Beacon Magazine Issue 106 70 pence where sold

Inside this Issue: • Welcome From the Chair • Ivinghoe Flower and Produce Show • Ivinghoe & Girls Football

and Cricket The Quarterly Magazine of Ivinghoe Parish Council The Team... Beacon Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS elcome to the August edition Thelp of the volunteer band of of Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine. distributors. WAt the time of writing we are Many thanks to them all; Andy Welcome from the Chair 3 enjoying long sunny days and the local Beezer, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, Geoff Neighbourhood News 6-15 farmers and gardeners are very busy. Travis and Rob and Anne Cattle – Ivinghoe has recently enjoyed the it couldn’t be done without you! Ecumenical Enlightenment 20-24 action-packed church fete and it was Karen Groom, If you have any skills that will help good to see some of you at the IPC Chair, Ivinghoe Cultivation Clippings 30-32 us to keep the magazine going or you Annual Meeting in May where we took Parish Council would like to submit an article, please School Stuff 36-39 part in defi brillator training and discussed let us know as we are always looking local issues. for new and varied talents! Beyond the Boundary 40 Sporting Scoop 44-46 Brownlow Bridge to Brookmead. The land owner has not We have all been inconvenienced by the responded, and we would like to thank Councillor Communication 48-55 Brownlow Bridge closure, following the the local resident who kindly cleared recent road accident, hopefully it will be the footpaths. repaired and open by the time you read BEACON COPY AND this. Unfortunately, the businesses in Bucks Best Kept Village ADVERT DEADLINES Ivinghoe have suffered from less passing Competition trade but we know the residents in Great The Best Kept Village judging took place

We aim to get the magazine distributed Gap have enjoyed very little traffi c. in June and results are expected at the around the beginning of every February, May, end of July. Please check the IPC website August and November. To ensure your article Ivinghoe Lawn for results when we receive them. Editor: Bridget Knight or feature makes the edition you would like I am sure you will have noticed the Tel: 07960 605393 please see the submission deadlines below: Ivinghoe Railings have been replaced Noticeboards Email: [email protected] and there is new post and rail wooden Both Ivinghoe Aston and Ivinghoe Advertising Manager: Bridget Knight fencing between the upper and lower (nr Brookmead) have new noticeboards. Tel: 07960 605393 Lawn, the council has received lots of The noticeboards are updated regularly positive comments about the railings. with news, information and parish Email: [email protected] November 2018 – 4 October 2018 We would like to say thank to Will council agendas. February 2019 Edition – 4 January 2019 Design and Artwork: Laila Palfrey Roff for installing the new railings and May 2019 Edition – 4 April 2019 Tel: 01525 222214 fencing, for doing such a great job. Thank August 2019 Edition – 4 July 2019 Ivinghoe Allotments Email: [email protected] you to AVDC New Homes Bonus for As part of National Allotment Week funding this project. The table tennis Ivinghoe Allotments will be welcoming BEACON MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATES: table should be installed soon. visitors on Saturday 18th August IPC have written several times to between 1.30 – 4.00, further details from 1/4 page £58 per year NB: Rates are for 4 editions. the landowner of the Lower Lawn to our two allotment correspondents Gloria 1/3 page £65 per year ask him to urgently clear the footpaths and Ernie. I hope you enjoy Gloria’s 1/2 page £95 per year Artwork must be supplied across his land. We know how well used beautiful photographs of the allotments Full page £130 per year as a jpeg or a pdf fi le. these footpaths are by families walking especially the lovely wild fl owers. u

2 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 Ivinghoe Flower and Beacon Magazine Ideas/ Produce Show Contributions The Ivinghoe Flower and Produce Show We like to receive your feedback, we is being held on Saturday 8th September know this magazine reaches people in the Old School Village Hub, further across the world and it’s good to know details in this issue. Good luck to we have readers in Australia and Canada everyone who enters and thank you to with family links to Ivinghoe. If you the committee for running this event. have any articles for future editions, 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Beavers (5 3/4 -8 year olds) please contact the editor by email: Monday 6-7pm with Tom as Watermill Coloney leader

COUNCILLORS NEWS Tuesday 6-7pm with Jakki as Windmill Coloney leader First World War Centenary [email protected] or telephone

As part of the WW1 Centenary 07960 605393. 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Cubs (8-10 year olds) remembrances IPC have applied for a Wednesday 7-8:30pm (Dan) Akela as Windmill Pack leader grant from the Armed Forces Covenant Website Thursday 6:30-8pm (Rob) Shere Khan as Watermill Pack leader Fund and if we are successful we will Please check the website for regular have WWI Soldier Silhouettes for our updates: www.ivinghoepc.org.uk 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Scouts (10 1/2 -14 1/2 year olds) parish as a poignant reminder in our Friday 7:30-9pm Andrew as Troop Leader parish in the next few weeks. For any enquiries or to join the waiting list please contact us on [email protected] Or our Group Scout Leader, Keith Steers on [email protected] or 07899 696722

We are also raising money to rebuild the village a purpose built scout hut and are selling bricks to supporters for £10 each. Please email the above address for details.

Rainbows: Monday 4.30 – 5.30pm Pitstone Memorial Hall Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 Brownies: Monday 5.45 – 7.15pm Pitstone Memorial Hall Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 Girl Guides: Tuesday 7.00 – 8.30pm Millennium Room, Pitstone Memorial Hall Guider: Yvonne Ashton 01296 660044 To join us, please visit our website at Girlguiding.org.uk

