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Volunteer Organisations

Schools and Colleges

Local Businesses

Local Bands / Artists

Music Communities

Arts Organisations

Arts Council England, East Cambridge

Cambridge Arts Picture House

little d promotions
artist and event management (urban and caribbean)
DJs available for parties, bookings & club nights.
Flyer design and print service
CD duplication service

Community Centres

Arbury Community Centre

Bharat Bhavan (Old Library)
Hall of the Cambridge Indian Cultural Community Association ICCA.
They want the cultures of all lands to be blown about their house as freely as possible.
Bharat Way, Mill Road / railway bridge, Cambridge.

Bottisham Youth & Community Centre

City Of Ely Community College

Romsey Mill
Hemingford Rd, Cambridge, CB1 3BZ, 01223 213162

Community Groups

Black Women's Support Group
Promoting, maintaining and advancing the welfare of Black Women in Cambridge.

breast buddies (TM)
This lively, pro-active group supports women and their support networks who have/have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
It is free and meets on the first Friday of each month at 11am at 51, St. Andrews Rd. Cambridge.
We discuss all aspects of breast cancer and share our experiences
We also have social events.
For coming workshops look at body image, self-esteem and morale, workshops running regularly.
Retreat planned for wells-next-the-sea Norfolk in July 6-8th 2008 including sand sculptures.
Please contact Anna Libby, founder, on 01223 329992 or 07885 942544

Cambridge Indymedia
Grass-roots journalism community independently focusing on political and environmental issues, both locally and in the world at large.

Cambridge Inter-Faith Group
Forum and meetings for people of different religious and spiritual groups.

CBGAY
LesBiGayTrans site and magazine with reviews, advice and features.

Jewish Cambridge
The website of the Jewish Community of Cambridge and the surrounding area.

Our links page provides useful information on Judaism for Jews in the area, and our site provides information on our various education and welfare activities - e.g. our weekday children's classes, adult education, and detailed plans for our nursery school and community centre.

Rainbow Network Cambridge
Connecting heart and mind, bridging 'town & gown': spirit, events, healing, eco, peace, art, connections & more.

We're All Neighbours
Community website featuring event listings, classifieds, chat and humour.

Community Radio

209radio
Your friendly neighbourhood community radio station.

Bradford Community Broadcasting
Long running model community radio station in Bradford.

Cambridge Podcast

Cambridge Riffs
Cambridge Riffs is a podcast radio show, playing exclusively bands and artists from Cambridgeshire.

Castledown Radio
Broadcasting 24 hours a day online and on 104.7 FM. Castledown Radio provides a Community Radio service primarily for the Tidworth Community Area in Wiltshire.

CheshireFM Community Radio
CheshireFM is the community radio aspirant for mid Cheshire- a predominantly rural area of villages and hamlets located between the small towns of Northwich in the north and the market town of Middlewich in the south, Winsford on its western flank and the M6 motorway forming its eastern border. Our community comprises 93,000 people that live, go to school and work in this area.

Community Media Association
National organisation supporting community radio, television and internet broadcasting projects to enable community development and empowerment.

Futire FM Norwich
Norwich's Community Radio Station- new friends of 209, doing it Norfolk style!

Inspiration FM
Northamptonshire's mutli-cultural FM community radio station.

Internet Radio
Listen to many dynamic radio stations online with lots of channels to choose from: English, Hindi, Arabic, pop, dance and so much more.

Ipswich Community Radio
Ipswich's Community Radio Station; big friends of 209 from way back when we started!

RAPTURE FM
Hello peeps...just letting you know about a new internet radio station in Cambridge. We are a dance based station but play hip hop, RnB and reggae as well. We play live between 4pm and 12:30am every Sunday and 7pm to 11:30pm every Wednesday. We have live events in Cambridge as well!!

Rasmus Eksten
JJRradio - Tomorrows Hits, Today

Resonance FM
Central London's experimental art community radio station.

Online Resources

Awesome
East Anglia's Leading Custom Upholstery Specialists
Tour bus interiors, VW Campers, Classic Cars, Caravans, Boats,
Motorcycles, Contract & Domestic re-upholstery, Bespoke projects and more.

