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Come and Join in the Fun VOL.52 No6 The Journal of Bourne End (Bucks) Community Association DEC/JAN 2017 £1Suggested price COMEBourne End’s Late Opening AND and Charity JOIN Fun Night is now IN a highlight THE on the festive FUN... calendar nce again, everyone is invited to Bourne There’ll be things going on to entertain the setting up the stalls and our president is part of the ceremony of End’s Late Opening and Charity Fun whole family. Santa will be in his grotto in the switching on the winning child’s light. NightO this year being held in The Parade and Bourne End Motor Company and there’ll be “Additionally, Father Christmas always needs elves, the Wakeman Road on Friday December 2 from reindeers too. barbecue needs servers and faces need painting so there’s 5pm. Children will be able to try out sitting in the plenty for us to join in with. This annual event has grown bigger and driving seat of Adam Elder’s racing car and “It is traditionally a great venue for families to enjoy a fun bigger in recent years with visitors now to test the siren of the First Response Winter's evening on the street, visiting stalls and shops as well coming from far afield to join in the fun. Ambulance. And they can meet the Medical as the warmth of the library. We love helping make this a great The shops and businesses of Bourne End, Detection Dogs outside the vets. evening and each year it is the start of our Rotary Christmas.” the community association and the Rotary In addition there will be all manner of stalls So wrap up warmly and head into the village centre for a Club of Cookham Bridge have again joined around the village selling gifts and running traditional evening of fun. See you on the 2nd! forces to stage this annual Christmas get fun games hosted by local organisations and together and, thanks to the generous funding Youth Enterprise groups. by Bourne End businesses and villagers, the Throughout the evening local school and Christmas lights (including the winning church choirs will serenade the crowds with children’s light) will add Christmas sparkle to carols and Christmas music. the event. Once again the council has agreed to free Many shops will be staying open late, parking in Wakeman Road Car Park all day some offering drinks and seasonal snacks. on Friday December 2. The famous Bourne End hot dogs will be on Members of The Rotary Club of Cookham sale, local scouts will be roasting chestnuts. Bridge are excited about supporting the The day centre and library will be open and event. Lead member Bill Bearn said: " The joining in the fun. Fun Night takes a lot of organisation and The village will be awash with mulled wine, hard work by the Bourne End community food samples from Riverlight, The Walnut and we really enjoy being part of that. Tree, The Spade Oak pub and Chives. “We always help with the road closure, WIN...WIN...WIN... A meal for two at Sindhu Bourne End’s Christmas Light Competition was as fiercely contested as ever in its 13th year. WIn a three course lunch for two at Michelin-starred chef, Atul Kochhar’s The winning design was by 10-year-old Maisie Paice Sindhu restaurant at The Compleat Angler in Marlow. (pictured), of St Paul’s School with another St Paul’s As a Christmas treat Target has joined up with Virgin Experience Days (who pupil, Daisey Blanksby coming a close second. are based in Bourne End) to give you the chance to win Maisie’s design of a gingerbread man is now being this fabulous prize. The winner and their pal or partner will enjoy a three made into a Christmas light for The Parade and will be course lunchat thefabulous restaurant, a glass of Prosecco eachand a unveiled on Fun Night. The makers, Lamps & Tubes Ltd, will incorporate the souvenir signed menu. Full details on how to enter can be found on page 10. winner's first name and the year into the design, as in Good luck! previous years. For the second year running Kevin Parker of Space Pod is sponsoring the light. TARGET MAGAZINE NOW INTO ITS 53rd YEAR BULL’SBULL’S EYE EYE Well it’s almost here again, Christmas.The season of goodwill toward men. The last two issues of Target magazine had a tone of doom and gloom on the front pages, so we were determined that this issue should feature something happy and uplifting. Target magazine is published by Thanks to Virgin Experience Days (whose head office is in Bourne End) we are able to offer a competition Bourne End (Bucks) Community prize of lunch for two at Sindhu restaurant at The Complete Angler in Marlow. I have dined there and I can Association and distributed free to promise you the winner is in for a treat. See page 10 for details. over 5,000 homes in the local area. I