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Broadly Speaking £71,000. There are grants and vouchers nearly 1500 people on board. Four ships The Ivinghoe Aston Broadband Group is available which may cover all of that appeared almost immediately and loaded continuing to hold meetings at least once cost, depending on how many people us on. Amazingly all survived except three a month. Here’s where we are on the two and businesses sign up to the service. of those in the engine room who were complementary solutions being pursued. We’ve been asking plenty of questions to fi ghting the fi re. Our aim is to future-proof Ivinghoe Aston understand the terms and funding options for years to come! in more detail. Rikki: In spite of, or maybe because of, If you have any questions, please your exciting childhood you didn’t follow Voneus get in touch with us either via your father into the army? NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Voneus are now full steam ahead with a [email protected], by wireless internet solution for the village replying to Ketts’ emails or via the David: No, I went for the much more and have completed the planning work. Ivinghoe Aston Facebook group. We want mundane occupation of construction and The connection will ultimately come from to represent the entire village and the spent most of my career with Mowlem; . An unexpected snag is that feedback we get is invaluable. it recently went on the market for a cool however, my work was not without its the AVDC building has a resident pair of Chris Pyne and Liam Hall four million. Ah well. ‘exciting problems’, especially in Somalia breeding peregrine falcons which means in 1979, where I was managing a project that Voneus cannot currently get access to Nobody expects the IA Rikki: I guess you had an exciting to install port fenders to stop ships getting install equipment. They expect access in inquisition childhood travelling the world with your damaged when docking. (David regaled me mid-July and are giving updates directly on “I was on the Windrush when it sank” father in the army. with tales of rampant corruption and close their website (https://www.voneus.com/ was a little more than I’d bargained for shaves with offi cialdom.) updates/) and via their project Facebook when asking David de Butts about exciting David: I had a truly extraordinary childhood. page. Let us know if you want to be added moments in his life. I had guessed there The army treated its offi cers and their Rikki: Were you involved with any to their Facebook group. might be some because I was well aware families very well and we often lived in particularly notable projects back home? of his father’s extraordinary military career. ridiculous luxury. I was in Malaya, Cyprus Openreach Community Later in life, Brigadier Freddie de Butts (the most beautiful place in the world), David: The most prestigious was the Fibre Partnership (CFP) was the 6th County Commissioner for Arabia (UAE) and Egypt. And yes, it was NatWest Tower, opened in 1981 and then There is much more work still to do with Hertfordshire Scouts, and something of exciting. We returned from Malaya in 1954 the tallest building in London. It’s now the Openreach. It’s a longer timescale project a legend. I was the 11th and was thus on the Windrush, and it sank. We were 3rd tallest. Did you know that, if looked at that would take around 12 months from amazed and delighted to discover that in the Med somewhere north of Libya. from above, it’s the shape of the NatWest when we formally commit, so realistically Freddie’s son lived in IA. Anyway, this is At 6.15am we were woken by a steward logo? (I didn’t.). I also was involved in fi ve we’d be looking at around 18 months about David, not his Dad. telling us to go on deck because there multimillion pound offi ce and residential from now. The proposal is to deliver was an engine fi re. Soon the ship was projects in Milton Keynes. In all I have been fi bre to every house in the village so that Rikki: When did you and Barbara come ablaze and women and children, including involved in about 75 projects throughout every property would have it available to IA? my mother, my sister and myself, were my career. if they choose to use it. Full fi bre is the lowered in the lifeboats. As only half the Government’s long-term plan for all David: It was in 1983 – we needed a lifeboats could be lowered due to the ship Rikki: Do you have any time for hobbies? broadband access across the country and fourth bedroom. I was born in Ireland and listing over, my father had to clamber down would offer even faster connection speeds had extensive family there. My grandfather a rope and swim for it, but before doing so David: I’m treasurer of two village halls than Voneus, albeit at a higher monthly had a huge house in Ireland but my father he returned to his cabin to retrieve his gold and the Slapton Church. What I enjoy cost. A CFP would be part-funded by the didn’t want it and it was sold for £10,000 in cigarette case (a wedding present from his most, though, is my role with Citizens village with the cost to us estimated at 1960. I was somewhat shocked to fi nd that wife) and 200 Players No. 3. There were Advice in Hemel. We deal with queries u

6 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 7 about benefi ts, debt, family, consumer David lent me a great book on his and legal issues but all sorts of other father’s exploits: Now the Dust has items come up. Some cases are quite Settled: Memories of War and Peace extraordinary and being able to help in 1939 – 1994 published by Tabb House. some way is incredibly rewarding and fascinating as each case is different and I Rikki Harrington can never tell what the next one will be. Brampton, Ivinghoe Aston 01525 220625; I have had a very easy life compared to [email protected]. many people, and this gives me a good chance to see the other side. However, Please get in touch if you have any compared with what people coped with a news, views or ideas! NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS generation ago, our generation are pretty wet really! Rikki Harrington

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WI News... Enjoy Home cooked food at the Ivinghoe & Pitstone Branch Waterside Café Pitstone Wharf, Road, Pitstone, ell a year has now passed since Our diner’s club, knit and natter group Bucks LU7 9AD all our celebrations for our and book club are all still going strong. Breakfasts, Lunches, Soup, Sandwiches, Toasties W100th year and we still seem to Don’t forget our very popular Quiz Homemade Cakes, Cream Teas plus a selection of be just as busy. Night on the 13th October 2018. Hot & Cold Drinks We ran the refreshment table at the Tickets are available from Sue 01296 Church Fete and seven of our members 660436. Tables of eight or we can put OPENING TIMES NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS entered into the spirit of the day by doing you on a table. FRIDAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY -10am to to 2.30pm 3pm . another fl oat. We were the Suffragettes, very appropriate at the moment. Please contact Sue Jones for any BANK HOLIDAYS 10am 10am toto 3pm 3pm

We welcomed 30 members of an over further information or if you are On request for group bookings we can offer seating for 36people. 60’s group from Bishops Stortford and interested in joining the W.I. on served them a cream tea and will again 01296 660436. Email: café@pitstonewharf.co.uk www.pitstonewharf.co.uk be running a champagne type fi zz and cream teas on the 1st July in Pitstone. Sue Jones, President

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e still need new committee Thursday: 7.00pm – 10.00pm W.I. members to help run this 2nd Thursday of each month Wvaluable village asset. If you Sue Jones (01296 660436) would like to join then please contact Andy Beezer on 01296 660960 or email Other Thursday’s: 7.00pm – 8.00pm [email protected]. Pilates (Move Better Fitness Academy) Trevor (07795-536022) Ivinghoe Town Hall regular events: The Town hall is an ideal location for Friday: 10am – 11am Pilates NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS family parties or weddings so don’t (Move Better Fitness Academy) forget to book early. Trevor (07795-536022) Also, have a look at the regular Weekly events held at the Ivinghoe Town Hall. NOTE: We have ‘slot availability’, on Monday AM’s, Tuesday and Wednesday Why not try one of these regular PM’s, Thursday AM/PM’s and Friday PM’s. weekly events? Also, please try the web site at Monday: 4pm – 8pm – Ballet www.ivinghoetownhall.org.uk where Lisa (07834 281434) you can see regular activities and search for Hall availability dates, and make a Tuesday: 9.45am – 12pm – Beacon Art Booking enquiry on-line. FORD END WATERMILL Marion (01296 668429) If you prefer to enquire in person then IVINGHOE, call Stephen Swinbank (The Booking The only working watermill to survive intact in the county. The mill, Tuesday: 7pm – 8pm – Zumba Secretary) on 01296 660680. Or emai: recorded in 1616 but probably much older, was in use until 1963. Carolyn (07941 092673) [email protected] Now restored by volunteers and run by Ford End Watermill Society, The Post Offi ce and Shop direct it retains all the atmosphere of a small farm mill of the late 1800s. Tuesday: 8.15pm – 10.15pm – Morris telephone number is: 01296 660682. Visitors can work the sack hoist and mill wheat on a rotary hand quern. ‘New Moon’ Dancers Martin Lindridge Stoneground wholemeal flour for sale on milling days. (07803-149490) OPENING TIMES 2018 nd th Afternoons 2.00–5.00pm 2 April - Easter Monday, 15 April - Sunday, LOCATION th th th Wednesday: 8:30am and 11am 7 May - BH Monday, 13 May - National Mills Weekend, 28 May BH – Station Rd, Ivinghoe, Bucks LU7 9EA Monday, 17th June - Sunday, 15th July - Sunday, 29th July – Sunday, 12th August 600 metres from the church along Natural Pilates Andrea (07855 138005) th th th Station Road. – Sunday, 27 August - BH Monday, 16 September - Sunday, 14 October –as The B488 to . part of Tring Apple Fayre. 7pm – 8:30pm Wednesday: Yoga MILLING DEMONSTRATIONS (water level permitting) Sally Craig (07753-985155) Andy Beezer between 2.30pm-4.30pm approx Last admission 4.30pm. Admission: Adults: £3 children (5–15) £1 Ample car parking – no toilet facilities. Restricted disability access School and other parties welcome by arrangement. Contact: Mill Manager - Chris Tugby, [email protected] or Telephone: 01442 825421. www.fordendwatermill.co.uk

