New Year 2021 | Chair’s Report
It was with great sadness that we made the decision to postpone the 2021 Fen Edge Festival. I hope we will be able to run the event as normal in 2022. It would have been neither practical nor fair to
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Autumn 2020 | Chair’s Report
Dear Members I trust you are all safe and well and I hope you enjoy this Fen Edge News and it reminds you of all the great things our villages have to offer. Like many organisations the Fen Edge Community
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Dear Members, We hope you and your organisations are keeping safe and well. We recognise that this is an immensely frustrating and potentially difficult time for community groups and associations but we also know the importance of our groups in
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Fen Edge Festival 2019 – Report and Acknowledgements Once again, we enjoyed a memorable weekend of music, food and activities and the weather was very kind to us. I believe that the festival represents all that is good about village
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I am writing this report just after we have enjoyed the most spectacular Fen Edge Festival ever. Many people have spoken to me about the 2019 Festival with an obvious sense of pride in what the community achieved over the
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Annual General Meeting 2019 | Chair’s Report
In my tenure as Chair of the Fen Edge Community Association (FECA) we have had three objectives – to expand membership, to increase grant making and to increase the number of events we support. At this time last year, our
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2019 is a Fen Edge Festival year
The Fen Edge Festival 2019 is a great occasion in the Fen Edge village calendar. It is too early to start looking at the long-range weather forecast but it is not too early to mark your calendars for June 21-23,
Continue readingAnnual General Meeting – 24 May 2018
Dear Members In my report of last year as Chair of the Fen Edge Community Association (FECA) I set out three main priorities – to expand membership, to increase grant making and to increase the number of events we support.
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Volunteers – A Force for Good
2018 is now well underway and it got off to the best start possible with Adrian Stephens joining the Fen Edge Community Association (FECA) team as Editor of the Fen Edge News. I would like to extend the warmest welcome to Adrian and I
Continue readingAn update on our plans for the next 12 months
The focus of the Fen Edge Community Association is promoting and supporting local groups. We now have over 40 member organisations. Over the summer several of them have successfully applied for funding including Willingham Action Group, Cottenham Primary School PTCA
Continue readingAnnual General Meeting – 11 May 2017
Dear Members I assumed the role of Chairman of the Fen Edge Community Association (FECA) following the AGM last year. I would like to extend my thanks to the Committee for all their work over the past year. Our first
Continue readingThe future starts here
As the new Chair of the Fen Edge Community Association, I am really looking forward to working with the Committee in taking the Association forward. I live in Cottenham with my wife, Alice, and three children. We first moved into
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