Love Cambridge Members E-Bulletin - November 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 November 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 & Jo The Love Cambridge Team.
Update from Love Cambridge
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User Perception Survey Now Live
The Love Cambridge User Perception Survey is now Live! We would like your feedback on evaluating Love Cambridge's first year and your perceptions of Cambridge as a City to help us develop our priorities for 2011.
Once you have completed this 5 minute questionnaire you will have the chance to be entered into a prize draw to win a family ticket to the Cambridge Corn Exchange's Christmas Show - Snow White on Ice on opening night or tickets to Salon Rouge at The Junction.
We are also looking for help distributing this questionnaire, please forward this email to as many people as you can and let us know if you are able to display the link on your website. If you know any other businesses who might also display the link on their website please let us know. Alternatively if you would like some printed questionnaires to distribute please let us know.
You can access the questionnaire here.
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Christmas Big Switch On and Parade
This year’s Big Christmas Lights Switch On Event will take place on Sunday 21 November and we hope you will join us in the fun and festivities. In partnership with Cambridge City Council and our event sponsor Grand Arcade, Love Cambridge will see the city set alight with a programme of entertainment running until 6.00pm with the Big Switch On in the Market Square at 5.00pm.
There will also be a packed programme of entertainment throughout the city centre with performances from local dance, theatre and music groups on the various main stages set up across the city Centre. Click here for more details of those taking part.
An integral part of the day is the Parade, drawing in an audience of thousands and involving a broad range of community organisations.
We are proud to announce our sponsors for the event are The Junction, Hotel Du Vin, Santa's Grotto - The Guild Hall and Cambridge On Ice.
The Parade starts at 4pm in Burleigh Street, weaves its way through the historic city and finishes in the Market Square in time for the Big Switch On at 5pm. You can download a route map on the webpage here.
The site is being updated regularly so check back for festive updates!
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Christmas Publication
The Love Cambridge Love Christmas publication will soon be available. There will be copies in all Cambridge News weekly paper and copies available for pick-up at all Park & Ride sites, all shopping centres, Tourist Information Centre, the Guildhall reception and a number of other City Centre locations! So pick up your copy in the enxt couple of weeks to get gift ideas and lots of information about Cambridge this Christmas.
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Christmas Events
Love Cambridge are putting together a Christmas Events page on our website. If you have an event you'd like us to include please let us know! Email jo.humm@love-cambridge.co.uk or call 01223 457179
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Wonderful Wednesdays
Wonderful Wednsesdays posters are now being displayed in all Cambridgeshire libraries, so there are now 31 more opportunities for the offers to be seen!
This month on Wonderful Wednesdays the themes are ''Autumn Glow" and "Magic Month". New offers are being added all the time so please check our website regularly. Click here.
If you have any offers / promotions you'd like to donate on these or any other themes please contact Jo at jo.humm@love-cambridge.co.uk or call 01223 457179
The latest Wonderful Wednesdays offers include:
* nanna mexico buy 1 get 1 half price on any regular main meal
* University Arms Afternoon Teas
* 10% Off at The Cambridge Gift Shop, Guildhall
* 25% Off all Palladio Range by Royal Selangor at Albin Edwards
* 10% Off at Jemporium Vintage
* 10% Off at Westwood Rocks
* Cambridge Wine Merchants Italian Wine Tasting Event 10th November
* Free regular coffee/tea at Indigo Coffee, St Edwards Passage
* Cycle & Skate at Cambridge on Ice
* Wine, Dine & Stay Free at Hotel Felix
* The Atrium Brasserie at Best Western The Gonville Hotel - 241 on main courses and 20% off wine
* Two for One tickets to Snow White on Ice at The Cambridge Corn Exchange
* Cambridge Regional College No Fees November
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Love Cambridge Charter Update
Love Cambridge held the highly successful Charter Awards last month at the Love Cambridge AGM. Love Cambridge spoke to Pippa Sandison from Boudoir Femme who won both the Best Overall Customer Service and Best Ambassador for Cambridge.
Pippa says "the awards and the resulting press coverage has been fantastic. We've had existing customers come into the store mentioning the awards and new customers coming to the store for the first time after seeing the press coverage. We display our awards in the window so we've also had new customers coming into the shop to see what the awards are all about."