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itting in the very peaceful and monthly crochet club on Saturdays, and The Venue is run with financial beautifully flowery back garden at the hall is bearing up to the heavy use well. transparency by our ‘not for private profit’ Sthe Hub with the Bee-loud poppies Bob recently found a hole in the floor the registered charity - voluntary trustees and the kite flying overhead, I am thinking exact size of a chair leg – but nobody knew for Community benefit and increased of the many uses this garden and old a thing about its appearance! Somewhat Community wellbeing. Spaces are at school has been put to over the years, the hall is filling withMonday Bridge abashed we have cut and sanded an old ground level for easy access, warm, well before the Save Old School team players. The Tuesday late morning free but strong floor-board and mended the and with restored Victorian varnished rescued it as a HUB for this community. exercise club has become a very popular space to continue as before. Maybe it’s the floorboards, comfy modern padded NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS June is warming up now and the village and enabling experience, using our regular same naughty Pixies who vanish our Hub’s stackable chairs, fold away tables and and its surroundings are blooming and Thursday morning Pilates teacher flower pot ash-trays, dog bowls, water- ambient lighting - can swiftly adapt to breaking out in all sorts of activities, Andrea who takes such care of all our hose fixings, and Hayley’s Tea-pots! all activities for all generations. A sound artistry abounds here as elsewhere as Arts unique body eccentricities! Wednesday CuriosiTEA Rooms will have system and electrically operated projection workshop participants arrived in numbers lunchtime was our proposed Lunch celebrated its 5th Opening Birthday in screen, and associated black-out blinds are, last week. Here in the Hub we are Club, but without a ‘coordinator’ we have the last week of June so please raise a like the pretty garden beyond, all available. sweeping yards, weeding and plant moving yet to get it off the ground, it could be delayed coffee cup to our tenant Hayley WHOLE Community Room (69.26sq.m) ready for the Best Kept Village challenge, held on another day if wished, maybe Wesley and her Café team! Long may we with retractable wall-screen midway-£12 also assisting the bustle of the village Tuesdays would suit the exercisers’ be refreshed in these spaces daily and on for first hour and £10 thereafter per hour. fete on the morrow. Decorating floats is lunching plans? occasional Pop-Up restaurant evenings! If HALF Space – £9 for first hour in 37.65 taking place and we are printing out Float Last month I was pulling up the last of you remember it took the volunteers from sq.m room with piano, or 31.61 sq.m room Decorating prop stuff right now in our IT the beautiful spring tulips to make room for within this community another few months with sink – £7 per hour thereafter. Room for an anxious Suffragette as part of summer to the melodious strains of guitar to complete all the decorating and repairing Contact us or come in for a booking the Fete’s Modern Day Heroes theme, and lessons being taught here Thursday of the other three classrooms and the rest form, and our support for your plan. I have drawn a face for the tractor funnel! afternoons; info Phone Tutor Codrut of the Hub spaces, before we opened IT Suite – Software includes Microsoft The talented WI will bring their home made Mureson on 07467-459754. the entire Hub within our first Christmas Office 2013 Suite; Photoshop C6; Skype cakes to sell in our Don’t forget to obtain your own Schedule Market in November 2013! So we too with webcams and microphones; £2 per Hub garden. for the IVINGHOE FLOWER AND VEG celebrate a fifth year of being your very hour per PC one with 40” wall mounted When not just sharing our spaces SHOW SEPT. 8TH so that you can own Community Hub space and we will monitor and speakers. with this community – our hall space grow or make your own entries over the celebrate this within our pre-Christmas • 10p A4 b/w photocopy is booked out regularly but there is summer, in time to make it a great event Market in Nov 2018 – to toast in mulled • 50p A4 colour copy, 50p A4 lamination always space for more, and of course we here in your Hub this Autumn! Obtainable wine our shared Community Old School • Booking IT Suite for small conference or welcome extra volunteers to help us to online at our website: http://www. Hub’s good fortune (see you there). meetings etc. £10 an hour. run this Hub as Hub-using trustees. Use ivinghoeoldschool.com/wp-content/ Naughty Pixies not-withstanding, we do • Personal IT tuition if requested! our phone line and answerphone, email or uploads/2018/03/HUB-SCHEDULE-and- still bask in the thought that you still value leave us a note through the front door if ENTRY-FORM-for-8th-Sept-Show-2018. the Hub because it is often so busy with you want to discuss volunteering yourself. pdf – or hard copy from the Hub cloakroom people just enjoying what it has to offer, Old School Community Hub, Ivinghoe Every Monday our ‘Simply Walkers’ and some local community spaces. almost as if it was always here! www.ivinghoeoldschool.com set off from outside the Hub at 10am to We continue to have many parties This Community space is for hire Tel: 01296- 661666 walk together around the fields in the area, and other celebrations, teaching and – it has great Victorian character, Email:Ivinghoeoldschoolcommunityh returning to the café for a drink an hour learning users of all sorts, ’Simply Sing’ refurbished by our village Community [email protected] later. As we finish our well-earned chats, 1st Friday each month at 4pm, the for this Community’s wider use. Ivinghoe Community Hub on Facebook.

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HOW TO BOOK HUB SPACE: Booking space within the Hub is easy but needs to follow through by the Hirer who: 1. Approaches café team who man the Hub Diary 7 days a week at café counter or the Hirer approaches Trustee team via phone 01296-661666 or email [email protected] Half space £9/£7 per hour or whole hall £12/£10 per hour. (or an element of the IT Room after negotiation)

2. The process is explained by obtaining from either source a vital Booking Form which includes the extra special options bookable, the insurance cover and awareness of the hirers cleaning up obligations – to be fi lled in and returned within 7 days and the fee paid – if not then – no later than 3 days before the date booked.

3. By this returned form and fee, the booking is made formal and then penned into diary which means it cannot be over-ridden or double booked – This booking then translates to our ‘digital diary’ graphically – charted monthly by Bob to ensure visual awareness of all bookings- posted on Facebook Page, web-site and email data-base, hard copy on Notice Board for Public viewing.

Join in with your DIY skills please! You are all so welcome to join in! PITSTONE VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE YARDLEY AVENUE, PITSTONE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, BEDS, LU7 9BE 01525 223211 www.pitstonesurgery.co.uk Have you ever thought about ‘growing your own’? Growing your own fruit and vegetables can be very DR J R BELL, DR HEATHER WHITE, DR STEPHANIE JOHNSTON, DR KIRSTEN RIEMER, a satisfying experience and in Ivinghoe we are very lucky DR CHARLOTTE FISHER to have some beautiful allotments just off Church Road, overlooking St Mary’s Church. We welcome patients from & Cheddington as well as the ‘Ivinghoes’ and Pitstone. If you are an Ivinghoe resident and would like some We also offer a medication dispensing service to our patients who live in Cheddington and more information about availability of plots – we have surrounding villages. them in a range of sizes – please contact the Parish Clerk at [email protected] We are a dispensing practice offering a full range of health services at our surgery including Family

NB: there may not always be an available plot but we do keep a planning, Midwifery, Blood tests, Travel and Minor surgery. waiting list!

