Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine Issue 114 70 pence where sold

Inside this Issue: • The Royal British Legion • Introducing the Green Room • Tring School

• Councillor’s News The Quarterly Magazine of Ivinghoe Parish Council The Team... Beacon Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS Welcome to the November Thelp of the volunteer band of Beacon Magazine distributors. Welcome to the November 2020 issue of Many thanks to them all; Gloria Welcome from the Chair 3 the Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine. It has been Karen Groom, Snowdon, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, a very memorable year and I wish everyone Chair, Ivinghoe Neighbourhood News 6-25 Rob and Ann Cattle, Wendy Farrington, a Safe and Happy Christmas. Parish Council Keith Haynes – it couldn’t be done Ecumenical Enlightenment 28-31 without you! Ivinghoe Traffic Calming If you have any skills that will help School Stuff 32 Scheme be £7,332, Pitstone Parish Council and us to keep the magazine going or you As you may remember a few years ago Bucks Council will also contribute to make would like to submit an article, please Cultivation Clippings 34-37 the late Ben Hamilton Bailee designed a Brookmead School entrance safer for let us know as we are always looking traffic calming scheme for Ivinghoe village, our residents. for new and varied talents! Beyond the Boundary 42 many of you attended a presentation about this, Ivinghoe Parish Council has been Councillor Communication 48-59 working with Bucks Council on this project for many years. We are now excited to announce this will BEACON COPY AND be starting in the next few months: ADVERT DEADLINES First Phase – Station Road

We aim to get the magazine distributed Create a highlighted pedestrian crossing, around the beginning of every February, May, create grass-crete parking, two informal August and November. To ensure your article roundabouts, traffic calming (buff coloured Editor: Bridget Knight or feature makes the edition you would like ‘bar’ and red backed ‘slow’ markings on Ivinghoe High Street – Tel: 07960 605393 please see the submission deadlines below: the road and tree planting. The work to possible double yellow lines Email: [email protected] Station Road junction with Maud Janes (near the bend) Advertising Manager: Bridget Knight Close will cost Ivinghoe Parish Council A group of residents have contacted Tel: 07960 605393 £25,324 which is half the cost the remining Ivinghoe Parish Council to seek the Parish will be matched funded by Bucks Council Council’s support for Double Yellow Lines Email: [email protected] February 2021 Edition – 4 January 2021 Community Board. We are expecting the located on Ivinghoe High Street near the May 2021 Edition – 4 April 2021 Design and Artwork: Laila Palfrey work to start within the next few months. Groombsy Drive area. The Parish Council August 2021 Edition – 4 July 2021 Tel: 01525 222214 will write to residents located in this area to November 2021 – 4 October 2021 Email: [email protected] Second Phase – High Street by seek their views on this idea. We would also Brookmead School appreciate any views from the wider parish. BEACON MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATES: Working with Pitstone Parish Council and Buckinghamshire Council the area will have RikkIAbout 1/4 page £58 per year NB: Rates are for 4 editions. advisory 20MPH speed limit, coloured I would like to take the opportunity to thank 1/3 page £65 per year carriageway surface, lining to visually Rikki Harrington for his Ivinghoe Aston 1/2 page £95 per year Artwork must be supplied reduce the carriageway and bollards. updates in every issue and welcome Phil Full page £130 per year as a jpeg or a pdf file. The cost to Ivinghoe Parish Council will Jones who is taking over from Rikki. u

2 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 Rikki will continue to send us Ashridge by the time this reaches you. The benches Ramblings and has kindly offered to be and picnic tables will be restored in available for any special assignments. the Spring.

Play Areas Brownlow Bridge Explore... Dream... Discover... The play areas have re-opened following Bucks Council have started work to government guidelines, you will see new strengthen the bridge and we are in signage reminding playground users of the communication with Bucks Council about Covid-19 guidelines and recommendations. the wider Ivinghoe zone freight strategy.

THE BEACON TEAM The new fencing and gates are being installed as I write and should be complete Parish Council Meetings Parish Council Meetings continue to be held using Zoom software, login details are on the agenda. For further information please contact Ivinghoe Parish Clerk Tel: 07960 605393 or [email protected]

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4 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 5 RikkIAbout

Did the Earth move for you? Introducing Phil Thank You and Goodnight Rikki Harrington At 09.45 on 8th September, the Leighton I did say, a few issues back, that I felt So that’s me out of your hair. I took Brampton, Ivinghoe Aston Buzzard earthquake struck, sending it was time to hand over the reins and, over from Ketts about six years ago. 01525 220625; ripples through my coffee and dislodging miraculously, a volunteer came forward. It’s been great, and I wish Phil much [email protected]. a piece of moss from the roof. It was Most people in IA will know Phil Jones, fun as your new roving reporter. Many 3.3 on the Richter Scale but at least but I have interviewed him anyway, thanks to all those who have contributed, Please get in touch if you have any 10 on the Lorries-going-over-the-pothole- as it was a good excuse for a pint or organised things on which I’ve reported news, views or ideas! outside-our-house Scale. There haven’t three down the road. Phil, Pip and their or, especially, “volunteered” to be NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS been so many people out on the street children, came to IA in 1994, all the way interviewed. I plan to keep up my talking to each other since Clap for from Pitstone, having earlier escaped Ashridge Ramblings for the time being. Carers. Two aftershocks apparently from Slough. A mechanical engineer by followed over the next fortnight, but training, Phil’s career then evolved into they passed me by. IT sales, project management, pickles and jams, and now he is a handyman. Pretty Pub Phil and Pip have always got stuck-in to The Village Swan has won the RikkIAbout village life, helping out with many social “Prettiest pub garden in Ivinghoe Aston” activities. They are also stalwarts of TVS competition. The prize is having a picture quiz nights. Pip and the girls all helped here. Well done Sean, Seb and Sean’s to keep the pub churning out the beers Mum! They really should enter a national behind the bar whilst the boys stayed fish and chips competition – I’ve not on the other side! When not working or tasted better since I had a spectacular quizzing, Phil enjoys fly fishing and being barramundi and chips near Brisbane with his children and grandchildren. twenty years ago.

Phil Jones

6 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 7 Buckinghamshire Council Newsletter Ivinghoe Town Hall (Including Library and Post Office And Shop) Ivinghoe Town Hall + Beacon Villages his Newsletter has been prepared that could be deemed as repairs which in support of the listed building may not be considered to require Listed Community Library Tapplication submitted to (at the Building Consent. (Charity No. 300287) time) Aylesbury Vale District Council The Local Planning Authority (LPA) However subject to a more detailed NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Heritage Team for carrying out general have attached 5 number Conditions to survey, if any of the existing double hung and specific external maintenance works their Decision Notice which all have to sash windows need structural repair to all elevations at Ivinghoe Town Hall be discharged before and during the works due to i.e. rot, then further advice (Beacon Villages Library). works to ensure all works will comply overhauling and basic maintenance, will be sort from the LPA. The proposed Buckinghamshire Council are free with Section 18 of the Planning (Listed and theGreetings following from repairyour Town schedule Hall Management is to Committee!Works Programme for this second stage holders of the property and therefore Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act restoreIn them common towith working the rest of the order. country, we closed the Town Hallof for these bookings external on 23rd March, repairs but that doesn’tworks mean is thatas we haven’t been busy getting everything spruced up for when we can re-open! are authorised to carry out repairs 1990 as amended by Section 51 of the • Free jammed sashes and remove follows- Ten years after the last redecoration, the walls and ceiling have been painted and the suspended pine floor has been sanded and make good the property in Planning and Compulsory Purchase build-up of paint which interfere with • Complete the test window by and varnished. Everything is very shiny and clean! accordance with the covenants and Act 2004. theirAll effective 140 chairs have operation. had a much-needed professional deep clean, removing23rd 30September years of grime! It20 doesn’t (weather bear thinking about provisions contained in the Lease. This Newsletter edition (#3) is to • Replacedoes it! broken sash cords permitting), and The Schedule of proposed Works has give notice that the three stage of the • LubricateAs a Listed pulleys 17th Century and Grade hinges 11 building, Ivinghoe Town Hall• was forward scheduled all by Bucksthe Countynecessary Council to information have extensive purposely taken an approach to reduce proposed External Maintenance Repair • Replaceexternal broken remedial works glass from and May todefective June of this year. For obviousincluding reasons, this didn’tphotos happen to but theit has Heritagenow been rescheduled the impact on the heritage asset to works is to discharge the Planning puttyfor July to September. So with luck, by the time you’re reading this,Officer it will be underway! to pass Fingers and/or crossed! comment Scaffolding will on have minimize the impact on its significance Conditions 2,3, 4 and, in the main, the • Cleanto beand erected repair for access ironmongery to the roof and gutters and the removal andby repair 25th of the September beautiful Gothic windows 2020. so if you’re queueing and takes into account: overhaul repairs and repainting of the • Easeoutside sticking for the Postsashes Office you may now have shade or rain cover!• ThereafterThe exterior of the assuming building will also the be repainted.test panel is • The architectural and historic interest Town Hall windows. • Replace missing or worn beads passed, re-rendering will start on site of the building This work will require the erection of a • PrepareAt the timeand of redecorate writing, we are unable previously to accept any new bookings for28th the Hall September until the Government’s 2020. advice is changed. It may • The aesthetic qualities and interest of scaffold for safe access while working at paintedwell have surfaces already changed (Dulux by the Weathershield time you’re reading! We have• preserved Complete all of our works regular booking on site slots forby when we can re-open and we look forward to welcoming everyone back. its design and character height during these maintenance works. system 9th October 2020 (weather permitting)

