Village Voice Apr/May 2020 Issue

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● P&TG Together ● Around The Villages ● Church News ● Schools & Sports News ● Woodland & Green Spaces & More... Village Voice April/May 2020 to read in this edition, as well as important

information sources. Please forgive us if any details in this edition are incorrect - we were WELCOME... updating our content right up to the last minute RESIDENTIAL ...to the April/ May 2020 edition of Village to reflect the continuous changes that were Voice... happening day by day. If you are able to connect SALES to the internet please visit 2 really helpful NOW OPEN Dear VV Readers, information sources - Peter Browns blog: www. Since our last edition of VV, and at the time pennandtylersgreen.com Peter intends to update RESIDENTAIL of writing we are in unimaginable and on a frequent basis with succinct and curated LETTINGS uncharted waters, which has significantly content for the P&TG community. Similarly the affected our usual experiences of Spring in Penn RS website: www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk & Tylers Green. will be updated regularly. Finally P&TG NEW HOMES This time last year, our April / May 2019 Together is a collaboration of Village groups edition of VV was filled with the details and who are working together during these promise of all the village and community events challenging times to ensure that everyone in the MORTGAGES that P&TG is so good at. Last year we enjoyed community is able to access information and the Village Show, Penn 7 & Super Fun Run, support when needed, see Page 5 for details. Open Gardens, The Sports & Social Clubs Beer Lets hope that by the next edition of VV we CONVEYANCING Festival, The P&TGFC Festival of Football to are able to report on the re-introduction of Visit us at name but a few, as well as the regular events village life and activities, please do think about and activities which are run by the many clubs contributing to future editions of VV - perhaps 18 Crendon Street FIND US ON and societies in the village, with great success. in praise of our local heroes who serve our High Wycombe, HP13 6LS Coming together is something we as a community. In the meantime please look after community are good at. yourselves, and stay well. Cathy O'Leary, VV Editor In stark contrast, in March 2020, due to the SELL WITH US progressive shutting down of permitted socialisation in an attempt to curb the threat In This Issue... Same day viewing feedback posed by the Corona virus pandemic, one by 05 P&TG Together Professional photography one the various events and activities planned for 27 In Memory: Ray Bradley Your own dedicated sales agent the Spring and Summer 2020 have been 30 P&TGRS 2019 Personal & friendly service cancelled, including the VE Day celebrations Annual Report Modern Marketing methods which promised a spectacular weekend. Those same people who gave their time, REGISTER WITH US organisational, and planning skills for the Regulars... various clubs, societies and events teams, are 07 Around the Villages Register your details now and be first now coming together to use their skills in a 11 Church News to receive new property details within 24 hours of different way, and that is to ensure communication chanels and support are in place 15 Woodland & Green Spaces listing Call us now to support the most vulnerable in our 17 Fields In Kings Wood: Pt. 5 community while we get through the pandemic. 19 Sports News 01494 840 600 They are being imaginative in devising fordandpartners.com solutions, and to ensure that as a community we 22 Schools News come together- so no-one in our community 37 Clubs & Societies

feels isolated, or without any support they need. 55 Index of Advertisers

Cover Photograph: Mike Morley We do have some enjoyable content for you 56 Village Contacts www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 3 Village Voice April/May 2020 to read in this edition, as well as important

Mike Morley 19 Sports News 01494 840 600 They are being imaginative in devising fordandpartners.com solutions, and to ensure that as a community we 22 Schools News come together- so no-one in our community 37 Clubs & Societies

feels isolated, or without any support they need. 55 Index of Advertisers

Cover Photograph: We do have some enjoyable content for you 56 Village Contacts www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 3 Village Voice April/May 2020 [email protected] Services offered will include such things as TOGETHER collecting shopping, distributing prescriptions, P&TG posting letters, dog walking or just someone to talk to over the phone etc. Please, please do not THE PAULINE QUIRKE Dear Residents, hesitate to ask for something that you need, we Penn & Tylers Green Together has been are all in this together. ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS formed, after discussion between several local community groups, to create a volunteer Contacts: network in order to ensure that all residents can Kingswood • IS ENROLLING NOW readily access trusted help when they need it • Gill Markham, 07770 827753, gill737@icloud. com during this unprecedented time. This is not Coppice Farm • ACROSS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE! intended to cut across any family or neighbourly • Emma Byrne, [email protected], 01494 arrangements that are already in place. 812611 Outstanding performing arts tuition for 4-18 year olds. We have divided the village into 6 areas. Each • Chris Clark, [email protected], area will have a small team to coordinate 07969232706 volunteers and to act as a local point of contact. New Road • Volunteers will have set up teams of volunteers • Cathy Moroney, [email protected], to cover each road and where appropriate, make 07812112469 • Kate Venvell, [email protected], 01494 regular calls (visits are difficult) so everyone has 817049 a known, friendly face, to turn to - especially for Penn & Common • those self-isolating or unable to leave home. • David/Beth Pitron, [email protected], They will probably set up groups in WhatsApp, 01494 815084 email etc but will also ensure that telephone • Madalyn Roker, [email protected], landlines will enable people who aren’t 07774 834615 connected digitally to keep in touch. Ashwells • • Ian Forbes, [email protected] (Church If you haven’t already been contacted by your Rd/Wheeler Ave) road volunteer, the telephone number to ring for • Jemima Reeve, 07504196620, jemima.reeve@ advice or assistance is 01494 623051 and gmail.com (Ashwells/Cock L/Hammersley L) Manor Road • BOOK YOUR • Dan Ancliffe, [email protected]

FREE The following are all reliable TASTER sources of information: SESSION Penn and Tylers Green Residents’ Society website - NOW! www.pennandtylersgreen.org. uk/ptgtogether Penn and Tylers Green Residents’ Society Facebook To find your nearest Academy page- @PTGResidentsSociety Penn and Tylers Green blog visit pqacademy.com - www.pennandtylersgreen.com Buckinghamshire Council or call 0800 531 6282 Coronavirus Community Hub - https://directory. buckinghamshire.gov.uk

4 3131 Bucks Academies.indd 1 29/05/2019 12:00:52 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 5 Village Voice April/May 2020 [email protected] Services offered will include such things as TOGETHER collecting shopping, distributing prescriptions, P&TG posting letters, dog walking or just someone to talk to over the phone etc. Please, please do not THE PAULINE QUIRKE Dear Residents, hesitate to ask for something that you need, we Penn & Tylers Green Together has been are all in this together. ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS formed, after discussion between several local community groups, to create a volunteer Contacts: network in order to ensure that all residents can Kingswood • IS ENROLLING NOW readily access trusted help when they need it • Gill Markham, 07770 827753, gill737@icloud. com during this unprecedented time. This is not Coppice Farm • ACROSS BUCKINGHAMSHIRE! intended to cut across any family or neighbourly • Emma Byrne, [email protected], 01494 arrangements that are already in place. 812611 Outstanding performing arts tuition for 4-18 year olds. We have divided the village into 6 areas. Each • Chris Clark, [email protected], area will have a small team to coordinate 07969232706 volunteers and to act as a local point of contact. New Road • Volunteers will have set up teams of volunteers • Cathy Moroney, [email protected], to cover each road and where appropriate, make 07812112469 • Kate Venvell, [email protected], 01494 regular calls (visits are difficult) so everyone has 817049 a known, friendly face, to turn to - especially for Penn & Common • those self-isolating or unable to leave home. • David/Beth Pitron, [email protected], They will probably set up groups in WhatsApp, 01494 815084 email etc but will also ensure that telephone • Madalyn Roker, [email protected], landlines will enable people who aren’t 07774 834615 connected digitally to keep in touch. Ashwells • • Ian Forbes, [email protected] (Church If you haven’t already been contacted by your Rd/Wheeler Ave) road volunteer, the telephone number to ring for • Jemima Reeve, 07504196620, jemima.reeve@ advice or assistance is 01494 623051 and gmail.com (Ashwells/Cock L/Hammersley L) Manor Road • BOOK YOUR • Dan Ancliffe, [email protected]

4 3131 Bucks Academies.indd 1 29/05/2019 12:00:52 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 5 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 shortly. Any tickets purchased early, will be Knitters and stitchers will find classes for who carry out the tremendous task of manning fully refundable up to 31st May. their work. There will be a new class for an the polling stations and counting all the votes. We are also trying to improve on our upcycled garment or (small) piece of furniture. So we will carry on with the vital work of AROUND environmental responsibilities. This year, we A perfect project for your free time. Art themes looking after your local area to the best of our THE VILLAGES will not be providing the traditional pint glasses (drawing, painting and photography) are “a ability, maintaining the common, looking after for the event, as we identified that majority of village view” or “village seasons”. Kingswood, the allotments, play areas and customers leave the glasses behind where they We are challenging Young Designers to make cemeteries and all the other things your Parish CoronavirusP&TG History fears delay Group history group: The could pose a health & safety risk. We are a tin can lantern and Young Cooks to bake a Council are responsible for, whilst trying to meeting to form a committee to establish a investigating reusable plastic containers for the savoury quiche. make sure our staff stay fit and healthy too. history group for Penn and Tylers Green was beer, wine & Pimms. This should reduce the Under 14’s can create a memory jar and Things may take longer than normal in these postponed from its 12 March date because of number of plastic glasses we have to use. decorate a plant pot with mosaic; under 11’s, a unprecedented times as at the moment we will the potential risk of spreading the coronavirus. We are determined that the 10th anniversary bug hotel and a key ring, and under 8’s a not be having any meetings, and we are waiting The meeting will probably be held later in the event will be a success, all we need is the thumbprint card and cheese straws. Remember, to see if the Government brings forward any year with the aim of holding an initial AGM and sunshine again! Dave Taylor & Tim Vincent younger ones can also enter the older classes. rules about voting when not in the room at a programme of events next year. If we can’t hold the show in September, we meeting because at the moment that is illegal. Members of the group will also help run the P&TG Village Show 2020 will find another date; the classes will be the Over the past few years we have completed Penn & Tylers Green Heritage Centre which is In the midst of all the uncertainty, we are still same. Printed schedules will be available nearer several major projects including new signage on to be built in the area of the underused changing planning to hold the Village Show on Saturday the time in the usual places. If you can’t wait, our properties, updating our play areas, rooms at Tylers Green Village Hall. It is hoped 19th September. The schedule will be available mail us at [email protected]. Follow us on replacing all our footway lighting with LED that building will also start next year, depending at https://pennandtylersgreenvillageshow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ lights and trying a new committee structure on sufficient funds being raised. from early April. With the increase in “spare pennandtylersgreenvillageshow. We will be which is working well along with many other If you would like to get involved in the time”, we hope to welcome new entrants and posting some tips and ideas here. smaller projects. Some of these still have some history group by acting as either a member of have more entries than usual. Are you a web wizard? We have taken the big work to do but the majority has been completed. the committee or assisting with archiving local There will be fruit, flower and vegetable step of launching our web site but still need a bit We have had quite a few changes of history material please contact Peter Brown at classes for pretty much anything you have of help to enhance it and let us accept web Councillors over the past couple of years. In [email protected]. Peter Brown grown. People are rushing to buy hens at the entries. Please contact us on ptgvsc@gmail. February 2018 Lenny White had to leave us due moment; we are continuing with a class for com if you think you could spare a bit of time. to work commitments, but in August 2018 we Sports & Social Club hen’s eggs. Do have a go at growing your own Keep the date in your diary and learn a new welcomed Bob Kin as his replacement. In Beer Festival 27th June 2020: The dates below vegetables. Salad leaves, potatoes, chillies, skill or refresh and old one. We look forward to February 2019 Roger Wilks joined us replacing are subject to the situation with Covid-19 and courgettes, carrots, aubergines, and tomatoes seeing the results. David & Gwenda Deadman Liliane Pinner who had left the previous June. government guidelines. The Committee will can all be grown on the patio if you are short of Sadly, in April 2019 Carolyn Leonard passed take further decisions in early April. The Club is space; There will be a novice class for (any) Chepping Wycombe District Council away very suddenly and she is very much currently closed. pot grown vegetable. April is the perfect time Well we thought we were at the end of our term missed. However, in May 2019 we welcomed This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the for sowing seeds or buying young plants/tubers. in the Parish and perhaps going to be saying Alec Barron, those were all in Flackwell Heath. Sports & Social Club Beer Festival. We plan for A new class this year will be a trug (or seed goodbye to some of our councillors and Also in April 2019 Jean Johnson decided to live music to be provided between 3pm and tray) of home-grown vegetables. welcoming new ones and looking forward to retire and in December 2019 we welcomed back 11pm and will offer a choice of over 20 beers We hope increased time at home will produce new beginnings and a new term and this article an familiar face Sharon Herron. Also in 2019 and ciders, as well as a fantastic selection of new bakers; our class this year will be a seeded was going to be about that but now we learn that Peter Miller resigned due to pressure of other food, including a vegan option. loaf. Cooks will be asked to bake ginger the elections have been postponed yet again for work commitments and Tylers Green still have This year we have decided to print tickets for biscuits, a Bakewell tart, beetroot/chocolate another year for Parishes and indeed Councils in a vacancy. If anyone is interested please contact the event and will be available from 1st April. cake, sausage rolls and a vegan pastry dish. Buckinghamshire due to the Covid19 threat. our clerk or look at details on our website. We For people buying the “early bird” ticket the Experiment with different recipes; your family That will mean this term will be for 6 years very much welcome all our new members who price will be lower than that paid on the day. will enjoy eating them. Male bakers can also rather than the usual 4. Undoubtedly the right are finding their feet and already contributing Please look out for details on the Sports & perfect their recipes for savoury scones. The decision as we need to keep everyone as safe as greatly to our work. Whilst it is always sad to Social Club or Penn Football Club Website and judges enjoyed the flavoured gins/spirits last possible during these worrying times and its not say goodbye to valuable members it is social media, where prices will be published year, so we are repeating this class. only people voting we have to think of but those wonderful to have some new faces and new 6 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 7 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 shortly. Any tickets purchased early, will be Knitters and stitchers will find classes for who carry out the tremendous task of manning fully refundable up to 31st May. their work. There will be a new class for an the polling stations and counting all the votes. We are also trying to improve on our upcycled garment or (small) piece of furniture. So we will carry on with the vital work of AROUND environmental responsibilities. This year, we A perfect project for your free time. Art themes looking after your local area to the best of our THE VILLAGES will not be providing the traditional pint glasses (drawing, painting and photography) are “a ability, maintaining the common, looking after for the event, as we identified that majority of village view” or “village seasons”. Kingswood, the allotments, play areas and customers leave the glasses behind where they We are challenging Young Designers to make cemeteries and all the other things your Parish CoronavirusP&TG History fears delay Group history group: The could pose a health & safety risk. We are a tin can lantern and Young Cooks to bake a Council are responsible for, whilst trying to meeting to form a committee to establish a investigating reusable plastic containers for the savoury quiche. make sure our staff stay fit and healthy too. history group for Penn and Tylers Green was beer, wine & Pimms. This should reduce the Under 14’s can create a memory jar and Things may take longer than normal in these postponed from its 12 March date because of number of plastic glasses we have to use. decorate a plant pot with mosaic; under 11’s, a unprecedented times as at the moment we will the potential risk of spreading the coronavirus. We are determined that the 10th anniversary bug hotel and a key ring, and under 8’s a not be having any meetings, and we are waiting The meeting will probably be held later in the event will be a success, all we need is the thumbprint card and cheese straws. Remember, to see if the Government brings forward any year with the aim of holding an initial AGM and sunshine again! Dave Taylor & Tim Vincent younger ones can also enter the older classes. rules about voting when not in the room at a programme of events next year. If we can’t hold the show in September, we meeting because at the moment that is illegal. Members of the group will also help run the P&TG Village Show 2020 will find another date; the classes will be the Over the past few years we have completed Penn & Tylers Green Heritage Centre which is In the midst of all the uncertainty, we are still same. Printed schedules will be available nearer several major projects including new signage on to be built in the area of the underused changing planning to hold the Village Show on Saturday the time in the usual places. If you can’t wait, our properties, updating our play areas, rooms at Tylers Green Village Hall. It is hoped 19th September. The schedule will be available mail us at [email protected]. Follow us on replacing all our footway lighting with LED that building will also start next year, depending at https://pennandtylersgreenvillageshow.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ lights and trying a new committee structure on sufficient funds being raised. from early April. With the increase in “spare pennandtylersgreenvillageshow. We will be which is working well along with many other If you would like to get involved in the time”, we hope to welcome new entrants and posting some tips and ideas here. smaller projects. Some of these still have some history group by acting as either a member of have more entries than usual. Are you a web wizard? We have taken the big work to do but the majority has been completed. the committee or assisting with archiving local There will be fruit, flower and vegetable step of launching our web site but still need a bit We have had quite a few changes of history material please contact Peter Brown at classes for pretty much anything you have of help to enhance it and let us accept web Councillors over the past couple of years. In [email protected]. Peter Brown grown. People are rushing to buy hens at the entries. Please contact us on ptgvsc@gmail. February 2018 Lenny White had to leave us due moment; we are continuing with a class for com if you think you could spare a bit of time. to work commitments, but in August 2018 we Sports & Social Club hen’s eggs. Do have a go at growing your own Keep the date in your diary and learn a new welcomed Bob Kin as his replacement. In Beer Festival 27th June 2020: The dates below vegetables. Salad leaves, potatoes, chillies, skill or refresh and old one. We look forward to February 2019 Roger Wilks joined us replacing are subject to the situation with Covid-19 and courgettes, carrots, aubergines, and tomatoes seeing the results. David & Gwenda Deadman Liliane Pinner who had left the previous June. government guidelines. The Committee will can all be grown on the patio if you are short of Sadly, in April 2019 Carolyn Leonard passed take further decisions in early April. The Club is space; There will be a novice class for (any) Chepping Wycombe District Council away very suddenly and she is very much currently closed. pot grown vegetable. April is the perfect time Well we thought we were at the end of our term missed. However, in May 2019 we welcomed This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the for sowing seeds or buying young plants/tubers. in the Parish and perhaps going to be saying Alec Barron, those were all in Flackwell Heath. Sports & Social Club Beer Festival. We plan for A new class this year will be a trug (or seed goodbye to some of our councillors and Also in April 2019 Jean Johnson decided to live music to be provided between 3pm and tray) of home-grown vegetables. welcoming new ones and looking forward to retire and in December 2019 we welcomed back 11pm and will offer a choice of over 20 beers We hope increased time at home will produce new beginnings and a new term and this article an familiar face Sharon Herron. Also in 2019 and ciders, as well as a fantastic selection of new bakers; our class this year will be a seeded was going to be about that but now we learn that Peter Miller resigned due to pressure of other food, including a vegan option. loaf. Cooks will be asked to bake ginger the elections have been postponed yet again for work commitments and Tylers Green still have This year we have decided to print tickets for biscuits, a Bakewell tart, beetroot/chocolate another year for Parishes and indeed Councils in a vacancy. If anyone is interested please contact the event and will be available from 1st April. cake, sausage rolls and a vegan pastry dish. Buckinghamshire due to the Covid19 threat. our clerk or look at details on our website. We For people buying the “early bird” ticket the Experiment with different recipes; your family That will mean this term will be for 6 years very much welcome all our new members who price will be lower than that paid on the day. will enjoy eating them. Male bakers can also rather than the usual 4. Undoubtedly the right are finding their feet and already contributing Please look out for details on the Sports & perfect their recipes for savoury scones. The decision as we need to keep everyone as safe as greatly to our work. Whilst it is always sad to Social Club or Penn Football Club Website and judges enjoyed the flavoured gins/spirits last possible during these worrying times and its not say goodbye to valuable members it is social media, where prices will be published year, so we are repeating this class. only people voting we have to think of but those wonderful to have some new faces and new 6 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 7 Village Voice April/May 2020 ideas brought to the Council. general rubbish, food, and clinical. There are Tylers Green have welcomed back Sharon also specific instructions for your waste such as Herron as a Councillor following Jean Johnsons tissues if you do have the Covid 19 virus so resignation earlier this year. We still have a please check on line on the council webpages vacancy for another Councillor following the for up to date information. Recycling collections recent resignation of Peter Miller who felt were also suspended due to driver and loader unable to carry on due to other commitments shortages. The waste team are working to secure taking more of his time. We thank Peter for his extra staff so that any disruption is minimised. contribution over the last couple of years and Parks and outdoor spaces remain open at the will miss his input - especially on procedures moment as it is difficult to shut them but please and policies that he has helped us refine. keep to 2 metres apart from anyone else. We were looking at holding several events I would re-iterate that the Council is doing its this year to celebrate our 125th Anniversary as a best in what is a fast moving and very difficult Parish but this will be reviewed with the current situation so please bear with us and please Keep situation and we may have to do something Safe. Katrina Woods Unitary Councillor for Tylers Green & more low key later in the year. We will keep you Loudwater all advised. Katrina Woods Chairman CWPC Penn Pond Waders Golf Society Bucks Unitary Council After one of the wettest winters in memory, we These are unprecedented times as we keep now have the Coronavirus pandemic to contend Relax and let the pampering begin at your new hearing and we all must heed the governments with. Spa on your doorstep…. advice re social distancing and isolating if we Our first ranking event at Beaconsfield Golf are to keep as many of our population as safe as Club in late March was cancelled and our tour