Cam City
This Cambridge-specific Search Engine network provides a targeted means of reaching hundreds of thousands of consumers and businesses in the East of England region

Cambridge Area Guide
Online area guide to Cambridge, including information on hotels and guesthouses, shops, sports clubs, restaurants, estate agents, local media, etc.

Cambridge Guide
A free map based Cambridge guide with no adverts that lets you have your say.

Cambridge Online City
Comprehensive online support and information network for Cambridge.

Cambridge2000.com
Cambridge website with lots of photos of the city. The main emphasis is on architecture, but there are also many photographs of nature.

Mix Links
Free promotion for the best dj and music websites. Helps you find the best dj mixes, online radio, and more.

Music Industry Links
Link To The Newest Music Business Companies and Recording Artists Online.
Promote Your Act Or Service To Targeted Visitors In The Music Industry Link Directory!

MusiqTrader - The musicians marketplace for musical instrume
MusiqTrader provides an online classified advertising service for music lovers, musicians, students and businesses, allowing you to Buy, Sell and Advertise your musical instruments, sheet music, recordings, music equipment and accessories all under one roof.

Volunteer Organisations

Cambridge & District Volunteer Centre
Cambridge & District Volunteer Centre exists to:
* Match people who want to volunteer with organisations needing volunteers
* Promote volunteering to all sectors of the community
* Support and promote good practice in the involvement of volunteers
* Develop new opportunities to volunteer
* Comment and campaign on issues which affect volunteers or volunteering
* Play an active role in the strategic development of volunteering

Cambridge CVS
Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service.

CSV
The UK's largest training and volunteering organisation.

Millenium Volunteers
Youth volunteering programs in the area.

RSPCA Cambridge branch
Volunteer group working to provide animal welfare services in Cambridge and the surrounding area, including a low-cost animal clinic for pet owners on benefits/state pension.

VSO Cambridge
VSO works by recruiting volunteers to help where there are skills shortages in developing countries to pass these skills on when they leave. It has a grassroots setup for fundraising, volunteer recruitment and raising media awareness, hence the group in Cambridge.

Schools and Colleges

ARU (Anglia Ruskin University)
ARU is the university that works for you, providing a range of qualifications from
undergraduate to professional....

Hills Road Sixth Form College
We provide full-time AS and A-level courses for approximately 1,700 16-19 year-old students. There are also around 4,000 part-time students taking part in our adult education programme, mainly on evening classes.

Long Road Sixth Form College
Long Road is a friendly college with an informal yet purposeful atmosphere.

Manor Community College
Arbury Road, Cambridge, CB4 2JF, 01223 508742.

Parkside Community College
Parkside is a highly successful secondary school of about 600 pupils in the centre of Cambridge.

Power to Work - CDG
Power to work is a charity working with unemployed adults. We provide free basic skills training and work placements.

The University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world
and one of the largest in the United Kingdom.

Local Businesses

Cambridge River Tours
Independent punt operators offering chauffeured punt tours of the famous Cambridge colleges. Specialising in private tours and small group tours although we can cater for anyone!

DK Decorating- Painter and Decorator
The finest painting and decorating from your local, friendly and reliable painter and decorator.

Green Hat Construction
Environmentally conscious building and landscaping to suit all budgets

Local Bands / Artists

AFTER4
After4 are a four-piece rock band based in Cambridgeshire, England.
Formed while still at primary school in 2000 and still together with the combined age of one Rolling Stone, the band are winning a reputation for professionalism, musicianship and stage presence with their original ‘new classic rock’ sound.

BIJOUMIYO
Purely Improvised Experimental Funk!

Delegates of Culture
Cambridge-based international Hip-Hop crew.

Donkey Valium
Info, gigs and all things pony.

Hedgepig
Hedgepig
LIVELY CELTIC FOLK-ROCK BAND
rooted in the Scottish and Irish tradition.