• The building fabric Considering the buildings age, Ivinghoe Until then, stay safe and keep smiling – it brightens the day for everyone you meet! • The building’s footprint, including its Town Hall’s timber windows have external composition endured the test of time, and enjoyed • Its spatial qualities and decorative long lives mainly due to the high quality schemes and durability of the timber that was used to construct them. There are various The proposed Schedule of Works types of Double hung Sash Window to not only deals with items of work that both the front and rear elevations of the are deemed to require Listed Building Town Hall, including the “two cells, with Consent, but it will also include, giving accommodation for a police officer”. holistic context and relevant information On my initial survey, the various to the building as a whole, items of work timber windows appeared to only need

8 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 9 Tring Market Auctions Independent Fine Art & Chattel Auctioneers and Valuers. Est 1832 Auctioneers & Valuers of Fine Art, Antique Furniture & Collectables Fortnightly General Sales of General Furnishings & Effects NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Antique Furniture & Fine Art Sales Total & Part House Clearance Specialists If you can’t find it here you won’t find it anywhere! Buying or Selling, contact us on 01442 826446 The Market Premises, Brook Street, Tring, Herts HP23 5EF Website: www.tringmarketauctions.co.uk Email: [email protected]

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10 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 11 WI News... Ivinghoe & Pitstone Women’s Institute

hat a strange summer we have Even during these unprecedented had, it was like the ‘spirit of times our community commitments Wthe blitz’. carried on and were even extended to We were not able to have our include: NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS normal indoor meetings, so we have • Our support to Aylesbury Women’s Aid embraced the new phenomena of • Supporting and collecting for the ‘Zoom meetings’. Each month, on our church food bank normal meeting evening, Sue Eyre, • Making and distributing PPE clothing president, ably assisted by husband for the NHS Russ, produced a quiz for members and partners to participate in. This has been The walking groups continue apace. really good fun and our quiz queen is in The Chiltern Way walkers have managed her 80’s. to add to their achievements so far, These online meetings have also with still more of the route hopefully been extended to include committee to be completed at some stage. We meetings, craft group and general social have also started a short walk group for events. By the time you are reading this general exercise. report we will have trialled a full meeting Looking back on this report I am quite using Zoom with remote speakers and amazed at what we have achieved by members joining from the comfort of positive thinking. their home. All activities within this report were We also moved outdoors into our conducted under the government Covid gardens and had tea and KitKat parties in guidelines applicable at the time. groups of six socially distanced. Most of the time the weather was kind but a few Christine Linley, IPWI Correspondent of the meetings had to be postponed. Our ‘Random Readers’ book group contributed to start a book swap in the Ivinghoe bus shelter. It was to give everyone in the villages access to reading material during the lockdown when the library was shut. Now that the library has reopened the much appreciated and successful book swap is now closed.

12 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 13 From the Library... FORD END WATERMILL

e are pleased to say the Library At the meeting the committee was continues to be open, and confirmed as: Avril Davies – Chair, Ford End Watermill, for those not familiar with Wmaintain a safe environment Colin Arney – Treasurer, Janet Page it, is a small farm mill, which has produced so we look forward to welcoming you. – Secretary, committee members Gill flour and animal feed for centuries. On Station We have been complimented on our Arney, Dave Frearson and Derek Peverill. Road, just a short distance from the centre of safety measures, and for the fact that Anyone interested in joining the Ivinghoe, it is run today entirely by volunteers. we were one of the first community committee is welcome to get in touch The mill is fully operational and we mill at each libraries to re-open. Our latest opening with us. We can co-opt members at any opening to the public. Our wholemeal flour is NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS times are posted on our website, but at time throughout the year. much sought after.

the time of writing they are Tuesdays, Thanks were expressed to the retiring Thursdays and Fridays 2-5pm. We hope committee members Dave Chang and Would you like to join our team of volunteers? to extend this to include Saturdays in Ann Broadbent. the near future.In the meantime the Beacon Villages Community Library We would welcome volunteers who can: drop box is still available in the Town Hall is run by the community, for the foyer, so you may return items on other community: − help maintain the mill through this Autumn, Winter and Spring in readiness days, when the foyer is open. www.bvcl.org.uk for next year's openings. The fines amnesty ends on General enquiries: − help us welcome our visitors as they arrive for one of our openings each 30th September, so please make sure [email protected] 01296 387890 Summer - on Sundays and Bank Holidays; and/or you have returned any outstanding Committee enquiries: − guide visitors around the mill describing how we use the power of water from items by this date. [email protected] our millpond to drive our waterwheel, our gears and our millstones to produce The Beacon Villages Community our sought-after wholemeal flour.

Library AGM was held on 19th There are opportunities for individuals with a variety of skills. So whether your September, via Zoom. The reports Opening times: preference is to meet our visitors, to explain all about the mill to visitors or to get to presented at that meeting are on our Tuesday 2pm 5pm grips with the mill building and its machinery – the choice is yours. We can provide website, and the Minutes will be added Thursday 2pm - 5pm you with the necessary training and we have all the relevant information about the in due course. Friday 2pm - 5pm mill – how it works, its history and how it has been restored.

We are a friendly group. All of us are committed to conserving this priceless resource for future generations. We can provide new volunteers with the satisfaction that Have you ever thought about ‘growing your own’? comes from showing how the sustainable power of water can be used to produce Growing your own fruit and vegetables can be very a flour for the baking of bread. satisfying experience and in Ivinghoe we are very lucky to have some beautiful allotments just off Church So, if you are interested, please telephone: Road, overlooking St Mary’s Church. John Wallis on 01296 661997; If you are an Ivinghoe resident and would like some Chris Tugby on ; or more information about availability of plots – we have 01442 825421

them in a range of sizes – please contact the Parish Stephen Booth on 01296 661745.

Clerk at [email protected]

You can also contact us by email at [email protected] NB: there may not always be an available plot but we do keep a waiting list! Stephen Booth, Chairman, Ford End Watermill Society

14 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 15 James B Chadburn FBHI Our Hub run by this Fine Antique clocks & Barometers Specialist in repairs & community for all restorations.

