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CGCC Awarded Civil Ceremony License

At Cambridge Golf and Conference Centre we are proud to announce that we have been awarded our Civil Ceremony license.

Whether you are seeking a civil wedding a commitment ceremony, renewing your vows, a naming ceremony or a blessing, Cambridge Golf and Conference Centre will be able to take care of every aspect of your day.

We can offer you a choice of facilities and each one of our banqueting suites is registered for civil ceremonies from 4 to 120 people.

We are always ready to discuss your individual requests to tailor your day to your exact needs and suggest ways to create a unique wedding celebration.

For more information on weddings at Cambridge Golf and Conference Centre click here. Alternately contact our dedicated wedding coordinator:

Gija Melnupe
Tel :01480 499681
e-mail : gija.melnupe@cgcc.co.uk

New Year Eve at Cambridge and Golf Conference Centre

On December 31st, over 70 guests were gathered at Cambridge Golf and Conference Centre for a New Year's Eve Gala Dinner, “Themed a “Night at the Oscars”. We welcomed our guests via a red carpet entrance and a champagne reception and continued the night with a stunning 5 course meal.

After a couple hours of dancing we counted down the last seconds of 2011, along with the estimated 250,000 others, gathered in London. Our stunning firework display, organised by CGCC, was the highlight of the night bringing the New Year in, in style.

The dance floor became the focal point until the event finished in the early hours of the morning after many had taken advantage to take professional pictures with our famous Oscar statues, the gentleman suitably attired and ladies in Oscar winning dresses looked superb.

This was definitely a night to remember.

The Staff Would Like To Wish All Our Customers A Happy And Prosperous New Year.

Cambridge and Golf Conference Centre receive EGU/EWGA Range Mark Award

The John Letters Golf Academy, based at the Cambridge Golf and Conference Centre, Huntingdon have become the latest Golf Range facility to be awarded Range Mark, the English Golf Union (EGU) national scheme that identifies and recognises quality ranges.

The EGU/EWGA recognise the important role that driving ranges play in introducing adults and juniors to the game of golf and providing a variety of coaching and practice opportunities for all standards of golfers. It is essential that these facilities receive recognition for their development work and also that they link in with the national structure of golf facilities in England.

Range Mark assesses driving ranges on the following three areas:

Participation
Environment
Child Protection / Duty of Care

Upon accreditation driving ranges receive a variety of benefits including a certificate and plaque to display, which promotes their award, as well as some funding towards the development of golf at the facility. John Letters academies are keen to be seen at the forefront of golf development and view Range Mark as an important tool.

Darren Scholes, Academy Director for John Letters Academy in Cambridge said “We are very proud to be awarded the standard again. We work hard to develop golf in the local area and are delighted to be recognised as a high quality facility”

For further information on Range Mark and to view which facilities are involved, visit:www.golfmark.org
For further information on John Letters Golf Academies visit:www.johnletters.com

John Letters Academy Director Tom Denby Wins Junior Coach of the Year 2011

This has been a great year for our Academy Director, Tom Denby, and was capped of on 17Th November at Wentworth.

Tom was nominated for ‘Junior Coach of the Year’ in the first ever Pro Shop Europe magazine Industry awards. He was put forward by Alan Robinson, father of Alex and Kimberly Robinson, who Tom has been teaching for a few years now.

Alex Robinson, was the first success story for the now, nationally recognised, Golf Factor Junior talent search competition, the brain child of John Andrew. Alex went on to win the first ever Golf Factor and has benefitted from the support of Tom and his team for a number of years now, via private lessons and the hugely successful John Letters Academy Elite Squad.

With this support and success this prompted Alan to nominate Tom for the award.

Tom was in a short list of three other successful coaches, and went into the awards ceremony not really knowing what to expect. To his great surprise, he won and was presented his award by the Ryder Cup legend, Paul Way.

After receiving the award Tom had this to say; "To win this award is a great moment for me and my team. It is great recognition for the hard work that we have and still are putting into making the game of golf more recognised and accessible to all walks of life. I could not have won this award without the support of my strong team around me, in particular, James Beattie. James has played a huge part is setting up a lot of these projects and helping me to deliver them and he has become an extremely strong member of my team".

