WHY JOIN THE SOCIETY?
It provides an opportunity to participate actively with other residents who wish to care for, maintain and enhance the unique character of Chipping Campden and its local environment.
It enables residents of all ages to have a voice on the future of the town.
It provides an opportunity to network with the community on topics affecting Chipping Campden through this website and The Society’s talks and other functions.
Please apply for membership by completing this online contact form and state whether you wish to pay by postal cheque or through online banking/BACS in the message.
Cheques are payable to The Campden Society and should be sent to: Membership Secretary, The Campden Society, The Old Police Station, High Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire GL55 6HB.
Our banking details will be communicated via email from the treasurer or the membership secretary.
Individual membership is £10/annum and joint membership (family/couple) is £15/annum.
Our Aims
• To stimulate interest in and concern for the whole historic and living community of Campden • To secure the protection and improvement of the built heritage of Campden, promoting high standards of planning, architecture and landscaping to that end • To encourage and support economic development to sustain the viability of the town as a centre of community life with its cultural tradition of arts, crafts and music • To promote high standards of care and improvements in Campden’s infrastructure – including roads, drainage, traffic management and parking lighting and pavements • To encourage and support existing local charities, organisations and private ventures to provide and improve amenities for the benefit of the community
What We Are Doing
The Society continue to view all planning applications and make representations where appropriate to the local Planning Authority. We keep a watching brief on works to Listed Buildings within the Conservation Area. A representative of The Society attends the monthly Town Council Meeting to enable The Society to have a working relationship with the Town Council offering support to projects of common interest. Plans on all aspects affecting Chipping Campden up to 2031 are currently being developed by Cotswold District Council in their Local Plan and by the Town Council in their Neighbourhood Plan. The Society is making its views known at every stage of the consultation process. The Society continues to work closely with the Town Council to find ways to resolve the car parking problem in Campden.
What We Have Done
The Short History of The Campden Society written up in 2010 (this can be accessed from the downloads below), outlines its work and achievements from formation in 1970 to a few years after the adoption of a new, more empowering, Constitution in 2002. In the post millennium years The Campden Society (The Society) was very active. It completed a comprehensive photographic record of the built heritage of Campden, focusing particularly on the Conservation Areas and their setting at the start of the 21st Century: Coverage included shots of the frontage of every one of the many” listed” buildings: Jointly with the Campden History Society, and in cooperation with the Peelers Trust, it established the permanent “Character of Campden” display in the Courtroom of the Old Police Station. The Society also contributed much to the review of the Local Plan at the inspection stage and strongly supported the establishment of the Guild of Handicraft Centre at Court Barn as well as the development of the care home, now called “Mill House”, off Sheep Street – a scheme that also funded the repair of the Old Silk Mill buildings. In this period The Society was successful in acquiring Wolds End Orchard (click here to access a more detailed explanation).
Our Heritage
Seven centuries have contributed to Chipping Campden’s rich heritage of buildings in Cotswold stone. The hills and streams that form its beautiful surroundings have shaped the ‘historic settlement’. The natural setting gave rise to its architecturally impressive High Street that was laid down in its present alignment in the 12th century. This heritage has been enhanced over the last century by a remarkable conservation effort that began when C.R. Ashbee brought the Guild of Handicrafts here, followed by the visionary benefactor of the town and artist, F.L.Griggs and subsequently by the Campden Trust and Campden Society. In 1929 Griggs formed the Campden Trust to preserve the characteristic buildings of the town, its open spaces and surrounding landscape. In 1970 the new Campden Society was formed to carry on with this work and in 2001 its constitution was amended to incorporate the residual role and resources of The Campden Trust. The Society is one of many that were formed throughout the country under the Civic Amenities Act of 1967.
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"Working to secure the protection of the architectural and historic quality of Chipping Campden" Charity no. 261665
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