Pippa continues "It's also been fantastic recognition for the hard working team here. They are extremely proud to be part of the Charter. I would encourage all businesses to join the Love Cambridge Charter."
There were two winners of the ‘Best Overall Customer Service’ which were Boudoir Femme, and ‘Bellanapoli Café’. The runner-up was the Christian Science Reading Room. There were also two winners of the ‘Best Ambassador for Cambridge’ which were Boudoir Femme, and the Granta Boat & Punt Company. The runners-up were Wesley Barrell, Bellanapoli Café, Doubletree by Hilton, and Sandra Jane..
If you haven’t already joined please visit our website here where you can find full details of the Charter, what’s in it for you and a list of companies who have already signed up.
The Charter has been developed to address three areas that we believe will help improve everyone’s experience of Cambridge making them want to come back again and again. The Charter looks at promoting excellent customer service within the city, ways in which we can improve the physical appearance of our streets, and also offer guidance on how taking small steps in reducing your carbon emissions can contribute to tackling climate change
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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 jo.humm@love-cambridge.co.uk or call 01223 457179
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Update from Love Cambridge Members
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Grand Arcade Lights-Up for Christmas
Soak up the festive atmosphere at Grand Arcade, on Sunday November 21st, where heavenly choirs, string quartets, orchestras and children’s voices will fill the award-winning centre with Christmas music throughout the day.
Enjoy some seasonal shopping and pop into Ted Baker where mince pies and mulled wine will be served to customers to celebrate the centre’s own Switch-On event. Grand Arcade, sponsors of the city’s Christmas Lights Switch-On in market square this year, will host it’s own Grand Countdown when Heart FM arrive at the atrium, at 3.30pm, ready for counting down at 3.55pm . At 4pm Grand Arcade will be bathed in Christmas lights, illuminated angels and reveal a winter wonderland surprise.
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Enjoy a Free Express Manicure at Sanctuary Spa
Treat yourself to a trip to Sanctuary Spa, on the second floor at Grand Arcade, and you can enjoy a relaxing treatment and receive an express manicure for free. Simply book a 50-minute face or body treatment this month, before November 27th, at the luxury boutique day spa and enjoy a free express manicure worth £25. This blissful offer is for bookings on Sunday to Thursday only. For more information and to book a treatment call Sanctuary Spa on: 01223 657054
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Radley Launches Limited Edition Collector Items
Luxury British leather bag and accessory brand Radley has collaborated with Winsor & Newton to create a limited edition range of leather bound collector items. To mark Penguin Classics 75th Anniversary, Radley has designed beautiful box sets and book sleeves to hold well-loved and much-read novels in contemporary style. Available in black, truffle and pomegranate, the leather covers have an embossed floral pattern created for Radley by British print designer Brie Harrison. The leather book covers, £49, and beautiful box sets, £149, are perfect personal gifts and set to become collector items. Radley is on the ground floor of Grand Arcade.
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Madingley Hall Christmas Party Night
Monday 20 December 2010
Celebrate with us from 7.00pm with a reception drink followed by a three course
dinner served in our magnificent Dining Hall followed by a disco till midnight in
our Terrace Bar
Tickets cost just £35 per person
MENU
Trio of fanned melon with mulled wine sorbet
Homemade country style chicken liver pate with red onion chutney and homemade soda bread
Butternut squash and sweet potato soup with crème fraiche and chives
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Roast Norfolk turkey with homemade cranberry and orange sauce and sausages wrapped in bacon
Organic Shetland salmon with a dill and lemon crust, crushed new potatoes with a champagne and
crayfish sauce
Wild mushroom and chestnut strudel with a tarragon sauce
(all main courses served with a selection of vegetables)
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Christmas pudding with brandy sauce
Dark chocolate torte with warm spiced pineapple
Toffee and banana meringue roulade with Baileys Irish cream sauce
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Coffee and warm mince pies
Accommodation is available
Tickets and accommodation available from Madingley Hall Conference Office
Email: enquiry@madingleyhall.co.uk or call 01223 746222
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New Fish Therapy Spa opens at the Grafton Centre…
Come and experience a taste of the exotic…..