Valuations & clock HOW TO BOOK HUB SPACE: Booking space within the finding service. BVCL 100 CLUB Hub is easy but needs to follow through by the Hirer who: Advice & assistance on th 1. Approaches café team who man the Hub Diary 7 Now in its 4 Year! NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS formation & disposal of days a week at café counter or the Hirer approaches private clock collections. Come and join our many prizewinners Trustee team via phone 01296-661666 or email and help to support your local Library. Quality clocks/barometers [email protected] Bought & sold. Why not pick up a pack at the Library Half space £9/£7 per hour or whole hall £12/£10 per Telephone 01525 221165 in Ivinghoe? Or email hour. (or an element of the IT Room after negotiation) Mobile 07790 000629 [email protected] for further E-mail: [email protected] details and an online application form. 2. The process is explained by obtaining from either source a vital Booking Form which includes the extra special options bookable, the insurance cover and awareness of the hirers cleaning up obligations – to be filled in and Dear Dog Walkers of the Parish returned within 7 days and the fee paid – if not then – no The walks round here are nice, we think you’ll all agree, later than And many people comment, on the views being so pretty. 3 days before the date booked. But sometimes on the path you walk, you look and you do see, A squidgy thing you stepped on, is something that’s sh***y. 3. By this returned form and fee, the booking is made formal and then penned into diary which means it So we kindly ask you, when Rover needs a poop, cannot be over-ridden or double booked – This booking You make a little effort; you simply bend and scoop, then translates to our ‘digital diary’ graphically – charted And have a thought for fellow (wo)man, do not commit a sin, You know you need to pick it up, and put it in the bin! monthly by Bob to ensure visual awareness of all bookings- posted on Facebook Page, web-site and email (The Dog Warden can be contacted on 01296 555605) data-base, hard copy on Notice Board for Public viewing.

Join in with your DIY skills please! You are all so welcome to join in!

16 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 17 Writing detailed social needs reports Our business plan is very simple – rent Hub News... for Bucks C.C. to consider our tenancy and utilities payments to us helps pay request, we finally received a 25 year for our utilities; Hiring Fees paid to us Lease at (literally!) a peppercorn rent! We for hiring space pays for the obligation ello from the Hub, and a plea! raised over £100,000 in Grant Funding, and of refurbishment inside and out, renewal An Autumnal note from your Ivinghoe villagers were overwhelmingly of furnishings, and provision of new HVolunteer Run Community Hub behind the project for saving the beloved equipment. Occasional Grants allow us – long since a Registered Charity! A ‘Outside Sport’, and an Arts Class booked building for Community Wellbeing. to for example renew our floor boards distance since our 2011 start – Community in towards the end of October – look at our throughout; our income and expenditure. Meetings, Forming a Trustees Group, Facebook page – ‘Ivinghoe Old School Hub’ Applications for Grants, Signing the Lease, – for the Calendar! Chat to me/us please, by email: enabling the Building Adaptations – now a [email protected] or NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Community engaged, transparent Project What were we doing during ivinghoeoldschoolcommunityhub@ for your Wellbeing! Covid-19 Lockdown? btconnect.com, by note through the door Initially shocked by the Lockdown – our of the hub for Bob and Carol or leave a first anxieties were to keep engaged with message on the phone 01296 661666. our Community. Applying for and receiving Our refurbishment of the building Stay safe, keep well and join in with us two Grants to help us give a hand to our included: Insulation of ceilings; please, life feels so much better when we tenant, and to ensure that we didn’t go Reconditioning of Gas Heaters; Re-wiring, share some of it. under from an immediate cessation of changing lighting style and repainting to Community hirings. Taking example from lighten and wipe clean; Restoring the old Email: ivinghoeoldschoolcommunityhub@ many other communities, we started the Classroom Screen; Reforming the old btconnect.com ‘WhatsAppening in Ivinghoe?’ WhatsApp Kitchen, we purchased 64 upholstered dark Group, to give a hand to village folk willow stackable chairs and 13 rectangular Facebook: Ivinghoe Old School Hub Carol Tarrant 2011 writing Social Needs Case for needing medicines delivered, groceries, tables and a table nest to keep them in. proposed Community Hub phone calls – even dog-walking; the group All sorts of other stuff – two new W.C’s, Website: ivinghoeoldschool.com continues since Lockdown’s are never far accepting a donated piano and a fridge Where are we now? from our horizon! for Hall use; installing loudspeakers, a Thanks Carol Tarrant Chair of Hub After Lockdown – we Trustees have met PA system and a whole wall projection ‘socially distanced’ frequently during the screen. We keep up our flowers and plants ‘downtime’ to keep everything under inside and out, even though they ‘re- review – now we are fully open for wilded’ the entire space itself beautifully bookings in a Government Approved during Lockdown – chives still pop up Covid-19 protected way – the NHS App where they will! inspired ‘QR Code’ displayed to keep everyone fully ‘Tracked and Traced’, full complement of Sanitisers, Reminder Notices, etc. – all to keep everyone safe, while trying to now operate as ‘normally’ as possible. Bookings are coming in, subject What our Hub was doing to some not too-draconian Covid-19 rules behind the scenes ‘After’ we opened – – Kickboxing started again on 5th October, Over the Hub’s first six or seven years Reunions, Parties and Guides are now meeting every Tuesday behind the scenes we were meeting in the Work Details in the evening, Simply Walks continues as an Rose and Crown every Monday evening! early days

18 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 19 The Royal British Legion The Heritage Park Ivinghoe & Pitstone Branch Pitstone Green Museum

his year has been a difficult one for idea of what the future may hold for us s the impact of Covid 19 continues If you want any of these items, please us, here at the farm but probably we can start to make plans to enable us to affect us all, the usual Poppy ring Harry and Ann Batchelor on Tnot as bad as some of you have to re-open next Easter Monday 5th April. AAppeal held annually over the two 661449 if you live in Pitstone or Ivinghoe. endured. Our sympathies go out to all of We can organise a one-way system to weeks before Remembrance Sunday, is Let them know what you want and they you who have had a bad time and let’s help with social distancing and we may the latest casualty. I am the Poppy Appeal will arrange collection with you from all hope we can look forward to better have to go to timed tickets for entry to organiser for the Ivinghoe and Pitstone their home at 14 Albion Road. If you times ahead. We have lost a number of keep crowding to a minimum. Keep an NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS branch of the Royal British Legion and in turn could put your donation into an our volunteers to a variety of ailments eye on our website for more up to date organise the collections. Usually we envelope marked POPPY and give it to and many of our members are in the information nearer the time. have a team of volunteers carrying out them they will quarantine the envelopes very high risk category for the Virus and www.pitstonemuseum.co.uk door to door ‘rounds’, Joe stands outside until the count takes place. have had to isolate for the maximum We hear many tales of boredom during Mason’s Stores, our local pubs and You can also ring Margaret on 661280 time stated but our remaining regulars these times, if this applies to you, why businesses have a poppy box and tin on or email [email protected]. have kept the museum in good order not think about joining The Museum their premises, and the village churches Margaret will put your order into an throughout the summer. as a volunteer, it’s great fun, and very donate Remembrance Sunday collections. envelope and leave the envelope in We had to take the difficult decision satisfying and there are many things This year NONE of that will happen. a box near her front door. Please put to close completely because of the that need doing which could be done at There can be no face to face collections your donation into an envelope marked vulnerability of everyone involved and home, if that is more appropriate to your – so no door to door. Boxes filled with POPPY and put it through her letterbox. the likelihood that most of our most situation. If you are interested contact me poppies, pins, crosses etc cannot be If you wish to write a cheque please popular exhibits would have had to on [email protected] put out in our pubs and businesses as it make it payable to The Royal British remain closed thus reducing people’s invites multiple handling of the contents Legion Poppy Appeal. enjoyment of this amazing, unique place. Best wishes to you all – as people riffle through to find what All of the unopened envelopes Now that we have got a more stable Pete Farrar (manager) they want and this is an absolute no no. containing donations will go into a This leaves us with very little apart from separate box and be quarantined at poppies being sold from one area in as another address until we do the count safe a way as possible so this is how we in mid November. Sounds complicated have decided to do it so that we can at but I think it will work and at least we least raise a small amount of money. might make a little bit of money for the Poppy Appeal. The 2020 Poppy Appeal You will still be able to get a poppy The 2020 Poppy Appeal lasts from from sellers at the larger stores such as 25th October to 7th November, and the Tesco. There are a strict set of rules that following items will be available during they have to follow, but I am sure that that period: the larger branches will be undertaking • 2020 pins such a collection. So either way, you will • D Day 75 pins still be able to get a poppy when you • Ordinary poppies go shopping. Of course if we go into • Silk poppies another lockdown all of the above will • Wooden crosses be irrelevant!!

