge businesses which sponsor the Two-Twenty Club, the others being Cambridge Newspapers, Aston Scott Group plc and Woodfines Solicitors. The event is open to directors and partners of medium-sized to large businesses in Cambridgeshire. To register, email admin@two-twentyclub.com or call on 01223 209978.  For information on the club visit the website
	Easter Fun with Urban Larder   Following the great success of our Valentine Chocolate Making Workshops, Urban Larder has asked Cheryl from Artistry in Cocoa to return for an Easter Decorating Workshop. This time you'll get the chance to temper your own chocolate, roll truffles, pipe messages, make your own bespoke moulded chocolates, fill an Easter egg, spin your own chocolate bird's nest! The list is endless, basically be as creative as you like. A night of total indulgence..............eat, drink and make chocolate ! Present your loved ones with a special personalised treat. Last time the class worked well with 10 people, so we have given over 2 dates for this. The first being the 6th April, second, 13th April. If you should miss both of those and are a member of Green's Gym, we will be running an additional lunchtime course there too on the 12th April. Please contact the shop for further details or email Polly on info@urbanlarder.co.uk
	Britten Sinfonia Take a break and enjoy an hour of tango-inflected music. Britten Sinfonia present a lunchtime concert at 1pm on Tuesday 12 April at West Road Concert Hall. The concert features Piazzolla’s passionate and thrilling Four seasons of Buenos Aires along with stunning tango arrangements by Marcelo Nisinman.   Tickets cost only £7 (£3 students and under 16s) and are available from the Corn Exchange Box Office on 01223 357851. For further info log on to the website
	The Cambridge Raincoat Company Ltd Brightly coloured fashion raincoats for upright bikes (and others) Available this month One style, two versions, four colours, six sizes Made in England This style for women has been designed by Savile Row trained tailor, Elizabeth Radcliffe, who also studied architecture at the University of Cambridge. Made in a hi-tec lightweight fabric which is waterproof, windproof and breathable, and long enough to keep the wearer’s knees dry when riding an upright bike, these chic raincoats are washable and will look good on any occasion. RRP price for Le Classique (standard coat) £155 plus shipping (£4.50 in the UK) RRP price for The Reflective £170 plus shipping (£4.50 in the UK) (with unique integral reflective features designed by RCA graduates) SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER:-  First 30 coats priced at £135 plus shipping For more information, please visit the website or email enquiries@cambridgeraincoats.co.uk
	Trinity Street Royal Wedding Weekend Street Party Several Trinity Street traders will be offering allsorts of great things during the Royal Wedding Weekend Friday 29th April to Monday 2nd May. There'll also be a fabulous prize hamper made up of goodies from all the participating shops for the winner of the Window Treasure Trail competition. Shopping in Trinity Street promises to be a special experience with offers, promotions and refreshments all weekend.
	Cambridge Regional College   Cambridge Regional College have giot some great offers on some course this Spring.  See below for details:     Recruitment and Selection 5 April 2011                     Special Offer £15 Off - now £120   Delivery of Excellent Customer Service 12 April 2011                    Special Offer £15 Off  - now £120   Improving Appraisals 19 April 2011                   £135   For more information please contact Kay Li at Cambridge Regional College on 01223 418461
	The Grafton turns Red, White & Blue!  The Grafton Centre turns all patriotic on Sunday 17 April as it celebrates “Being British” and the Royal Wedding with a Right Royal Knees Up.  Between 11.00am and 3.00pm, there will be much waving of Union Jack Flags, Party Games, Music, Magic and Dance all hosted by the bastion of Britishness – John Bull.  “With the Queen’s Birthday, the Royal Wedding and Easter all happening in April we thought it would be a great opportunity to bring the sights and sounds of a Street Party to The Grafton,” Says Michael Wiseman, Centre Director. Joining John Bull at ‘The Great British Street Party’ will be Katy Ashworth from Cbeebies. Twenty three year old Katy is the host of BBC's CBeebies series “I Can Cook”, which is aimed at getting the under-sixes into the kitchen and celebrates a hands-on approach to cooking. The children learn how to grow it, cook it and eat it accompanied by Katy's original songs, which she sings and plays on her guitar. With a host of activities to keep the children entertained during the Easter holidays as well as our monthly competition from Vue Cinema, The Grafton is the place to be for a Royal good time.