Category: Friends

LUNCHTIME TALKS TAKE TO THE ROAD

23/10/2012

Do the names of Walter Sickert and Manolo Blahnik mean anything to you?

The next Friends' lunchtime talk on Tuesday 27 November will be given by Professor Ron George and hosted by Bath Spa University at the Corsham Court Campus.

Corsham Court has been associated with fine arts for many years; in 1947 becoming the home of the Bath Academy of Art. The campus is now the specialist centre for the University's postgraduate teaching and research.

Professor George is Director of Development at the University, where his specialisms include Fine Art, Art and Design and Education. He has a national and international profile and has agreed to talk on the University's presence at Corsham, past present and future.

As usual pre-registration at the TIC is essential. Admission is only £2.00, with Friends enjoying free entry.

LUNCHTIME TALKS LAUNCHED

24/7/2012

The Friends of Corsham Area Heritage Centre launched its monthly Lunchtime Talks in June. Each Talk will take place at 1.00pm on the fourth Tuesday in the month, usually at Arnold House and will cost only £2.00 (free to Friends).

The Lunchtime Talks provide an opportunity for the speaker to publicise what their group is doing to promote Corsham Area’s heritage and demonstrate the ability of the Friends to provide a platform for such local groups.

Ron Smith, Head of Guiding at the Lady Margaret Hungerford Almshouses & Free School, gave the first Talk on Tuesday 26 June. Ron’s confident and polished delivery, allied to his second-to-none knowledge of the subject, made for a thoroughly entertaining hour for the capacity audience.

The second in this series will take place on Tuesday 24 July, when Chris Coyle of the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust will describe the restoration work being undertaken between Chippenham and Lacock. The venue will again be Arnold House, as it will be for the third and fourth Talks, to be held 28 August and 25 September respectively.

Tickets for all Talks must be booked in advance from the TIC on 01249 714660. We will use an alternative town centre venue for the October and November Talks to avoid undermining sales of Cards for Good Causes in this pre-Christmas period.

CORSHAM CAMPUS MODEL ON SHOW AT ARNOLD HOUSE

17/5/2012

Following its excursion to the Diamond Jubilee Celebration Event in Salisbury’s Cathedral Close on 1 May 2012 – where it took centre-stage in the Corsham Area Board’s Jousting Tent – the Campus model is now back in Corsham.

The Friends of Corsham Area Heritage Centre have provided the model with a temporary home in their Heritage Room at Arnold House in the High Street. We urge you to come and see it – and the other items we have there, including the Display Board we commissioned especially for the Jubilee Event. We were put in charge of co-ordinating the Corsham Area’s contribution to the Event around a heritage theme. We really went to town on it!

The model has seen a few improvements since you may have seen it previously during its “Roadshow” perambulations. It now enjoys enhanced labelling so that you can better appreciate where the Campus is to be located and what services it is to provide. There is also a pile of information leaflets accompanying it. Please feel free to take one.

At this stage we don’t know how long it will be with us, so grab the opportunity and drop into the Heritage Centre to view Model in this convenient location. Our staff will be delighted to explain it to you.

Wiltshire Council's Strategic Planning Committee, at its meeting held during the morning of 16 May 2012 at the Council's Offices in Bradley Road, Trowbridge, granted Planning Consent for the Corsham Campus, subject to expected conditions.

FRIENDS OF CORSHAM AREA HERITAGE CENTRE LAUNCHED

9/3/2012

The future of the CADT’s combined Area Heritage & Information Centre is uncertain at this time – to say the least. In the past it has been maintained by the funding it has received from our local councils, where the prime interest has been in supporting tourism. In this respect, the traditional TIC function has taken centre stage.

Things have changed. It is now clear that the Corsham Area Heritage Centre must be developed into a visitor attraction in its own right if we are going to secure the level of grant-support to keep ourselves viable. Evidence of support from the local community is essential if the quest for such funding is to succeed. Hence the formation of a “Friends” group.

Work on this project began in late summer 2011. We now have 60+ signed-up members – a mixture of Individual and Corporates. A committee was appointed in February and its first meeting will take place in March 2012. We’re on our way!

We need more members. We will never have too many of them. Do you take pride in your local history and heritage and want to see it displayed to a wider audience? If you are interested then act now by completing the information form here. You’ll find yourself amongst true “friends of Corsham”.

FRIENDS OF THE CORSHAM AREA HERITAGE CENTRE LAUNCHED

8/4/2011

A Group has come together to form a support organisation for Corsham Area Heritage Centre, the facility that is co-located with the Corsham Information Centre at Arnold House in Corsham's High Street. The Group will operate outside of the Corsham Area Development Trust and its Corsham Area Heritage & Information Centre. It will have its own structure and constitution.

These elements have yet to be put in place. Instead the emphasis has been on attacting the membership from which officers will be appointed and through whose efforts a range of member-benefits will be developed. One of the key intentions is to be the source of funding beyond the local authority grants upon which the survival of the Heritage Centre remains to this day - and upon which reliance there must continue to be an expectation, however marginal that might be made to become.

To this end, a recruiting flyer / sign-up form has been devised. Copies are being located at various sites in and around the Town. The process is extremely simple. Registration to be a member requires only the completion of the form, the writing of a cheque to value £20 to cover the first year's membership, and the handing-in of the form and cheque to the CAH&IC at its office in Arnold House, 31 High Street.

The flyer / sign-up form is additiuonally available as a .pdf here, alongside the "Expression of Interest" form which has been there for some weeks. (This new sign-up form is the natural 'next step' in the process of establishing the Friends. We thank all of you who have responded to the Expression of Interest invitation.) The sign-up form can be printed off quite readily.

LUNCHTIME TALKS TAKE TO THE ROAD

LUNCHTIME TALKS LAUNCHED

CORSHAM CAMPUS MODEL ON SHOW AT ARNOLD HOUSE

FRIENDS OF CORSHAM AREA HERITAGE CENTRE LAUNCHED

FRIENDS OF THE CORSHAM AREA HERITAGE CENTRE LAUNCHED

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