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any good things happen by huge skeleton wall clock. The stock will chance and a chance drive be ever changing so it’s worth keeping Mthrough Ivinghoe village one day an eye out for new things as they arrive. in August was just one of those! A sign Alongside a quirky selection of stylish was spotted, on the window announcing greetings cards, mugs and cushions there number 17 High Street was available to rent, are even delicious hand-made treats for the perfect location for a new venture. your four-legged friend! After a few years of working freelance A major local stockist of St Eval candles as an events florist, Iain has taken the which are made in Cornwall, using opportunity to go retail. After much hard traditional methods and wherever possible, work to transform the shop into an ideal natural and ethically sourced ingredients. space, The Green Room is now bright They make so many different fragrances its and airy and is the perfect background hard to choose a favourite but a dozen or so for the stunning flowers, gifts and home in stock gives a good choice. They make the accessories now for sale. perfect gift, but we’re sure you’ll want to You will find beautiful market fresh keep one for yourself, so better buy two! flowers which are individually selected With Christmas fast approaching, according to seasonal trends and as an Iain will be continuing his ever-popular independent floristThe Green Room Christmas wreath workshop, but due to is not restricted to the mass market. current regulations, numbers are strictly Bouquets can be made to order from limited so its best to book early to avoid the selection on the day or if there is disappointment. Of course, if you don’t something in particular that’s wanted, fancy making your own, there will be a just a couple of days’ notice and it can be range available to buy in the shop from arranged. Local delivery is available. mid-November. The choice of gifts and home The Green Room can’t wait to welcome accessories is very varied, ranging from you to the shop and can be contacted at: glass vases and hurricane lanterns, stone [email protected] or visit and decorated plant pots to mirrors and a www.greenroomivinghoe.co.uk

24 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 25 Supporting your growth and change through counselling Depression•anxiety•low self-esteem Rainbows: Monday 4.30 – 5.30pm Pitstone Memorial Hall disordered eating•loss and grief Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 relationship issues•abuse•and more... Brownies: Monday 5.45 – 7.15pm Pitstone Memorial Hall NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 Lynn McGill Counselling for Girl Guides: Tuesday 7.00 – 8.30pm Ivinghoe Old School Village Hub, 07843 488783 Adults,Teenagers High Street, Ivinghoe Hall. Guider: Rebecca Capron 07545 347787 01442 822623 Email: [email protected] [email protected] and Couples please visit our website at To join us, Girlguiding.org.uk George House • High street • Tring MBACP 373410

MA Technology Support

Technology Services for Home and Business 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Beavers (5 3/4 -8 year olds) Monday 6-7pm with Tom as Watermill Coloney leader Tuesday 6-7pm with Jakki as Windmill Coloney leader PCs, Smartphones, Tablets, Printers Broadband, Internet, WiFi, Email 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Cubs (8-10 year olds) Wednesday 6:30-8pm (Dan) Akela as Windmill Pack leader Security Guidance Thursday 6:30-8pm (Rob) Shere Khan as Watermill Pack leader Virus Protection & Removal

1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Scouts (10 1/2 -14 1/2 year olds) Upgrades & Installations Friday 7-8:30pm Andrew as Troop Leader Data and System Recovery

For any enquiries or to join the waiting list please contact us Hardware & Software Troubleshooting on [email protected] Home & Offi ce Network Setup & Support Or our Group Scout Leader, Andrew Woods on [email protected] or 07768 980311 01525 229695 (Edlesborough) We are also raising money to rebuild the village a purpose built scout hut and are selling bricks to supporters for £10 each. Please email the above address for details. [email protected]

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15 IVINGHOE HAND-BELLS BEACON COMMUNITY CHOIR As we write this, it is nearly six weeks since we should have performed Karl We have a beginners group meeting fortnightly in the Jenkins’s “Stabat Mater” to a packed St Mary’s church, and we should also have church ringing the beautiful hand-bells that belong to been preparing for our ever popular open air, summer programme, this time St. Mary’s Church Ivinghoe. returning to The Lawn in Ivinghoe. How things have changed in such a short time. If you missed the taster evening, and would like to have a In the nearly 13 years since the choir was formed, we have never been silent for go, or see and hear what happens it is not too late so please such a long period of time. But though we are not performing in public, work is get in touch or come along to a Monday evening meeting. still going on in the background. Like many choirs all over the country, the Beacon

ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT We have fun, a break for refreshments and experience the Community Choir has been meeting on Zoom, swapping lockdown stories and very special sound of our 139 year old bells. laughing and singing together throughout the current crisis. We are learning new repertoire and making plans for future concerts once we are allowed to perform Alex Wynne 01296 668336 again. Until the government give us all the go ahead to gather together in larger groups, and concerts and theatre performances are once again allowed, we cannot give any definite dates of future choir concerts, but as soon as we are able, we will be celebrating in song together with you, our loyal and valued audience. Ivinghoe & Pitstone Chapel Fellowship We hope you all keep safe over the coming weeks and we look forward to seeing you soon at our first concert in the new season! Sunday Services are held on the third Sunday of each month, at 12 Church Rd unless otherwise specified, and start at 10.30 a.m. followed by refreshments *** FIRST THURSDAY FRIENDS Come and enjoy a family film on the first Thursday of each month. Time: 2pm - approx 4.15pm in the millennium room, Pitstone Hall *** PITSTONE OVER 60s’ CLUB We are a small and friendly group of local men and women who meet together for a varied programme of Speakers, Entertainment and Quizes etc., plus Refreshments. We meet at the Yardley Centre, Yardley Avenue, on the third Thursday of each month: 2.00 – 4.00 p.m.

Interested? Need more information? 01296 668005

28 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 29 News from St. Mary’s Church, Ivinghoe Did you know that your local churches in Ivinghoe, Slapton and ear all, several face-to-face government and the national church. services have now been held There are restrictions on the numbers Marsworth run a Food Bank? Dat St. Marys and therefore a that can attend a service and for St. little more normality has returned to Mary’s, this is 20 places rising to a our lives. So far, we have reinstated maximum of 30 to include members of our Holy Communion services on the the same household. second and fourth Sundays of the To book a place at any of our month with a few additional services services do contact Stephen Swinbank: planned. Our first live service was on [email protected] or 01296 ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT the first Sunday in September and took 660680 by 6pm on Friday evening prior the form of an outdoor service led by to the service on Sunday morning. Sandra and Jane in the churchyard and Or look on the church website https:// it was a real success, perhaps because ivinghoe-church.org Do you know of anyone the weather was so good. We are also In addition, we have services on now permitted to have a small choir to Facebook and on the phone every support our worship which means that Sunday morning at 9.30am led by Revd who is in need of food? we have live singing in our services even David Holloway. though we can’t join in! www.facebook.com/stmary. Are you short of food We also hope to hold an event to holycross.allsaints commemorate All Souls and a much Phone in details: 020 3695 9267 and smaller Remembrance service, Covid enter room no: 297713 yourself or need someone permitting. It’s a case of watching and waiting for updated advice from the David Green to shop for you? Please contact Sandra on 01296 668648 or Babs on 07860 780127

All calls will be dealt with confidentially and we will arrange for a box of food to be left on the doorstep.