16 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 17 A note from the GROOMS Editor... FARM I very much hope that you are still enjoying Pilates Classes reading the Ivinghoe Beacon magazine, it SHOP has changed a little since the Parish Council FRESH MEAT & POULTRY took over the production of the magazine. Ivinghoe Town Hall BVCL 100 CLUB FREE RANGE EGGS & VEGETABLES We really want the magazine to be CHEESE, OLIVES, PIES, PATÉS & NUTS Thursday 7-8pm something you get pleasure from reading Now in its 4th Year! FREE LOCAL DELIVERY Friday 10-11am as well as a useful reference tool for local events and advertising. OPENING TIMES Come and join our many prizewinners Thursday 9.00 - 12.30 We are always looking for new ideas to keep Friday 8.30 - 5.30 and help to support your local Library. the magazine an interesting read, so if you have Contact Saturday 8.30 - 12.30 something that you would like to be considered Orders can be placed outside Trevor Why not pick up a pack at the Library for inclusion, please do get in touch! in Ivinghoe? Or email these times by telephone 07795 536022 Many thanks and happy reading. [email protected] for further WILLOWDENE FARM www.movebetterfi tnessacademy.co.uk Bridget Knight The Editor IVINGHOE details and an online application form. [email protected] TEL: 01296 668326

James B Chadburn FBHI Fine Antique clocks & Barometers FIRST THURSDAY FRIENDS

Specialist in repairs & Friendly chat, board games for those restorations. who wish and a choice of cake with Valuations & clock endless tea or coffee at just £2.

finding service. ALL WELCOME BELLOWS MILL EATON BRAY Advice & assistance on On the first Thursday of each month at formation & disposal of 2p.m. in the Millennium Room at Attractive short term and overnight private clock collections. accommodation Pitstone Memorial Hall in idyllic surroundings of old water mill. Quality clocks/barometers Licensed for civil wedding ceremonies Bought & sold. We plan to reintroduce film shows on alternate and receptions for up to 80 guests. months as soon as possible. Small meeting room. Telephone 01525 221165 Mobile 07790 000629 Want more information? For details phone 01525 220548 E-mail: [email protected] 01296 668005 or email [email protected]

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an you remember how you A few week ago we invited those ‘Coffee, Cake and Crafts’ spent your free time when you young people (school year 6 and above) Cwere at school? The world has who we know through St Mary’s Church changed and so too have the hobbies to the Vicarage. We enjoyed pizzas and and pastimes of young people who today garden games and tried to listen to at St. Mary’s Church have grown up in the age of information them. We had some fun and heard lots technology and computer networks. of ideas about what we could do anther Adults, in general, don’t really know time. So we are meeting again at All Ivinghoe what they spend their time doing on the Saints Marsworth on Sunday 22nd July Internet nor do most of us understand at 5:30pm. We hope to go up the tower, the gadgets they play with. We have try our hand at bell ringing and share ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT never heard of the bands they listen a barbecue. to online nor of their celebrities who If you know any others of this age in are quickly becoming rich and enjoying Ivinghoe who would like to join us then worldwide fame. they would be very welcome. Email me As we read the papers we can’t help at [email protected] so but be aware of the extent of mental we know to expect them. And do also health issues amongst teenagers; we email if you would like to hear of what are told they are an anxious generation. we, with them, plan to do next time we And yet the media carry all sorts of other meet, probably in September.

tales about knives, gangs, drugs and crime, somehow involving mopeds. We Revd Adrian Manning

fi nd ourselves at a loss to fi lter out what Vicar of Ivinghoe and Pitstone stories are being propagated as news to promote circulation. We are rightly concerned about the welfare of our young Friday mornings: people but healthy concern can easily mutate into undue fear and anxiety. 27th July and 31st August 10.30-12.00 Come and join us!

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SATURDAY 8 th SEPTEMBER 2018

Ivinghoe & Pitstone Visit unique historic buildings, see beautiful countryside, get some exercise and have Chapel Fellowship fun with the family! Ride+Stride is a sponsored bike ride, horse ride or walk in which people from all over We are a small and friendly group of local Christians who the country walk, ride or cycle between churches, exploring and enjoying the meet to worship God in a fairly informal way, in song, countryside from Cornwall to Northumberland. The money they raise helps to in prayer, and with messages brought by a variety of local preserve some of Britain’s 47,000 churches, chapels and meeting houses which are at risk of falling into serious disrepair. preachers.We meet on Sunday mornings at 10.30am in the Millennium Room at Pitstone Memorial Hall for To help raise money for these wonderful buildings you will need to be sponsored by services that last about an hour, followed by social chat your friends and family (or just make a donation if you want), you can get over a cup of tea or coffee. sponsorship forms and details of churches open in Beds, Bucks and Herts from the table by the door in Church, or for more information, ALL ARE WELCOME http://www.rideandstrideuk.org/

Why not come and join us? www.bucks-historic-churches.org

If you feel you don’t want to walk or ride but would like to volunteer your time to FIRST THURSDAY FRIENDS welcome people to Ivinghoe Church, please fill out the form by the door in Church Come and enjoy a family film on the first (available in August) or contact Thursday of each month. Izzy Robinson 01296 660724 Time 2pm (approx) 4.15pm in the millennium room

INTERESTED? If you would like more information please call: 01296 668005

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IVINGHOE HAND-BELLS

We have a beginners group meeting fortnightly in the Volunteer and help bring a smile to someone’s face...

church ringing the beautiful hand-bells that belong to ...our volunteer befrienders do this every day St. Mary’s Church Ivinghoe. Living with dementia can be isolating. Alzheimer’s Society volunteer befrienders make a difference. Find out more about volunteering with us by having a chat with If you missed the taster evening, and would like to have a Laura or Lisa on 01296 331722 or emailing [email protected]

go, or see and hear what happens it is not too late so please We’d love to hear from you. get in touch or come along to a Monday evening meeting. Alzheimers.org.uk We have fun, a break for refreshments and experience the Alzheimer’s Society operates in , Wales and Northern Ireland. Registered charity number 296645. very special sound of our 139 year old bells. Alex Wynne 01296 668336

NEW MEMORY SUPPORT SERVICE IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

If you are concerned about your memory, the earlier you seek help the better as there may be support or treatment available that can help you.

There are many different things that can cause memory problems but sometimes it can be an early sign of dementia.

This new service helps you to take control of your situation by offering a single point of contact for:

• Advice and support through memory screening and diagnosis

• A listening ear and practical support afterwards

Get in touch today to find out more.

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18. 2 sweet corn Husks on, Craft Section Cookery Section. Classes section of grain exposed along length. 48. Make a traditional 37. A Victoria sandwich with Children’s Section 19. A pair of any other vegetable. Dreamcatcher (‘found’ smallish raspberry jam. (see recipe Age 8 and Under: 20. Collection of up to 5 kinds of hoop, wire, wool, sequins overleaf) vegetable, maximum 3 of each 1. Decorate a paper plate as a feathers etc.). 38. Blackberry or Raspberry and sunflower head. kind. Displayed in a box, basket 49. Make a simple safe Apple Lattice Pie. (see recipe or trug, (maximum size 20inches 2. Paint a pebble. Automaton toy with at least one overleaf) in any dimension.) 3. 4 short bread biscuits. moving part. 39. A shortbread round cut into 6 21. Bunch of culinary herbs. 50. Design, make and decorate a pieces, any recipe. 12 years Old and under. 22. 4 desert Apples. cup and saucer in white air-drying 40. 6 fruit scones, any fruit, cut 23. 4 Cooking Apples. 4. Draw or paint a picture of a clay – suitable for Alice in out using a 5cm cutter vase of flowers. 24. 5 plums. Wonderlands tea party. (see recipe) 25. 4 pears. 5. 3 Jam tarts, 3 different 51. Crochet or knit a mini flower 41. 6 pieces of fudge any recipe. flavoured Jam. 26. 6 Eggs. spray, as a broach or small 42. A vegetarian quiche (23cm 6. Create a miniature garden in Plants and Flowers bouquet for someone stuck max). an ice cream tub. Section. indoors. 43. A jar of preserved fruit or ………………………………………. 27. Vase of mixed flowers. 52. Hand or machine embroider a vegetables. These Sections are open 28. 1 Specimen Rose. tie or scarf as a ‘get well’ present. 44. A jar of chutney. to ALL ages. 29. 5 Dahlias, any variety 53. Whittle a small mammal or 45. A jar of jam. Vegetable Fruit & Produce displayed in a vase. bird from a branch or root – 46. A bottle of flavoured spirit 30. A bridesmaid posy. without injury! using gin or vodka (maximum

