2022/2023 Events

20 March 2022 – Legal Service & Declaration, processing with Jane Tufnell towards Gloucester Cathedral

20 March 2022 – Legal Service & Declaration, with new Police Cadets, Bradley Crowther and Faye James, in Gloucester Cathedral

22 March 2022 - Primary Schools Mock Trial Competition, Cirencester

23 March 2022 – Visit to Gloucester & Forest Alternate Provision School

28 March 2022 – Visit to Cotswold Boatmobility, Stroudwater Navigation, Stonehouse

29 March 2022 – Primary Schools Mock Trial Competition, Sabrina Centre, Berkeley

1 April 2022 – Jobs Fair, Pittville Pump Rooms, Cheltenham

3 April 2022 – Visit to Tewkesbury Rugby Football Club

5 April 2022 – Youth Advisory Group, Gloucestershire Constabulary Headquarters, Waterwells

7 April 2022 – Visit to Priors Park Neighbourhood Project, Tewkesbury

14 April 2022 – Visit to Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, College Green, Gloucester

22 April 2022 – Police Recruit Graduation, Sabrina Centre, Berkeley

8 May 2022 – Visit to Girl Guides South West England, Deer Park, Cowley

14 May 2022 – Gloucestershire Federation of Young Farmers Clubs Competition Rally

16 May 2022 – Visit to IT Schools Africa, Leckhampton, Cheltenham

17 May 2022 – A day out with the Police Dog Handlers at Toddington Manor

17 May 2022 – With PDs Quest & Stella, looking gentle and friendly, but one word from PC Todd their handler and.....I shall leave you to work out the next bit

23 May 2022 – Attending the opening and naming of the new Ocean Jubilee Bridge at Stonehouse.

23 May 2022 – Awards Evening with the 7th Gloucestershire Boys Brigade & Girls Association, Christchurch, Abbeymead

25 May 2022 – Visit to Nailsworth Youth Club

26 May 2022 – Visit to TIC+, Mitcheldean

27 May 2022 – Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Tree Planting, Dursley Police Station

31 May 2022 – YAG meeting at Waterwells with members of PAC from YG discussing Youth Violence and the need for action.

2 June 2022 – Cotswold RDA Garden Party during which the Lord Lieutenant announced the award of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.

2 June 2022 – Beacon Lighting with the Girl Guides at Brockmead Scout Centre.

5 June 2022 – Service of Thanksgiving for Her Majesty The Queen at Northleach Church of St Peter & St Paul.

7 June 2022 – Meeting Jamie Alcock and his Shire Horse Challenge at RFC Rendcombe.

9 June 2022 – Founders Day Parade, Royal Hospital Chelsea, with David & Tom Lyall.

14 June 2022 – Cheltenham Primary Schools Mock Trial Competition, Cheltenham Borough Council Chamber.

17 June 2022 – Gloucestershire Rotary Awards Luncheon, Walls’ Club, Barnwood.

20 June 2022 – Visit to Cheltenham East Fire Station

21 June 2022 – Visit to Centred Horseplay.

21 June 2022 – Visit to the Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh.

22 June 2022 – Afternoon cricket at Dean Close Prep School, Cheltenham

27 June 2022 – Meeting Members of the Youth Parliament in the Whaddon Youth Support Centre, Cheltenham.

29 June 2022 – Awards Night at The Rock, Cheltenham

6 July 2022 – With Vanessa Worrall at Together in Matson, The Redwell Centre, Matson, Gloucester.

12 July 2022 – Visit to the ITSA DigiBus at Bournside School.

14 July 2022 – Visit to White Watch, Stroud Fire Station, GFRS.

16 July 2022 – Judging the Jubilee Pudding Competition, along with Alex Chalk MP and Councillor Sandra Holliday, Mayor of Cheltenham - as a task, it was a mere trifle!

20 July 2022 – Visit to Slimbridge Wetland Centre.

21 July 2022 – Visit to Coleford Community Fire Station.

27 July 2022 – With Jan Burn, the outstanding leader of the Cavern and the Kingfisher Treasure Seekers (Where people become the best versions of themselves) in Gloucester.

29 July 2022 – Royal Agricultural University Graduation.

2 August 2022 – Community Cricket Festival with my grandsons – time to relax (just a little)!

4 August 2022 – Visit to Kingsway and Quedgeley Men’s Shed.

13 August 2022 – Presenting Duke of Edinburgh Scheme awards at the Heart of the Forest School, Forest of Dean.

15 August 2022 – In Stroud with The Life Coach, Tom Hoskins, and Councillor Trina Davis.

20 August 2022 – The Barton & Tredworth Annual Community Fayre.

22 August 2022 – Director of Operations, Claire Power-Browne, TIC+, receives a High Sheriff’s Award for outstanding community service.