Escape reality and indulge in a fish frenzy pedicure, an ancient therapy bought to the Grafton Centre In Cambridge! Immerse your toes into one of our tanks filled with 200 very special Garra rufa fish who will delight in gently nibbling your heels, toes and soles, removing dead skin and leaving your feet tip top and silky smooth… remarkable but true! Not only will you find Fish Therapy an effective beauty treatment, It is also believed that it can aid in the healing of various skin disorders, particularly psoriasis and eczema. Ultimately it is a totally pleasurable and unique experience!
What makes this therapy so great is that you can pop in on a lunch break and have a 15 minute treatment or come in with friends and enjoy Fish Therapy together!
We offer several different options -
£15 for 15minutes - foot spa and fish pedicure
£20 for 20 minutes - foot spa and fish pedicure
For an extra £10 you can have a 10 minute foot massage too!
Fish Therapy package £30.00
(15minute foot spa and fish pedicure followed by ½ hour reflexology)
Fish Therapy deluxe package £50.00
(20minute foot spa and fish pedicure followed by 1 hour reflexology)
As well as Fish Therapy treatments we also have three therapy rooms offering a wide range of holistic therapies including Tarot readings, Crystal healing and chakra balancing, Reflexology, Indian head massage, Gaia energy healing, Reiki. Theta healing, and Massage. We will also have other therapies available in the very near future - watch this space…..
Taster sessions start from £5
We are also going to be running various workshops, you will find information about these on our website.
Call now to make an appointment on 01223 778767 or simply call in. We are more than happy to discuss your individual requirements.
Contact Details
Paula Harris 01223 778767 or 07872 904601
59 Eden Hall, The Grafton Centre, Cambridge
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Cambridge Wordfest Winter 2010 Line-up
This year’s winter Cambridge Wordfest takes place over 2 days – 27/28 November - and features an exhilarating line-up of exciting events. Authors appearing include:
Armistead Maupin, a rare opportunity for all fans of the magical Tales of the City sequence to meet its creator. Armistead Maupin is on a rare and whirlwind tour of the UK and will be in conversation with novelist Patrick Gale.
‘Maupin, with all his elegance and charm, has found a place among the classics’ The Observer;
Quite simply one of our best living writers, Jeanette Winterson is here to discuss her astonishing debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in this, its 25th anniversary year;
Cambridge resident Allison Pearson will be talking about her latest novel I Think I Love You with Guardian journalist Natasha Walter. “a precisely observed account of the obsession of early adolescence, doing for the pop crush what Nick Hornby has done for football and vinyl” Sunday Times;
The No.1 bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre, Kate Mosse, joins us to discuss her haunting and thrilling ghost story The Winter Ghosts;
Acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling shares her insights into the astonishing life of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Pearl Buck. Author of the highly praised Wild Swans, Jung Chang comments “Pearl Buck is one of the greatest writers on China, Hilary Spurling has brought her and the China of her life time with amazing immediacy and perception.”
Captain Kevin Ivison shares his traumatic experiences of being a bomb disposal officer in Iraq;
Steven Berkoff provides a candid look at his early life and career;
We’re privileged to be hosting the BBC National Short Story Award Readings on the eve of the announcement of the award. The shortlist of five will be announced on November 11th so watch this space.
Announcing a brand-new Cambridge night out - The Wordfest Speakeasy. The ultimate literary cocktail, The Wordfest Speakeasy is an intoxicating blend of comedy, music, poetry and prose all served up in the Cambridge Union bar. Intelligent fun, cabaret style atmosphere and open until the early hours. Opening night performers include Kate Fox, Patrick Gale and Joe Dunthorne with music from The Morning Orchestra.
Box Office Opens 29 October
LISTING INFORMATION
Cambridge Wordfest - A Literary Winter Warmer
27/28 November, 2010
Venues ADC Theatre, Cambridge Union
Book for all events free online here.
Box Office: 01223 300085 (opens 29 October 2010)
See the website here, for full information.
Contact:
Cathy Moore
cathy@cambridgewordfest.co.uk
01223 515335 Mob: 07780 660395
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Cambridge Szeged Society
Date:-17 Nov. Evening Talk
Len Rix - Recent translations from Hungarian author Antal Szerb
Venue:- Darwin College; Old Library
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Charity quiz for Cambridgeshire businesses
10th November 2010
Prospect Research, a telemarketing agency based in
Cambridge, is hosting their annual charity quiz on Wednesday 10th November 2010 at CB2 Bistro,
Norfolk Street,
Cambridge, from 6.30-9.30pm. The event brings together teams for Cambridgeshire businesses.