Section August 2018: Issue 106 31. 1 flowering Pot Plant. 54. Paint or Draw a still life in any 500ml). 7. 5 white potatoes. 32. 5 Chrysanthemums, any medium, to make us smile. 47. 6 sausage rolls from your own 8. 5 Coloured Potatoes. variety, displayed in a vase. 55. Make from scratch a small recipe. 9. 5 Onions up to 250g each – felt wall hanging piece with tops tied. 33. A table arrangement, no larger than 30cms. added embroidery or Parking will be open on the Lawn 10. 3 large onions – tops tied. 34. A vase of mixed seasonal embellishment if necessary. 11. 9 Shallots. Good Luck blooms, vase not to exceed 56. Catch your own photograph 12. 5 Runner beans. 30cms. whose subject matter is ‘Wilder with your entries! 13. 3 Carrots – foliage cut to Buckinghamshire’. 7.5cm. 35. A sunflower display, any method of display – pot, 57. Make a small fabulous bird or 14. 3 beetroot – foliage cut to vase, hand tied…. beastie as a keepsake (mixed 7.5cm. Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 36. 3 stems of flowering shrub – media and haberdashery). 15. 2 Cucumbers. 1 variety. 16. 5 Tomatoes single variety. 5 Cherry Tomatoes. 17. 28 Ivinghoe Allotments Tales from the Plot

hope that all is well with you all and long. Simply steam the pods whole and Flower and Vegetable Show will at home can help people on allotment that you are making the most of serve with melted butter, no need for be on at the Hub, Ivinghoe. Don’t waiting lists hone their horticultural skills Ithese glorious sunny days and long fl avouring as it would spoil the delicate forget to enter! and raises awareness for children of how evenings. The cold frosty winter is now fl avour which is similar to asparagus – Between the 13th and 19th August and where their food is produced. forgotten although it did set the majority harvest them July to September. 2018 it is National Allotment Week We are planning on opening the

CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION of gardener’s behind with their planting. The various allotments look great with and the theme this year is ‘Living and allotment site to the public on Saturday As we have seen at the allotment, with a all the different plants and colours and it Growing’. This aims to highlight the 18th between 1.30 and 4pm. So, fellow bit of care and attention the plants have all seems to have come alive with all the importance of growing your own food. allotment holders let’s have you up there managed to catch up. good weather that we have had. I shall The National Allotment Society would on the day to spread the word to visitors Everything around us (allotment site, be harvesting my red and white shallots like to see everyone incorporating fruit as to why we do it and take a good golf course and the surrounding fi elds in the next week or so as the leaves and vegetable gardening in some way gardener’s reference book with you in and hills) is a sight to behold. Lovely have turned yellow and are beginning in to their lives; however small. Herbs case you get a winger of a question! lush green colours –we are extremely to wilt. It’s best not to leave them in the on a balcony, an apple tree on a patio, fortunate where we live. ground too long after this process has strawberries in hanging baskets or In the last edition of this magazine I started as if we have some rain there is tomatoes in a big pot by the back door - Mind how you go… mentioned the Broad Bean ‘Express’. a real danger that they would begin to ripe and ready to pop in a salad. Growing Ernie Ivinghoe Allotmenteer I was giving them a try as they were rot. What you need for pickled onions is supposed to be very successful with a good crisp and crunchy shallots! good yield. I did what I usually do, starting The fi rst early potatoes can be dug up them off in pots in the greenhouse and as required in the next two weeks (I’m then transplanted 10 healthy plants writing this in the third week of June). onto my plot. ‘Express’ is an apt name Just imagine new potatoes, Asparagus because within two weeks all the plants Pea with melted butter and a nice leg of had whittled away to nothing. This is spring lamb. very, very strange. I took a good look at There has been a little bit of a nuisance the plants and found that they had not with the slugs, mice and pigeons been attacked by mice, slugs of any other appreciating my garden peas. One or creature so there lies the mystery! two fellow allotment holders have also Another veg I mentioned was the experienced this. The red and white Asparagus Pea. I planted six plants onions, leeks, sweetcorn, courgette and on my plot having started them in the butternut squashes are unaffected yet. greenhouse and I am pleased to report Looking at the fruit trees it looks like that they are coming along nicely. They it will be a good year for gooseberries, are an unusual plant with beautiful red blackcurrants, apples, pears and plums. fl owers and would not be out of place in They all have an abundance of fruit a fl ower garden. It is recommended that on them. the pods are picked regularly while still A date for your diary is Saturday young and tender and less that one inch 8th September 2018 – the Ivinghoe

30 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 31 Allotment Diary Ivinghoe Golf Club

ell what next? After a I have had moderate success with my miserable winter, May and hatchings this year but very happy with WJune were hot and dry. It was my new additions. a race to see who could get their hose The allotments are looking absolutely onto the tap fi rst. beautiful in all their summer splendour, Most plots are now bursting with very quite a peaceful oasis accentuated healthy-looking crops. Personally, my by the lack of traffi c noise due to the

CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION onions look superb, potatoes will be closure of the Brownlow bridge. harvested soon, hoping the pots below Following on from Spring the wild ground are as good as the foliage, runner fl ower meadow is now awash with beans and sweetcorn looking good, all Ox-eye daisies, Rose Campion and a gourds a little late this year but it will splendid display of Orchids to name but be nice if cropping is spaced out. I am a few of the varieties growing there. keeping fi ngers crossed the extreme This year National Allotment Week Looking to Learn to Play or Improve your Golf? temperatures will not cause my winter is from the 13th to 19th of August. The veg to bolt. Parish Council have once again agreed Book 6 lessons with our Pro Mark Flitney for It has been an exceptional year for soft Ivinghoe Allotments can be open to the fruit, bushes laden with red currants, public on Saturday 18th August 1.30pm £85.00, and if you decide to join we will refund black currants and raspberries. I am until 4.00pm so if it is a nice day pay us the cost of your lessons. looking forward to a good supply of a visit. apples in the autumn. Gloria • Various Adult Membership schemes available starTng from less than £8.00 per week. • Junior Membership £99.00 or only £20.00 with a Parent holding 7 day Membership. • Turn up and play Green Fees from £10.00 for 9 holes.

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32 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 33 M. D. SPRING AUTOS Martin D Spring W Roff Agricultural Services 28 years established trading For all your vehicle’s needs Servicing,Servicing, Bodywork Class 4 repairs,and 7 MOTs MOTs onarranged, site, Exhausts, Exhausts, • Hay & straw for sale Welding, Tyres and Brakes • Paddock maintenance Your vehicle can be picked up and returned free of charge Call now for a competitive quote • Fencing Telephone & fax: 01296 662280 Mobile: 07860 847328 Unit 9, Airfield Ind Est, Cheddington Lane ( 07909 680807 Long Marston, Tring, Herts HP23 4QR ElsagE Farm, CHEddington

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34 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 35 WEA courses in Pitstone Explore... Dream... Discover... Literature course – Autumn term 2018 Literature course – Spring term 2019

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36 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 37 Ivinghoe & Pitstone’s Windmill PreShool

Windmill Pre-School in Ivinghoe is one of the top pre-schools nationally and highest rated locally

“Children make excellent progress in all areas of their learning and development because staff plan an outstanding range of activities…“

“Children have fun and are purposefully engaged in all areas of this dynamic setting.

