A resident’s association is a group of people from a neighbourhood that come together to represent their neighbourhood. In our eyes, a resident’s association’s primary role is to build a community, and to connect and support local residents. We do this by organising social events, such as a community restaurant, film club, boardgame club and family outdoor activities. In this way, we hope to make Eddington a warm and welcoming place to live. In addition, we communicate with all parties that are present in Eddington and surroundings, including the Cambridge City Council, Portal, Storey’s Field Centre, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, New Life Church, Cambridge North West Development group, Girton College and others, to create opportunities for collaboration and support.

In addition to the news and events pages here you can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. These links are also in the top bar of every ERA webpage.

Other Eddington channels that are not run by ERA include the Eddington social (staff+) Facebook group and the Teddington Facebook group.

Please check our calendar for all currently scheduled events in Eddington. We do our best to add events from all organising parties in Eddington. If you have an event you would like to add to our calendar, please contact us via email at info@eddingtonra.org.

Under the ERA umbrella several regular community events are organised by volunteers, including Eddington Eats community restaurant, Eddington Explorers, Eddington Film Club, Edidngton Open Door and Eddington Board Games Club.

For more information on each event, click on the ‘Events’ tab on the menu at the top of this website.

You are very welcome to get involved in the activities of ERA and the Eddington neighbourhood! If you would like to get involved in the committee or like to know more about what this entails, please have a chat with one of the committee members at an ERA event or contact us at info@eddingtonra.org. At least one committee member is present at an ERA run event, although this may be through video conferencing during lockdown.

You can also stand for election at the AGM.

If you would like to become a volunteer at an event please also email us as at info@eddingtonra.org and we will pass on your message to the correct person, or talk to one of the organisers of the social events!

Please refer to Portal estate management. If you have an emergency, call the 24-hour Portal helpline on 03332 079 501.

For non-urgent issues please log in to the online Portal reporting page and click on ‘something wrong?’ on the top menu. Here you can fill out the Request Help Form. This will be actioned within one working day.

If you have a general enquiry about estate management at Eddington, you can email Portal at portal@eddington-cambridge.co.uk.

The Portal office is located at the centre of the site (but currently closed during the lockdown):

25 Eddington Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 1SE

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