The quiz evening will be a fun-filled evening, with 12 teams participating. Teams can have up to 6 members. We are very pleased to have Graham Butland, EACH Chief Executive, as our quiz master for the evening. We are also running an auction during the night, so you can stock up on Christmas goodies. Prizes will include hampers, pampering treats, retail vouchers, food and wine. A buffet will be served during the night.
Over the past four years, Prospect Research has raised £5,000 for a local children’s hospice charity, EACH. EACH aims to maximize the quality of life for children and young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition, and their families.
It is £60 to enter a team of between 2 and 6 people. An entry form is on our website here.
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Between the Pages presents Between the Books
Book Arts in Cambridge. Book Art is a little known genre of art which is surprisingly rare in Cambridgeshire. Given that Cambridge is such an academic city, full of books and knowledge, it seems strange that one of the creative types so commonly found in the city has not seized the opportunity to transform all the local libraries with a wonderful melange of non-conformative 'books'. Since this opening is still available, this is exactly what we intend to do!
We are currently running a 10 week course in the art of creative book making and Candida Bradley, the tutor, and her team of newly converted Book Artists are making books of all shapes and sizes to share with us in an exhibition at Cambridge Central Library, providing a little bit of something different for the more studious book types. There will be 20-40 works included, exploring a diverse range of subjects, all displayed amongst the library’s own book collection.
We invite you to come and experience this unique display and learn more yourself about the world of Book Art.
The exhibition will be displayed in Cambridge Central Library between Saturday 11 December until Sunday 9 January.
In other ACE news, we have recently uploaded 5 of our 2011 music courses onto our website here. |
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Fitz Favourites
28 October – 17 November 2010
Williams Art, Gwydir Street
This autumn, twenty artists from the Cambridge Arts Movement will be exhibiting a varied and exciting collection of new work inspired by their favourite art and objects in The Fitzwilliam Museum.
From Egyptian coffins to Persian ceramics, from Dutch to Venetian paintings, The Fitzwilliam’s dazzling array of collections is well known and well loved. Fitz Favourites will celebrate this diversity, with artists creating pieces influenced by a wide range of artworks and artefacts.
Exploring the ways in which we perceive and interpret art, this exhibition is a fascinating display of the artistic imagination at work, transforming art from the past into something new in the present.
Fitz Favourites is the Cambridge Arts Movement’s biggest exhibition yet, and one not to be missed. The work on display will feature pieces by: Alexandra Drysdale, Gail de Cordova, John Lyons, Tess Recordon, Deanna Tyson, Nicholas James Juett, Geertje Anderson, Rosemary Catling, Jill Ogilvy, Robert Good, Valerie Sims, Chrissie Havers, Jean Vincent, Alison Litherland, Rebecca Illett, Nick Ellis, Sue Rapley, David Brown, Neil Warmsley, Loukas Morley, Joanna Autumn Walker, Jess Sutton and Maureen Mace.
The Cambridge Arts Movement is proud to announce that the exhibition will be opened by Kate Carreno of The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Mayor, Cllr Sheila Stuart.
Dates: The exhibition runs between 28 October - 17 November and will be open 11-5 Tuesday – Friday, and 11-6 at weekends.
Special Preview: Wednesday 27 October 18:00 – 21:00. Kate Carreno of The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Mayor, Cllr Sheila Stuart will open the exhibition for Friends and Staff of The Fitzwilliam Museum, CAM members and Press only.
Private View: Friday 29 October 18:00 - 20:00.
CAM (Cambridge Arts Movement) is a new initiative bringing together a growing number of Cambridge artists from different disciplines including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and other media as well as embracing non-visual artists such as poets, musicians, playwrights etc.
CAM is a collective not driven by commercial sales: the founder artists are directly involved in the decision making, direction and creative goals of the group.
CAM’s first three months at its base, the Williams Art gallery in Gwydir Street, have seen large numbers of art lovers from within the community and further afield dropping in and being very pleasantly surprised. The CAM/Williams Art gallery at 5 Dale’s Brewery is quite unique; there is nowhere else within the City’s boundaries where original new work by Cambridge artists can be seen all year round. The artists meet every fortnight to discuss their output and refresh the exhibition so art lovers can always be sure of seeing something exciting and different at each visit.
