Community Projects

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Meet the Funder

We are hosting a Meet the Funder event, in collaboration with the Arts Council England on Thursday 4th May at Chippenham Town Hall. The event is an opportunity to learn more about the National Lottery Project Grants application process and get…

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The construction of our new play area in Chippenham begins this week! 1024 512 Chippenham Borough Lands Charity

The construction of our new play area in Chippenham begins this week!

We shared with you back in July that we had commissioned Bristol-based natural outdoor play equipment specialist, TouchWood Play, to design an innovative and imaginative new play area made almost entirely of wood on our land at Westmead Playing Field.…

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CBLC Summer Newsletter 2022

It’s been a really busy 6 months for our charity. You can read all about it in our latest newsletter which you can see a glimpse of in the below images and click to read via this link – CBLC Summer…

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A new outdoor play park

We have commissioned Bristol-based natural outdoor play equipment specialist, TouchWood Play, to install an innovative and imaginative new play area made almost entirely of wood on our land at Westmead Playing Field. The park will be adjacent to The Arc…

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A is for Arts

Today is the start of the A-Z of CBLC – hopefully by the time we get to Z you will know lots more about our grant giving charity: what we do, how we can help and you will also find…

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We’ve launched a new community website – one chippenham 1024 858 Chippenham Borough Lands Charity

We’ve launched a new community website – one chippenham

We’re excited to announce that we’ve launched a new community website –  onechippenham.org.uk Eventually, we hope it will become the first choice ‘one stop’ place to find community information and information about ‘what’s on’ in Chippenham. In the short term the new…

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COVID-19 UPDATE

Our office building will be shut to staff and visitors from Wednesday 18th March for the foreseeable future however our support for the Chippenham Community will continue, as much as possible, throughout this difficult time.  We will be checking our…

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Fringe FEb Thanks!

It was fantastic to see so much fun, colour and talent in Chippenham last weekend with the town full of music, comedy, performance, dancing, photography, art, craft, poetry, talks and a market.   We would like to say a HUGE…

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Planning permission has been granted for our new Skate Park and Climbing Centre in Chippenham! 1024 858 Chippenham Borough Lands Charity

Planning permission has been granted for our new Skate Park and Climbing Centre in Chippenham!

Exciting times for everyone here at Chippenham Borough Lands Charity – we were granted planning permission to build a new climbing centre and skate park on our ‘Borough Lands‘ at Westmead playing fields behind the Wessex Water site. The plans were…

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Tree sculpture competition

Exciting news! We are pleased to announce our new Tree Sculpture Competition for local Primary aged children in Chippenham. We are going to be creating a Tree Sculpture trail on our land at Westmead Open Space and we would love…

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