J&S Project
J&S project is born from the merger of the musical experiences of a DJ, Tony S, and of a musician Angel J. The crossover between grooves "Old School" and new electric resonance of house music

Joe Watkin
'Joe Watkin' is a powerful new British Singer / Songwriter based in Peterborough near Cambridgeshire.
Although only 17, Joe has displayed a maturity that forms the foundation of his songwriting and live performances.
"His heart-heavy songs really leap out to you in the first listen!"

Karmadillo
The Cambridge band Karmadillo who play fun and melancholy songs on South American folk instrument.

Man From Uranus
Cambridge's own outer-world visitor brings us his exotic space-music accompanied by theramin, mooger-fooger, and rubber-boots.

Master Eveleigh
Harry Eveleigh's Hi-Tech Gangsta Bleeps, Newly Consolidated Into Two New Albums 'Fascinating Action' and 'Plain Cats' (Free Download).

Moe Foe
Cambridge-based Live Electronic Dance

Mr Zed
The Sound of Dubedelic Space Rock

Rosedale Electric Chord Orchestra
Cambridge Jazz-bossa-funk-d'n'b-reggae-disco-influenced 8-piece.

Ross Martyn
Floating melodies and intricate guitars merge within a soundscape of rhythmical mazes and organic strangitude.

Um
Lo-Fi electronic-poetry-noodlings from Cambridge's enigmatic experimental entertainer 'Um'.

vacuum on vacuum
...also known as vov.

Music Communities

Cambridge Guitar Club
For local acoustic guitarists, nylon and steel string instrumental styles. Bring your guitar and perform yourself! Or come along and listen. Club events give everyone who wants the chance to perform for the audience, and meet other guitarists.

Cambridge Revelation 2000
Formed in 2000 by a group of Cambridge-based reggae enthusiasts, Revelation 2000 has promoted many events in the intervening years, featuring its own DJs, MCs, musicians and singers as well as guest performers and some bigger name artists. We are a community-based group and aim to establish affordable and accessible community resources (studio/venue/rehearsal space and more) as well as continuing to promote reggae music and its related genres. We welcome new members - if you are a reggae-lover, get in touch.

CambridgeBands.com
Our aim is to provide the already thriving music scene of Cambridge with an online place where bands can chat, meet and organise themselves.

We have Cambridge’s most comprehensive local band listings, as well as our gig calendar, forum and music library.

DELTA-9
Community of DJs, promoters and artists, operating in London and across the UK. They organise club nights, parties, radio, online activities and have recently launched their record label 'DELTA-9 Plastics'.

L.E.A.P.S
Live Experimental Arts Performance Society based in Cambridge, promoting new work, new performers and new collaborations. LEAPS events are typically eclectic hybrids of technology, media, music and performance.

Loop Soup
Collective of local producers, bands, artists and music lovers, organising irregular events and promoting unsigned and unheard sounds... Join them and tune into their monthly show!

Moving Tone News
Your key to music in Cambridgeshire.
Cambridgeshire Music Events Calendar - have your listings included for FREE; news, views, interviews, previews, innerviews; you can join MTnews by subscription for as little as £1 a month; new monthly paper newsletter due out first week of May.
Send your copy and press releases to us. We look at local first and national thereafter.

Rawganics
Cambridge-based hip-hop community promoting regular nights with world, uk and local talent. Home to The Delegates of Culture and Bomb Wrists.

Rhythm Online
Specialists in alternative, rare and independent label music.

Shadieast
'Shadieast' is a community music project holding Sitar and tabla classes to all on a weekly basis at the Bharat Bavern.

Strawberry Fair
Cambridge's premier free festival - run by the people of Cambridge for the people of Cambridge. Come along and get involved.

Acoustic Soul Sunday
The new thing to do on a Sunday: Acoustic Soul Sunday brings you the best of acoustic music in Cambridge

Bad Timing
Regular nights of digital lofi, early electronics, abstract, randomness in cambridge. Live and djed, local & general.

Cambridge Folk Club
The Cambridge Folk Club is a live music club, embracing all styles of acoustic and folk music. Our performers are local, national and international musicians who are creative, talented and original in their performance.

Charlie Don't Surf
Promoting new electronic music in the city.