Williams Art, 5 Dale’s Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge CB1 2LJ
01223 311687. Visit the website here.
The gallery is open 11am to 6pm Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm Saturday and 11am to 5pm Sunday, closed Mondays.
At weekends, the gallery is staffed by member artists.
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Mill Road Winter Fair
Mill Road Winter Fair is the essence of Mill Road distilled into a single day. Over 100 of the shops, cafés and restaurants open their doors and offer unusual dishes from their cultures, things which they might not usually serve here in England. Talented local people from all over the world emerge from their homes with arts and crafts, performances, food, entertainments and a warm welcome in a day of general celebration.
It is, in the truest sense, a 'unique' event.
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The Mill Road Christmas Switch On
The Mill Road Christmas Switch On, now in its 2nd year, is bigger and better than ever!
Bring the family to our lantern making workshop, from 2.00pm until 4.30pm in St Barnabas Church, where Father Christmas will also be dropping by at 4.00pm. The workshop is suitable for children aged 3 years and over who are under parental supervision.
Meanwhile, in the Gwydir Street car park between 3.30pm and 6.00pm, we have Christmas music to entertain you, and festive stalls so you can start your Christmas shopping early! Father Christmas will be leading the Big Countdown and turning the lights on at 5pm.
We’ve also decorated the big tree at the Switch On with 6,500 bulbs – be the first to see it light up Mill Road!
For more information, check out our website here.
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Secrets of Arabia Salon
12 Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1JY
Privilege Pack Beauty Offer
The 3 visits listed below can be completed in any order over the next 4 months. The 3 visits are normally worth over £200 but for the first 300 Employees and/or family members, we are giving it to you for only £39.99 for all 3 visits i.e. each voucher has £160 worth of free treatments. The offer is valid for new clients only!
Visit A (35-40 Minutes)
* Skin Analysis Including Product Prescription
* Skin Specific Refresher Facial (30 minutes)
* Décolleté Massage
Visit B
* Mini Manicure (File & Polish)
* Forearm & Hand Massage
* Relaxing Aromatherapy Foot Soak
* Mini Pedicure(File & Polish)
Visit C (35-40 Minutes)
* Introduction to Massage Therapy and Argan Oil Based Body Care Treatments
* Stress Evaluation
* Argan Oil Back, Neck, Shoulder and Décolleté Massage
To purchase an invitation, please call Marc and his friendly team on 0207 7391550 (Head Office Monday-Friday 9am-6pm) 0208 2083132(Central Office 0208 2083132 Weekends 10am-8pm and Weekdays 6pm-10pm) or email: marc@salonevolution.co.uk. You may also purchase online via our webpage here.
Note: We accept all credit/debit cards as form of payment. Once your Pack has been purchased, we will provide you with a VIP number, which enables you to start booking your appointments and the Pack will be posted first class.
Salon Business Hours; Monday 10.00am-8.00pm, Tuesday 9.00am-6.00pm, Wednesday & Thursday 10.00am-9.00pm, Friday & Saturday 9.00am-6.00pm, Sunday Closed
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Cambridge Christmas Event
Friday 3 December 2010
4 - 8.30 pm
10 Cambridge based arts and crafts professionals have gathered again for the second year running at The Unitarian Church Hall, Victoria Street, off Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB11JW for a Christmas show. Exhibitors include Roxana de Rond who will be exhibiting her watercolours, cards and gifts; Marieke Hordyk and Birgitte Bruun displaying their jewellery collections; Jo Tunmer with her exclusive new collection of sgraffito paintings on perspex; Alison Hullyer's prints and cards; Gina Gherardi with her wonderful textile accessories and jewellery; Anna Nilsen's books and contemporary pottery and her new range of recycled gifts; Alison Tait's stained and fused glass; Rhiannon Thomas's textile art and cards: Amanda MacPhail will also be there with her latest range of bone china. Mulled cider and mince pies will be served and this year there will be a raffle raising funds for The Sick Children's Trust. It's a magical evening, only on for one night and one not to miss! For further information click here.
Our facebook page is here.
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