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he project to rebuild the majority of dining room, learning resources centre, exterior views. I really do encourage you Rod Gibberd Business Director Tring School is now well underway. sixth form centre, a four court sports to find a few minutes to watch the fly- Chief Operating Officer for the Ridgeway TWork started in May 2020 to hall and an activity studio. Every single through as it’s brilliant! Learning Partnership prepare the ground for the erection teaching space will benefit from new SCHOOLS STUFF of a temporary two storey building and high quality ICT equipment. The containing 35 classrooms, labs, offices front of the new building will be some and amenities. This construction was 65 metres further back from the road completed in late August enabling the and reducing the impact on the local staff to move in at the end of the month community has been a key element in with students being in the classrooms the exterior design and landscaping. from 2 September onwards. Every single element of the new school The students and staff have all been has been carefully considered and hugely impressed with the quality of the meticulously planned. new facilities and they are far superior to In terms of the here and now, it has the old buildings they have left behind. been a massive task to make the school The rooms are large, bright, warm and conform to all of the Government have a high specification of ICT in every guidelines for Covid 19. This would have teaching space. been challenging at the best of times Now that we have relocated half but given the restrictions of the new of the school into the temporary build programme on top of Covid it really accommodation, work has begun on has led to a lot of headaches. However, demolishing some of the old buildings. we’ve taken everything in our stride! Watching this happen has fascinated We have the students in their year many of the students!! group bubbles conforming to one way The demolition will be completed systems, staggered meal times, face this Autumn and then we can move on covering rules, a meticulous cleaning to building the new school. The three regime, extra staff on supervision duties storey building will be constructed by and a whole raft of other actions and Bowmer + Kirkland and will be one of measures. As with the provision of the most sustainably designed schools our online learning when schools were in the country with additional facilities to closed earlier in the year, we believe support the pastoral care and emotional we’ve gone above and beyond in doing well-being of the students. A local everything that we possibly can in the benefactor has also committed to fund best interests of the students and the expanded sports facilities to encourage staff. The environment is safe and more participation in physical activity secure and well organised. and exercise. The plans for the new school buildings The new facilities will include science can be seen on the school’s website laboratories, design and technology along with drawings and a virtual “fly- facilities, art rooms, classrooms, new through” showing both interior and

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hope that you are all still keeping exception. Plot holders growing potatoes ideal weather we’ve had. However, the May I finish by once again wishing that safe and well – it would appear that it feared the worst after the severe frost apple tree has not been as fruitful – I’ve you all keep safe and well during these Iwill be a long journey before we can (-4) we had earlier in the season – but I only had about 20. The pear tree has difficult times and that hopefully you resume our normal lives, so continue to know that everyone’s plants recovered produced some good sized fruit and and your families have a happy festive look after yourselves and others. well and delivered the goods. My second there is some already pickling in white season and all the very best for 2021!

CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION On Saturday 5th September a long early variety, Kestrel, exceeded my wine (I’m still waiting for Alistair to awaited barbecue took place on our expectations producing a very good yield connect his plastic pipe from his vineyard Stay safe and well all of you. communal plot, social distancing and all of more than average sized potatoes to my plot). the other guidelines were duly observed. which incidentally make excellent The plum tree has produced more fruit Mind how you go… We had a total of 23 allotment holders roasting potatoes. than I can ever remember with several enjoying themselves on a sunny evening. Express Broad Beans, Curly Kale, branches near to breaking point from Ernie – Ivinghoe Plot Holder The grilling of everyone’s BYO food was Boltardy Beetroot, Courgettes, Autumn the sheer volume of fruit. The beauty of expertly done by Russell and Damian – Mammoth Leeks and Carrots produced the allotment is that the harvest can be so many thanks to them. a satisfactory reward for putting them in shared between everyone. Many thanks also to the following for the ground. I experimented with several At this time of year we start to get our making it such a successful evening: varieties of peas including Meteor Misty, plots ready for the next growing season John Lowe for donating the seat, Sam Avola, Terrain and Bingo – I grew some – but that is another chapter! and Steve for donating a barbecue and on the normal frame and others in big Simone for donating the table. black pots supported by wire netting and There are plans for future events but the latter produced more peas. The pots they are on hold in view of the current proved far easier to weed as it is a more situation and decisions will be made compact space and you can control the once the restrictions are lifted. Plot growth and direction. It is also hugely holders, please keep an eye out on our useful to be able to move the pots notice board and Russell’s shed. around the plot! It was wonderful news after all these If there are two vegetable plants that I years to learn that Ivinghoe Parish have grown from seed that I have been Council has subscribed to membership really happy about this season it would of the National Allotments Society; this have to be Butternut Squash and the will certainly benefit all of us on the White Star F1 Onion. The squash has allotment site – in particular buying our produced 11 good-sized fruits. The onion vegetable seeds with a great discount! can be picked when it is the size of a golf Now, after all the social news let ball or it can be left to grow larger – it us get on to the growing side of the is a good crisp white onion and stores allotment plots. We all keep saying brilliantly. year after year what a strange growing There has been an abundance of fruit season it has been and this year is no on the trees this year resulting from the

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ere it not for the coronavirus victorious and Simone collected the during the pandemic. Marjory Rankin We will be planning for next year’s pandemic we would no trophy on their behalf. Congratulations speaking on behalf of Pitstone Allotment show over the coming months and would Wdoubt be reporting on yet to Ivinghoe and thank you to all those Association best sums up why Karen is like to confirm that last years published another successful flower show, the who helped and took part, particularly our such a worthy winner, “During August craft schedule will roll over to next year. fifth since its revival in 2016. Sadly, judge Carol, who trekked across the sites and September we held a weekly When it is safe and permissible we will

CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION like many other community events it on the coldest, windiest evening since collection of surplus produce for the local hold an AGM. wasn’t to be. We are however delighted lockdown began. food bank, we were staggered by the All being well this time next year we to report that we were able to stage a As part of our affiliation to the Royal response and very grateful Karen offered will be reporting on another successful virtual version of the annual inter village Horticultural Society, we have the honour to take delivery and coordinate the show, in the meantime enjoy your allotment challenge for the coveted of awarding one of our members the distribution with Babs. What we found growing, cooking and crafting. Harry Ecklethwaite Trophy. A few hardy prestigious Banksian Medal. This year remarkable was Karen set up and manned souls from the respective sites each it was awarded to Karen Groom. The a stall selling our ‘surplus’ surplus raising staged a display of flowers, fruit and veg criteria was for someone who had done some very useful funds for the food bank, at their site. This year Ivinghoe were something of note for their community thank you Karen.” I, IA & P H S

Ivinghoe winning entry Ivinghoe winning team Karen Groom Banksian medal winner, Pitstone entry

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• Tree Surgery & Felling W Roff Agricultural Services • Stump Grinding • Hedge Cutting Landscaping • Hay & straw for sale CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION • • Fencing • Paddock maintenance • Fencing Contact Robert on Looking to Learn to Play or Improve your Golf? Tel: 07585 007109 ( 07909 680807 Email: [email protected] ElsagE Farm, CHEddington Book 6 lessons with our Pro Mark Flitney for www.rmltreeandgardenservices.co.uk £85.00, and if you decide to join we will refund the cost of your lessons. A note from the Editor... I very much hope that you are still • Various Adult Membership schemes available starTng from less than enjoying reading the Ivinghoe Beacon £8.00 per week. magazine, it has changed a little since the Parish Council took over the • Junior Membership £99.00 or only £20.00 with a Parent holding production of the magazine. 7 day Membership. We really want the magazine to be • Turn up and play Green Fees from £10.00 for 9 holes. something you get pleasure from reading as well as a useful reference tool for local events and advertising. Discount Golf Shop with the largest Looking for a We are always looking for new ideas to selecTon of equipment in the area local Venue for keep the magazine an interesting read, a Party? so if you have something that you would For further details contact: like to be considered for inclusion, please Pro Shop: Tel: 01296 668696 Our Clubhouse is available for Clubhouse: Tel: 01296 668696 do get in touch! private hire for birthdays and Many thanks and happy reading. E‐mail: [email protected] www.ivinghoegolfclub.co.uk celebraTons. Bridget Knight The Editor [email protected] Ivinghoe Golf Club, WellcroY, Ivinghoe, Nr. Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 9EF