we can. Please don’t ignore the advice as we to Portugal planned for May will be delayed have been seeing recently. It is vitally important until November. On a more positive note, that we all pull together, do what is necessary Spring is in the air, the sun is shining, giving our Why not come and relax at Hazlemere Spa, there are many treatments to choose and look out for each other. waterlogged golf courses a chance to dry out. from. Whether you want to be truly pampered with a hot stone massage, Buckinghamshire Unitary Council will come It's hard to plan anything with any degree of rehydrate your skin with a luxury facial, or just keep your nails looking at their into force on 1st April as planned and the other certainty at the moment. Please keep an eye on Councils will disappear. They are in fact already our website for details and the latest schedule of best, we have something for everyone. co ordinating the response in Buckinghamshire upcoming events later in 2020. With 4 luxury treatment rooms, 2 Pedicure spa chairs and a Manicure station and working with other agencies NHS, police Some important changes to our handicap this is the perfect Spa Day to experience with friends, and why not add on a and others. Our staff from all the councils are system were voted in by members at our recent working 12 and 18 hour days so please spare a AGM. We hope that this will be a fairer system glassTo book of prosecco &call lunch to make01494 it extra 719313 special. thought for them. As many as possible are for all participants and will deliver a different email [email protected] working from home and others are in the winner at each of our 2020 events. Hazlemere Spa command centre working tirelessly. If you need We were also delighted to handover £4,500 information or help please look at the following raised by us for the Chiltern Prostate Cancer Hazlemeregolfclubspa website which is detailing what is available in Support Group, our chosen charity for 2019. your area: https://www.buckinghamshore.gov. If you are interested in joining our friendly uk/community-and-safety/coronavirus/ Society or coming along as a guest at any of our I would also ask that residents take time to future events, please contact our Secretary Bob We also offer Gift Vouchers – think before complaining when normal services Teuton on 07973 137446. the perfect present for a loved one! are disrupted. For example, Green waste was We look forward to welcoming some new not being collected for a short while, in order to Waders For more details, visit www. resource more important collections such as pennpondwadersgolfsociety.com John Horton 8 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 9 Village Voice April/May 2020 ideas brought to the Council. general rubbish, food, and clinical. There are Tylers Green have welcomed back Sharon also specific instructions for your waste such as Herron as a Councillor following Jean Johnsons tissues if you do have the Covid 19 virus so resignation earlier this year. We still have a please check on line on the council webpages vacancy for another Councillor following the for up to date information. Recycling collections recent resignation of Peter Miller who felt were also suspended due to driver and loader unable to carry on due to other commitments shortages. The waste team are working to secure taking more of his time. We thank Peter for his extra staff so that any disruption is minimised. contribution over the last couple of years and Parks and outdoor spaces remain open at the will miss his input - especially on procedures moment as it is difficult to shut them but please and policies that he has helped us refine. keep to 2 metres apart from anyone else. We were looking at holding several events I would re-iterate that the Council is doing its this year to celebrate our 125th Anniversary as a best in what is a fast moving and very difficult Parish but this will be reviewed with the current situation so please bear with us and please Keep situation and we may have to do something Safe. Katrina Woods Unitary Councillor for Tylers Green & more low key later in the year. We will keep you Loudwater all advised. Katrina Woods Chairman CWPC Penn Pond Waders Golf Society Bucks Unitary Council After one of the wettest winters in memory, we These are unprecedented times as we keep now have the Coronavirus pandemic to contend Relax and let the pampering begin at your new hearing and we all must heed the governments with. Spa on your doorstep…. advice re social distancing and isolating if we Our first ranking event at Beaconsfield Golf are to keep as many of our population as safe as Club in late March was cancelled and our tour

