JERICHO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Jericho Community Association
JCA Chair Charlotte Christie advises visitors at the Jericho Street Fair
Your representatives in Jericho
The Jericho Community Association (JCA) has five main tasks:
- To administer the Jericho Community Centre
- To establish a new community centre on the canalside site
- To represent Jericho residents on local issues such as planning
- To organize local events such as the annual Street Fair
- To keep residents aware of local concerns
The JCA is a charitable incorporated organisation. Registered Charity No. 1168203
The Association is open to anyone who lives in Jericho or elsewhere and everyone is welcome to come to most of the monthly meetings which are held at the Community Centre on the second Monday of most months at 8.00 p.m.
The 2025 AGM was held in Exeter College on April e. As a result of the elections the management of the Association consists of:
Chair: Charlotte Christie (Canal Street)
Vice-chair: John Crabtree (Walton Street)
Treasurer: Peter Stalker (Cranham Street)
The other committee members are: Zoe Guy, Phyllis Starkey, Michael Barnes, George Taylor, Colin Runacres and Alex Towler
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For the past 20 years the JCA has been working towards establishing a new community centre on the vacant canalside site.
For this purpose, we have joined forces with three other other local organizations to form the Jericho Wharf Trust. They are St. Barnabas Church, the Jericho Living Heritage Trust, and the Jericho Community Boatyard.
For the latest information on this project, please visit the Jericho Wharf website
About the church bells?
Originally the Church only had the single ‘Barney’s Bell’. In 1890, when the clock was installed, it was decided to add a set of tubular bells to ring the chimes and the hour strike, as well as a tune or ‘carillon’. The are driven by an elaborate mechanical contraption.
Cranham Street used to be a blot on the city
Before Grantham House was built, the site became notoriously derelict, making Cranham Street according to the local press a ‘blot on the city’ – wrecked by local children, and a refuge for rats and for ‘layabouts sleeping off the drink’ who were repeatedly evicted by the police.
Diary
Sat 31 Jan - 1.30 pmSt Barnabas Church
Grief Table
Tue 03 Feb - 6.15 pmThe Coffee Gulld
The Call of the Loon multimedia talk
Sun 22 Feb - 7.00 pmJericho Community Centre
Monthly litter pick
Keeping Jericho tidy
Saturday 7 February - 10:00 AM
Jericho Comminuty Centre