About Queen Edith’s Community Forum
The neighbourhood organisation for central south Cambridge
Queen Edith’s Community Forum is a volunteer-led, grass-roots organisation for everyone in our neighbourhood. The volunteers in the group produce a free weekly What’s On newsletter; a magazine delivered to every home once or twice a year; organise and promote a number of community events throughout the year, and support as many local community projects as possible. New volunteers to the team are always welcome.
We aim to build a greater sense of community within and around the Queen Edith’s area of Cambridge and to help make it a better place to live, work, study or visit. As the various council boundaries are inconsistent, we’ve based the area we refer to as Queen Edith’s on the two Church of England parish boundaries, please see map (click to enlarge).
We have a steering group and regular volunteers who lead on or support the active projects:
Chair: Claire Adler
Treasurer: Fiona Goodwille
Secretary: Helen McGhee
Communications (newsletter): Ed Griffiths
Events: Pat Harrington
We have plenty of opportunities for more people to become active members. Just send us an email and ask how.
Our Constitution here.
Our 2025 AGM accounts can be found here.
Who we work with
The Community Forum will remain politically neutral, and we will work with any local politicians for the benefit of the area.
What we do
Our priorities are improving communications across the area; running small and larger scale events where people can get to know their neighbours and have fun; creating attractive places for people to come together; and supporting projects which will enrich our neighbourhood.
Communications
Queen Edith’s weekly newsletter – we maintain this website and send out the weekly Queen Edith’s News email to around 2,000 subscribers, which gives up-to-date information about what is happening in Queen Edith’s in the following week. To find out more see here.
Magazine – we create an independently-funded local magazine once or twice a year, and deliver it free to over 5,500 homes, as well as to public places. The magazine is also available online via this website. Thanks to everyone who reads it and who gives us such positive feedback. To find out more see here
Networking – since we started we have sought to ‘meet everyone’ – to understand what people are doing and how we might work together. We now know lots of good places to have coffee (and cake) and also know lots of useful people doing good things in our community! Do get in touch if you think we could help your group, if you’d like to start a new project or get involved in an existing one.
Events
It’s really important to us that we encourage opportunities for people to get together, both through publicising events organised by other groups and by organising our own programme of activities.
We organise and/or support events such as the monthly community café, the yearly Greener Queen Edith’s Day (known locally and affectionately as Skip Day); our AGM, which always includes a speaker and an election hustings where people can meet the candidates for the council elections in May.
Fairbite Queen Edith’s Food Club
In addition we support and encourage our local residents to financially support, volunteer with, or use as needed, the Fairbite Queen Edith’s Food Club. This was originally set up by Queen Edith’s Community Forum during Covid but is now managed by St James’ Church. To find out more see here.
Nightingale Pavilion
In order to bring people together, we need to have spaces to accommodate them! We now have a wonderful resource in the Nightingale Pavilion, which is owned and managed by Cambridge City Council, but is available for anyone to book for an event.
Our doors are always open to other local people – as individuals or groups. We are the sum of your time, energy and enthusiasm and we need your ideas and input.
We want to build a group that welcomes everyone, is representative of the area’s diversity, and is active in bringing people together for the benefit of our part of Cambridge. Do get involved!
