• Peter Richardson

May 2026 edition of GRCC Newsbites, our monthly newsletter

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Contents list for May 2026:

---- News From GRCC ----

• Still time to enter Gloucestershire Village of the Year and share the £15,000 prize pot - send in your entries by 18th May
• It's GRCC's 103rd birthday this month!
• Our CEO challenges Heidi Alexander about rural transport and services in Department for Transport video
• Listening to volunteers' voices - advice from Guy
• Autism and Me course - great feedback from our first students
• DAISI digital equity project news roundup
• GRCC diary dates for May and June
• Ella-May's computer games development workshop for better mental health and community connection in Northway
• Top funding tips for Parish and Town Councils from Sabrina
• Recommended resources for neurodivergent children and young people in Gloucestershire
• Affordable Housing Needs surveys underway in Longford and Bisley-with-Lypiatt parishes
• Rural heating oil and LPG cost increases - information wanted, and support available

---- News From Our Partner Organisations ----

• Gloucestershire Community Food Support Map launched
• The Big Lunch and The Big Help Out weekend is 5th-8th June
• 4x4 owners needed by local emergency response charity
• Big Health Day - Thursday 11th June at Oxstalls Sports Park 
• Gloucestershire Volunteer Awards Ceremony, 5th June

---- And Finally ----

• Hire our Central Gloucester meeting rooms
• How are we doing? Feedback, donation, and legacy links

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