SCHOOLS STUFF They make excellent progress as staff recognise them as unique individuals…”

Source: Ofsted report June 2011 orning session mm Aternoon session mm (includes Lunch Club) Lnh Cl mm (subject to availability)

We welcome all children between 2 and 5 years from Pitstone, Ivinghoe & surrounding areas to our purpose-built premises behind Brookmead School five full days per week

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Theme: Harvest When: Sunday 23rd September Where: St. Mary’s Church, Ivinghoe Time: 2.30-4pm All families welcome for fun, food and all-age activities Contact: Sandra Green on 01296 668648

38 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 39 Ashridge Ramblings – Volunteering

orry to keep banging on about it, but Ashridge is very special for www.mbbka.org.uk Sbiological, geological, historical, and recreational reasons. It’s bigger than Monaco and Vatican City put together Following the long winter of 2017-2018 and the late Spring, colonies of honeybees are and is home to the largest tranche of

BEYOND THE BOUNDARY under tremendous stress. In the wild the survival chance of a honeybee swarm is about chalk downland in the Chilterns as well 20%. Collected, and housed in a hive by a beekeeper, the survival rate triples. The as the largest area of woodland looked MBBKA needs the help of everyone in the area to ensure we collect as many swarms after by the National Trust. this year as possible. If you see a swarm of bees please contact the MBKA on the Taking care of all of that is more swarm-line number below. We will send a beekeeper to collect the swarm and provide it than the Trust’s staff can manage on with a new home. their own, but Ashridge has an army of volunteers involved in conservation, Honey Bee Swarms: Swarms such as the ones pictured are merely biological surveys, maintenance, helping more about the roles and how to get Colonies that are in transition. Normally these Swarms are found hanging from around at events, welcoming visitors – even involved. Just turn up at the Visitor tree branch, fence post or any place where the swarm can gather the Queen while scouts are sent out to look for a more permanent home. A swarm opening the Bridgewater Monument and Centre at the top of Monument Drive left alone will only be in place from just a few minutes to a few hours and Pitstone Windmill to the public. Anybody anytime between 11am and 3pm to chat occasionally a few days. Generally, these swarms are very docile and the with a love of the great outdoors could to members of the team, both staff and swarming Bees usually will not sting. Before Honey Bees swarm they gorge fi nd a role to enjoy and some roles volunteers, about the different roles. themselves with honey before leaving the hive. This makes it very hard for them to double over and sting. are even suited to those with a love There’s something to suit everyone and of the great indoors! Volunteering is a it’s a great way to learn new skills, share What Causes Honey Bees to Swarm: Honey Bees have a natural instinct to create new wonderful way to keep body and soul the knowledge and experience you have colonies by swarming. They may also swarm through overcrowding or because an old queen is thought to be in good shape. I’ve retired, hence am and meet new people. failing and they wish to raise a new one. Honey Bees usually swarm in early spring just as the colony is in the fortunate position of having time As with most things in life, the more building up numbers in anticipation of the upcoming honey flow but swarming can happen through to late summer to put into the things I enjoy, but there you put in, the more you get out so, if It is difficult to predict if weather conditions will lead to a large number of swarms in a particular year. are plenty of valuable and fun roles for Ashridge is special to you, come along to MBBKA members attended nearly 100 calls to swarms last year and are on standby to collect throughout those who want to make the most of the open day and fi nd out how you can our area in 2018 more limited freedom, some involving help keep it that way. If You See a Swarm: The collection of swarms an important part of the work of bee keepers. You teamwork and some solo efforts. should never interfere with a swarm and pest control companies will not kill a swarm unless absolutely On Sunday 2nd September Ashridge necessary. is holding an open day to welcome Please contact: potential new volunteers and explain Rikki Harrington MBBKA Swarm Hotline 07770370132 Brian Bush – Mid Bucks Beekeepers and BBKA Swarm Officer BBKA British Bee Keepers Association website http:www.bbka.org.uk

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40 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 41 Cheddington Village Hall Wilstone Village Hall Goldfield Infants School Monday 7pm Mon & Wed 9.30am Tring Tuesday 9.45am Tue 6pm Low Impact Tue & Thu 7.30pm Thu (Lo) & Fri 9.45am Pitstone Memorial Hall Nora Grace Hall, Tring Sat 9.30am Wednesday 7.30pm Wed 11.30am Lite class

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42 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 43 Pitstone and Ivinghoe Ivinghoe & Pitstone United Junior Girls Football Cricket Club

he P&I Girls Football teams friends. There are two girls’ teams which n exciting start to the season, the and enjoy the sunshine and a beef burger. girls have just fi nished their 2nd are Under 12s and Under 14s (school 1st team sit top of division 3 of This is a great initiative from our national Tseason in the North Bucks Girls years 6, 7, 8 &9). Athe Four Counties Cricket League cricket body the ECB as an introduction

SPORTING SCOOP SPORTING League. The girls play on Saturday If you are interested in playing football, at the midpoint and have a Heath Cup to cricket for 5 to 8 year olds. We may mornings with members of the team having fun and making new friends get semi fi nal coming up against Leverstock have some future stars amongst us. from Ivinghoe, Pitstone and Cheddington in touch, no experience needed. All our Green. The second team are in a season We had a special visit from Twinkle the and surrounding area. The girls are a coaches are FA Level 1 qualifi ed. of transition looking to stay in division six Allstars mascot on the 1st June which developing team who enjoy their football Email: [email protected] and push forward in 2019. The colts are all the youngsters enjoyed. The season in a friendly and fun environment with www.pandifootball.net. enjoying their games in the Aylesbury continues through to the fi rst weekend in the emphasis on having fun and making District Midweek League and can be September with a game at the recreation seen every Sunday morning training hard ground every Saturday starting at 1.30pm. at Pitstone Recreation ground. On Friday We have our Presidents and Chairman’s evenings you may have seen the Allstars day coming up in August, for more racing around in their blue tee-shirts and details of this along with club fi xtures and baseball caps from 6.00 until 7.00 whilst events visit the club website at http:// Mum and Dad have drinks from the bar ivinghoepitstone.play-cricket.com.

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46 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 47 Councillor News from include recommendations based on the feedback we receive. We use these reports to infl uence, inform and, if necessary, Anne Wight challenge decisions of health and social care organisations. Our work has helped improve the patient elcome to the summer edition M Jouyet is third from the right in the picture experience of health and social care of the county newsletter. I below, with me (right of him) and Martin Tett, services from GP practices and hospital hope everyone is enjoying Leader of the Council, on the left. services to care homes. We also have a W Anne Wight the warmer weather, which has had the signposting service where we provide Bucks County Councillor fortunate effect of allowing Transport Britain. Hence, we managed to convey the information and advice about local health Ivinghoe Division for Bucks (TfB) to use the additional message that post-Brexit, Buckinghamshire and social care services such as how to £1.234m which the county council voted is very much looking to develop and expand fi nd a care home or get a dentist through in the spring to use towards high quality While I very much enjoyed my time working upon trade opportunities with our European the NHS.