love competitions, but the odds of winning are usually ridiculously high. However with local magazines, The distribution network includes like ours, the odds are far more in your favour of winning. If every single household entered the competition Bourne End and Wooburn Green as you’d still have odds of 5,000-to-one (considerably better than most competitions). What’s more, it doesn’t well as the outlying hamlets of Hedsor, need to cost you a penny to enter. You can drop your entry at the community centre. Well End, Little Marlow, Cores End, If you run a local business and would like to follow in Virgin’s footsteps by offering a prize to readers email Upper Bourne End, Wooburn Common me at [email protected] and Wooburn Moor. All that’s left for me to say now is have a fabulous Christmas, try to forget any doom and gloom at least for the festive season and let’s all look forward to a great 2017. Bourne End (Bucks) Community Debra Aspinall. editor Association Cards for Good Causes The Centre, Wakeman Road, Bourne have once again set up a stall End, Bucks SL8 5SX at St Dunstan’s Church selling Telephone: 01628 522604 Christmas cards from Office Hours:Mon - Fri 9am to 4pm Thursday December 1 to Senior Administrator: Sue Ambrose Friday December 16. The stall is open Monday to Saturday, Visit: www.bourneendbucks.com 9.30am to 4pm. for current information or email This lovely card (left) [email protected] featuring Bourne End Marina (©Cuckoo Fair), is sure to be a best seller. The artist is Editor Colin Tuffrey and he lives in Debra Aspinall the Oxfordshire Chilterns. Tel: 07881 558027 For more information on this [email protected] worthwhile organisation go to www.cardsforcharity.co.uk Managing Editor & Distribution Barrie Penfold Could you spare a couple of hours every other month to help with the distribution of Target Tel: 01628 525415 magazines? Many of our regular helpers have been doing this for years, but we have lost a few email: managingeditor wonderful helpers in recent years due to illness and/or old age. @targetmagazine.org.uk Maybe you could help out while you walk your dog? Or if you are thinking of getting fitter in 2017 then walking round your neighbourhood delivering Target could help you achieve your goals! Advertising & Production Please contact Barrie on 01628 525415 if you can help. Barrie Penfold Tel: 01628 525415 [email protected] WANTED Our advertising rate card is on www.bourneendbucks.com. Click on Advertising sales person Community Association, then Target. to help sell adverts for Target Magazine and look after Proofreading Christina Martell and existing advertisers. No previous experience necessary. Meriel Riseley This is a voluntary role so even if you could only do a few hours each month it would be greatly appreciated. Printers ContactBarrie on01628 525415 if you canhelp. Gpex, Pinstone Way, Gerrards Cross SL9 7BJ Telephone: 01753 887450 ABOUT TARGET Target magazine was launched in 1964 to provide information about the new Bourne End Community Association, with the name referring to the money required to build a new community centre. Over the years the magazine has grown, and its distribution area has been extended as the population has expanded through Bourne End, Wooburn Green and the surrounding villages. Bourne End Community Association was formed in 1962 by local people who wanted a social All material appearing in Target is the centre to meet the needs of a growing community. Fund raising and determination saw the copyright of Bourne End (Bucks) community centre open in Wakeman Road on 28th October 1967. Another hall was added a few Community Association. The Editor years later and constant improvements have been made over the years. reserves the right to select letters and See pages 36-39 for more information on the facilities and activities available at the community reports for publication and to edit for centre. grammar, style and length. 2 Could you become one of the Target delivery team? we have stated – houses do need to be built, but not there and not in those quantities, especially As a residents’ association and, indeed, our without any noticeable improvement to our community as a whole we should be pleased with infrastructure. Health services, schools, roads and the final result of the McCarthy & Stone car parking are the essentials for any area. development of later living accommodation at These two professionally written assessments Blyton House. have cost the residents association around £4,000 Casting your minds back to the original scheme, – part of which has been provided by local residents the design was for a contemporary block that would and organisations.
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