Chantry Residents Association currently have two sub-committee's;
Chantry Youth Development Initiative (CYDI) which was formed in 1997 to provide freely accessible leisure resources for the young people of Chantry.

 

After 4 years of fund raising CYDI had a basketball court built at Stone Lodge just by the Library on Hawthorn Drive, IPSWICH.

 

Since the court has been built the children are seen playing basketball during most out of school hours. Chantry High School have even said that since the court has been built the children’s performance of the game has improved immensely due to the extra practice time the court permits.

 

CYDI recently applied for funding from the Local Network Fund who awarded us a grant to enable us to provide a very successful coaching programme during the school summer holidays.

 

For more information on CYDI or to contact us please go to our website here

 

Lark in the park  is the second sub-committee under Chantry Residents Association which was set up in 2002 to organise a community fun day in June which is held on Gippeswyk Park for the people of Chantry.

 

The event has been very successful and has grown throughout the years and last year around 2000 people attended.

 

The emphasis of the day is for the community to come and have fun we do not necessarily make a lot of money at this event, although any money that is made goes back into the community via the running of our community shop or holding community events throughout the year like children's parties (eg Christmas, Easter, Halloween etc), or organising coach trips.

 

Arena acts in the past have included the Silver Spinners majorettes, Egyptian dancers, Colini the Magician, Its-a-knockout tournament, display by an Ipswich Fencing Group and a daring stunt display by a BMX team.

 

Around the park we have lots of other activities going on to keep you occupied during the day including; car boot, bouncy castle, ability testing ball games, tombola stall, children’s rides, prize draw, cake stall, ‘throw the wellie’, visit the local Community Police Officers in their police ‘pod’, charity stalls, hair braiding and face painting, raffle, dog show, ‘Beat the Goalie’ with the Community Caretakers and much more.

 

For more information or to contact us please go to our website here