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION road surfacing to repair many of the on Communities, I am now looking forward neighbours. As we are very keen to reach out and talk roads around our division in the past few to working with Cabinet Member for to all sections of the community, we spend weeks. These include Lammas Road Education, Mike Appleyard, and his team. Healthwatch Bucks a lot of our time attending local events and the High Street near Cooks Wharf The recent Healthwatch Bucks meeting was in order to talk to people face to face. in Cheddington, Crafton in , Cabinet Meeting with the held in Pitstone and I am glad to say it was However, there are plenty of other ways Horton Road in Slapton, and Lower End French Ambassador fairly well-attended! For those who might that you can tell us about your experiences in Marsworth to name a few. In most It was a privilege for me to be able to meet not know, Healthwatch Bucks works closely or views of local health and social cases, these are being repaired using the French Ambassador, M Jean-Pierre with BCC and the NHS in order to improve care services such as by phone on the ‘plane and patch’ method, which Jouyet, on his trip out to Buckinghamshire. patient care and experience. Marie-Louise 0845 260 6216 or by email on provides a high-quality repair over a M Jouyet is making a tour of the UK Morley, who works in Communications at [email protected]. considerable road surface. outside of London with a view to better Healthwatch Bucks, has kindly provided this If you prefer, why not go onto our As I am sure everyone will have noticed understanding our local economies and, as information for residents: website www.healthwatchbucks.co.uk by now, the Brownlow Bridge sustained part of this, he recently visited us at BCC. Healthwatch Bucks is an independent where you can rate and review over 500 damage from a driver who unfortunately We had a lively and interesting discussion organisation that gives Bucks residents a GPs, dentists, pharmacists, care homes drove into the side of the bridge in the with him, and highlighted some of the voice to shape and improve local health and hospitals? While you are there, do middle of the night in May. While the key areas in which Bucks is continuing and social care services. We’re here to subscribe to our newsletter and follow us Canal and River Trust are responsible for to innovate and grow, such as the space ensure that local views, ideas, concerns on Facebook or Twitter. the repair, Transport for Bucks (TfB) will be and fi lm industries, as well as our more and experiences are heard at all levels of upgrading the traffi c lights while the bridge traditional industries such as farming health and social care so that they make Dementia Friends is being repaired and hopefully all work and agriculture, and our wide-ranging a positive difference to the way future I recently attended a briefi ng session on will be completed by the end of the school entrepreneurial activities. One thing many of services are delivered. We do this by becoming a Dementia Friend which I found holidays if not before. our residents might not realise is that more listening to what people tell us about their especially informative and I am proud to say businesses are started in Buckinghamshire local services. We then share this feedback that I am now offi cially a Dementia Friend. New Role as Deputy of than in any other county in the country. with health and social care providers to The Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Education Businesses in Buckinghamshire don’t help them understand what people think of Friends programme is the biggest ever I am also pleased to accept my new role as just survive; they actually thrive at a their services. We also use it to help other initiative to change people’s perceptions the Deputy Cabinet Member for Education, higher success rate than anywhere else residents see what people think. of dementia. It aims to transform the which makes something of a change from in the country! This success has created As part of this work, we produce our own way the nation thinks, acts and talks my role in Communities and Public Health. the fastest jobs growth of any county in evidence-based reports on services, which about the condition. u

48 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 49 Dementia is caused by a number of Registrars Conference 80 years of Archives the Council building that fronted on diseases that affect the brain. The most I was honoured to have been invited to In my fi nal days in my role as Deputy to Market Square in Aylesbury. The cells common is Alzheimer’s, but diseases also give the welcome speech at the recent Cabinet Member for Communities and had to be damp-proofed and fi tted with include vascular dementia, dementia with Registrars Conference last month. Public Health, it was my great pleasure to steel shelving. Lewy bodies, and Pick’s disease. The word While Ivinghoe residents might know have been invited to the celebration of Once they had space to store records, ‘dementia’ describes a set of symptoms that the Registration Service provides a 80 years of Buckinghamshire’s Archives at the Council needed an Archivist to manage that may include memory loss and range of services which you would expect the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. them. Mr Paul Dare was appointed as diffi culties with thinking, problem-solving or such as registering births, deaths and Laura Cotton, our current Archivist, is in the County Archivist on 16th May 1938. language. These changes are often small to marriages, they might not know that there centre pic below, with me to her left, as With a background in historical research, start with, but for someone with dementia are over 80 venues licensed for marriages we were about to cut the fi rst slice of the manorial archives and archaeology, Dare they have become severe enough to affect across the County, and the Service marries was judged fi t for the role. He was found daily life. around 1,700 couples every year. They an offi ce above the Archive cells. One Whether you attend a face-to-face have a new website for couples to use of his fi rst tasks was to arrange for the Information Session or watch the online and a variety of wedding packages to suit cleaning and storage of a large number of video, Dementia Friends is about learning what people would like http://weddings. statutory plans that had been damaged more about dementia and the small ways buckscc.gov.uk/ by damp. Dare also had to ensure that the you can help. From telling friends about the They also offer naming ceremonies conditions in the cells were optimal for the Dementia Friends programme to visiting for people who would like to welcome preservation of the documents, as we do someone you know living with dementia, new children into the family, these are in our strong rooms today. every action counts. A Dementia Friend for new babies as well as adoptions or Do please drop in and visit the Centre for learns a little bit more about what it’s like families coming together. Renewal of Buckinghamshire Studies if you have some to live with dementia and then turns that Vows ceremonies are also available, and time and would like to learn a bit more understanding into action - anyone of any these can be for couples at any time during about our cultural heritage and local history. age can be a Dementia Friend. their marriage, whether returning from magnifi cent cake, cleverly designed in the I have to admit that having had only a marriage abroad and wanting to have shape of an archives record book. Previous limited experience of how dementia a ceremony for family and friends, or of Archivist, Roger Bettridge (right) also joined affects individuals and their families, course for special anniversaries such as the celebrations. the information session and workshop I 10, 25 or 50 years. According to the “History of the Bucks attended was really an eye-opener. There The Service also understands marriage County Record Offi ce, Aylesbury”, are so many types of dementia, and isn’t for everyone, so people wishing to be Colonel Guy R. Crouch, Clerk of the Peace everyone is affected differently. Dementia together but without legalities can have for the county, presented the case for Friends are helping to change perspectives a Commitment Ceremony which allows the appointment of an Archivist, to the on dementia and it doesn’t require an people to show their love and intent to Standing Joint Committee of Bucks County enormous time commitment either--- each other. None of these ceremonies Council. This is the event that triggered anything you can do to help from simply have any legal standing, but are a great the establishment of a Record Offi ce in checking in on a someone with dementia way to celebrate key life events. Buckinghamshire, which has, evolved over to helping in many of the other small ways For more information, get in touch via the past eighty years to become part of the would be much appreciated! For more the website: https://www.buckscc.gov. Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. information, please check out their website: uk/services/births-deaths-marriages- It seems that the fi rst storage spaces for Anne Wight https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk and-civil-partnerships/ records were four cells in the basement of Bucks County Councillor, Ivinghoe Division.