Green Mind
Punk, Indie and more

little d promotions
King Erruption sound agent
Artist and talent scout
Talent show event organiser

MenelikMusic
MenelikMusic is an organisation that promotes world music and cultural exchanges by bringing established and non-established artists from the UK and around the world to come and perform here in Cambridge for you.

But that is not all, MenelikMusic also raises funds for good causes such as the school project in the DR Congo. By coming to our gigs, having a great time, enjoying our food, and making new friends, you are also helping us raise money for good causes.

The Living Room
Cambridgebands and 209radio present local bands/artists performing acoustically to a cosy crowd.

Uncollected
Norwich-based, Hip Hop and electronics. Big it up!

Harvest Time Recordings
Harvest Time Recordings is an independent record company with singles from The Broken
Family band, Herman Dune, Alasdair Robert and Lionshare.

Jomar Records
Jomar Records is an American Soul Record Company. Marshall Jones is responsible for producing International hits on Carl Sims, such as: House of Love, Trapped and Seventeen Days of Loving, David Brinston's Hit and Run album. Also, various artist on the Stax and High Record Labels (Rance Allen, Staple Singers, Al Green, Lynn White.) Now Renea Mitchell is added to the roster with her debut album "The Road of Love." The Remake of Carl Sim's Seventeen Days of Loving is making alot of noise on the American Soul charts #4.

Kittenrock
Free Mp3 cambridge based internet label - Geektronica, Chip, Techno, Punk, DnB, RnB, and general weirdness and sillyness - whatever we feel like really
*** WARNING - Some Adult Content ***

Lab Beat
Glitch Hop, Electronica and Tropical Hip Hop Label Based in Cambridge, Home to Actionfist, Master Eveleigh & Wanlov.

Loud Leper Music
Home to Accelra, Harry Eveleigh, Action Fist and more.

Moving Tone
Moving Tone - live acoustic music in an intimate setting.
Moving Tone promotes artists and events, sells tickets and CDs and, through its Cambridge Musicians Network, can find musicians suitable for your event.

Strange Lights
News and announcements from the shadowy world of Strange Lights

Tripel Records
Cambridge-based electronica label showcasing work from local producers Andrew Coleman, UM and Ascoltare.

Acid Audio UK - Cheap DJ Equipment
Amplifiers to Headphones to Mixers to Turntables, with FREE delivery to the UK mainland.

Raza Records
Raza records is an online record store with a wide range of genres, specialising in electronica, house, techno and electro, both on vinyl and CD. We also stock DJ accessories and equipment. BIG UP!

Rhythm Online
Specialists in alternative, rare and independent label music: good shout!

RNB RECORDS
Mail order dealing in rare and reissue 45' & LP's (60's Garage Punk, Psych, Soul, Beat, Pop, Rock)

Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Survey
Cambridge City Council are asking people to tell them what they think of housing services for Black and Minority Ethnic people in Cambridge. This is an opportunity for BME residents to have to their say and help improve housing services and identify gaps in services.

From 1st November there will be an online BME housing survey at www.cambridge.gov.uk/bmesurvey. It will only take a few minutes to complete and the information provided will be confidential and will help to gather general information about how Council housing services relate to black and minority ethnic people in Cambridge.

Cambridge City Coucil Community Development
Cambridge City Council dept concerned with community development.

Cambridge City Council
Cambridge City Local Authority

South Cambridgeshire County Council
South Cambridge Local Authority.

Rock T-shirts by The Bin Range
The Bin Range is a collection of rock t-shirts, slogan t-shirts, rock n roll t shirts, t-shirts for men, skinny fit t-shirts for women. Some of our Rock T-shirts are rude T-shirts, some of them aren`t, some are rock t shirts, some are smoking T-shirts. We even have drinking t-shirts and bitchin` t shirts. All of our range carries the Bin slogan or picture on the front of these very rock t-shirts and the Binrange logo on the nape of the rock T-Shirt.

Rosie in Stitches
Unique handmade clothes for children up to 4 years old and toys and accessories for all ages. Commissions taken for anything. Registered Charity Number 1036092. Raising money to buy the medical equipment that Addenbrooke's and the NHS does not provide.