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40 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 41 Ashridge Ramblings – Autumn Glory n and on restrictions go, but dieback, caused by a fungus called nature continues unfazed, giving Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, has taken Ous all an escape pod. Ashridge hold and is slowly killing our eponymous won’t be holding any events for the trees. Symptoms include leaf loss and foreseeable future, but the bucks are crown dieback. Maybe it should be rutting, the trees are looking glorious, called corona-fungus! The worst affected the shop is open and you can still get a trees, especially those growing near BEYOND THE BOUNDARY post-perambulatory coffee. footpaths, roadsides and homes seem to Autumn walks are amongst the best. I develop a large, bright blue spot on the miss my butterflies but adore the colours trunk. These are destined for the chop, and the carpet of fallen leaves that the spot having been put there by our renders the mud innocuous. Surprisingly, foresters to identify trees that may, in there is still debate about why leaves future, pose a risk. turn red. In autumn, deciduous trees break down the green chlorophyll Rikki Harrington that converts sunlight to energy. The (Ashridge Estate Committee Member) nutrients are returned to the roots to [email protected] help provide sustenance during the winter. Yellow and orange leaves result from the unmasking of carotenoid pigments, which have always been there. Red, pink and purple colours, however, come from anthocyanins, and these have to be manufactured anew. This requires energy and must therefore have evolved to benefit the plant in some way. There is a range of theories as to what these benefits might be. Anthocyanins might act as antioxidants, helping trees to cope with harsh conditions. They might attract birds, which help disperse fruits. They might act as sunscreen, protecting the leaves from damage caused by UV light, hence delaying their fall and squeezing a little more energy out of them. There are some other, wackier theories. About 10% of Ashridge’s trees are Ash but, sadly, this is likely to fall. Ash The dreaded blue spot on condemned Ash trees Ashridge autumn glory – don’t miss it!

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ASIAN HORNET Vespa velutina What is it? An invasive nonnative hornet originally from Asia. Asian hornet is a highly aggressive predator of native insects and poses a significant threat to honey bees and other pollinators. In 2004 it was accidentally introduced to France where it Honey Bee Swarms: Swarms such as the ones pictured has spread rapidly and into neighbouring countries. Since 2016 a number of sightings have been recorded in the UK. are merely Colonies that are in transition. Normally these Swarms are found hanging from tree branch, fence post or any place where Suspected sightings should be reported immediately using the details provided at the bottom of this poster. the swarm can gather close to the Queen while scouts are sent out Dark abdomen to look for a more permanent home. A swarm left alone will only Entirely dark thorax be in place from just a few minutes to a few hours and occasionally a few days. Generally these swarms are very docile and the swarm- ing Bees usually will not sting. When Honey Bees swarm they gorge themselves with honey before leaving the hive which makes it very hard for them to double over and sting.

Fourth What Causes Honey Bees to Swarm?: Honey Actual size segment yellow / Bees have a natural instinct to survive by sending out new colo- orange nies. They may also swarm through overcrowding or because an old queen is thought to be failing and they wish to raise a new one. Honey Bees usually swarm in early spring just as the colony is building up numbers in anticipation of the upcoming honey Yellow tips to legs flow but swarming can happen through to late summer David Walker It is difficult to predict if weather conditions will lead to a large number of swarms in a particular year. Where might I see it? Asian hornet abdomen Native hornet abdomen May be seen on flowering plants, around beehives, around rotting / fermenting fruit and protein, and at street markets Declining Honey Bee numbers make the attracted by sweet fruit and fish stalls. If You See a Swarm: collection of swarms an important part of the work of bee keepers. You Active from February to November across England and Wales. should never interfere with a swarm and pest control companies will What does it look like? not kill a swarm unless absolutely necessary. ➤ Slightly smaller than native hornet ➤ Dark abdomen, 4th segment yellow / orange Please contact: ➤ Bright yellow tips to legs (native hornet dark) ➤ Entirely brown or black thorax (native hornet more orange) MBBKA Swarm Hotline 07770370132 or Brian Bush – Mid Bucks Beekeepers and BBKA Swarm Officer Asian hornet nest ‘Hawks’ outside honey bee colonies

BBKA British Bee Keepers Association website DANGER! http:www.bbka.org.uk This hornet stings. Mid Bucks Bee Keepers Association website Do not disturb an active nest. https://mbbka.org.uk/ Seek advice using the details below.

Report any sightings of this species: with the free iPhone and Android recording app: online at: by email:

www. bbka.org.uk www.nonnativespecies.org www.mbbka.org.uk

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46 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 47 Councillor News from was already approved for three traffic example, to Active Bucks public health calming projects in our area in Ivinghoe officers to help identify ways to combat and Cublington, and for a cycle path social isolation and get people fit, active Anne Wight between Mentmore and Cheddington, so and to keep in touch with other residents we have definitely hit the ground running! with similar interests. The Community Boards work in a Since working groups can organise Wing and Ivinghoe totally new and exciting way as they are their own meetings, research options, Community Board update very much resident-driven. Your ideas and ways of working, they can set their On 23 September we had the second and priorities matter, and we want you own pace. Once they have come up with meeting of the Wing and Ivinghoe Anne Wight to get involved in helping to identify project ideas they can then apply for Community Board. As you may know, Buckinghamshire Councillor, and shape our community priorities funding using the online application form the Community Boards were set up Ivinghoe Divison by sharing what matters most to you which can be found on our Community when the new Buckinghamshire Council or raising an issue or an idea for a Board webpage link. Their request will came into effect in April. The Wing and wellbeing of residents. community improvement. We want to then be formally added to the agenda for

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION Ivinghoe Board comprises 16 parishes The Local Infrastructure Fund is to hear from you and you can get in touch discussion and/or local member approval and our aim is to bring people together support community infrastructure needs. with us by contacting our Community at the next one of our five formal from these to make a real difference It can be used to support the upgrading Board coordinator, Katrina Kelly on Community Board meetings each year. to the places where we live: Aston of existing and/or new physical and/or [email protected] or Some examples of local priorities Abotts, Cublington, Cheddington, social infrastructure. The overall budget on our new Facebook Community Board which have been identified through Pitstone, Mentmore, Wing, Slapton, is allocated based on the number of page which is currently being developed discussions at recent Community Board Hardwick, Creslow, Ivinghoe, Wingrave new homes proposed for each Board – details of the link will be circulated meetings and with local residents, and Rowsham, Weedon, Edlesborough, area according to the draft or published once that is up and running. community groups and partners include Marsworth, Watermead and Whitchurch. Local Plans. There are lots of ways to get involved. the Environment, Covid-19 recovery, The 16 Community Boards across For the Wing and Ivinghoe Community If several people across the Wing and Health and Wellbeing for all, and Buckinghamshire have been given a Board, the levels of funding for 2020/21 Ivinghoe area wish to work on the same Transport. Specific working groups are collective budget of £3.9 million. The are as follows: idea – for example, exploring ways to forming within these four main priorities, budget is split into three funding streams: • Community Area Priorities - £86,563 make our communities more dementia- as detailed below: • Community Area Priorities Fund • Fund Health & Wellbeing Fund - friendly or for looking into the possibility • Transport which includes exploring • Health and Wellbeing Fund £26,879 of planting wildflower meadows locally – Traffic Calming, Bus Routes and • Local Infrastructure Fund • Infrastructure Fund Total - £39,536 then our Community Board coordinator, 20mph zones The Community Area Priorities Fund • Total budget - £152,978 Katrina Kelly, will bring you all together • Environment which includes will be used to support local projects with other residents, parish councillors, exploring Littering, Cycle ways, which will help improve outcomes for Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a and stakeholders who interested in the improved infrastructure for Electric residents whilst addressing the local portion of the Health and Wellbeing Fund same issue. You would come together Car Charging points, and preservation needs and our area priorities. These was allocated to the new Councillor in a working group to explore the of Wildlife will be determined by each Community Crisis Fund in the spring to help support ideas and work with Buckinghamshire • Covid 19 which includes exploring Board and support the delivery of the Covid volunteer groups who were council officers and other partners continued Business and economic Buckinghamshire Council’s Corporate working on the ground to ensure that to look at local projects. Some of support for recovery in case of local Plan. Up to 50% of this budget can be shielded residents were able to receive these partners might even be able to lockdowns used for transport projects. food and other essential supplies during offer match funding. These partners • Health and Well-being which The Health and Wellbeing Fund is the full national lockdown. Moreover, at might range from groups like Chiltern includes exploring Youth Recruitment/ to be used to support local projects the most recent meeting in September, AONB or Rural England, in the case of Youth Council, Better Rural Broadband which will help improve the health and I am happy to say that funding allocation wildlife preservation across our area for • Reduction of Drugs and ASB/ u