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Unitary Update Following a recent meeting between the four District Leaders and Bucks County Council leader. Regardless of has a detailed overview of the project, Town and sign up for updates at the fi nal decision by the Secretary of information about the organisations www.aylesburygardentown.co.uk State on unitary it’s obvious there’ll need overseeing it and responds to frequently to be some close working between asked questions. AVDC support for rough all authorities so that when it happens Aylesbury received Garden Town sleepers boosted by they can hit the ground running when status from the government last year. It government funding COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION that decision is made. The timescale recognised it as one of the key places District Council (AVDC) could be tight and any work they can do for growth in the UK and brings the has been successful in securing almost beforehand will put the new organisation opportunity to receive extra funding a quarter of a million pounds of funding in a much stronger position to align to put in place the right infrastructure, from central government to provide services. There was a consensus that, facilities and leisure spaces, alongside immediate support for rough sleepers in whichever proposal is adopted, this new new developments. Aylesbury Vale. local authority must endeavour to provide As clarifi cation, following a number This summer, work will begin on The funding will boost the support value for money to our residents. of comments about the Pitstone – the Masterplan that will provide the available to people living on the streets Marsworth pathway, the majority of framework for the future of Aylesbury and help them into accommodation. The New Homes Bonus which have been very positive, a few Garden Town, through to 2050 It will also increase the amount of (NHB) have asked why this funding could not and beyond. Liaising with the local assistance that can be offered to those The NHB scheme has continued to allow have been spent on fi xing potholes and community, to hear their views, is at at risk and sleeping rough during the AVDC to pass on some of the funds road improvements. The answer is that the heart of the programme and in winter months. AVDC will be working received from Government to local this money is strictly controlled and the last couple of months, a series of closely with homelessness support communities. AVDC is one of only a targeted at improving communities where forums have been held with residents, agencies and charities in the Vale to handful of LAs who pass on NHB to new houses have or will be built (please developers, community representatives, develop innovative support solutions and communities – the rest use these funds note, not just the immediate settlement) local stakeholders and partners. The provide sustainable accommodation for to shore up their revenue budgets. to improve amenities and in some cases feedback from these workshops will help those sleeping rough. This will include Local benefi ts of the NHB are the compensate and accommodate for an inform the Masterplan. Visitors to the providing emergency accommodation Marsworth- Pitstone pathway and Ivinghoe increase in resident numbers. new website can also now get involved and assessment as well as support for Lawn replacement ‘iron railings’. There is and comment on what they’d like to see, people with mental health and substance a small group of local residents currently Help shape the future of by clicking on the ‘Have your say’ section. misuse issues to help them sustain working on an application to the NHB Aylesbury Garden Town The Aylesbury Garden Town project tenancies in the longer term. panel to secure funds to refurbish and through new website is a partnership between Aylesbury Vale The Housing Secretary’s full statement extend the Cheddington Recreation ground A new website has been launched District Council, Buckinghamshire County on funding to support rough sleepers pavilion. To those who are aware the giving people the chance to have their Council and the two Local Enterprise can be read here: https://www.gov.uk/ pavilion has been deteriorating internally say, as Aylesbury evolves into a Garden Partnerships (Buckinghamshire government/news/james-brokenshire- and externally for a number of years and is Town. The site, which can be found at Thames Valley and South East Midlands). announces-30-million-immediate- in need of updating and renovation. www.aylesburygardentown.co.uk also Find out more about Aylesbury Garden supportfor-rough-sleepers. u

52 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2018: Issue 106 August 2018: Issue 106 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 53 Bin collection days in frequency of household collections will Your local Councillors: Aylesbury Vale are changing not change; with recycling and general for many customers waste collected on alternate weeks, Cllr Karen Groom Cllr Pat Roach Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) is garden waste collected fortnightly and Areas of Responsibility: Allotments, Beacon Magazine, Areas of Responsibility: Health, Community Impact Bucks already gearing up for major changes to food recycling collected every week. Beacon Villages Library, Conservation Area, Footpaths and Liaison, General Parish Maintenance, Lawn and Trees, its recycling and waste collection service An average of 40,000 bins are collected Bridleways, Parish Maintenance, Ivinghoe Aston Village Local Area Forum Hall, Lawn Hire, Lawn and Trees, National Trust/Chiltern Add: Church View, Church Road, Ivinghoe LU7 9EU which will start this September. every single day in the Vale – it’s a Soc., Planning Tel: 01296 668482 AVDC is making some vital massive operation which affects every Add: Willowdene Farm, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EA Email: [email protected] improvements to all its collection rounds; household in the district. This is why Tel: 01296 668326 or Mob: 07882 3562411 recycling, general waste, food and AVDC is giving everybody plenty of notice Email: [email protected] garden waste. and using as many ways as we can to let Mrs Bridget Knight Cllr Claire Bamber Clerk to Ivinghoe Parish Council As a result, most customers are people know about the possible change Areas of Responsibility: Conservation Area, Human Add: Parish Offi ce, Ivinghoe Town Hall, likely to have a change of bin collection to their day. The changes will help ensure Resources (Clerks employment and training), IPC Website High Street, Ivinghoe, Bucks LU7 9EP day. Last year AVDC introduced a new that the council continues to deliver the and Social Media (inc Facebook and Twitter), Planning Tel: 07960 605393 Sub-Committee, Police Liaison, Streets, Street Lights and Email: [email protected] state-of-the-art vehicle fl eet to increase most cost effi cient and cost effective Highways (inc Traffi c Calming), Grants and Fundraising round capacity and fuel effi ciency. The waste service as possible. Add: Bruce Grove House, Great Gap. Ivinghoe. LU7 9DZ next stage of ongoing improvements is For all the latest news and updates Tel: 01296 668134 or Mob: 07711 107 114 the redesigning of customer collection on your recycling and waste collection Email: [email protected] Cllr Anne Wight Bucks County Councillor rounds in order to future-proof the service, visit www.aylesburyvaledc.gov. Cllr Andrew Dicker Ivinghoe Division service as the number of new homes in uk/recycle. Areas of Responsibility: Allotments, Finance Add: 31 Redwood Drive, Wing, LU7 0TA the district grows. Add: The Old House, 38 Station Road, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EB. Tel: 01296 682955 Email: [email protected] A social media campaign and radio Tel: 01296 668444 Email: [email protected] campaign, together with direct mail, will Derek Town – 01296 661637 get the message out to customers across [email protected] the Vale about the changes starting on Cllr Sandra Jenkins Cllr Stephen Lott Tel: 01296 668587 Monday 3 September. Sandra Jenkins – 01296 668587 Areas of Responsibility: Beacon Villages Library, Footpaths Email: [email protected] A letter explaining the day changes [email protected] and Bridleways, Ivinghoe Aston Village Hall, Lawn Hire, will be sent to all households across Local Area Forum, Playgrounds (Ivinghoe and Ivinghoe Aston), Police Liaison, Town Hall Committee the Vale during midAugust, along with District Councillors for Pitstone and Add: 2 Yew Tree Close, Ivinghoe, LU7 9ET. a new bin collection day calendar. The Cheddington Ward Tel: 01296 668897 Email: [email protected] Cllr Chris Poll Cllr Anna Stone District Cllr Ward Areas of Responsibility: Education, Footpaths and Add: 43 Gooseacre, Cheddington LU7 0SR Bridleways, Town Hall Committee, Grants and Fundraising Tel: 01296 663 737 Add: Willowdene Farm, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EA Email: [email protected] Tel: 01296 668326 Email: [email protected]

Cllr Sheena Bexson Cllr Derek J Town Areas of Responsibility: Community Impact Bucks Liaison, Tel: 01296 661637 Planning sub-committee, Play Areas (Ivinghoe Aston & Email: [email protected] Ivinghoe), Streets, Street Lights and Highways (inc Traffi c Calming). Email: [email protected]

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