we can. Please don’t ignore the advice as we to Portugal planned for May will be delayed have been seeing recently. It is vitally important until November. On a more positive note, that we all pull together, do what is necessary Spring is in the air, the sun is shining, giving our Why not come and relax at Hazlemere Spa, there are many treatments to choose and look out for each other. waterlogged golf courses a chance to dry out. from. Whether you want to be truly pampered with a hot stone massage, Buckinghamshire Unitary Council will come It's hard to plan anything with any degree of rehydrate your skin with a luxury facial, or just keep your nails looking at their into force on 1st April as planned and the other certainty at the moment. Please keep an eye on Councils will disappear. They are in fact already our website for details and the latest schedule of best, we have something for everyone. co ordinating the response in Buckinghamshire upcoming events later in 2020. With 4 luxury treatment rooms, 2 Pedicure spa chairs and a Manicure station and working with other agencies NHS, police Some important changes to our handicap this is the perfect Spa Day to experience with friends, and why not add on a and others. Our staff from all the councils are system were voted in by members at our recent working 12 and 18 hour days so please spare a AGM. We hope that this will be a fairer system glassTo book of prosecco &call lunch to make01494 it extra 719313 special. thought for them. As many as possible are for all participants and will deliver a different email [email protected] working from home and others are in the winner at each of our 2020 events. Hazlemere Spa command centre working tirelessly. If you need We were also delighted to handover £4,500 information or help please look at the following raised by us for the Chiltern Prostate Cancer Hazlemeregolfclubspa website which is detailing what is available in Support Group, our chosen charity for 2019. your area: https://www.buckinghamshore.gov. If you are interested in joining our friendly uk/community-and-safety/coronavirus/ Society or coming along as a guest at any of our I would also ask that residents take time to future events, please contact our Secretary Bob We also offer Gift Vouchers – think before complaining when normal services Teuton on 07973 137446. the perfect present for a loved one! are disrupted. For example, Green waste was We look forward to welcoming some new not being collected for a short while, in order to Waders For more details, visit www. resource more important collections such as pennpondwadersgolfsociety.com John Horton 8 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 9 Village Voice April/May 2020 courage, especially at times like this. We can take some time to sit quietly and pray, letting NEWS God know about those things that are on our CHURCH hearts and minds. When we do that, we make experienced that connection with God that nourishes and Holy Trinity & St Margaret's sustains us. Non-news from Holy Trinity and St Margaret’s: We are also recording a short service each enthusiastic On 17th March the Archbishops of Canterbury week and this will be on the website under and York asked “all parishes, chaplaincies and ‘Services and Events’ and then ‘Services and ministries to serve all people in a new way. Sermons’. You will see details for each Sunday conscientious Public worship will have to stop for a season. and if you click on the date the audio file will Our usual pattern of Sunday services and other play. mid-week gatherings must be put on hold.” We As churches we are encouraging our folk to diligent do not, of course, have any idea how long this be courageous in contacting their neighbour to will go on for but it is likely to be months rather ask if they need help. If one of them rings you, than weeks. be nice to them! Our meetings may have stopped but our At the moment, my guess is that helping spiritual life and the work of the Holy Spirit those who are unable to get out with the basic does not stop. provisions is the most important thing. As time Our website has resources on it to help with goes on, the effects of isolation and loneliness For an outstanding property sales and daily prayer as well as the latest information. 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www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 11 Village Voice April/May 2020 Both Holy Trinity & St Margaret’s are closed website entitled, ‘The coronavirus, What is God at the moment, in line with Government policy. saying to the nation?’ Please go to www. So while we are still able to be out and about, realchristianity.org how about a using a permitted solitary walk as There is also a sermon delivered whilst the an opportunity for prayer or quiet reflection? church was still open on Psalm 91, a portion of I said in the introduction at the last Sunday Scripture which has a particular focus upon service that I missed people. It has been good to plagues and pandemics. Please go to www. talk, even if briefly and at a distance, when out soundcloud.com/penn-free-methodists and look walking. I recommend it. Blessings, Revd Mike for Psalm 91:1-10, CORONAVIRUS, THE Bisset, www.holytrinityand stmargartes.co.uk BIBLICAL RESPONSE. It seems very likely that there will be no Penn Free Methodist Church Easter services at the church, but the online meetings will be as follows: • Wednesday 8th April at 8.00pm : A Bible Study on our Lord’s suffering and death • Friday 10th April at 10:30am : Good Friday Service • Sunday 12th April at 11.00am and 6.30pm : Resurrection Day services At a time like this how the nation needs more As is the case with all other venues of social than ever to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, the gathering, our services and meetings at the world’s only Saviour. Pastor Peter Simpson, church are sadly suspended temporarily due to www.realchristianity.org the coronavirus. However, our two Sunday services and Wednesday Bible study and prayer meeting are now being held online using the TheTylers time wasGreen when Methodistyou knew Easter Church was video-conferencing software, Zoom. approaching by the Spring awakening all Please email me (Pastor Peter Simpson) on around us, each Spring more or less like earlier [email protected] if you would like to ones. Spring is still happening but is less participate on Sundays at 11am and 6.30pm predictable with all the storms around us. We and/or on Wednesdays at 8pm. You can of came out of church one Sunday recently with course do this, even if you are not a regular the flood in Coppice Farm Road over the member of the congregation. I can then send pavement. However our problems have been you the appropriate link to join and watch. small compared to so many deeply flooded parts On the first Sunday in which these online of the Country. services were conducted, it was so good to see Now, after the rain comes the much bigger each other’s faces and to be encouraged in this presence of Covid-19, the Coronavirus and period of much general anxiety by listening to Tylers Green Methodist Church has now closed the word of God being expounded. until further notice, as are Methodist Churches We supply contemporary, painted and traditional high quality kitchens in a variety of styles, At a critical time such as this, we have other across the Country. colours and finishes to all the surrounding areas. Our ranges are complimented with a broad selection of work surfaces and innovative storage solutions alongside appliances, sinks and taps from all the leading brands. online resources to help people come to terms Whatever your faith or none, please pray or at with the whole issue of disease and epidemics. least give a thought for the victims and the Phone / Fax: 01494 814629 How does all this fit into the providence of the vulnerable and all those in the medical Mobile: 07989 422726 God who governs this world and who professions and in Government working to Email: [email protected] www.autumnwoodkitchens.co.uk determines all events? make all our lives safer .Blessings Peter Stevens, There is a special article on the church Senior Church Steward 12 128x88 Autumn Wood Leaflet_March 2015.indd 1 02/04/2015 12:33 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 13 Village Voice April/May 2020 Both Holy Trinity & St Margaret’s are closed website entitled, ‘The coronavirus, What is God at the moment, in line with Government policy. saying to the nation?’ Please go to www. So while we are still able to be out and about, realchristianity.org how about a using a permitted solitary walk as There is also a sermon delivered whilst the an opportunity for prayer or quiet reflection? church was still open on Psalm 91, a portion of I said in the introduction at the last Sunday Scripture which has a particular focus upon service that I missed people. It has been good to plagues and pandemics. Please go to www. talk, even if briefly and at a distance, when out soundcloud.com/penn-free-methodists and look walking. I recommend it. Blessings, Revd Mike for Psalm 91:1-10, CORONAVIRUS, THE Bisset, www.holytrinityand stmargartes.co.uk BIBLICAL RESPONSE. It seems very likely that there will be no Penn Free Methodist Church Easter services at the church, but the online meetings will be as follows: • Wednesday 8th April at 8.00pm : A Bible Study on our Lord’s suffering and death • Friday 10th April at 10:30am : Good Friday Service • Sunday 12th April at 11.00am and 6.30pm : Resurrection Day services At a time like this how the nation needs more As is the case with all other venues of social than ever to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, the gathering, our services and meetings at the world’s only Saviour. Pastor Peter Simpson, church are sadly suspended temporarily due to www.realchristianity.org the coronavirus. However, our two Sunday services and Wednesday Bible study and prayer meeting are now being held online using the TheTylers time wasGreen when Methodistyou knew Easter Church was video-conferencing software, Zoom. approaching by the Spring awakening all Please email me (Pastor Peter Simpson) on around us, each Spring more or less like earlier [email protected] if you would like to ones. Spring is still happening but is less participate on Sundays at 11am and 6.30pm predictable with all the storms around us. We and/or on Wednesdays at 8pm. You can of came out of church one Sunday recently with course do this, even if you are not a regular the flood in Coppice Farm Road over the member of the congregation. I can then send pavement. However our problems have been you the appropriate link to join and watch. small compared to so many deeply flooded parts On the first Sunday in which these online of the Country. services were conducted, it was so good to see Now, after the rain comes the much bigger each other’s faces and to be encouraged in this presence of Covid-19, the Coronavirus and period of much general anxiety by listening to Tylers Green Methodist Church has now closed the word of God being expounded. until further notice, as are Methodist Churches We supply contemporary, painted and traditional high quality kitchens in a variety of styles, At a critical time such as this, we have other across the Country. colours and finishes to all the surrounding areas. Our ranges are complimented with a broad selection of work surfaces and innovative storage solutions alongside appliances, sinks and taps from all the leading brands. online resources to help people come to terms Whatever your faith or none, please pray or at with the whole issue of disease and epidemics. least give a thought for the victims and the Phone / Fax: 01494 814629 How does all this fit into the providence of the vulnerable and all those in the medical Mobile: 07989 422726 God who governs this world and who professions and in Government working to Email: [email protected] www.autumnwoodkitchens.co.uk determines all events? make all our lives safer .Blessings Peter Stevens, There is a special article on the church Senior Church Steward 12 128x88 Autumn Wood Leaflet_March 2015.indd 1 02/04/2015 12:33 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 13 Village Voice April/May 2020 little in their own time. Unfortunately there has been an incident of a dog being gored by a Muntjac deer it was WOODLAND chasing. Although people think that it is natural & GREEN SPACES for a dog to chase it carries this serious risk and owners should work on recall. Also a dog • Local Independent Locksmith The recent storms have left their mark with a attacking a deer and leaving it injured creates • Est 20 years number of broken branches littering the ground. another problem. Tiggywinkles advice is that One of our big oaks has split and will be in they are unable by law to release them back into • Domestic & Commercial danger of falling onto a path. Hopefully walkers the wild and do not have facilities to keep them. • Trading Standards Approved Trader will accept a diversion until we resolve the Looking forward to the arrival of Bluebells in • 24 hour, 7 days problem rather than risk the tree falling on them. May. I hope you might take a stroll down • Free surveys It seems that despite signs warning of danger Bluebell Walk to see and smell the blue people seem to think it does not apply to them. beauties... Mike Morley TEL 01494 718802 We have had an instance where individuals duck under a tape just as a tree was falling causing a near miss. Please follow directions for your safety. www.alllocks.net Many have commented on the large amount of rainfall and it is evident from the amount of standing water. A raised pond has water in it 123 Penn Road, Hazlemere, High Wycombe which only happens in a really wet winter but two ponds have frog spawn. This is the first year I have seen this and there is a report the frogs DOMESTIC APPLIANCE laid in the water of neighbouring fields. AND KITCHEN SPECIALIST Hopefully the ponds stay wet enough for the OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK froglets to survive. www.fields.org.uk PART OF THE Spring has sprung and it is lovely to see the EURONICS GROUP gorse and primroses out with their splashes of OVER yellow brightening the drab browns of the PLUS f Better prices and service than larger chains of stores 80 STYLES OF FREE SITE winterscape. Soon the buds of the beech will be KITCHENS VISIT & 3D starting to open and we will be walking under a f Free connection and disposal* FROM UNDER COMPUTER STOCKISTS PLANNING canopy of bright green. Free fitting of built-in appliances* OF MOST £2,000 f LEADING BRANDS The volunteers have been busy in February *ask in store for details f Up to 10 years free warranty* GREAT SERVICE and March. A big fallen branch was quickly f In home repair service also available GUARANTEED cleared off the Bluebell path after a storm and the path down from the bench was “sided” . 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Unfortunately there has been an incident of a dog being gored by a Muntjac deer it was WOODLAND chasing. Although people think that it is natural & GREEN SPACES for a dog to chase it carries this serious risk and owners should work on recall. Also a dog • Local Independent Locksmith The recent storms have left their mark with a attacking a deer and leaving it injured creates • Est 20 years number of broken branches littering the ground. another problem. Tiggywinkles advice is that One of our big oaks has split and will be in they are unable by law to release them back into • Domestic & Commercial danger of falling onto a path. Hopefully walkers the wild and do not have facilities to keep them. • Trading Standards Approved Trader will accept a diversion until we resolve the Looking forward to the arrival of Bluebells in • 24 hour, 7 days problem rather than risk the tree falling on them. May. I hope you might take a stroll down • Free surveys It seems that despite signs warning of danger Bluebell Walk to see and smell the blue people seem to think it does not apply to them. beauties... Mike Morley TEL 01494 718802 We have had an instance where individuals duck under a tape just as a tree was falling causing a near miss. Please follow directions for your safety. www.alllocks.net Many have commented on the large amount of rainfall and it is evident from the amount of standing water. A raised pond has water in it 123 Penn Road, Hazlemere, High Wycombe which only happens in a really wet winter but two ponds have frog spawn. This is the first year I have seen this and there is a report the frogs DOMESTIC APPLIANCE laid in the water of neighbouring fields. AND KITCHEN SPECIALIST Hopefully the ponds stay wet enough for the OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK froglets to survive. www.fields.org.uk PART OF THE Spring has sprung and it is lovely to see the EURONICS GROUP gorse and primroses out with their splashes of OVER yellow brightening the drab browns of the PLUS f Better prices and service than larger chains of stores 80 STYLES OF FREE SITE winterscape. Soon the buds of the beech will be KITCHENS VISIT & 3D starting to open and we will be walking under a f Free connection and disposal* FROM UNDER COMPUTER STOCKISTS PLANNING canopy of bright green. Free fitting of built-in appliances* OF MOST £2,000 f LEADING BRANDS The volunteers have been busy in February *ask in store for details f Up to 10 years free warranty* GREAT SERVICE and March. A big fallen branch was quickly f In home repair service also available GUARANTEED cleared off the Bluebell path after a storm and the path down from the bench was “sided” . The FREE SUPERSONIC EXPRESS DELIVERY! %% brush cutters were got out and we sided the Don’t wait in all day – deliveries made within a 3 hour window footpath alongside the horse fields. In early Washing Machines from £250 • Dishwashers from £250 • Fridges & Freezers OFF March we started digging out saplings from £130 £40 £130 5 from • Vacuum Cleaners from • Tumble Dryers from • 5 Farther Barn Field in preparation for cattle WITH THIS ADVERT* Cookers from £199 • Built-in Ovens from £250 • Cooker Hoods from £99 grazing later in the year and prevent the field turning into scrub. We would like help with this 21 Penn Road, Beaconsfield 01494 674044 • 10 Station Road, Gerrards Cross 01753 893304 so if you feel able to give us some assistance email to [email protected]. 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www.little-oaks.org @littleoaksnurseries Disappointingly we have also made the can continue to stay fit and healthy. Members decision to postpone the Festival of Football and are welcome to come and use the courts as usual the Beer festival, both of which are major but we do ask you to practise social distancing. contributors to the financial running of the club. This advice may have changed by the time of We will look at hosting both events further on in printing. the year, when we finally emerge form these We are looking forward to the start of the new Degree Apprenticeship unprecedented times. membership year in April. We will of course With positive vibes, we are still looking keep everything under review as the situation forward and when we start the new season we evolves and keep members informed of any will have new senior management team in news via email newsletters. place. We were recruiting for a new senior Any enquiries for the club can be directed to manager, and although interviews have been [email protected], visit our website delayed, we will have a new team in place for (currently under construction) at www. the new season. We are also delighted to have penntennis.net or check out the facebook page gained the services of Stephen Hale as the www.facebook.com/ptg.ltc. manager of our newly formed Allied Counties Wishing you all a happy and healthy Spring. Youth team. Steve brings amazing qualifications Kate Noble and enthusiasm and will be a credit to the club. BA (Hons) Business Studies Architectural Designer Trials for the Youth team and senior sections P&TG Cricket Club West London University (fees paid) Planning & building regulation applications will be made when we are in a better position to Penn & Tylers Green Cricket Club 2020 Season do so. James Keating, Press and Communications Officer, Registration Evening, Friday April 24th at the www.zenopa.com/apprenticeships Detailed CAD drawings for extensions & conversions Penn & Tylers Green FC Sports & Social Club. HP10 8EG T: 07776 238099 For the very latest information relating to COVID-19 and how that affects activity at the E: [email protected] P&TG Lawn Tennis Club PIC Zenopa – supporting local school leavers The persistent wet weather really made for Cricket Club, please keep an eye on our facebook.com/carriepeckdesign some challenging tennis during the first months Facebook account (‘Penn & Tylers Green of 2020, and several of our league matches Cricket Club’). 18 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 19 Village Voice April/May 2020 Little Oaks will be back as soon as we can. Meanwhile …. SPORTS NEWS ROUND UP Stay P&TG Football Club safe - When we originally penned this months article, we were looking forward to cup finals for many junior teams, the continued success of the stay Reserve team and the erection of our floodlights. Several weeks ago we were one of across all teams had to be re-arranged. The home. the first clubs to respond to the Corona virus, weather has improved but we are of course all cancelling matches and training before the FA now facing the challenges of Covid-19. At the made a decision. A few weeks on and we now time of writing (21st March) for our tennis club know that football at step 3-6 has been cancelled this currently means all of our matches have Wrap-around care at Tylers Green First School will launch later this year! and the season has been made null and void, a been cancelled and we have had to close the Contact Ruthie Pocock on 07881 737149 or [email protected] disappointing but understandable position (we clubhouse down. The LTA guidelines are for await what will happen to the professional game). competitive tennis to be halted but social tennis www.little-oaks.org @littleoaksnurseries Disappointingly we have also made the can continue to stay fit and healthy. Members decision to postpone the Festival of Football and are welcome to come and use the courts as usual the Beer festival, both of which are major but we do ask you to practise social distancing. contributors to the financial running of the club. This advice may have changed by the time of We will look at hosting both events further on in printing. the year, when we finally emerge form these We are looking forward to the start of the new Degree Apprenticeship unprecedented times. membership year in April. We will of course With positive vibes, we are still looking keep everything under review as the situation forward and when we start the new season we evolves and keep members informed of any will have new senior management team in news via email newsletters. place. We were recruiting for a new senior Any enquiries for the club can be directed to manager, and although interviews have been [email protected], visit our website delayed, we will have a new team in place for (currently under construction) at www. the new season. We are also delighted to have penntennis.net or check out the facebook page gained the services of Stephen Hale as the www.facebook.com/ptg.ltc. manager of our newly formed Allied Counties Wishing you all a happy and healthy Spring. Youth team. Steve brings amazing qualifications Kate Noble and enthusiasm and will be a credit to the club. BA (Hons) Business Studies Architectural Designer Trials for the Youth team and senior sections P&TG Cricket Club West London University (fees paid) Planning & building regulation applications will be made when we are in a better position to Penn & Tylers Green Cricket Club 2020 Season do so. James Keating, Press and Communications Officer, Registration Evening, Friday April 24th at the www.zenopa.com/apprenticeships Detailed CAD drawings for extensions & conversions Penn & Tylers Green FC Sports & Social Club. HP10 8EG T: 07776 238099 For the very latest information relating to COVID-19 and how that affects activity at the E: [email protected] P&TG Lawn Tennis Club PIC Zenopa – supporting local school leavers The persistent wet weather really made for Cricket Club, please keep an eye on our facebook.com/carriepeckdesign some challenging tennis during the first months Facebook account (‘Penn & Tylers Green of 2020, and several of our league matches Cricket Club’). 18 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 19 Village Voice April/May 2020 Firstly, everyone at the Cricket Club wishes normal, we anticipate that competitive cricket all the VV readers the very best of health during for the Seniors will go ahead at some point this challenging time. during the Summer. Once again, we are guided Looking for a As with all social and sporting activity, things by the guidelines of the ECB and of the Leagues are very much up in the air as far as plans for in which we participate. the cricket season are concerned. At this time of Everything is uncertain but Junior Coaching year, with Easter upon us, we would normally is scheduled to take place at the Club on Sunday be looking forward to a few weeks of cold mornings (U7, U8 and U9), and on Friday Parents like The Village Pre-school because we are: hands and heavy sweaters followed by warmer evenings for the U10s upwards. We have Flexible: choose your days, hours and start date Friendly: your child will be happy and safe with our times out on the field of play. As things stand, entered age-group sides into the revamped attentive caring sta Open long hours: open 9.15am to 12.15pm, we are not even sure whether the season will be Bucks Leagues once more, providing more 1.15pm, 2.15pm, 2.45pm or 3.15 pm - you choose Supportive: we promote learning and independence, able to go ahead. opportunities for players to learn about the your child’s fi nish time encouraging your child to be confi dent. We oer Forest School sessions, promoting confi dence and the We had been making our preparations with game, to emulate heroes like Ben Stokes and Affordable: Free for eligible 2-4 year olds up to emergence of risk taking skills some indoor-net practice at the RGS from Nat Sciver, and to develop their skills at their 30 hours per week. Just £6.25 per hour for extra February but regrettably, had to call a halt to own pace. hours and non funded children. Fun: children enjoy exciting and stimulating We oer extra exiblity for 2 year olds. activities, including visits from special guests and trips those sessions in the middle of March in For the first time in 2020, we had also been compliance with the Government advice and planning to introduce an “All Stars” cricket that of the ECB. session for U5 and U6 age groups (Reception Contact us today on 01494 817093 or [email protected] We do still have our annual Registration and Year 1 at school) at the Club on Friday visit us at www.villagepreschool.org.uk evening in the diary for Friday 24th April and evenings during the Summer term from 5pm to The Village Pre-school perhaps things might have become a little 6pm. Please watch out for further details The Methodist Church, Coppice Farm Road, Tylers Green HP10 8AN clearer by then. So if you are new to the village, coming soon or drop us a line at the email Registered charity 1098879 are healthy, and would like to play some cricket address below to sign up for updates. this summer, you’ll be sure of a warm welcome A lot of our Junior players stepped-up and at the Club should the evening go ahead. made important contributions to our Senior Clearly, the health and wellbeing of everybody teams during the summer of 2019 and we are is paramount so it you are unable to attend but delighted that so many are raring to go again