23 August 2022 – Moreton-in Marsh and Stow Fire Services combine for a demonstration of decontamination drills.

6 September 2022 – SkillZone 10-year celebration and awards evening, with Chief Fire Officer Mark Preece.

11 September 2022 –With my wife, Lesley, daughter Katie and her sons Daniel and Joshua, shortly after reading the proclamation of His Majesty King Charles III

11 September 2022 - HURRAH!

18 September 2022 – During the period of National mourning, a subdued but dignified wreath laying to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Britain – We Will Remember Them.

22 September 2022 – With Tim Henderson-Ross, Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Gloucestershire following ‘Making a Difference’ Charity Presentation.

24 September 2022 – BBC Radio Gloucestershire ‘Make a Difference’ Awards event.

27 September 2022 – The Rock, Cheltenham, Transition Night Tuesday.

4 October 2022 – National Black Police Association Conference, hosted by the Gloucestershire Constabulary, opening event in Cheltenham.

13 October 2022 – Visit to the Friendship Café and City Farm in Gloucester, with Julie Kent.

16 October 2022 – Police Cadet Graduation at the Sabrina Centre, with Inspector Jo Mercurio and my HS Cadets, Bradley Crowther & Faye James.

18 October 2022 – Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service Awards Evening.

1 November 2022 – A full and very enjoyable day in the Forest of Dean with Roger Deeks and Viv Hargreaves - it rained rather a lot! Seen here at Hips Harbourside, Lydney.

1 November 2022 - With students at the Dean Academy, Lydney.

1 November 2022 - A brief dry interlude with Headteacher Richard Brand.

1 November 2022 - Forest of Dean District Council hosted by Julia Gooch, Chair of Council.

1 November 2022 - Visit to AccXel, Cinderford, with Founder and Managing Director Nicola Bird, alongside Natalie King and Roger Deeks.

1 November 2022 - Concluding a thoroughly good day at The Wesley, Forest of Dean Community and Arts Centre in Cinderford....and it was still raining.

8 November 2022 – A visit to the Young Gloucestershire Tewkesbury Hub.

20 November 2022 – St Briavels Assembly Rooms for the regular Sunday Social with a group of Ukrainian refugees and their children plus plenty of local residents who provide outstanding support.

21 November 2022 – Hash Norat, founder and ‘chief deliverer’ of Gloucester Feed the Hungry, receives a High Sheriff’s Award for his services to the community.

21 November 2022 – Meeting the Armed Forces Social Prescriber in Gloucestershire, Denis Mutisya, at the offices of GRCC.

23 November 2022 – Vanessa Worrall, force of nature at the Redwell Centre in Matson, receives a High Sheriff’s Award for her services to the community.

23 November 2022 – Aysha Randera, The Friendship Café, Gloucester, receives a High Sheriff’s Award for her services to the community.

26 November 2022 – Graduation of Special Constable PEQF Programme, Sabrina Centre.

26 November 2022 – Graduation of Gloucestershire's first Volunteer Police Community Support Officers, Sabrina Centre.

5 December 2022 – Opening of the Nelson Trust ONE Women’s Centre at HMP Eastwood Park.

7 December 2022 – Unveiling a memorial to the 7-man crew of a Halifax Bomber that crashed atop Cleeve Common in the early hours of 26 August 1944.

14 December 2022 – With Canon Dr Andrew Braddock, Interim Dean of Gloucester Cathedral, following the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Annual Carol Service.

26 December 2022 – At rest with my best buddy contemplating the past year, and that to come.

30 December 2022 – Doing my bit for the local economy and having fun – family ice-skating at Gloucester Quays followed by a meal in a nearby restaurant (got away with a trifling flesh wound in the shops too).

19 January 2023 – Visit to Gloucestershire Young Carers, talking about the role of the High Sheriff.

19 January 2023 – Visit to MMC Homebuilding at Hardwicke along with Nick Evans (DPCC), Andrew Williams (HS Cornwall) and Richard Youngman (HS Devon) to see ‘Prisoners Building Homes’.

22 January 2023 – Return visit to the St Briavels Ukraine Community Hub to present a HS Award to the local community for their enduring selfless support to refugees, received on their behalf by Elif, the ‘cheeky monkey’.

22 January 2023 - Elif receives the HS Award on behalf of the St Briavels community

25 January 2023 – Cheltenham’s Act of Remembrance for Holocaust Memorial Day – a most thoughtful and thought-provoking service.

25 January 2023 – with Chief Constable Sarah Crew, Avon & Somerset Police, at an awards ceremony where she recognised 34 police officers and staff for outstanding transformative work during Op Bluestone. Sarah later received a High Sheriff’s Award for exceptional leadership.

29 January 2023 – Well worth waiting for, the GAM Big Birthday Bash, delayed due to snow in December, delighted a full-house.

1 February 2023 – After the final induction meeting with my successor in nom, Henry Robinson, Julian Archard the Under Sheriff of Gloucestershire receives a High Sheriff’s Award for being my ‘personal emergency service’ over the past year, and a thoroughly good chap.