48 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 49 Neighbourhood Crime Combatting • let you know about local consultations Your local Councillors: Social Isolation, • share information on funding for • Food and Fitness Fair in Summer communities Cllr Karen Groom Cllr Pat Roach 2022, Dementia friendly communities Areas of Responsibility: Allotments, Beacon Magazine, Areas of Responsibility: Health, Community Impact Bucks If you would like to find out more Beacon Villages Library, Conservation Area, Footpaths and Liaison, General Parish Maintenance, Lawn and Trees, If you would like to get involved in any about your local Community Board and Bridleways, Parish Maintenance, Ivinghoe Aston Village Local Area Forum Hall, Lawn Hire, Lawn and Trees, National Trust/Chiltern Add: Church View, Church Road, Ivinghoe LU7 9EU of the above working groups please get get involved, contact us at localities@ Soc., Planning Tel: 01296 668482 in touch. buckinghamshire.gov.uk Add: Willowdene Farm, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EA Email: [email protected] I’d encourage you all to join our For more information please see Tel: 01296 668326 or Mob: 07882 3562411 community board as you get to have our Wing and Ivinghoe Community Email: [email protected] your say on these and other issues Board webpage: https://www. Mrs Bridget Knight Cllr Claire Bamber Clerk to Ivinghoe Parish Council that affect your area. How involved you buckinghamshire.gov.uk/community- Areas of Responsibility: Conservation Area, Human Add: Parish Office, Ivinghoe Town Hall, become is up to you. We’ll: and-safety/improving-your- Resources (Clerks employment and training), IPC Website High Street, Ivinghoe, Bucks LU7 9EP • invite you to our board meetings local-community/wing-ivinghoe- and Social Media (inc Facebook and Twitter), Planning Tel: 07960 605393 Sub-Committee, Police Liaison, Streets, Street Lights and COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION Email: [email protected] and events community-board/ Highways (inc Traffic Calming), Grants and Fundraising • give you the opportunity to get Add: Bruce Grove House, Great Gap. Ivinghoe. LU7 9DZ involved with our working groups Anne Wight Tel: 01296 668134 or Mob: 07711 107 114 Email: [email protected] Cllr Anne Wight Buckinghamshire Councillor Cllr Andrew Dicker Ivinghoe Division Areas of Responsibility: Allotments, Finance Add: 31 Redwood Drive, Wing, LU7 0TA Add: The Old House, 38 Station Road, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EB. Tel: 01296 682955 Tel: 01296 668444 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Cllr Sandra Jenkins Cllr Stephen Lott Buckinghamshire Councillor Areas of Responsibility: Beacon Villages Library, Tel: 01296 668587 Footpaths and Bridleways, Lawn Hire, Local Area Forum, Email: [email protected] Playgrounds (Ivinghoe and Ivinghoe Aston), Police Liaison, 2020 Christmas Post Update Town Hall Committee Add: 2 Yew Tree Close, Ivinghoe, LU7 9ET. st Tel: 01296 668897 1 Ivinghoe & Pitstone Scouts are sad to announce that due to the Email: [email protected] Cllr Chris Poll ongoing uncertainty about Covid, there will be no Cllr Anna Stone Buckinghamshire Councillor Areas of Responsibility: Education, Footpaths and District Cllr Edlesborough Ward Bridleways, Town Hall Committee, Grants and Fundraising Add: 43 Gooseacre, Cheddington LU7 0SR Christmas Post this year. Add: Willowdene Farm, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EA Tel: 01296 663 737 Tel: 01296 668326 Email: [email protected] We would like to thank all of you who have used our Email: [email protected]

Christmas post service in the past and all the Cllr Sheena Bexson Cllr Derek J Town Areas of Responsibility: Community Impact Bucks Liaison, Buckinghamshire Councillor local retailers who have supported us. Planning sub-committee, Play Areas (Ivinghoe Aston & Tel: 01296 661637 Ivinghoe), Streets, Street Lights and Highways (inc Traffic Email: [email protected] Calming). Hopefully we will be back up and delivering for Christmas 2021. Email: [email protected]

50 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 51 From Buckinghamshire Councillors of high tech and medi-tech, space and coronavirus pandemic. The double effect creative and digital industries. When of additional spending to support our Sandra Jenkins and Derek Town combined with our physical location vulnerable and the variety of one-off at the centre of major growth hubs, costs incurred, combined with the loss our proven track record of delivery of income from regular funding streams Buckinghamshire Council and strong partnerships between local such as parking revenue and business sets its sights on Covid government, business and health, we rates has brought about a budget recovery by proposing ‘best know there is huge potential for us to shortfall. Although some additional in class’ devolution bid turbo charge our economic recovery. funding from central government has Buckinghamshire Council sets its sights Post-Covid it is very important that helped, it doesn’t cover all the additional on Covid recovery by proposing “best in Buckinghamshire is free to be ‘business costs and has left a funding gap of class” devolution bid. led’. It has become clear that business around £7m. The proposal, which is subject to being needs to be able to form alliances and Council Leader Martin Tett explained: approved by the council’s Cabinet when exploit opportunities wherever they “2020 has been a year like no other.

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION it meets next month, demonstrates both lie, rather than being tied to a particular As individuals, families and whole the ambition and the potential of the geography. Bucks business will embrace communities, everyone has faced new Buckinghamshire Council which growth and recovery opportunities in uncertainty and many challenges over was launched on 1st April this year. working with partners across many areas the past six months. As a council our The new council geographically aligns business opportunities and strengths in including Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, experience has been no different. with the Local Enterprise Partnership, key growth sectors. Berkshire or Surrey. It is important to “We are now at the stage where we strategic NHS partners, business Cllr Martin Tett, Leader of stress that we will work with a broad must set our budget priorities for the representative organisations and the Buckinghamshire Council, commented: range of organisations and industries coming financial year. In any year this voluntary and community sector. Working “The Government’s election manifesto to maximise business opportunities can be a challenge but undoubtedly this together with these partners, the council made clear its commitment to devolution wherever they occur.” year will be even harder. is now finalising an ambitious proposal across all of England, not just to cities. “Without a doubt we are better that could not only benefit the economic It is vital that the Government use its Help us decide our budget off having come together to form and social revival of Buckinghamshire, forthcoming White Paper to empower priorities Buckinghamshire Council in April this but could add £10 billion a year to the UK large unitary authorities such as Bucks Buckinghamshire Council today launches year. Being one council we were able economy by 2050. to drive forward economic recovery and its budget consultation for 2021/22. to work quickly to deliver a coordinated The hope is that this aligns with the growth, along with tackling long standing Residents, businesses and other response to Covid and we were able to Government’s forthcoming ‘Devolution social, environmental and health issues. interested parties are being asked to work more effectively with businesses White Paper’, which will pave the way “As one of the newest and largest submit their views on the council’s and community groups as a single for devolution bids across the country unitary authorities in the UK, with a spending priorities for the coming organisation.” and Buckinghamshire wants to be in proven track record of delivery, we financial year. Martin Tett continued: “We now have the vanguard of those areas who might have our sights set on a ‘best in class’ The council carries out a budget an organisation that is better placed to benefit from devolution in the future. devolution settlement which can drive consultation every year, giving people respond to our residents and businesses’ In putting forward this proposal post-Covid 19, recovery benefiting the chance to have their say on where needs. We will also be able to make the new council, together with the the residents and businesses of they think money should be invested substantial savings going forward as Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Buckinghamshire, as well as creating and also in which services or areas they we bring services together. Millions Partnership, has chosen to withdraw jobs and prosperity for the UK economy believe savings can be made. of pounds of savings have already from the Oxford to Cambridge ‘ARC as a whole.” Council finances have faced added been made; however, others such as Leaders Group’ and present a bid led by Buckinghamshire has super strengths pressure this year as a result of the rationalising contracts as they come u