RSPCA Charity Shop
RSPCA charity shop at 184 and 188 Mill Road, Cambridge.
We raise funds to support the local animal welfare work of the RSPCA Cambridge branch.
184 Mill Road is a second-hand and antiquarian bookshop and we also sell online.

Cambridge Thai Boxing Academy
Dedicated to Thai Boxing, and all things Thai.

The Cambridge Thai Boxing Academy offers tuition of the highest possible standard to all ages of Men, Women and Children, by blending both the old and the new styles of Muay Thai.

No matter what your fitness level is, we can accommodate your needs from basic keep fit, right up to fighting quality. So if you are looking for a great way to get into shape and improve your fitness, then come learn Muay Thai - the undisputable 'King of the Ring'

Cambridge University Taekwondo
CUTKD practices WTF Taekwondo and is affiliated to the British Taekwondo Control Board. Everyone from complete beginners to Black belts attend core sessions to learn kicking and punching techniques as well as patterns and self defence. We offer sparring training for all levels, in preparation for the BUSA National Student Championships in March and for the Varsity Match against Oxford.

street style dance
Weekly classes all ages

Cambridge Evening News
Cambridge newspaper, 6 days a week.

Cambridge's Explorer Magazine
If you're looking for where to go and how to spend your free time Cambridge's Explorer Magazine has everything you need, whether you live in the city or are just passing through.

Herts, Essex & Cambridge Music-Zine
Established to appeal to music lovers and to capitalise on a large and relatively untapped younger age group that includes the student populations of Cambridge, Harlow and Hertford, Music-Zine is initially a bi- monthly 36 page, magazine that will include regular interviews with both established and upcoming artists, reviews, features and event diaries with a target age demographic of 14 years upwards. The paper will have a focus on local artists and events for all music types, from rock and dance to classical, blues and jazz with features on both national & international bands playing in the catchment area, and will include reviews for all relevant CD and Music DVD releases, as well as a computer games section. Our aim is to appeal to a broad cross-section of readers of all ages and music tastes.

Red Pages
Free grass-roots events listings guide for Cambridge with a weekly audio version for 209radio.

Robots and Electronic Brains
Grass-roots fanzine from 209's own Jimmy Possession, focusing on unheard music.

Varsity
Varsity has been the Newspaper for Cambridge University for over 57 years. Delivering 10,000 copies free to all 31 colleges in the University, Varsity is the essential guide to everything from job application deadlines to Saturday night's entertainment.

Cellar Bar 8
new entertainment venue now in full swing
cellar bar 8 offers different types of entertainment throughout the week

The Boathouse
The Boathouse in Cambridge is where you can hear some of the best live acoustic bands and artists from all over the world 3 nights a week. We run an open mic evening every other Tuesday and everyone is welcome. The Boathouse is a non smoking venue.

The Flying Pig
The Flying Pig Public House was built in 1832. We are told it was originally built to quench the thirst of the workers laying the railway lines. Originally named 'The Crown' it changed its name to the
Flying Pig about 15 years ago when Mick 'The Pig' took on the tenancy.

The Junction
The Junction

The Portland Arms
The Portland Arms is one of Cambridge's best loved music venues; a great pub with live music up to 6 nights a week.

familiesincambridgeshire
One stop directory of activities places to visit throught Cambridgeshire for all the family including school holiday events and activities.

Granta Punting Company
Welcome to Granta Moorings.

Proud of its reputation of traditional service and value.

Guided River Tours & Self Hire Punting.

The Hip-Hop List
Mailing list service and website representing hip-hop & urban music culture in Cambridge. With all the best listings, competitions for guestlists to ALL the events we publicise, music giveaways and more, this is the ONLY mailing list you need to be on to find out about Cambridge's best.

Visit Cambridge
Cambridge Tourist Info Centre's online guide to events happening in and around the city.

We're All Neighbours
Cambridge community website for communication, organisation and action, presenting the most comprehensive 'what's on' guide for the city.

What's on in Cambridge
Regularly updated listings for all sorts of events, including gigs, clubs, exhibitions, theatre, and loads more.

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