1 February 2023 – the Knife Angel arrives in Gloucester for a month-long campaign against knife crime and violence.

2 February 2023 – Going the extra mile, and some. Youth & Community Worker Tracy Manning, Nailsworth Youth Club, does a brilliant job at the Club, and gathers and distributes funds and food to support those in the community who are struggling. An extremely well-deserved High Sheriff’s Award.

7 February 2023 – Nick Broady, chair of Pied Piper Appeal, receives a High Sheriff’s Award for running an exceptional charity supporting many sick or disabled children in Gloucestershire, and for sustaining the output of other charities who share similar objectives. World class Nick, well done and thank you.

9 February 2023 – Valerie Webb JP receives a High Sheriff’s Award for dedicated service as secretary to the High Sheriff’s Multi Agency Forum since its inception.

12 February 2023 – With Reverend Father Lubomyr Pidluskyj at the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Gloucester where High Sheriff’s Awards were presented to Laura Bullivant for individual exceptional work supporting citizens in Ukrainian as well as refugees in Gloucester, and to the Ukrainian Community in Gloucester, many of whom arrived here as refugees after WWII, for their work with newly-arrived refugees from the present war.

15 February 2023 – Visit to Commercial Foundation where young adults are inspired, guided and supported in their transition to the workplace.

15 February 2023 – St John Annual Awards Ceremony, enriched by the delightful young voices of the Dean Close School Jubilate Choir

22 February 2023 – Visit to Hopewell Colliery with Richard Daniels MBE, a King’s Verderer, where I learned about free mining in the Forest of Dean, together with Ingrid Barker and Councillor Julia Gooch

Richard Daniels 'in his element'........the High Sheriff looking a little less certain

22 February 2023 – Brief stop at The Speech House for lunch and a change of clothes, including a short tour to learn of its history

22 February 2023 – Visit to the new-build Community Hospital in Cinderford, together with Roger Deeks, Ingrid Barker, Councillor Julia Gooch, Angela Potter and Julia Blackman

24 February 2023 – Prize giving at the conclusion of the Art Competition to design a Superhero/heroine for Peace in conjunction with the Knife Angel

24 February 2023 – Prize giving at the conclusion of the Art Competition to design a Superhero/heroine for Peace in conjunction with the Knife Angel

24 February 2023 – Prize giving at the conclusion of the Art Competition to design a Superhero/heroine for Peace in conjunction with the Knife Angel

25 February 2023 – Visit to the Army Cadet Centre in Cinderford to view a cadet training weekend. Here with Major Alan Brewster, OC C Company Gloucestershire ACF (The Rifles)

4 March 2023 – Ukraine Social Club in Gloucester witnessing hand-making camouflage nets for the front line from a donation of 1100 sets of old bed linen – the colours are tuned to the seasonal need in theatre.

6 March 2023 – 1st round of the Primary Schools Mock Trials, Amberley v Rodborough Community, organised and run by members of the Magistrates’ Association in the Chamber of Stroud District Council. The crime, possession of a blade in a public place, well debated with many lessons emerging.

6 March 2023 – 1st round of the Primary Schools Mock Trials, Rodborough Community v Eastcombe, organised and run by members of the Magistrates’ Association in the Chamber of Stroud District Council. The crime, possession of a blade in a public place, well debated with many lessons emerging.

7 March 2023 – Having presented High Sheriff’s Awards to 20 highly deserving police officers, staff and volunteers, DCC Shaun West surprised me with a gift of a pair of bookends hand-carved from local stone.

9 March 2023 – Last visit to Dursley Retained firefighters to present a well deserved High Sheriff’s Award. These are simply magnificent people.

12 March 2023 – A day out with the Gloucestershire Cave Rescue Group in Bixhead Stone Mine observing casualty recovery drills and belatedly presenting a Queens Platinum Jubilee Medal to Jon Holden. Pictured with Paul Taylor and Jo Clarke next to the snazzy GCRG trailer.

Jo Clarke & Paul Taylor...and the snazzy trailer

Jon Holden with gong

17 March 2023 - Chief Fire Officer Mark Preece receives a High Sheriff's Award for outstanding leadership

20 March 2023 - Chief Constable Rod Hansen receives a High Sheriff's Award for exemplary leadership in difficult times

21 March 2023 - Cirencester round of the Mock Trial competition and Charlie Penfold is in the dock again - terrific work by the Magistrates' Association as well the schools involved.

21 March 2023 - Cirencester round of the Mock Trial competition and Charlie Penfold is in the dock again - his defence team did very well.

23 March 2023 - Final engagement, a visit to The King's School, Gloucester, to talk to and engage in discussion with members of the Sixth Form, a very bright group of youngsters.

26 March 2023 - Endex, the conclusion of an epic and most enjoyable year. Henry Robinson, now the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, and the latest in a long and distinguished line of High Sheriffs, will now take up the running - and he seems to have the legs for it!