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Facebook (‘Penn & Tylers Green Cricket Club’ or ‘Penn & Should things settle and start to return to Tylers Green Cricket Club Colts’) 20 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 21 Village Voice April/May 2020 Firstly, everyone at the Cricket Club wishes normal, we anticipate that competitive cricket all the VV readers the very best of health during for the Seniors will go ahead at some point this challenging time. during the Summer. Once again, we are guided As with all social and sporting activity, things by the guidelines of the ECB and of the Leagues are very much up in the air as far as plans for in which we participate. the cricket season are concerned. At this time of Everything is uncertain but Junior Coaching year, with Easter upon us, we would normally is scheduled to take place at the Club on Sunday be looking forward to a few weeks of cold mornings (U7, U8 and U9), and on Friday hands and heavy sweaters followed by warmer evenings for the U10s upwards. We have times out on the field of play. As things stand, entered age-group sides into the revamped we are not even sure whether the season will be Bucks Leagues once more, providing more able to go ahead. opportunities for players to learn about the We had been making our preparations with game, to emulate heroes like Ben Stokes and some indoor-net practice at the RGS from Nat Sciver, and to develop their skills at their February but regrettably, had to call a halt to own pace. those sessions in the middle of March in For the first time in 2020, we had also been compliance with the Government advice and planning to introduce an “All Stars” cricket that of the ECB. session for U5 and U6 age groups (Reception We do still have our annual Registration and Year 1 at school) at the Club on Friday evening in the diary for Friday 24th April and evenings during the Summer term from 5pm to perhaps things might have become a little 6pm. Please watch out for further details clearer by then. So if you are new to the village, coming soon or drop us a line at the email are healthy, and would like to play some cricket address below to sign up for updates. this summer, you’ll be sure of a warm welcome A lot of our Junior players stepped-up and at the Club should the evening go ahead. made important contributions to our Senior Clearly, the health and wellbeing of everybody teams during the summer of 2019 and we are is paramount so it you are unable to attend but delighted that so many are raring to go again would like to play some cricket when it arrives, this year – although patience may be the order please contact Nick Barber at nick.barber@sjpp. of the day there. co.uk to introduce yourself. If you are interested in playing cricket We have been at work to wake up the playing yourself or on behalf of your sons or daughters, square from its winter hibernation so that we you can get in touch with either Nick Barber at can be as ready as possible for when normality [email protected] (adults) or ptgcccolts@ resumes. The outfield has been rolled to reduce gmail.com (juniors). As with any village club or bumps and bobbles which are natural irritations society, our success relies heavily on the hard for the village cricketer. The whole place has work of all the volunteers who make everything received its first trim during and there are run smoothly. There is always more that we always plenty of other jobs to do including want to do and it is impossible to have too many assembling the pitch covers, cleaning/ volunteers so if you want to join the fun and positioning the sight-screens and giving the help in any way (maybe as a match-scorer or batting nets a general tidy-up. All of this will be umpire), we would be delighted to hear from done with our band of willing volunteers who you and you will receive a warm welcome from are probably finding that they have more time everyone involved with the Club. Jon Wilson You on their hands just now – and where better to be can also find us on Twitter (@ptgcc or @ptgcccolts) or on than out on the spacious outfield in the fresh air? Facebook (‘Penn & Tylers Green Cricket Club’ or ‘Penn & Should things settle and start to return to Tylers Green Cricket Club Colts’) www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 21 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 at the same time! In January we had a “toys” workshop come to school to work with the Year 1 children. This was a practical hands-on day SCHOOLS where the children explored toys from times NEWS ROUND UP gone by in the morning and then made their own toys in the afternoon. There were some Tylers Green Middle School toys in the times-gone-by section from the Dear VV Readers - over the past few years, it 1970s and 1980s so there was some nostalgia has become one of our highlights to have a from the staff too! whole school Science Week at TGMS. Linked The Year 2 children have been learning about to a variety of themes to encourage all of our Chocolate, which is a topic close to our hearts. pupils to learn more about science and enjoy the The week was filled with lots of science The Year 2 teachers took the opportunity to awe and wonder; STEM, Engineering, Women experiments - Year 4 even had a visit from a visit Cadbury World with the children to see in Science, 50 years of Science and the lunar dentist to link in with their science topic. chocolate being made and had a chocolate landings have inspired us all. So it was with As part of the Big Mistake our staff were tasting workshop! In the classroom, the great anticipation that we awaited Mrs Green asked to create a comic strip story to show that children are designing their own chocolate bars suggestion for this year’s Science Week. initially something had gone wrong for the and packaging to put them in. secure than the draughty old ones. The title of the 2020 Science Week was the character. The story then showed how they The Reception children are learning about The storms in February and early March Big Mistake and was held in February. overcame the problem, showing that The Big woodland animals, producing some amazing meant that we had some damage to our trees Designed to not only inspire creativity in Mistake was beneficial. The competition was artwork and writing on the subject. They have and our canopy rooves. Mr Hazell from the science it also linked to our Growth Mindset part of science week, but the story didn’t have to also used their culinary skills to create delicious Middle School helped us to “batten down the approach and involved all the community. be about science. What was important was that “Hedgehog Bread”. hatches” and we were lucky to avoid major The children discovered that some of the something bad or unexpected happened which The whole school participated in “Number damage to the buildings. We have sadly lost at most important scientific discoveries, often went was thought to be a Big Mistake. The day” to raise money for the NSPCC. During the least one of the trees in our woodland, but we wrong initially. They learnt that great outcomes anonymous staff entries were displayed in day, the children came to school wearing hope to be able to use the wood in our forest only came about because the scientists school and the children had to vote for their numbers and spent the day on maths activities. school sessions. persevered. This aspect of science supports our favourite. Having modelled the idea, the There was a class “penny wars” to see who Please do check the website, our fortnightly ‘Compass For Life’, teaching children about children were then asked to do something could bring in the most small change. We raised newsletters are posted there and have useful resilience in the face of adversity. similar for their homework. We were all very a phenomenal amount just with pennies – information such as term dates and upcoming impressed with the entries which covered Willow and Chestnut class each raised £41. The events. Jude Talbot. Headteacher everything from the invention to oyster sauce to total raised by the school was over £540. some original and mind blowing stories. The Of course plans continue apace for the “big The Village Pre-school winning entries are on display in the school hall. move” for Little Oaks @ TG to move in to a Our Quiz Night in February was a resounding space within the school. Chestnut class will be success. Everyone who attended has a great The Pupil Winners: • 5K: Jemima moving into the room that currently houses the evening and we raised in excess of £800 for • 3R: Corey-James • 6FM: Ben library, which I am reliably informed used to be experiences for the children. Thank you to Jack • 3OD: Lucy • 6W: Lara a Year 2 classroom! This necessitates some Woodhouse and Penn & Tylers Green Sports • 4B: Tamsin The Staff Winners: • 4F: Hasali • Mrs Hone internal moving around and we hope to have Club for allowing us to use their space. • 5ABC: Gabriella • Mr Compton Chestnut class settled after Easter to free up the Our next major fundraising event was due to new Little Oaks classroom. “Wrap around” care have been the Easter Fayre on Saturday 28 I wonder what Mrs Green will come up with will be starting from June – with Breakfast and March which has been postponed due to the next year? Vanessa Pinkney, Headteacher After School club offered to our pupils. Coronavirus. We are closely following the In March we have had new windows and guidelines from BCC which have been doors fitted to many external areas of the school. communicated to our parents and carers. We are ThisTylers term Greenat Tylers GreenFirst First School School, the These have considerably brightened up the teaching the children the importance of washing children have been having fun and learning lots building and will keep us warmer and more their hands thoroughly and have been doing 22 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 23 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 at the same time! In January we had a “toys” workshop come to school to work with the Year 1 children. This was a practical hands-on day SCHOOLS where the children explored toys from times NEWS ROUND UP gone by in the morning and then made their own toys in the afternoon. There were some Tylers Green Middle School toys in the times-gone-by section from the Dear VV Readers - over the past few years, it 1970s and 1980s so there was some nostalgia has become one of our highlights to have a from the staff too! whole school Science Week at TGMS. Linked The Year 2 children have been learning about to a variety of themes to encourage all of our Chocolate, which is a topic close to our hearts. pupils to learn more about science and enjoy the The week was filled with lots of science The Year 2 teachers took the opportunity to awe and wonder; STEM, Engineering, Women experiments - Year 4 even had a visit from a visit Cadbury World with the children to see in Science, 50 years of Science and the lunar dentist to link in with their science topic. chocolate being made and had a chocolate landings have inspired us all. So it was with As part of the Big Mistake our staff were tasting workshop! In the classroom, the great anticipation that we awaited Mrs Green asked to create a comic strip story to show that children are designing their own chocolate bars suggestion for this year’s Science Week. initially something had gone wrong for the and packaging to put them in. secure than the draughty old ones. The title of the 2020 Science Week was the character. The story then showed how they The Reception children are learning about The storms in February and early March Big Mistake and was held in February. overcame the problem, showing that The Big woodland animals, producing some amazing meant that we had some damage to our trees Designed to not only inspire creativity in Mistake was beneficial. The competition was artwork and writing on the subject. They have and our canopy rooves. Mr Hazell from the science it also linked to our Growth Mindset part of science week, but the story didn’t have to also used their culinary skills to create delicious Middle School helped us to “batten down the approach and involved all the community. be about science. What was important was that “Hedgehog Bread”. hatches” and we were lucky to avoid major The children discovered that some of the something bad or unexpected happened which The whole school participated in “Number damage to the buildings. We have sadly lost at most important scientific discoveries, often went was thought to be a Big Mistake. The day” to raise money for the NSPCC. During the least one of the trees in our woodland, but we wrong initially. They learnt that great outcomes anonymous staff entries were displayed in day, the children came to school wearing hope to be able to use the wood in our forest only came about because the scientists school and the children had to vote for their numbers and spent the day on maths activities. school sessions. persevered. This aspect of science supports our favourite. Having modelled the idea, the There was a class “penny wars” to see who Please do check the website, our fortnightly ‘Compass For Life’, teaching children about children were then asked to do something could bring in the most small change. We raised newsletters are posted there and have useful resilience in the face of adversity. similar for their homework. We were all very a phenomenal amount just with pennies – information such as term dates and upcoming impressed with the entries which covered Willow and Chestnut class each raised £41. The events. Jude Talbot. Headteacher everything from the invention to oyster sauce to total raised by the school was over £540. some original and mind blowing stories. The Of course plans continue apace for the “big The Village Pre-school winning entries are on display in the school hall. move” for Little Oaks @ TG to move in to a Our Quiz Night in February was a resounding space within the school. Chestnut class will be success. Everyone who attended has a great The Pupil Winners: • 5K: Jemima moving into the room that currently houses the evening and we raised in excess of £800 for • 3R: Corey-James • 6FM: Ben library, which I am reliably informed used to be experiences for the children. Thank you to Jack • 3OD: Lucy • 6W: Lara a Year 2 classroom! This necessitates some Woodhouse and Penn & Tylers Green Sports • 4B: Tamsin The Staff Winners: • 4F: Hasali • Mrs Hone internal moving around and we hope to have Club for allowing us to use their space. • 5ABC: Gabriella • Mr Compton Chestnut class settled after Easter to free up the Our next major fundraising event was due to new Little Oaks classroom. “Wrap around” care have been the Easter Fayre on Saturday 28 I wonder what Mrs Green will come up with will be starting from June – with Breakfast and March which has been postponed due to the next year? Vanessa Pinkney, Headteacher After School club offered to our pupils. Coronavirus. We are closely following the In March we have had new windows and guidelines from BCC which have been doors fitted to many external areas of the school. communicated to our parents and carers. We are ThisTylers term Greenat Tylers GreenFirst First School School, the These have considerably brightened up the teaching the children the importance of washing children have been having fun and learning lots building and will keep us warmer and more their hands thoroughly and have been doing 22 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 23 Village Voice April/May 2020 activities with them to enhance these skills. Local family run flooring company We do still have a few spaces available for Commercial and domestic flooring DearWhat Editor, We Made Installers of: this year. We offer places to children ages 2 - 4 * Amtico This is a * Karndean years & 30 hours free childcare can be provided call-out to *Carpets Consulta�ons 6 days week * Vinyl Opera�ng facili�es at all branches for those who are eligible. Check here for your Create Art! 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Thank papermache, decorating an old chair… you so much to all who gave so generously. whatever you fancy… Meanwhile, our plans to open at Tylers Green Art is a good antidote for this unprecedented First School on June 1st are well underway. At phase in all our lives - a positive act for our recent Parents’ Evenings we were able to mindfulness and wellbeing I hope you enjoy answer lots of questions from parents but if getting stuck in and making something that makes you you’re still wondering exactly what we’ll be up smile. To to, please email [email protected] register and Essentially our core nursery hours will be for more 8:45 – 3:00 daily, with the option of a 1:00 information finish on Fridays. In addition, all nursery and visit the Tylers Green First School children are eligible website www. to enrol for our Breakfast and After School whatwemade. co.uk hours of 7:45 – 8:45 every morning and 3:00 – Jennie Roberts, The 6:00 in the evenings (4:00 Friday). Chinnery, Please do visit us at the school on Church Road, WEDNESDAY 13th MAY from 6:00 – 8:00 Penn, hello@ p.m. when we’ll be able to show you the new whatwemade. space for nursery and what we have in mind for co.uk our ‘wraparound’ care. Ruthie Pocock 24 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 25 Village Voice April/May 2020 activities with them to enhance these skills. Local family run flooring company We do still have a few spaces available for Commercial and domestic flooring DearWhat Editor, We Made Installers of: this year. We offer places to children ages 2 - 4 * Amtico This is a * Karndean years & 30 hours free childcare can be provided call-out to *Carpets Consulta�ons 6 days week * Vinyl Opera�ng facili�es at all branches for those who are eligible. Check here for your Create Art! 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Thank papermache, decorating an old chair… you so much to all who gave so generously. whatever you fancy… Meanwhile, our plans to open at Tylers Green Art is a good antidote for this unprecedented First School on June 1st are well underway. At phase in all our lives - a positive act for our recent Parents’ Evenings we were able to mindfulness and wellbeing I hope you enjoy answer lots of questions from parents but if getting stuck in and making something that makes you you’re still wondering exactly what we’ll be up smile. To to, please email [email protected] register and Essentially our core nursery hours will be for more 8:45 – 3:00 daily, with the option of a 1:00 information finish on Fridays. In addition, all nursery and visit the Tylers Green First School children are eligible website www. to enrol for our Breakfast and After School whatwemade. co.uk hours of 7:45 – 8:45 every morning and 3:00 – Jennie Roberts, The 6:00 in the evenings (4:00 Friday). Chinnery, Please do visit us at the school on Church Road, WEDNESDAY 13th MAY from 6:00 – 8:00 Penn, hello@ p.m. when we’ll be able to show you the new whatwemade. space for nursery and what we have in mind for co.uk our ‘wraparound’ care. Ruthie Pocock 24 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 25 Village Voice April/May 2020 fighting and defeating the first attempt to close the school down in the 1990s. RA W to some fr Ev He also played a leading role in the e ha ery IN MEMORY community effort to raise thousands of pounds

