Latest Web Site News

We have one new sponsor FAC, see below the navigation on this page, a UK GF Laboratory.

We held our very first Gluten-Free Food Fayre, on the 16th January 2010 and it was a great success, inspite of heavy snow and ice in the previous week, which had caused 4 suppliers to cancel their attendance, it turned out to be really great, with 65+ people attending, 10 new members joining our Group, possibly more people were present, but after 1 hour, we had stopped counting, since then 2 more have joined.

We are now looking forward to celebrating our 3rd Anniversary, on Saturday 20th February, when we will be honoured by the presence of The Right Honourable Mayor of Crawley, we also hope to have a wonderful display of gluten free food.

We now have 128 different countries who are looking at our web site, welcome Jersey.

1. Within the “Why a Gluten-Free Diet” page, a new 5 page article has been added, 'A Layman's Guide to the Bodies Auto-Immune Sytem'. An explanation of what is the Immune System and how Gluten attacks its functions, so why a strict gluten-free diet is absolutely essential.

2. A new testimonial has been added.

3. This month 2 more recipes are being added, this makes it 103 recipes
Baked Risoni (Orgran)
Bakewell Slice - Raspberry (Juvela)

4. Newsletter 35 January 2010 is now on line.

5. Links Page, we have now added a link-to page

6. A restaurant in Central London has been added to the site.

7. Some Travel Tips about visiting Spain have been added.

Glutafin meeting

Our meeting on 16th May 2009, with Glutafin

United Central Bakeries/Livwell, are the UK's largest Gluten-Free Bakeries, who supply all the major Supermarkets, see their web site new products.

Welcome To The Crawley Gluten Free Group’s Web Site

As Founder and Organiser of the Crawley Gluten Free Group (CGFG) we would like to welcome you to our web site, it first opened in October 2007 and has now been seen by 128 different countries.

If you are looking at our site, for the first time, then please before you finish, finally go to “Contact Us” please find time to just send us a short message, we wish to know about and share your problems, living in a world full of Gluten.
Don Tombs

The CGFG is based in Crawley, West Sussex, UK, this is a fairly large, relatively new town, about 5 minutes drive, South of London’s second largest Airport, Gatwick. And we are completely separate from Coeliac UK. we are not Doctors or here to give medical advice, but at our meetings the conditions, that our members suffer from, are often being discussed. We welcome all people, who medically suffer from an intolerance to Gluten, to participate in our meetings, (please see our Aims & Objectives). Our Group now has 100 registered members.

We are not organised and driven by a Committee, with a President, Chairman, Secretary or Treasurer, we make our own decisions about where we are going, who we wish to invite, when to meet and report only to our local members. We do however have an Organiser and Volunteers, that’s how we progress and it seems to work!.

We now meet on the third Saturday of every month, apart from holiday times, in the town centre (see map and picture St. Pauls Methodist Church Hall). The Hall is on a bus route, so members with young children, or those without cars, can easily get there. The time and date of meeting was voted on and selected by the members and we produce a monthly event itinerary (see planned future events).

We don’t charge, we don’t get paid, nobody does, we are a charity run by complete volunteers, we do accept donations, these cover the hall hire, insurance and any sundry expenses, our Accounts are auditable through our monthly bank statements from Lloyds TSB Crawley.

The CGFG does not deal at a National Level, we instead focus on the creation of local awareness and improving the lives of our members. We are making a difference (see our testimonials), we continue to grow each month and we have only just started.

NHS Gluten Free Menus

See copies of the Gluten Free menus from the Surrey & Sussex NHS here. They could be useful when deciding about when to be in hospital.