Our activities

You are invited to be a part of our future dialogue and development. 

Your involvement and contributions to the Friends regular bi-monthly meetings would be most welcomed. We have created a mailing list so that you can be kept fully updated with progress. Please use the contact form on this site to let us know if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

To date, ideas and progress have included: 

• Website/Blog – fairly basic, but tells people what we are about and how to contact us.
  
  
• Heating shop, Christchurch Road (and adjacent area of land) - discouraging unsightly rubbish tipping.
  
  
• University and Councillors engagement: Regular communication with the University Community Engagement Manager regarding improvements to the Green. Whilst local councillors and the local MP have given their support to our aims and objectives and some of the activities we have undertaken to-date, the Friends shall take no part in Party Politics.
  
  
• Heritage Board: The funding, design and erection of a Heritage Board on Christchurch Green, linking the University with the Community. History of Whiteknights campus and the local area, bringing a point of belonging to the area for new residents and new students.
   
• Conservation:  Receiving regular feed-back from the Conservation Committee (CAAC) on areas of special interest. 
  
  
• Social activities:  Arranging an annual social picnic – the chance to meet neighbours. 
  
  
• Litter bins: Planning for more litter bins, perhaps sponsored by the University (consolidating the University and the community) along the kerbside to prevent cars mounting the pavement.
  
  
• Information sharing:  Through regular meetings, sharing information that is relevant and applicable with a mailing list.
  
  
• Setting up a bank account:  There isn’t a cost to joining the group, but there are incidental costs to what we do, such as printing this letter.  A voluntary contribution of £5.00 to the account will ensure that no individual is out-of-pocket through our activities.

• Receiving regular feed-back from the Conservation Committee (CAAC) on areas of special interest. 

Also investigated and instigated: 

• Regular litter-picks in the vicinity. We continually monitor and report littering and fly-tipping
  
  
• Deliveries and parking bay (Christchurch Road shops) 

• Keeping Cintra Park a place that the whole community can enjoy and use safely

• Back Lane behind Christchurch Lane shops 
  
  
• Monitoring of and any suggested changes to cycle lanes, traffic calming measures, road layouts
  
  
• Monitoring and responding to planning applications in the vicinity, both new and those in progress. Making representation when required