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Car Sales . Stories about him abound, usually involving his sense of fun, adventurism and love of sport. Another good friend, Bill 86 High Street, Prestwood, Bucks. HP16 9ES Tel: 01494 866446 Sadler, recalls how, when the village hall was strapped for cash 26 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 27 Village Voice April/May 2020 K2 Kiosk Becomes Tourist Information Centre NEW YEAR! NEW START! This time last year we reported on Penn Parish Council’s Does your accountant only do the tax returns decision to buy the iconic red phone box and not add any real value? on War Memorial Green to preserve and peteR bRoWn & ray braDLey fun Run 2006 repurpose it. The War Memorial on said green, at the end of in the early days of its renovation, Ray arranged Paul’s Hill in Penn, Time to consider a change! to pick up 180 chairs from a hotel in Bristol. stands as a tribute to those who died in the At KMB Accountancy we don’t just report figures, our years of business experience mean that we “We brought back the chairs piled very high and First World War. It was erected in 1922 and are in a great position to give you advice. We are Chartered Management Accountants and our secured by a very dodgy bit of rope as we dedicated by Field Marshal Sir William Robertson. The names of those killed in the primary focus is to help you improve the performance of your business. trailed all the way back along the M4,” he said. He was a decent golfer - a former captain of Second World War were added after 1945. We will of course also provide taxation services and advice. the seniors at Wycombe Heights - and an The red phone box was listed in 1989, and since adopting it some thirty years later, the parish enthusiastic Wycombe Wanderers supporter. council has now re-opened it as a miniature On one occasion, playing golf with Bill tourist information kiosk. A detailed and Edwards on a gloomy day in Scotland, he informative map along with photos of the KMB Accountancy, Omega House, 6 Buckingham Place, Bellfield Road West, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 5HW couldn’t find his ball. Suddenly a disembodied immediate area educate the local and the Tel: 01494 842844 Mob: 07903 650114 www.kmbaccountancy.co.uk [email protected] voice in the distant gloom called out: “It’s in the visitor alike! Do drop by when you’re out bunker”. Ray’s face lit up and he said to Bill : walking, whether you’re taking in the Crown “See, God likes me. He’s telling me where my pub, the church or the stunning views. golf ball is.” It turned out to be a BT engineer Ruthie Pockock working up a telegraph pole. … that when you advertise your business in When he left Penn and Tylers Green for Village Voice, you are helping others as well as Dalwood he continued doing there what he had promoting your company? done here, becoming an active non-stop MY REPUTATION IS FOR DELIVERING member of their community. In 2006 he ran the Village Voice is run entirely by volunteers, on SERIOUS SKINCARE SOLUTIONS FOR London Marathon for a local children’s hospice. behalf of the Penn & Tylers Green Residents’ CLIENTS WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR SKINCARE Society, which itself is a charity. As he left Penn, he told Pat Dancer in an article I can o er specialist skin care diagnostic and for the parish magazine: “Just remember me as After printing costs are taken into account, management in the following categories a balding Brummie who made us laugh.” all the remaining surplus from advertising is Ageing skin • Pigmentation • Sensitivity Rosacea • Sun Damage • Adult Acne Val and John Smith, friends and neighbours used by the Residents’ Society to support Teenage Acne • Scarring • Blemishes when Ray and Helene lived in Ashwells, local needy causes. Beneficiaries have included perhaps summed up the feelings of many of us both of the village schools, the Village For more information CALL 07770 785 212 about this “Brummie that made us laugh.” They Preschool, Common Wood, Millar Wood, Alde wrote: “He loved this village and worked House and The Greens at the end of Coppice Please visit my website for details of tirelessly to improve the facilities and values of Farm Road. the range of services I o er, as well as the community. He was always busy doing case studies and testimonials from email Ruthie Pocock for more details: satisﬁed clients. things for others, especially in the village, and [email protected] more often than not persuaded us to help. We www.lorrainesskincare.co.uk didn’t mind. How could you say no to Mr Bradley!” Peter and Tina Brown 28 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 29 Village Voice April/May 2020 K2 Kiosk Becomes Tourist Information Centre NEW YEAR! NEW START! This time last year we reported on Penn Parish Council’s Does your accountant only do the tax returns decision to buy the iconic red phone box and not add any real value? on War Memorial Green to preserve and peteR bRoWn & ray braDLey fun Run 2006 repurpose it. The War Memorial on said green, at the end of in the early days of its renovation, Ray arranged Paul’s Hill in Penn, Time to consider a change! to pick up 180 chairs from a hotel in Bristol. stands as a tribute to those who died in the At KMB Accountancy we don’t just report figures, our years of business experience mean that we “We brought back the chairs piled very high and First World War. It was erected in 1922 and are in a great position to give you advice. We are Chartered Management Accountants and our secured by a very dodgy bit of rope as we dedicated by Field Marshal Sir William Robertson. The names of those killed in the primary focus is to help you improve the performance of your business. trailed all the way back along the M4,” he said. He was a decent golfer - a former captain of Second World War were added after 1945. We will of course also provide taxation services and advice. the seniors at Wycombe Heights - and an The red phone box was listed in 1989, and since adopting it some thirty years later, the parish enthusiastic Wycombe Wanderers supporter. council has now re-opened it as a miniature On one occasion, playing golf with Bill tourist information kiosk. A detailed and Edwards on a gloomy day in Scotland, he informative map along with photos of the KMB Accountancy, Omega House, 6 Buckingham Place, Bellfield Road West, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 5HW couldn’t find his ball. Suddenly a disembodied immediate area educate the local and the Tel: 01494 842844 Mob: 07903 650114 www.kmbaccountancy.co.uk [email protected] voice in the distant gloom called out: “It’s in the visitor alike! Do drop by when you’re out bunker”. Ray’s face lit up and he said to Bill : walking, whether you’re taking in the Crown “See, God likes me. He’s telling me where my pub, the church or the stunning views. golf ball is.” It turned out to be a BT engineer Ruthie Pockock working up a telegraph pole. … that when you advertise your business in When he left Penn and Tylers Green for Village Voice, you are helping others as well as Dalwood he continued doing there what he had promoting your company? done here, becoming an active non-stop MY REPUTATION IS FOR DELIVERING member of their community. In 2006 he ran the Village Voice is run entirely by volunteers, on SERIOUS SKINCARE SOLUTIONS FOR London Marathon for a local children’s hospice. behalf of the Penn & Tylers Green Residents’ CLIENTS WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR SKINCARE Society, which itself is a charity. As he left Penn, he told Pat Dancer in an article I can o er specialist skin care diagnostic and for the parish magazine: “Just remember me as After printing costs are taken into account, management in the following categories a balding Brummie who made us laugh.” all the remaining surplus from advertising is Ageing skin • Pigmentation • Sensitivity Rosacea • Sun Damage • Adult Acne Val and John Smith, friends and neighbours used by the Residents’ Society to support Teenage Acne • Scarring • Blemishes when Ray and Helene lived in Ashwells, local needy causes. Beneficiaries have included perhaps summed up the feelings of many of us both of the village schools, the Village For more information CALL 07770 785 212 about this “Brummie that made us laugh.” They Preschool, Common Wood, Millar Wood, Alde wrote: “He loved this village and worked House and The Greens at the end of Coppice Please visit my website for details of tirelessly to improve the facilities and values of Farm Road. the range of services I o er, as well as the community. He was always busy doing case studies and testimonials from email Ruthie Pocock for more details: satisﬁed clients. things for others, especially in the village, and [email protected] more often than not persuaded us to help. We www.lorrainesskincare.co.uk didn’t mind. How could you say no to Mr Bradley!” Peter and Tina Brown 28 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 29 Wycombe District Neighbourhood Watch Association