The success of the Golf Factor competition is just a small part of what Tom and his team does and has achieved for junior golf, in not only the Huddersfield and Halifax region, but in the regions of all our other Academies, in Cambridge, Walsall and Solihull.

The team deliver a fantastic Tri Golf programme into over 50 schools in the Huddersfield region, this provided a great bench mark and case study for Tom to help his other sites to roll out this programme to all the other academies.

One of the most rewarding projects that the Academy has undertaken is working with disadvantaged children, children from very deprived back grounds, with many of them being youth offenders. Golf has really helped to channel their aggression into something which is both rewarding and productive for them.

The reward of winning the Pro Shop Europe Junior Coach of the Year is a huge Team effort. Long may the success of junior golf continue to grow.

John Letters Golf Academy Cambridge goes online!

The John Letters Golf Academy Cambridge at the Cambridge Golf & Conference Centre has joined the best Golf Academies in the world and introduced the new state of the art online V1 branded academy group.

“All our golfers coaching sessions at the Academy now have a digital life” said Darren Scholes, Head PGA Professional/Academy Director.

The Academy PGA Professionals can now instantly deliver the V1 video coaching experience to their students’ computers, Smartphones (iPhones, Blackberry and others) and Facebook™ pages where they can be easily seen and stored to monitor their development. A simple text message links them directly to their V1 Mobile Lesson where they can view and hear their complete video lesson right on their phone. Sharing their V1 Mobile Lessons with friends and family is as easy as forwarding a text message.

To experience this amazing technology and improve your golf game guaranteed come along to the Centre and see for yourself.

Fresh Produce Guaranteed at CGCC

Here at Cambridge Golf and Conference centre we are committed and have a passion for absolute freshness in all our foods.

We source all our fresh produce from Country Fresh which was founded in 1975, the business grew steadily over 35 years and ventured into prepared vegetables and supplying Catering establishments with a variety of Produce.

Country Fresh is a leading Foodservice supplier that offers a truly bespoke personalised product range and service. Local Produce is supplied in season, complimented with direct imports both European and worldwide where necessary.

Their extensive product range includes Fruit, Vegetables, in house Organic Bakery, Dry Goods and Fine Foods. Their facilities are operated to the very highest of standards and are accredited Grade A BRC by Micron 2 audit body.

Their master baker, Brian Akehurst, has been in the trade for over 15 years. The handmade bread and croissants he makes are left to mature slowly using only organic flour. The enzymes, preservatives and hydrogenated fats used in much modern bread, are never used in our traditional product.

“The emphasis is on old-fashioned quality and truly great taste”

Please visit their website for further information www.country-fresh.com

We look forward to you visiting our St Andrews restaurant

Direct Golf Uk Supplier Awards

Here at Cambridge Golf & Conference Centre we were delighted to be chosen by Direct Golf UK (DGUK) to hold their inaugural supplier awards on Thursday 10 November.

The industry’s premier golf brands including Callaway, Nike, Taylormade and Mizuno to name just few all turned up in anticipation of recognition of their considerable efforts in growing the golf industry in the UK through DGUK.

This fantastic evening started with the who’s who of the golf supplier’s industry meeting in our newly refurbished St Andrews Suite followed by a superb gala dinner in our flag ship conference room the John Letters Suite overlooking our specialist short game area and the Cambridgeshire countryside.

The serious business of the awards now became the focal point of the evening with John Andrew Class AA PGA Professional and Chairman of DGUK taking to the stage and setting the tone of the evening, one of acknowledgement and respect for those who have worked tirelessly in the industry to improve this wonderful game of golf in the UK as a whole for all those involved, be they golfers retailers or wholesalers. The awards were presented and accepted with respect and friendly banter amongst the companies present, with a number of major companies taking numerous awards.

At the end of the evening all the attendees of the awards gave plaudits to DGUK for its recognition of their hard work and to the team and choice of location at CGCC for the delicious gala dinner and the staff’s attentiveness throughout the evening.

John Andrew and Managing Director Neil Bell concluded that they were proud to have honoured the suppliers in the industry and look forward to next years awards.