Community Communication
Connection with Co-operation, Collaboration & Co-ordination

OUR ABOUT, NEWS AND EVENTS PAGES PROVIDE INFORMATION ON WHAT WE ARE DOING.
OUR DIRECTORY IDENTIFIES MANY OF THOSE WE ARE TRYING TO SUPPORT.

** WHEN WE ENTERED 2020, WE HAD HIGH HOPES FOR THIS INITIATIVE. THE CONCEPTS INVOLVED HAD BEEN WARMLY WELCOMED BY MANY IN THE REGION AND THERE WAS GOOD REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE NEXT MAIN EVENT WE WERE WORKING ON, EVENT05 (WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS TO REACH OUT TO LONELY PEOPLE), WOULD BE WELL SUPPORTED. ALTHOUGH WE DID LAUNCH THAT EVENT ON 24TH MARCH 2020, THE DAY AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FIRST LOCKDOWN, THAT WAS MORE TO ENSURE THAT WE WOULD NOT LOSE SIGHT OF IT THAN IN EXPECTATION THAT IT COULD GO AHEAD. THE (HOPEFULLY TEMPORARY) SUSPENSION OF GVGI WAS ANNOUNCED ON THIS PAGE JUST A FEW DAYS LATER. WORK ON A BROCHURE TO SUPPORT EVENT05, AND A SOCIETIES FAIR LATER IN THE YEAR TO GIVE IT A FOCAL POINT, CAME TO A HALT. OVER SUBSEQUENT MONTHS THE POSITION WAS KEPT UNDER REVIEW. HOWEVER, BY THE TIME THE PANDEMIC HAD BEEN BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL SUFFICIENTLY TO ENABLE US TO THINK ABOUT WORKING ON IT AGAIN, OTHER FACTORS CAME INTO PLAY. NOTING THAT THIS INITIATIVE WAS BEING DRIVEN BY JUST ONE PERSON (ALBEIT WITH OTHER PEOPLE JOINING IN FROM TIME TO TIME), HIS PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO GVGI WAS KEY TO ITS CONTINUANCE. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT COMMITMENT HAS HAD TO BE WITHDRAWN, FOR A FEW YEARS AT LEAST. CONSEQUENTLY, THE SUSPENSION OF GVGI SHOULD NOW BE VIEWED AS LONG-TERM, POSSIBLY PERMANENT.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE NOT YET AMENDED ALL RELEVANT PAGES IN THIS SITE TO REFLECT THE SUSPENSION OF THE INITIATIVE. WE WILL UPDATE THE REST OF THE SITE IN STAGES THROUGHOUT 2023. **

2nd January 2023

This site is a key component of THE GOLDEN VALLEY GROUPS INITIATIVE which aims:
- to help everyone who lives in and around the beautiful Golden Valley in Herefordshire become more aware of and support the many social, charitable, health-supporting, hobby-supporting, educational, religious, sporting and other community-support groups that are active in the area (which, for our 'Friendship Area Events' such as Societies Fairs, covers most of South-West Herefordshire and part of Monmouthshire); and
- to encourage those groups to appreciate each other and to support each other when appropriate.

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