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Initial commitment is three issues Board of Trustees . customary AGM, Drinks reception and talk, Our Trustees have a remit to support the scheduled for 15 May, will not be held this year running of the Society, whose broad aims are to because of the Corona virus restrictions. The ensure that the villages of Penn & Tylers Green Stopressed Ironing business element of the AGM will be held as are represented locally, as well as undertaking a part of the first P&TGRS Board meeting that we range of activities for all residents. Loyalty reward Service are able to arrange when it is felt safe to do so. Each newly appointed Trustee would be allocated to a specialist sub-committee such as scheme available  Professional & reliable ironing service Woodlands, Village Pre-School, On-Line  FREE collection & delivery Message from the Chair & Communications, Village Voice and Planning. AGM News The P&TGRS are particularly keen to recruit  Same day & drop off service available Dear Residents of Penn & Tylers Green people with skills or interests in General As Chair, I am pleased to present the Administration, Accountancy and Event C A L L N O W ! P&TGRS 2019 Annual Report, which Organisation.We welcome interest from summarises the contributions and activities the residents of both Tylers Green and Penn. 01494 812211 or 07956 443739 Society has been engaged in during 2019. The If you have some time to spare, and have an work we do for and on behalf of our community interest in the work and aims of the RS, we would love to hear from you. A & T Cleaning Company remains relevant and neccessary, especially Our aim in attracting new Trustees is to during the considerable changes that are strengthen and augment our Board, as part of  Weekly / fortnightly / spring cleans planned in Bucks, and the potential for impact our succession planning. There will be plenty of on the Penn and Tylers Green communities and support from the existing Trustees. If you are  Commercial / Tenancy / one-off cleans infrastructure over the coming years. It is interested in knowing more, why not contact  Builders’ Cleans important that we both have, and use our voice Madalyn Roker, P&TGRS Company Secretary on to communicate with decision makers on issues 01494 819162 or via info@pennandtylersgreen.  Carpet Cleaning org.uk, to express your interest, or discuss that affect our community. To do this we need further. We look forward to hearing from you! to ensure we maintain a strong and commited 30 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 31 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 for their sensory garden. nurseries are regularly reported in the national information on these village activities. Please 'ByVillage the village, Voice for the Village Voice continues to be popular with news - the annual increase in rent, National visit www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk, & www. village, of the village' advertisers, generating a substantial £15000 Minimum Wage, obligatory employer pension facebook.com/PTGResidentsSociety is the philosophy and surplus which nearly covered all the above contributions and static Government funding. Communications Report: We have magazinThe for Penn & Tylers e approach we use to deficits in the year and the normal ongoing However,we continue to strive to offer an endevoured to keep residents informed on key OCT/NOVg 2019reen decide the content of issue 194 running costs of the Society. outstanding service. issues and we continue to work with our MPs, VV. We publish news Last summer, David Shakespeare awarded us Parish and District and County Councils. On of the activities of the Woodland a generous grant of £1575 which was used to each occasion we post papers with our views on various clubs and Our Autumn Winter work parties continue to keep the paths buy much needed storage units and self- the planning website and provide updates to societies, as well as Edition clear. Last year also focused on Farther Barn selection trolleys for the children that have Village Voice. A recent topic was the Residents ● Around The Villages ● Traditional Public Houses in P&TG details of upcoming ● Local History ● Schools & Sports News & Much More... Field, to allow new fencing to be erected so that helped them with their decision-making skills. Society response to parking restriction proposals events. We have a cattle could, after a number of years, once again We are applying for various grants again this along Elm Road. small team of graze and help to maintain it as a wildflower year to help us to replace any broken/worn In addition, in October, we planned and dedicated volunteers who collect copy, manage meadow. equipment both indoors and outdoors. offered a day of training on defibrillators and the advertsing, edit, design, produce as well as We welcomed a number of new volunteers to Our ever-popular annual quiz night at the CPR as there are now several of them around distribute VV 6 times a year to all houses in our working parties in2019 and are grateful for Penn & Tylers Green Sports & Social Club was the village. The event was oversubscribed due P&TG. We are grateful for the support of our their enthusiastic and ongoing support.. well attended and managed to raise over £800. to the significant interest and we were pleased to advertisers during 2019, and to the small army A massive thank you to our Parents' Committee work with Adam Poland from the HealthTec of volunteers who distribute VV in all weathers. who organised the event with our manager, Thames Valley, who trained almost 100 It is a true team effort! During 2019, we lost a Nicky Lovegrove. The money raised will help residents on what to do in an emergency. dear friend, and key contributor to VV - Pat to provide activities for the children. Dancer, whose regular column - Pats News & Planning Views are much missed and remembered with Online & Communications The Society continues to comment on a small great fondness. Facebook & Website: www.pennand number of local planning applications in the In 2020, we would like to encourage any and tylersgreen.org.uk, & www.facebook.com/ interests of the community at large. In doing so, all readers of VV to consider ways in which PTGResidentsSociety it readily acknowledges that there are often they might make a contribution to VV. We have seen an increase in visitors to both the mixed opinions on most development proposals. Society's website and Facebook pages. The It is recognised as a local stakeholder in the Finance The Common Wood ongoing planned road closures have been the application process and bases its comments on The Residents Society invested significantly in leaflet has been updated primary reason for Facebook visits and it has relevant planning arguments. Judgement on the Common Wood during 2019, which was a with the new walks, become the ‘go to’ information source. It is the merits of an application rests with the individual contributing factor to a small financial deficit, signposted in utility services for new houses which are local authority planning officer dealing with it, unlike recent years which have generated large collaboration with the causing the road closure problems. The or in some cases, the local authority’s planning surpluses. The Common Wood spend Woodland Trust, and new Residents Society have twice written to BCC committee. Planning decisions can affect all of comprised £4200 for some new fencing for supplies printed for the about the difficulties arising from closures of us in some way, whether it be development of a Farther Barn Field to allow grazing, £1300 for a dispenser at the main Hammersley Lane. neighbour property, a site near one’s home or, new leaflet for the wood, £600 for some entrance. A copy of the Facebook also promotes many of the Village on a much larger scale, an estate in close replacement/refurbished kit, and £1500 for leaflet can be found at events and we see residents posting information proximity. Here we have examples of the latter volunteer training. www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk about their organisations and businesses. with agreed plans for many new dwellings in In addition, The Village Preschool, generated Plans are in place to plant some additional During 2019 we started to promote the series Hazlemere, Holmer Green and of course a small deficit due to rolls falling. This is a trees in Farther Barn Field and to plant of history books on the Village and have Ashwells and the Gomm Valley. Additionally, cyclical issue expected to resolve itself in 2020 additional hedging along Common Wood Lane. established an online purchase facility which there is to be a new cemetery just off the Penn The RS received a donation of £1000 has taken over 20 orders. Road at Hazlemere. These developments will towards refurbishment of the signpost in the Pre-school The Village Voice, Village Pre-school & inevitably add to an increase in road traffic centre of the village and donated £2000 to It has been a busy and challenging year. The Common Wood links on the home page of the locally and put pressure on local services. They Tylers Green Middle School to fund benches financial difficulties facing all pre-schools and website are also an easy way to access are now reflected in Wycombe District 32 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 33 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 for their sensory garden. nurseries are regularly reported in the national information on these village activities. Please 'ByVillage the village, Voice for the Village Voice continues to be popular with news - the annual increase in rent, National visit www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk, & www. village, of the village' advertisers, generating a substantial £15000 Minimum Wage, obligatory employer pension facebook.com/PTGResidentsSociety is the philosophy and surplus which nearly covered all the above contributions and static Government funding. Communications Report: We have magazinThe for Penn & Tylers e approach we use to deficits in the year and the normal ongoing However,we continue to strive to offer an endevoured to keep residents informed on key OCT/NOVg 2019reen decide the content of issue 194 running costs of the Society. outstanding service. issues and we continue to work with our MPs, VV. We publish news Last summer, David Shakespeare awarded us Parish and District and County Councils. On of the activities of the Woodland a generous grant of £1575 which was used to each occasion we post papers with our views on various clubs and Our Autumn Winter work parties continue to keep the paths buy much needed storage units and self- the planning website and provide updates to societies, as well as Edition clear. Last year also focused on Farther Barn selection trolleys for the children that have Village Voice. A recent topic was the Residents ● Around The Villages ● Traditional Public Houses in P&TG details of upcoming ● Local History ● Schools & Sports News & Much More... Field, to allow new fencing to be erected so that helped them with their decision-making skills. Society response to parking restriction proposals events. We have a cattle could, after a number of years, once again We are applying for various grants again this along Elm Road. small team of graze and help to maintain it as a wildflower year to help us to replace any broken/worn In addition, in October, we planned and dedicated volunteers who collect copy, manage meadow. equipment both indoors and outdoors. offered a day of training on defibrillators and the advertsing, edit, design, produce as well as We welcomed a number of new volunteers to Our ever-popular annual quiz night at the CPR as there are now several of them around distribute VV 6 times a year to all houses in our working parties in2019 and are grateful for Penn & Tylers Green Sports & Social Club was the village. The event was oversubscribed due P&TG. We are grateful for the support of our their enthusiastic and ongoing support.. well attended and managed to raise over £800. to the significant interest and we were pleased to advertisers during 2019, and to the small army A massive thank you to our Parents' Committee work with Adam Poland from the HealthTec of volunteers who distribute VV in all weathers. who organised the event with our manager, Thames Valley, who trained almost 100 It is a true team effort! During 2019, we lost a Nicky Lovegrove. The money raised will help residents on what to do in an emergency. dear friend, and key contributor to VV - Pat to provide activities for the children. Dancer, whose regular column - Pats News & Planning Views are much missed and remembered with Online & Communications The Society continues to comment on a small great fondness. Facebook & Website: www.pennand number of local planning applications in the In 2020, we would like to encourage any and tylersgreen.org.uk, & www.facebook.com/ interests of the community at large. In doing so, all readers of VV to consider ways in which PTGResidentsSociety it readily acknowledges that there are often they might make a contribution to VV. We have seen an increase in visitors to both the mixed opinions on most development proposals. Society's website and Facebook pages. The It is recognised as a local stakeholder in the Finance The Common Wood ongoing planned road closures have been the application process and bases its comments on The Residents Society invested significantly in leaflet has been updated primary reason for Facebook visits and it has relevant planning arguments. Judgement on the Common Wood during 2019, which was a with the new walks, become the ‘go to’ information source. It is the merits of an application rests with the individual contributing factor to a small financial deficit, signposted in utility services for new houses which are local authority planning officer dealing with it, unlike recent years which have generated large collaboration with the causing the road closure problems. The or in some cases, the local authority’s planning surpluses. The Common Wood spend Woodland Trust, and new Residents Society have twice written to BCC committee. Planning decisions can affect all of comprised £4200 for some new fencing for supplies printed for the about the difficulties arising from closures of us in some way, whether it be development of a Farther Barn Field to allow grazing, £1300 for a dispenser at the main Hammersley Lane. neighbour property, a site near one’s home or, new leaflet for the wood, £600 for some entrance. A copy of the Facebook also promotes many of the Village on a much larger scale, an estate in close replacement/refurbished kit, and £1500 for leaflet can be found at events and we see residents posting information proximity. Here we have examples of the latter volunteer training. www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk about their organisations and businesses. with agreed plans for many new dwellings in In addition, The Village Preschool, generated Plans are in place to plant some additional During 2019 we started to promote the series Hazlemere, Holmer Green and of course a small deficit due to rolls falling. This is a trees in Farther Barn Field and to plant of history books on the Village and have Ashwells and the Gomm Valley. Additionally, cyclical issue expected to resolve itself in 2020 additional hedging along Common Wood Lane. established an online purchase facility which there is to be a new cemetery just off the Penn The RS received a donation of £1000 has taken over 20 orders. Road at Hazlemere. These developments will towards refurbishment of the signpost in the Pre-school The Village Voice, Village Pre-school & inevitably add to an increase in road traffic centre of the village and donated £2000 to It has been a busy and challenging year. The Common Wood links on the home page of the locally and put pressure on local services. They Tylers Green Middle School to fund benches financial difficulties facing all pre-schools and website are also an easy way to access are now reflected in Wycombe District 32 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 33 Village Voice April/May 2020 Council’s New Local Plan, accessible online, strongly for the observance of the Development adopted in August 2019 after nearly 6 years of Brief provision that it is not intended as a consultation during which the Society has through route and that its design should not endeavoured at considerable effort to represent encourage a significant increase in traffic past the interests of the residents of Penn & Tylers the Middle School. Green. Similarly, we have commented on consultations leading to the Draft New Local Plan for Chiltern and South Bucks Councils TheGomm outline Valley application for the main Gomm published in June 2019, which, after much Valley by Human+Nature, which was the delay, may soon be adopted. It is worth bearing subject of an interesting talk at last year's in mind that without Local Plans in place, local P&TGRS AGM, is still being considered by authorities run the risk of developers producing WDC. The proposed 'Spine Road', to be known speculative plans to build on greenfield sites due as Ashwells Lane, which will run from Gomm to criteria set down by the government in the Road all the way up the valley through the new National Planning Policy Framework. We have housing areas to join Cock Lane, will have a therefore to recognise the considerable fortitude frequently varying road width with many shown by our local councils in the difficult and provisions to slow down drivers and so reduce it perhaps unenviable task, of delivering plans being seen as a convenient relief route. They which will not satisfy everyone but which meet think it should be a very fine, quiet and safe the principal aim of providing more homes lane. demanded by government for a growing population. Both authorities should be providing Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) many more homes within their boundaries NAG is a multi-agency problem-solving group according to assessed needs, but due to the consisting of relevant partner agencies, key restraints caused by the Green Belt and the stakeholders and representatives off the local Are you loo king for AONB have been able to agree with Aylesbury community. The priorities for this group over exceptional childcare? District to take over thousands of these ‘unmet the past year have included: needs’ homes into its border. We await to see if Speeding: because of previous data gathered The House that Jack Built (Day Nursery) Limited has bee n awarded the new Unitary Authority brings any marked on this problem, a new Sentinel reader “Outstanding” at two of our nurseries and is amongst one of the few childcare changes to how planning matters are dealt with equipment system has been installed, initially as providers to have an Early Years Profess ional within its dedicated team of staff . locally. a trial in Tylers Green. This has proved With nurseries based in Naphill , Hazle mere, Flackwell Heath and Marlow Bott om. successful in the identification of problem drivers and forwarding data to the Thames WE STRIVE TO OFFER: Ashwells • A loving and homely environment • A str ong partnership with parents The outline planning application for the Valley Police (TVP). They will then send out where • Registered to care for children Ashwells site was agreed last May by WDC's letters to those identified as speeding. young babies fee l safe and secure aged from 0 to 5 years Planning Committee. The consent covers only Liaison with TVP: The NAG meeting has • High quality childcare providing • Open 51 wee ks of the year an environment Monday to Friday agreement to 109 dwellings of various sizes proved a very useful forum for discussion and of rich le arning experiences • Breakfast, lunch and with an additional southern access on to Cock feedback on a variety of topics of importance to • Care, comm itt ed and tea all provided and enthusiastic staff freshly prepared by our Lane. The masterplan for the internal design of local residents. These have included drug issues dedicated chefs the site, i.e. the roads and the position and types and parking problems. The TVP have utilised THE HOUSE THAT THE HOUSE THAT of houses, has not yet been defined and we have the information provided and taken forward RED KITES OVER THE MOON JACK BUILT Flackwell Heath - High Wycombe JACK BUILT Naphill - RAF High Wycombe Tel: 01628 532169 kept in touch with WDC's team. Their proposals action appropriately. Tel: 01494 564439 Hazle mere - High Wycombe Marlow Bott om - Marlow Tel:01494 713425 Tel: 01628 481601 will be open for comment in due course. The The setting up of a comprehensive website to FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE consent does allow widening to 6.5m along the provide a forum for information and a point for www .thtjb-daynursery.co.uk 150m length of the Ashwells land down as far resident concerns. as the mast and we have continued to argue 34 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 35 Village Voice April/May 2020 Council’s New Local Plan, accessible online, strongly for the observance of the Development adopted in August 2019 after nearly 6 years of Brief provision that it is not intended as a consultation during which the Society has through route and that its design should not endeavoured at considerable effort to represent encourage a significant increase in traffic past the interests of the residents of Penn & Tylers the Middle School. Green. Similarly, we have commented on consultations leading to the Draft New Local Plan for Chiltern and South Bucks Councils TheGomm outline Valley application for the main Gomm published in June 2019, which, after much Valley by Human+Nature, which was the delay, may soon be adopted. It is worth bearing subject of an interesting talk at last year's in mind that without Local Plans in place, local P&TGRS AGM, is still being considered by authorities run the risk of developers producing WDC. The proposed 'Spine Road', to be known speculative plans to build on greenfield sites due as Ashwells Lane, which will run from Gomm to criteria set down by the government in the Road all the way up the valley through the new National Planning Policy Framework. We have housing areas to join Cock Lane, will have a therefore to recognise the considerable fortitude frequently varying road width with many shown by our local councils in the difficult and provisions to slow down drivers and so reduce it perhaps unenviable task, of delivering plans being seen as a convenient relief route. They which will not satisfy everyone but which meet think it should be a very fine, quiet and safe the principal aim of providing more homes lane. demanded by government for a growing population. Both authorities should be providing Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) many more homes within their boundaries NAG is a multi-agency problem-solving group according to assessed needs, but due to the consisting of relevant partner agencies, key restraints caused by the Green Belt and the stakeholders and representatives off the local AONB have been able to agree with Aylesbury community. The priorities for this group over District to take over thousands of these ‘unmet the past year have included: needs’ homes into its border. We await to see if Speeding: because of previous data gathered the new Unitary Authority brings any marked on this problem, a new Sentinel reader changes to how planning matters are dealt with equipment system has been installed, initially as locally. a trial in Tylers Green. This has proved successful in the identification of problem Ashwells drivers and forwarding data to the Thames The outline planning application for the Valley Police (TVP). They will then send out Ashwells site was agreed last May by WDC's letters to those identified as speeding. Planning Committee. The consent covers only Liaison with TVP: The NAG meeting has agreement to 109 dwellings of various sizes proved a very useful forum for discussion and with an additional southern access on to Cock feedback on a variety of topics of importance to Lane. The masterplan for the internal design of local residents. These have included drug issues the site, i.e. the roads and the position and types and parking problems. The TVP have utilised of houses, has not yet been defined and we have the information provided and taken forward kept in touch with WDC's team. Their proposals action appropriately. will be open for comment in due course. The The setting up of a comprehensive website to consent does allow widening to 6.5m along the provide a forum for information and a point for 150m length of the Ashwells land down as far resident concerns. as the mast and we have continued to argue www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 35 Village Voice April/May 2020 Just the thought of doing all of that is making me feel exhausted but I’m sure I would have recovered quickly from that work out if I’d got CLUBS to try their armpit fudge, which isn’t as & SOCIETIES worrying as it sounds! The theory goes that you pop all the ingredients to make fudge in a zip lock bag and squelch it together under your HelloGuiding VV readers! in P&TG How quickly the months are armpit, but the girls found it easier to just use passing by already. The Guides have literally their hands and were pleasantly surprised with leapt into 2020 with a keep fit evening. They the results. worked around the hut in pairs doing different A Penny Hike saw the Guides heading exercises with the equipment required; sit-ups, outside to have their route decided at each star jumps, balancing books and bean bags on junction by the toss of a coin, they ended up on their heads, hoola-hooping, using stretch bands the common, squelching through mud and and catching bean bags were just some of the going around in circles! More recently the girls exercises they did to work on hand/eye have enjoyed a relaxed evening indoors, doing co-ordination, stamina, posture and endurance! Spring crafts. They re-purposed old used tin cans to turn them into attractive bulb planters and then by doing macramé, which uses a knotting technique to create a form of textile, they created a holder for the tin to hang in. The girls also did some pebble painting and made some Shrinkies. Over at the 1st Brownies we completed our Tool School, the girls got to handle a number of different tools typically used for most DIY projects around the house, learning their names, what they were used for and ended the evening PENN getting a chance to practice with a screwdriver and hammer, getting screws and nails into pieces of wood. There were smiles all round especially when the Brownies overcame any anxiety they had of the hammer and realised LANDSCAPES that they could do it all by themselves! More recently we have been doing activities including THE GARDEN CRAFTSMEN a paper plate bat games night and a “flipping” good pancake evening (even if we do say so PHONE: 01494 813225 ourselves). Our Kingswood Trefoil Guild have celebrated EMAIL: [email protected] their 20th Birthday at their Annual Review. A beautiful cake was baked by a Trefoil member and cut by several of the founder members. The FOR ALL YOUR GARDEN REQUIREMENTS ladies also had a short ceremony to celebrate Thinking Day where all members of Girlguiding and Trefoil think of all our friends around the world. Sian, a Young Leader from 36 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 37 Village Voice April/May 2020 Just the thought of doing all of that is making me feel exhausted but I’m sure I would have recovered quickly from that work out if I’d got CLUBS to try their armpit fudge, which isn’t as & SOCIETIES worrying as it sounds! The theory goes that you pop all the ingredients to make fudge in a zip lock bag and squelch it together under your HelloGuiding VV readers! in P&TG How quickly the months are armpit, but the girls found it easier to just use passing by already. The Guides have literally their hands and were pleasantly surprised with leapt into 2020 with a keep fit evening. They the results. worked around the hut in pairs doing different A Penny Hike saw the Guides heading exercises with the equipment required; sit-ups, outside to have their route decided at each star jumps, balancing books and bean bags on junction by the toss of a coin, they ended up on their heads, hoola-hooping, using stretch bands the common, squelching through mud and and catching bean bags were just some of the going around in circles! More recently the girls exercises they did to work on hand/eye have enjoyed a relaxed evening indoors, doing co-ordination, stamina, posture and endurance! Spring crafts. They re-purposed old used tin cans to turn them into attractive bulb planters and then by doing macramé, which uses a knotting technique to create a form of textile, they created a holder for the tin to hang in. The girls also did some pebble painting and made some Shrinkies. Over at the 1st Brownies we completed our Tool School, the girls got to handle a number of different tools typically used for most DIY projects around the house, learning their names, what they were used for and ended the evening PENN getting a chance to practice with a screwdriver and hammer, getting screws and nails into pieces of wood. There were smiles all round especially when the Brownies overcame any anxiety they had of the hammer and realised LANDSCAPES that they could do it all by themselves! More recently we have been doing activities including THE GARDEN CRAFTSMEN a paper plate bat games night and a “flipping” good pancake evening (even if we do say so PHONE: 01494 813225 ourselves). Our Kingswood Trefoil Guild have celebrated EMAIL: [email protected] their 20th Birthday at their Annual Review. A beautiful cake was baked by a Trefoil member and cut by several of the founder members. The FOR ALL YOUR GARDEN REQUIREMENTS ladies also had a short ceremony to celebrate Thinking Day where all members of Girlguiding and Trefoil think of all our friends around the world. Sian, a Young Leader from 36 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 37 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 this happen, we must be able to find some more come along. support. We know there are people out there in In addition to our monthly meeting we also Penn & Tylers Green and beyond who could have flourishing sub groups for knitting & join our Group. Perhaps you and a friend could nattering, book club and chomp & chattering volunteer as a job share. Helper or leader, which are wonderful opportunities to build new experienced or just keen and willing to lend a friendships.Lydia Andrews 812699, hand. Closure would be so cruel, the young [email protected], boys and girls in the village deserve the chance www.pennandtylersgreeneveningwi.weebly.com to discover the fun and learning that is all part of being a Beaver. Please contact us before it’s too Morning WI late, this is more than just a cry for help. We had a magical morning at our February Jumble Sale: It’s time for our Spring Jumble meeting and also ran a Bring and Buy Sale Sale on Saturday 25th April at the Village Hall. which was most successful. Our morning was Doors open at 12.30 P.M. (open Friday evening very busy with all this plus our coffee and for receiving jumble 6.00 to 9.00). If you have business but enjoyed by our members. any spare time Friday or Saturday we would In April, we were due to have a talk about love to see you. Hope to see all our regular Hughenden in Wartime. We hope to follow this jumblers plus new shoppers as well. Our up with a visit later on. jumbles always have a good and varied One of our members has found the banner selection of items for sale. Come along and find that belonged to the long defunct P&TG out for yourself. Paul Wicks, 07879668244, ptgscouts. Afternoon WI. We decided it would be good to org.uk take it out of 'mothballs' and give it a new life, so we are looking forward to seeing the Evening WI A trip to the Mill at Sonning for lunch and the wonderful work that will have gone into the A big thank you to everyone who turned out to show “Singing in the Rain” was a huge success making of it. our Craft Fair in early March. We were a little and really brightened up the dull January days. Should you like to join in our activities, we Loudwater, gave a very interesting talk about worried that none of you would come with The We were glad that we didn’t have front row meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month at the her visit to Holland for a Jamboree last year Virus apparently causing many shops and high tickets as they did indeed sing in the rain and the P&TG Sports and Social Club in Elm Road at where she met Guides and Scouts from all over streets to be deserted. So thank you again and front row were provided with plastic sheeting! 10am for 10.15am. However, our meetings are the world. She is hoping to meet up with all her we hope that you found something of interest We are now well into 2020 and had planned a currently “on hold” so if you are interested, we new friends in Canada this year. Girlguiding and enjoyed some home made cake and tea. varied programme. In April meeting we had suggest you phone beforehand to check that we continues to offer wonderful opportunities for Our first couple of meetings have been hoped to hear about Highwaymen and Women are meeting. We look forward to seeing you. girls and women in our community, whether it hilarious in very different ways. A beetle drive but that is now cancelled. We have postponed a Sheila Sparrow 812163 is the chance to see new places around the in January caused much hilarity and dice rattling wine and cheese tasting for later in the year. In world and meet new people, to helping our whilst the subject of lace history does not May the subject of our talk is intended to be The Village Care younger members access these exciting immediately sound amusing. However, our Accidental Actor. In view of the current Pandemic, Penn & Tylers adventures through volunteering. We continue speaker was an ex PE teacher in her 80s who All these activities are now in question and Green Village Care are postponing the date of to look for adult volunteers in the community had lost none of her voice or charm and within we suggest that you check our website (see Open Gardens this year to Sunday 13th and welcome any interest. Head to girlguiding. minutes of her starting to organise us and the below) to check what is on. Further outings September from 1.30-5.30pm. co.uk and click on the link Get Involved! hall, she had us quietly shaking with laughter. including a tour of Penn House and a trip to the We very much hope to be in a position by Katie Barnes The mirth became greater as we were invited to Hearing Dogs centre in Saunderton are planned then to still bring a joyful sense of community try her historic lace items on. One of us wore but again, do see our website. to our lovely quintessential English village. P&TG Scouts & Beavers something round our neck that should have been We meet in the Village Hall on the 2nd Having such a positive community event to look Really bad news: one of our Beaver colonies is on our head and another wore an item back to Thursday of every month (except August) forward to is important to help us all through in danger of extinction! It has been on the front so we were soon put right! It was certainly usually 7:45pm fpr 8pm and are always very such difficult times. Stay safe in the meantime. endangered list for a while now. We can’t let a lively evening as we modelled various items! happy to welcome visitors if you would like to Peter Sachs (257823) 38 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 39 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 this happen, we must be able to find some more come along. support. We know there are people out there in In addition to our monthly meeting we also Penn & Tylers Green and beyond who could have flourishing sub groups for knitting & join our Group. Perhaps you and a friend could nattering, book club and chomp & chattering volunteer as a job share. Helper or leader, which are wonderful opportunities to build new experienced or just keen and willing to lend a friendships.Lydia Andrews 812699, hand. Closure would be so cruel, the young [email protected], boys and girls in the village deserve the chance www.pennandtylersgreeneveningwi.weebly.com to discover the fun and learning that is all part of being a Beaver. Please contact us before it’s too Morning WI late, this is more than just a cry for help. We had a magical morning at our February Jumble Sale: It’s time for our Spring Jumble meeting and also ran a Bring and Buy Sale Sale on Saturday 25th April at the Village Hall. which was most successful. Our morning was Doors open at 12.30 P.M. (open Friday evening very busy with all this plus our coffee and for receiving jumble 6.00 to 9.00). If you have business but enjoyed by our members. any spare time Friday or Saturday we would In April, we were due to have a talk about love to see you. Hope to see all our regular Hughenden in Wartime. We hope to follow this jumblers plus new shoppers as well. Our up with a visit later on. jumbles always have a good and varied One of our members has found the banner selection of items for sale. Come along and find that belonged to the long defunct P&TG out for yourself. Paul Wicks, 07879668244, ptgscouts. Afternoon WI. We decided it would be good to org.uk take it out of 'mothballs' and give it a new life, so we are looking forward to seeing the Evening WI A trip to the Mill at Sonning for lunch and the wonderful work that will have gone into the A big thank you to everyone who turned out to show “Singing in the Rain” was a huge success making of it. our Craft Fair in early March. We were a little and really brightened up the dull January days. Should you like to join in our activities, we Loudwater, gave a very interesting talk about worried that none of you would come with The We were glad that we didn’t have front row meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month at the her visit to Holland for a Jamboree last year Virus apparently causing many shops and high tickets as they did indeed sing in the rain and the P&TG Sports and Social Club in Elm Road at where she met Guides and Scouts from all over streets to be deserted. So thank you again and front row were provided with plastic sheeting! 10am for 10.15am. However, our meetings are the world. She is hoping to meet up with all her we hope that you found something of interest We are now well into 2020 and had planned a currently “on hold” so if you are interested, we new friends in Canada this year. Girlguiding and enjoyed some home made cake and tea. varied programme. In April meeting we had suggest you phone beforehand to check that we continues to offer wonderful opportunities for Our first couple of meetings have been hoped to hear about Highwaymen and Women are meeting. We look forward to seeing you. girls and women in our community, whether it hilarious in very different ways. A beetle drive but that is now cancelled. We have postponed a Sheila Sparrow 812163 is the chance to see new places around the in January caused much hilarity and dice rattling wine and cheese tasting for later in the year. In world and meet new people, to helping our whilst the subject of lace history does not May the subject of our talk is intended to be The Village Care younger members access these exciting immediately sound amusing. However, our Accidental Actor. In view of the current Pandemic, Penn & Tylers adventures through volunteering. We continue speaker was an ex PE teacher in her 80s who All these activities are now in question and Green Village Care are postponing the date of to look for adult volunteers in the community had lost none of her voice or charm and within we suggest that you check our website (see Open Gardens this year to Sunday 13th and welcome any interest. Head to girlguiding. minutes of her starting to organise us and the below) to check what is on. Further outings September from 1.30-5.30pm. co.uk and click on the link Get Involved! hall, she had us quietly shaking with laughter. including a tour of Penn House and a trip to the We very much hope to be in a position by Katie Barnes The mirth became greater as we were invited to Hearing Dogs centre in Saunderton are planned then to still bring a joyful sense of community try her historic lace items on. One of us wore but again, do see our website. to our lovely quintessential English village. P&TG Scouts & Beavers something round our neck that should have been We meet in the Village Hall on the 2nd Having such a positive community event to look Really bad news: one of our Beaver colonies is on our head and another wore an item back to Thursday of every month (except August) forward to is important to help us all through in danger of extinction! It has been on the front so we were soon put right! It was certainly usually 7:45pm fpr 8pm and are always very such difficult times. Stay safe in the meantime. endangered list for a while now. We can’t let a lively evening as we modelled various items! happy to welcome visitors if you would like to Peter Sachs (257823) 38 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 39