52 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 53 up for renewal and redesigning how we First Buckinghamshire e-bike scheme been prevalent over the last 6 months extra vigilant”, said Buckinghamshire do things, will take time to realise so being introduced along Waddesdon but just to recognise the volunteers Council’s Cabinet Member for that we don’t damage vital services. The Greenway. and their supporters who have served Environment and Climate Change Bill majority of these savings are likely to be A fleet of new electric bikes available the village so well in our time of need. Chapple OBE: “Lockdown has meant over the next five years which doesn’t for the public to use is being introduced THANK YOU. that many of us have had the opportunity help in our current situation. In the for the first time in Buckinghamshire. Additionally we are pleased to to do the biggest spring clean ever, or meantime cost pressures have increased The ten e-bikes will come into report that the assistance from central to finally get into that long-intended DIY dramatically, particularly for social care, service along the well-loved 4km long government to help the volunteer efforts project – and that’s resulted in a lot of as a result of Covid. Waddesdon Greenway and will give was not at all bureaucratic or obstructive. extra waste. Added to that, the housing “There are clearly tough decisions people a new way of travelling between For those residents who are not aware market is beginning to get going again, ahead, so it’s important that we give Waddesdon Manor and Aylesbury Vale the government via Buckinghamshire and there will be lots of clearing out as everyone the opportunity to have their Parkway railway station. Council (BC) assigned up to £2000 for delayed house moves start to take place. say on what our spending priorities The bikes are now available to use each BC councillor to allocate to local But don’t be tempted to hire a ‘man should be for the coming year.” as part of a ‘soft launch’ of the service volunteer groups directly or via the parish with a van’ who’s offering a cheap job.

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION To take part in the online consultation before the scheme is launched to the councils for petrol and other incurred There’s a legal responsibility to ensure visit our website. The consultation wider public later in September. Initially, costs in the course of the daily tasks that your waste is disposed of properly closes on Sunday 8 November. the bikes are only available from the in support of the vulnerable residents – and that means using a bona fide docking station outside the visitors’ who were isolating/shielding during lock licensed carrier. Check the SCRAP fly Railway Under-bridge at centre at Waddesdon Manor. Bikes are down. We were all impressed at the tipping code – it tells you everything Cooks Wharf available on a first-come-first-served speed effectiveness of the process and you need to do to avoid a rogue It appears the work carried out recently basis and full instructions on how to council officers in transferring the money operator that might just dump your has provide a positive solution at last. hire are displayed on the docking station to the organisations/parish council bank waste at the roadside. I believe the problem was a blocked itself. Hire charges are £1.50 for the accounts. One example where the Check out the SCRAP fly tipping code: culvert (probably constructed when the first hour and £1.00 for each additional respective councillor completed the www.recycleforbuckinghamshire. railway was built in 1838). The recent 30 minutes. The second docking station forms, submission made and monies co.uk/scrap-fly-tipping heavy rain did not cause a flood so the at the railway station is being installed appearing in the respective bank account rout to Pitstone should now stay open in the coming weeks, ready for the full was less than 7 days. all year. launch of the service. This is a great example of partnership Fly Tipping - Call for extra First Buckinghamshire working between the council, Aylesbury vigilance to help stop post- e-bike scheme being Garden Town, Waddesdon Manor and lockdown fly tipping introduced along Chiltern Railways. The e-bikes are The unique circumstances of the Derek Town – 01296 661637 Waddesdon Greenway operated by French company Smoove, coronavirus lockdown have led to [email protected] A fleet of new electric bikes available for with full repair and maintenance support a national surge in the problem of the public to use is being introduced for from Cyclefleet. Bikes will be available opportunistic waste carriers who all Sandra Jenkins – 01296 668587 the first time in Buckinghamshire. The seven days a week, for an initial period too often simply fly tip people’s waste, [email protected] ten e-bikes will come into service along of a year and full customer support will warns Buckinghamshire Council’s illegal the well-loved 4km long Waddesdon be available 24 hours a day. waste enforcement team, who have the Anne Wight – 01296 682955 Greenway and will give people a new job of tracing and prosecuting offenders [email protected] way of travelling between Waddesdon Covid-19/Coronavirus under the Buckinghamshire’s ‘zero Manor and Aylesbury Vale Parkway No intentions of repeating the many very tolerance’ approach to fly tipping. Chris Poll – 01296 663737 railway station. good directives and guide lines that have “That’s why I’m asking people to be [email protected]

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56 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine November 2020: Issue 114 November 2020: Issue 114 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 57 reduced by close to 50%, considerably Press Release from Buckinghamshire Council reducing the negative impacts on local • 8% preferred no change to the residents, buildings and the environment.” movement of heavy lorries Council to move For further information about the freight • 12% provided alternative solutions zone, please visit: • 5% were not sure ahead with Ivinghoe https://www.buckscc.gov.uk/services/ transport-and-roads/transport-plans- For further details about the results, freight zone and-policies/freight-strategy/ivinghoe- please visit: https://yourvoicebucks. area-freight-engagement/ citizenspace.com/highway-projects/ ivinghoe-fz-survey/ October 15th 2020 affected our planning with council officers Notes to Editor Buckinghamshire Council has and resources redeployed to help support The survey results were: Contact us at: communications@ announced plans to move ahead with the vulnerable and those at highest risk. • 70% agreed or strongly agreed with the buckinghamshire.gov.uk (monitored the implementation of the Ivinghoe area “But now I’m delighted we’re back freight zone proposals - 95% of these during office hours).For urgent Out Of ‘freight zone’, after some delays due to the on track and that the Ivinghoe area is lived within the proposed zone Hours enquiries call 07825 430 978.

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION coronavirus pandemic. set for its freight zone. Once drafted, • 23% disagreed or strongly disagreed The scheme, to reduce HGV traffic in the TROs will be subject to statutory with the proposals - 69% of these www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk the Cheddington, Ivinghoe and Mentmore public consultation so people can have lived in Buckinghamshire outside the areas, sits within defined boundaries, east their say on all the detail before final proposed zone https://twitter.com/BucksCouncil of the A418, north of the A41 and west implementation. We also need to liaise • 7% neither agreed nor disagreed of the B489. Work to draft the necessary with colleagues in Hertfordshire and • 72% preferred a 7.5 tonne restriction in https://www.youtube.com/c/ Traffic Regulation Orders needed for Central Bedfordshire Councils as some of the proposed freight zone on all roads, BuckinghamshireCouncil the zone is now scheduled to start in the signage will need to be sited in their including Brownlow Bridge mid February 2021, when formal public areas,” he added. • 4% preferred a 7.5 tonne restriction on https://www.facebook.com/ consultation will take place. Subject to the The Orders will include a 7.5 tonne Brownlow Bridge but not on roads in the BucksCouncil/ feedback received, the scheme could be weight restriction on vehicles travelling proposed freight zone fully operational by spring 2021. through the zone. There will be an Essential works to strengthen the exception for vehicles travelling to Brownlow bridge on the B488 have already destinations within the zone, which means started and these are expected to be deliveries and collections for local homes completed by the end of November. and businesses can continue unaffected. Public engagement on the concept of Monitoring in November 2019 showed the freight zone took place last March and an average of 254 HGVs per week passed was widely supported by local residents, through the proposed zone, heading for businesses and community groups. It destinations further afield, around 47% of included dialogue with parish councils, local the total HGV traffic in the area. councillors, and businesses, along with drop- Local ward councillor and Wing and in exhibition events in Ivinghoe and Wing Ivinghoe Community Board Chairman Anne and a survey which received 332 responses. Wight added, “This is great news. The Buckinghamshire Council Cabinet ‘freight zone’ would give us that balance Member for Transport Nick Naylor said he between allowing those HGVs that need was delighted to announce the news. “I’d to come to the area and discouraging like to have got on with things quicker, those that just pass through. Potentially however COVID-19 restrictions have this scheme could see lorry movements Strengthening work to Brownlow Bridge is currently taking place (Ivinghoe)

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