The Best Guide for the GL2 Area

Welcome to the community website for the Gloucestershire communities living and working in the GL2 area. AboutMyArea is full of useful and relevant local information. This is your first port of call to find out anything you need to for living or working in the GL2 area.

Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, Hardwicke Take a look at the many pages of local news, reviews and features, upcoming events, organisations and clubs, classified ads, notices and local businesses and services .

We'd love to hear from you, so please if there is anything you feel should be represented or featured here please email the AboutMyArea GL2 team with your requests, suggestions or views of the site.

News and information about local Charities, Schools, Clubs and Organisations can all be found on AboutMyArea GL2.

Charities and not-for-profit organisations can share their information and events for FREE on this site.

If you have a local charity event or a school event you'd like to publicise, or you run a not-for-profit club or organisation, please email the AboutMyArea team.

Would you like to turn your unwanted items into cash, or are you looking for something in particular? Why not look in the Classifieds section? It is completely FREE to buy, sell and swap. Are you an employer looking to employ someone local, or are you looking for a new job? The Employment section is here for you.

Frampton-on-Severn If you are looking for a local business or service, please take a look in the Business Zone. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please let us know and we will find the service you require.

If you are a business interested in advertising to the local community, please email the AboutMyArea GL2 team to discuss the many ways in which this site can benefit your business.

Share your special moments with the community. You can announce birthdays, births, weddings etc for FREE. Why not add a Seasonal  message to your friends and family?

This site is in its infancy, so please be patient if you don't find what you are looking for today. Do come back again, as this site is updated daily.

While we do our very best to get every detail correct, please email the AboutMyArea team if you notice anything is incorrect and we'll put it right as soon as we can.

Thank you for visiting,

Kind regards
Claire Digby
Site Editor for AboutMyArea GL2, AboutMyArea GL5 and AboutMyArea GL10

Gloucestershire Women's Institute have published a compilation of stories and experiences of the 2007 flood from members of this community in Gloucestershire Floods 2007. The book is being published to raise funds for the Gloucestershire Flood Relief Fund.

The contributions from WI members include accounts of being stranded during flash flooding on Friday 20th July , rescue dramas, the trauma of homes being flooded in Longlevens, Longford, Maisemore and surrounding areas. How animals were affected, coping without running water for two weeks, and what happened after the floodwater receded, as well as the experiences of those involved in support roles during the disaster. Some of the stories are heart wrenching, but there are also wonderful tales of community spirit and some humorous moments as well, punctuated by 100 photos which have not been seen before.

The book was the idea of Gill Thomas, the County Chairman of the WI. She says: "Royalties from the book will help flood victims, many of them WI members themselves, some still living in temporary accommodation. At the same time it will become a historical record of what happened during those difficult weeks in the summer. When we approached the publishers they only gave us five weeks to put the book together. We knew it would be a challenge - but we decided to give it our best shot. "

Gill's colleague on the WI County Executive, Sue Wilson, took on the role of compiling and editing the book. She says:" WIs responded so quickly with such well written accounts and amazing photos that we managed not only to meet the deadline, but to beat it by several days! The stories are compelling and will strike a chord with everyone who was in the county at the time. They also give an insight to those not involved of just how a community copes under the sort of pressure we all had to deal with this summer."