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43 Local defibrillator project For more information on defibrillators together with a short video on how to use one please see: www.scas.nhs.uk Listed below are the installations within the very local area. (Visit www.heartsafe.org.uk for a complete list.) All the 24 hour installations are registered with South Central Ambulance – always dial 999 in an emergency.

Defibrillators with 24 hour availability in Penn & Tylers Green Penn & Tylers Green Sports & Social Club, Elm Road, HP10 8LF Tylers Green Village Hall, Church Road, HP10 8LN Tylers Green Middle School, Cock Lane, HP10 8DS Defibrillators with limited hours availability in Penn & Tylers Green Penn Surgery, Elm Road, HP10 8LQ Weekdays 08.30-18.30 Defibrillators with 24 hour availability nearby Esso Service Station, Hazlemere Crossroads, HP15 7HN

Hazlemere Community Centre, Rose Ave, HP15 7UB

tk plumbing and electrics Mick Smith Carpets Quality Floor Coverings Tom Kehoe

 For all your plumbing and electrical needs ♦ Carpet ♦ Local  City & Guilds qualified ♦ Vinyl ♦ Independent  No job too small ♦ Laminate ♦ Free estimates  All work guaranteed Luxury vinyl tile Free advice  References can be supplied on request ♦ ♦ ♦ Karndean ♦ Home samples Contact Tom on: phone: 01494 580518 / mob: 07716 440916 Quality floor coverings, from trusted names, all supplied and expertly fitted. Email: [email protected] By your local flooring specialist, to suit all requirements, tastes and budgets.

For more info and references visit: micksmithcarpets.com 01494 528847 Serving homes in the area for 30 years

MIKE’s Emma’s Walkies Garden Services Emma Newth-West Dog Walker/Dog Sitter

- Distinction in Pet First Aid - Fully insured -Excellent references available on request - Experience with dogs of all breeds, for backgrounds and sizes all you - Above all... a genuine love for all dogs Land r G sc ardeni apin ng and 07710 587419 g ne eds [email protected] • Garden Tidy Ups and Renovation • Garden Ponds C. D. JONES ELECTRICAL • Tree Surgery 07930 371143 • Fencing • Pruning  Serving the Penn area for over 17 years • Hedge Cutting  Bespoke domestic electrician Fast, friendly service by local company with over 15 years experience  Free quotations  Fully qualified Tel: 01494 817 441 Mob: 07734 297 136 [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.cdjoneselectrical.co.uk

F. A. MAGEE & CO (Est. 1942) CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Offices in Hayes, Middlesex and Tylers Green, Buckinghamshire We offer a comprehensive range of professional services for the new, expanding and established business. • Accounts preparation •Audit services •Tax planning & advice including self assessment • Book keeping & salaries •Budgets & business plan preparation • Company secretarial •Management consultancy For a personal, friendly and efficient service contact Andrew Davies or Wendy Davies Telephone 01494 447181 or 0208 573 3939 Partners: A. Davies, W.S. Davies Manager: P. Dean

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Call or email Nigel Barrett 01494 813464 07971 570124 [email protected]

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Providing a range of services: • Extensions • PaintingMike and MorleyDecorating • BrickwHandymanork Services • Patios and Driveways 01494 07876 816638 ALL GENERAL544302 BUILDING WORK UNDERTAKEN For free advice and estimates, please contact: Tel: 01494 816201 • Mobile: 07956 131543 • email: [email protected]

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For your home DAD &relaxation LAD … for pregnant£2.00 and DISCOUNT post natal women. d Airport Transfers maintenance For your home 24 KINGS RIDE, TYLERS GREEN No previous experience necessary. d Train Stations needs maintenance needs 01494 818184 Classes each Monday at: d Executive Business Travel 891 London Road, High Wycombe The Stables Hall, Cedar Barn, Barn Lane, Hazlemere, HP15 7DW Conference Meetings 01494 472572 To check suitability please contact Victoria d Providing a range of services: [email protected] / 07984 492 094 d London Theatres 32 Gregories Road, Beaconsﬁeld • Extensions 01494 685000 • PaintingMike and MorleyDecorating d Luxury 7 Seater Vehicle • BrickwHandymanork Services Company Accounts Welcome d • Traditional and • Patios and Driveways 01494 07876 Professional and Reliable Door Alternative Funerals 816638 ALL GENERAL544302 BUILDING WORK UNDERTAKEN to Door Service • 24 Hour Attendance For free advice and estimates, please contact: • Pre-Payment Plan Tel: 01494 816201 • Mobile: 07956 131543 • email: [email protected] Mob: 07973 137446 Tel: 01494 715915

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Tree Maintenance & Removal Pruning - Shaping - Stump Removal 01494 444843 or Fully Qualified & Insured 07968577225 Fencing & Logs E: [email protected] Free Advice and Quotes W: www.garagedoordoctorbucks.co.uk 01494 815444 [email protected] www.penntreeservices.co.uk

CORONAVIRUS As we think of all those adversely affected in the D E C L U T T E R I N G O R current crisis, and of the hard- O R G A N I S I N G Y O U R pressed Health Service H O M E ? workers, this is also a time for the nation to humble itself before the Lord Jesus Christ, He who healed the sick and who has power over all disease. Let us seek Him in earnest prayer to deliver us. Penn Free Methodist Church www.realchristianity.org

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CORONAVIRUS SHARLEY Hire Cedar Barn or The Stables As we think of all those DOMESTICS Hazlemere adversely affected in the D E C L U T T E R I N G O R BUILT-IN APPLIANCE SPECIALIST Converted Barn and Newly Reburbished The Stables current crisis, and of the hard- O R G A N I S I N G Y O U R pressed Health Service SERVICE REPAIRS Each room holds 60 people H O M E ? workers, this is also a time for Suitable for meetings, parties and fitness groups etc the nation to humble itself Cost: £18 per hour Cedar Barn Cost: £12 per hour The Stables before the Lord Jesus Christ, He who healed the sick and MACHINES who has power over all disease. Let us seek Him in FREEZERS earnest prayer to deliver us.

Penn Free Tel: 01494 485926 Please call Rachel on 01494 715548 Methodist Church Fax: 01494 484140 or email [email protected] www.realchristianity.org www.sharleydomestics.com or visit Hazlemere Parish Council website

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52 STEVE’S FURNITURE REPAIRS For all types of furniture repairs large or small give me a call! Chair doctor for loose joints Re-upholstery including loose seat pads, Polishing For a fast and reliable service call Steve on 01494 816115

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Free Estimates All aspects of Carpentry undertaken. Andrew Diplock 25 The Chase Tylers Green HP10 8BB Tel Number: (Beaconsfield) 01494 670785 [email protected] 07720 399703 Mobile: 07773 284844

MIKE MCLEOD WINDOW CLEANER 6 Coppice Farm Rd., Tylers Green, High Wycombe, Bucks. HP10 8AL Window and Conservatory cleaning, Gutter clearing & cleaning of Fascias and Barge Boards Fully insured Free Estimates For further details tel: 01494 815456 or 07791 273789

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Gardening/Landscaping/Plants HIGH WYCOMBE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE A Ellis Tree Surgeon Page 24 Strings Four Seasons Garden Services Page 54 For retired and over 50-year olds ... of Penn INDEX Keith's Maintenance Page 43 Please come and make some new friends! Full range of stringed instruments Mike's Garden Services Page 45 and bows Penn Landscapes Page 30 Meetings every4th Thursday of the month OF ADVERTISERS Penn Tree Services Page 48 (except Dec / Aug) with a speaker, tea and biscuits Sheet music, strings, cases, Pukka Planting Services Page 49 2pm at St. Francis Assisi Church, Amersham Rd, accessoriesand gifts Tylers Green Garden Maintenance Page 53 Classical and acoustic guitars Health & Lifestyle High Wycombe Alison Haircare Page 54 Instrument rental/purchase scheme Page Numbers for Village Voice All new members and visitors WELCOME Ann Fry Personal Trainer Page 52 Workshop facility Advertisers... 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HP1O 8LB Tel: 01494 819966 FM Mortgages Page 18 Jane Symington Chiropody Page 38 KMB Accountancy Page 28 Lorraine's Professional Skin Therapy Page 30 Philip Harper Financial Management Page 59 Shakespeare Pilates Page 52 Architects and Designers Signature Nails Page 20 Applewoods Surveying Page 42 The Beauty Retreat Page 40 Penn Church Hall Carrie Peck Design Page 18 Victoria Green You & Yoga Page 46 opposite the church Penn Planning Page 50 Wendy Kepetzis Opticians Page 42 Bathrooms and Kitchens Your Doctor Page 34 Autumnwood Page 12 Interior Design/Decorating Services Available for lettings Building and Property Jon Woodbridge Page 53 Main hall seats 70 All Locks Page 14 Mella Design Ltd Page 50 Amersham Aerial Fix Page 42 N Gillie Decorating Services Page 40 Additional room & kitchen Chalker Property Maintenance Page 46 Paul Smith Decor Page 50 Rates on application Don The Handyman Page 51 Ruffles Curtains and Blinds Page 52 Dulieu Builders Page 51 Shakespeare Decorating Page 50 Garage Door Doctor Page 48 Plumbing & Heating Gail Wellings Hi Garage Doors Page 50 Chiltern Heating & Gas Page 16 Mick Smith Carpets Page 44 Dave Beck Plumber Page 40 01494 813254 Mike McLeod Window Cleaning Page 53 Jackson Plumbing Page 54 Mike Morley Handyman Page 46 N J Barrett Plumbing Page 46 Penn Design Page 45 Penn Heating Page 12 Sharley Domestics Page 49 Steve Hobson Plumbing & Heating Page 52 TJ Windows Page 43 TK Plumbing & Electrics Page 45 Carpentry Retail Mulberry Flooring QUALITY HAIRDRESSING Carpentry & Joinery Services Page 53 Fields Domestic Appliances Page 14 Specialists in bespoke hardwood floors Steve's Furniture Repairs Page 53 Strings Page 54 Church Schools & Tuition IN YOUR OWN HOME Penn Free Methodist Church Page 48 Avril Stuart Tuition Page 52 Cleaning & Ironing French Tuition Page 54 Specialists in installation and A & T Cleaning Page 30 Pauline Quirke Academy Page 4 refurbishment of all types of Alan's Clean Ovens Page 47 Ros Kendrick English/Literacy Tutor Page 50 ALISON Ovenproud Page 51 Services wooden floors Red Kite Carpet Cleaning Page 49 Alexa Beck Photography Page 44 Freelance Hairdresser Procare Carpet Cleaning Sevices Page 50 Cedar Barn & The Stables Page 49 Computer Services Companion Care Page 59 T: 01494 535348 M: 07786 652271 Ingenuity IT Page 41 Crossroads Vet Page 24 John Phillips Page 41 Emma's Walkies Page 44 E: [email protected] 07980 469208 Phil Jones PC Repair Page 42 Gill Morris Page 16 Education & Childcare Joy Whittaker Crotchet & Sew Page 45 Little Oaks Page 18 Lewis Nelson Counselling Page 20 Little Oaks Creche Page 16 Loraine Grainger-Dogwalkies Page 45 The House that Jack Built Page 34 Organise and Shine Page 48 FRENCH TUITION The Village Pre-School Page 20 Penn Church Hall Page 54 Jackson Electricians The Phone Man Page 54 Plumbing & Heating Children and Adults Alex Burridge Electrical Page 18 Turville Printing Services Page 40 187566 Oakfield Electrical Page 53 Vintage Teaware Hire Page 53 For all your plumbing and heating Beginners, GCSE, A level R O'Donoghugh Electrician Page 53 Your Eco Page 52 Estate Agents Taxi Services requirements. and conversation Ford and Partners Page 2 Impact Private Hire Page 46 JNP Page 42 Penn Private Hire Page 20 • Installation • Services • Repair Tim Russ Page 10 Vehicle Sales, Servicing & Repairs For further details telephone Flooring ASM Auto Recycling Page 40 • 24 hour emergency call-out Hayes Flooring Page 43 Paul Russell's Garage Page 42 Fabienne Mulberry Flooring Page 54 Penn Motor Company Page 60 Tel: 01494 813917 Trio Flooring Page 24 Prestwood Motors Page 26 01494 815749 Funeral Services Mobile: 07799 850110 Beacon Funeral Services Page 43 Arnold Funeral Service Page 47 Email [email protected] 54 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 55 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 www.chilternsociety.org.uk ● Beaconsfield [email protected] ● TG First School PTA ● Village Blog; www.pennandtylersgreen.com ● Hazlemere [email protected] Marianne Whitlock 07789 435656 VILLAGE ● Village Care; 816909 (Mon to Fri, 10am-1pm) ● High Wycombe [email protected] ● Tylers Green Middle School ● Village Show Committee Head Mrs Vanessa Pinkney 812465 CONTACTS Helen Whiting 816354/[email protected] political groups www.tylersgreenmiddle.bucks.sch.uk ● Women’s Institute (morning) ● Conservative Association Katrina Wood, ● TGMS Friends Association Sheila Sparrow 812163 814848, katrina.conservatives4tgandl@ Harriet Woolley 815474 Need a number or an ● Women’s Institute (Evening) gmail.com e-mail address? Hilary Forbes 816438 ● Labour Party Mrs Jan Kaye, 813591 schools (other local) www.bucksfwi.org.uk/pandtgevening www.labour.co.uk ● Manor Farm Infants School For changes or additions to these pages; ● Woodrow High House 433531 ● Liberal Democrats Ian Forbes, 816438 Head teacher Mrs Paula Coppins 814281 e-mail; [email protected]. www.libdems.org.uk ● Manor Farm Community Junior School churches ● UK Independence Party www.ukip.co.uk Head Andrew Sierant 814622 Animal Welfare ● Holy Trinity & St Margaret’s Churches ● Manor Farm Preschool and Nursery ● Cats Protection 448849 rev Mike Bisset (t) 816700 / police Mrs Wendy Terry 816730 ● Lost Cats 676702 / www.buckscats.org.uk (e) [email protected] ● Thames Valley (non-Emergency) 101 ● Sir William Ramsay School ● RSPCA (South Bucks) 0300 1234 999 revd Derrick Carr (t) 442212 ● Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 Head Mrs Christine McLintock (24-hour) www.southbucksrspca.org.uk (e) [email protected] ● Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) 815211 www.swr.bucks.sch.uk ● Stokenchurch Dog Rescue 482695 / Gail Wellings (Parish Office): (t) 813254 Suzanne Ludgate www.stokenchurchdogrescue.co.uk (e) [email protected] ● Neighbourhood Police Community Officer sports & youth groups ● The Bat Conservation Trust www.bats.org. www.holytrinityandstmargarets.co.uk PCSO Sam Jackson ● Cricket Club Nick Barber 07714720280 uk / www.northbucksbatgroup.org.uk ● Penn Free Methodist Church www.ptgcc.co.uk rev Peter Simpson 816202/812829 pre-schools ● CC Colts [email protected] charities/social & conservation [email protected] / www.realchristianity.org ● Little Oaks Nurseries ruthie Pocock 07881 ● Chiltern Music Academy www. ● Bridge Club [email protected], ● TG Methodist Church rev. Vida Foday 737149 or [email protected] chilternmusicacademy.org Karen Taylor 816450 & Val Macdiarmid 812528 During opening hours: Little Oaks Crèche ● Football Club Tony Hurst 815839, ● Careers Springboard health & Welfare 07437689158, Little Oaks 1 816987, Little Oaks [email protected], www.careersspringboard.info ● Chiltern Prostate Cancer Support Group 2 815413, Little Oaks Beaconsfield 671228 www.penntylersgreenfc.co.uk ● Chiltern Samaritans (24 hours) 432000 Alan rowe 814324 ● Parent & Toddler Group Zoe Woods 761559 ● Guides & Brownies Sue Stephens 817436 www.samaritans.org.uk ● Dentists www.nhsdentistlocator.co.uk ● P&TGRS Village Preschool Nicky Lovegrove ● Hazlemere Youth Club Nikki Arnold 813364 ● Citizen’s Advice Bureau 0844 245 1289 ● Drug Abuse Confidential help, advice & 817093 / [email protected] ● High Wycombe Croquet Club www.citizensadvice.org.uk support 473666 858202 / www.hwcroquetclub.com ● Common Wood www.commonwoodpenn.co.uk ● Emotions Anonymous Kevin 814702 public halls ● Loudwater Bowls Club Alan Tombs 481855 ● Curry Club Stewart Stone 07786 194642 ● High Wycombe General Hospital 526161 ● Penn Church Hall Gail Wellings 813254 or ● Penn Pond Waders Golf Society ● Independent Village Website ● Stoke Mandeville Hospital 01296 315000 [email protected] Bob Teuton 715915 www.pennandtylersgreen.co.uk ● Highfield Surgery (Hazlemere) 813396 ● St Margaret’s Parish Rooms ● Penn Pond Ladies Golf Society ● NSPCC Helpline 0808 800 5000 www.highfieldsurgeryhazlemere.co.uk Mrs Mary Coker 812162 Jane Frizoni 812986 ● NSPCC Childline 0800 1111 Confidential ● NHS (t) 111 / www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk ● Tylers Green Methodist Church Hall ● Pennants Badminton Club (Tylers Green line for young people /children to seek help ● Overeaters Anonymous Juliet 07808403602 Mrs G Nelson 815631 Village Hall) John Youers 711647 ● Penn & Tylers Green Residents Society ● Penn Surgery 817144 / Simpson Centre ● Tylers Green Village Hall 819990 / Tina ● Scouts Adrian & Heather Cooper 816505 & Chairman - Miles Green 815589 671571 / www.thesimpsoncentre.com Brown / [email protected] Paul Wicks 815715, pennandtgscouts@ www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.tylersgreenvillagehall.co.uk gmail.com ● Royal British Legion Colin Doyle 816484 Libraries ● Seido Karate Stuart Wilson 717400 ● The Campaign to Protect Rural England ● All Bucks Libraries - 0845 230 3232 schools in p&tg ● Sports & Social Club Neil James 07929157075 (CPRE) Bucks; www.cprebucks.org.uk www.buckscc.gov.uk/leisure-and- ● Tylers Green First School Head Mrs Jude ● Table Tennis 815180 ● The Chiltern Society culture/libraries Talbot 813201 www.tylersgreenfirst.co.uk ● Tennis Club 812929 / www.penntennis.net 56 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 57 Village Voice April/May 2020 Village Voice April/May 2020 www.chilternsociety.org.uk ● Beaconsfield [email protected] ● TG First School PTA ● Village Blog; www.pennandtylersgreen.com ● Hazlemere [email protected] Marianne Whitlock 07789 435656 VILLAGE ● Village Care; 816909 (Mon to Fri, 10am-1pm) ● High Wycombe [email protected] ● Tylers Green Middle School ● Village Show Committee Head Mrs Vanessa Pinkney 812465 CONTACTS Helen Whiting 816354/[email protected] political groups www.tylersgreenmiddle.bucks.sch.uk ● Women’s Institute (morning) ● Conservative Association Katrina Wood, ● TGMS Friends Association Sheila Sparrow 812163 814848, katrina.conservatives4tgandl@ Harriet Woolley 815474 Need a number or an ● Women’s Institute (Evening) gmail.com e-mail address? Hilary Forbes 816438 ● Labour Party Mrs Jan Kaye, 813591 schools (other local) www.bucksfwi.org.uk/pandtgevening www.labour.co.uk ● Manor Farm Infants School For changes or additions to these pages; ● Woodrow High House 433531 ● Liberal Democrats Ian Forbes, 816438 Head teacher Mrs Paula Coppins 814281 e-mail; [email protected]. www.libdems.org.uk ● Manor Farm Community Junior School churches ● UK Independence Party www.ukip.co.uk Head Andrew Sierant 814622 Animal Welfare ● Holy Trinity & St Margaret’s Churches ● Manor Farm Preschool and Nursery ● Cats Protection 448849 rev Mike Bisset (t) 816700 / police Mrs Wendy Terry 816730 ● Lost Cats 676702 / www.buckscats.org.uk (e) [email protected] ● Thames Valley (non-Emergency) 101 ● Sir William Ramsay School ● RSPCA (South Bucks) 0300 1234 999 revd Derrick Carr (t) 442212 ● Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 Head Mrs Christine McLintock (24-hour) www.southbucksrspca.org.uk (e) [email protected] ● Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) 815211 www.swr.bucks.sch.uk ● Stokenchurch Dog Rescue 482695 / Gail Wellings (Parish Office): (t) 813254 Suzanne Ludgate www.stokenchurchdogrescue.co.uk (e) [email protected] ● Neighbourhood Police Community Officer sports & youth groups ● The Bat Conservation Trust www.bats.org. www.holytrinityandstmargarets.co.uk PCSO Sam Jackson ● Cricket Club Nick Barber 07714720280 uk / www.northbucksbatgroup.org.uk ● Penn Free Methodist Church www.ptgcc.co.uk rev Peter Simpson 816202/812829 pre-schools ● CC Colts [email protected] charities/social & conservation [email protected] / www.realchristianity.org ● Little Oaks Nurseries ruthie Pocock 07881 ● Chiltern Music Academy www. ● Bridge Club [email protected], ● TG Methodist Church rev. Vida Foday 737149 or [email protected] chilternmusicacademy.org Karen Taylor 816450 & Val Macdiarmid 812528 During opening hours: Little Oaks Crèche ● Football Club Tony Hurst 815839, ● Careers Springboard health & Welfare 07437689158, Little Oaks 1 816987, Little Oaks [email protected], www.careersspringboard.info ● Chiltern Prostate Cancer Support Group 2 815413, Little Oaks Beaconsfield 671228 www.penntylersgreenfc.co.uk ● Chiltern Samaritans (24 hours) 432000 Alan rowe 814324 ● Parent & Toddler Group Zoe Woods 761559 ● Guides & Brownies Sue Stephens 817436 www.samaritans.org.uk ● Dentists www.nhsdentistlocator.co.uk ● P&TGRS Village Preschool Nicky Lovegrove ● Hazlemere Youth Club Nikki Arnold 813364 ● Citizen’s Advice Bureau 0844 245 1289 ● Drug Abuse Confidential help, advice & 817093 / [email protected] ● High Wycombe Croquet Club www.citizensadvice.org.uk support 473666 858202 / www.hwcroquetclub.com ● Common Wood www.commonwoodpenn.co.uk ● Emotions Anonymous Kevin 814702 public halls ● Loudwater Bowls Club Alan Tombs 481855 ● Curry Club Stewart Stone 07786 194642 ● High Wycombe General Hospital 526161 ● Penn Church Hall Gail Wellings 813254 or ● Penn Pond Waders Golf Society ● Independent Village Website ● Stoke Mandeville Hospital 01296 315000 [email protected] Bob Teuton 715915 www.pennandtylersgreen.co.uk ● Highfield Surgery (Hazlemere) 813396 ● St Margaret’s Parish Rooms ● Penn Pond Ladies Golf Society ● NSPCC Helpline 0808 800 5000 www.highfieldsurgeryhazlemere.co.uk Mrs Mary Coker 812162 Jane Frizoni 812986 ● NSPCC Childline 0800 1111 Confidential ● NHS (t) 111 / www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk ● Tylers Green Methodist Church Hall ● Pennants Badminton Club (Tylers Green line for young people /children to seek help ● Overeaters Anonymous Juliet 07808403602 Mrs G Nelson 815631 Village Hall) John Youers 711647 ● Penn & Tylers Green Residents Society ● Penn Surgery 817144 / Simpson Centre ● Tylers Green Village Hall 819990 / Tina ● Scouts Adrian & Heather Cooper 816505 & Chairman - Miles Green 815589 671571 / www.thesimpsoncentre.com Brown / [email protected] Paul Wicks 815715, pennandtgscouts@ www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.tylersgreenvillagehall.co.uk gmail.com ● Royal British Legion Colin Doyle 816484 Libraries ● Seido Karate Stuart Wilson 717400 ● The Campaign to Protect Rural England ● All Bucks Libraries - 0845 230 3232 schools in p&tg ● Sports & Social Club Neil James 07929157075 (CPRE) Bucks; www.cprebucks.org.uk www.buckscc.gov.uk/leisure-and- ● Tylers Green First School Head Mrs Jude ● Table Tennis 815180 ● The Chiltern Society culture/libraries Talbot 813201 www.tylersgreenfirst.co.uk ● Tennis Club 812929 / www.penntennis.net 56 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk 57 Village Voice April/May 2020 elected Representatives ● Members of Parliament; Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham constituency includes Penn) 673745 Steven Baker (High Wycombe constituency is produced 6 times a year and delivered to includes Tylers Green) 521777 all houses in Penn & Tylers Green. Neighbouring MP Jo Morrissey (Beaconsfield constituency) 673745 eDitoR ● Bucks County Council Councillors Cathy O’Leary 812064 Tylers Green (& Loudwater) David Letters can be sent by post c/o Catbells, Kingswood Shakespeare OBE 817248 Avenue, Penn, Bucks. HP10 8DR or email: Penn (Wood & Old Amersham) [email protected] Isobel Darby 07798 538697 Design ● Wycombe District Councillors Callum Hawes Tylers Green & Loudwater Ward ADveRtising David Shakespeare OBE. 817248 / Katrina Ruthie Pocock e-mail: [email protected] Wood 07827 820531 / Lawrence Wood 07739 181043 vv Accounts ● Chiltern District Councillors Mike Morley 816638 Penn & Coleshill Julia Burton 726411 / subscRiptions Mrs J C Collins 814561 Jonathan Waters 890210 25 New Road Penn, Bucks, HP10 8DL ● Chepping Wycombe Parish Councillors for email: [email protected] TG (includes Flackwell Heath &Loudwater) DistRibution & DeLiveRy Ian Forbes 816438 / Sharon Herron 07905 Ron Saunders 816237 614133 / Katrina Wood 814848 / Haydn Supported by an army of volunteers Darch 813967 VV Web LiAison Council clerk; Wendy Thompson 814600 Hilary Forbes 816438 ● Penn Parish Councillors for Penn (Penn PC includes councillors for Penn Street, Forty vv house photographeRs Green, Winchmore Hill & Knotty Green.); Eddie Morton / Keith Hawes Mike Morley 816638 / roy Bentham 813897 / pRoDuction Jane Creasy 816818 / Marian raszpla Turville Printing Services 520322 812636. Council Clerk: Nicole Johnson 815458. www.pennparish.org.uk VV (both cover and insides) is printed on FSC Certified email [email protected] Paper (Forest Stewardship Council) and contains 15% post consumer recycled fibre.All products carrying the FSC Logo have been independently certified as coming from forests that meet the internationally recognised p&tg Residents society FSC Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship. Chairman: Miles Green (815589), [email protected] To get your voice heard in Village Voice write to us with any news, views, events or articles. Please send them Website; www. to [email protected]. Please be aware pennandtylersgreen.org.uk that articles and contributions may be edited to Village Voice is owned and appear in the magazine and may also appear on www. published by the P & TG pennandtylersgreen.org.uk unless authors and Residents’ Society contributors request otherwise.

58 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk Village Voice April/May 2020 25 elected Representatives YEARS ● Members of Parliament; Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham constituency includes Penn) 673745 fm Steven Baker (High Wycombe constituency is produced 6 times a year and delivered to includes Tylers Green) 521777 all houses in Penn & Tylers Green. Neighbouring MP Jo Morrissey (Beaconsfield constituency) 673745 eDitoR ● Bucks County Council Councillors Cathy O’Leary 812064 Tylers Green (& Loudwater) David Letters can be sent by post c/o Catbells, Kingswood Shakespeare OBE 817248 Avenue, Penn, Bucks. HP10 8DR or email: Penn (Wood & Old Amersham) [email protected] Isobel Darby 07798 538697 Design ● Wycombe District Councillors Callum Hawes Tylers Green & Loudwater Ward ADveRtising David Shakespeare OBE. 817248 / Katrina Ruthie Pocock e-mail: [email protected] Wood 07827 820531 / Lawrence Wood 07739 181043 vv Accounts ● Chiltern District Councillors Mike Morley 816638 Penn & Coleshill Julia Burton 726411 / subscRiptions Mrs J C Collins 814561 Jonathan Waters 890210 25 New Road Penn, Bucks, HP10 8DL ● Chepping Wycombe Parish Councillors for email: [email protected] TG (includes Flackwell Heath &Loudwater) DistRibution & DeLiveRy Ian Forbes 816438 / Sharon Herron 07905 Ron Saunders 816237 614133 / Katrina Wood 814848 / Haydn Supported by an army of volunteers Darch 813967 VV Web LiAison Financial Management Council clerk; Wendy Thompson 814600 Hilary Forbes 816438 ● Penn Parish Councillors for Penn (Penn PC Independent Financial Advice includes councillors for Penn Street, Forty vv house photographeRs Green, Winchmore Hill & Knotty Green.); Eddie Morton / Keith Hawes Wealth Management | Investments Mike Morley 816638 / roy Bentham 813897 / pRoDuction Jane Creasy 816818 / Marian raszpla Turville Printing Services 520322 Retirement Planning & Pensions 812636. Council Clerk: Nicole Johnson Mortgages & Equity Release | IHT Planning 815458. www.pennparish.org.uk VV (both cover and insides) is printed on FSC Certified email [email protected] Paper (Forest Stewardship Council) and contains 15% post consumer recycled fibre.All products carrying the FSC Logo have been independently certified as coming from forests that meet the internationally recognised p&tg Residents society FSC Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship. Chairman: Miles Green (815589), [email protected] To get your voice heard in Village Voice write to us with any news, views, events or articles. Please send them Contact us: 01494 817151 Website; www. to [email protected]. Please be aware [email protected] www.fmifa.com pennandtylersgreen.org.uk that articles and contributions may be edited to Village Voice is owned and appear in the magazine and may also appear on www. Penn Barn, By the Pond, Elm Road published by the P & TG pennandtylersgreen.org.uk unless authors and Penn, Bucks HP10 8LB contributors request otherwise. Residents’ Society Financial Management is a trading title of Philip Harper LLP which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority

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