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BAACA SPRING 2021Lite.Pages CHARITY NO: 1087494 SPRING 2021 Bellingdon & Asheridge Community Newsletter IN THIS ISSUE Community news - Tribute to Alan Shepherd - Are you getting enough fibre (broadband)? Hort Soc St John’s Church Heard it on The New Grapevine… Nature Notes Winter lockdown has really Funding is only available until To sign up to the e-news please been hard, so we hope this the end of March so please do visit www.bellingdon.com and edition of the B&A Newsletter sign up as soon as you can. there’s a signup form on the coincides with some better right hand column. Usually in the Spring newsletter weather and good news about we start to advertise details of We’re always keen on having the easing of restrictions. the village fete, this year more news from Asheridge so This quarter we have a tribute to pencilled in for Saturday 26th do please get in touch if you long time B&A resident Alan June – restrictions permitting. As have anything you’d like to see Shepherd, who sadly passed yet we’re not sure what, if any, in the newsletter. away recently, and updates from events we’ll be able to put on We’re going to include an St John’s Church and Hort Soc. but please put the date in your occasional piece on “villagers diary anyway – hopefully we’ll There’s also news of how you past and present” and the next be able to do something. can get connected to Ultrafast edition will remember a true broadband in Bellingdon – it’s a A decision will be made as soon Bellingdonian and local community project and won’t go as practicable and further character, Dave Cox. We’d love ahead unless a minimum information will be in our to hear any anecdotes about him number of households pledge monthly e-news and the next – do let us know: their government voucher. print newsletter (due at the start [email protected] There’s a separate project for of June). Asheridge coming soon. 1 BELLINGDON & ASHERIDGE COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER SPRING 2021 Community News Are you getting enough fibre (broadband)? Remembering Alan Shepherd Nobody could have predicted how important a 1928-2021 decent internet connection would become over the last year – for work, school, exercise and more, its Alan, who sadly passed been an essential part of our lives. away from pneumonia in Stoke Mandeville hospital Unfortunately not everyone can access the internet on January 31st, lived in reliably and several schemes are underway locally Bellingdon & Asheridge to upgrade the infrastructure to enable faster speeds for over 40 years, first at and better connections. Little Orchard, Bellingdon In essence this should allow simultaneous video before moving, in 2015, to calls and none of that “you’ve frozen” or “your Widmore Close in internet connection is unstable” that’s plagued Asheridge. many households. After all who wants to drop out Following Acton Technical College Alan joined the of the village quiz at the critical time? De Havilland design office at Leavesden, going on Some of Bellingdon designated “urban” (by who to work on the design of helicopter engines. we’re not quite sure) are already eligible to receive A keen amateur pianist, he enjoyed Jazz, both an upgrade but the “rural” areas have to apply for listening to and playing, although he would not funding under the Rural Gigabit Voucher Scheme. admit to any great expertise in the latter! “Rural” Bellingdon (inc Bank Green) and Asheridge His other interests were both numerous and wide are running projects to upgrade the infrastructure. ranging, covering such diverse subjects as model The sign-up portal for the Bellingdon “Two Gates aircraft manufacture and flying, motorbikes, table Lane” project is now live: https:// tennis, darts, real ale, metal and woodworking – he www.openreach.com/connectmycommunity bought himself a combined metal lathe and milling Businesses (including sole traders/self employed) machine which enabled a modest addition to his can receive a double value voucher, so please sign income. He was also a talented watercolour artist up as a business if you can. and, having attended a course, became a skilled furniture restorer. The funding is disappearing very soon (end of March) so please do sign up asap. He will be remembered especially for his dry wit which he never lost, despite the many illnesses Email [email protected] for more info. inflicted on him in his later years, and the stoicism with which he bore these ills, although his biggest regret was having to give up his driving licence, “after all” he would say “I don’t fall over when I’m sat down”! A longer in memoriam can be found on our website www.bellingdon.com and a tribute page has been set up for Alan at https://alanshepherd.muchloved.com Our thanks to his niece Jill and friend of nearly 60 years, Keith. 2 BELLINGDON & ASHERIDGE COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER SPRING 2021 Horticultural Society World Day of Prayer On Friday 5 March we join with the women of Subject to Covid guidelines at the time we are Vanuatu who have written the material for this planning the following events: year’s World Day of Prayer which will take place in • AGM & Spring Flower Show Later in the year over 170 countries across the world. • Plant Sale 15th May 10am onwards, Chesham As our churches in Chesham are not fully open for Town Centre worship, we have recorded our service on behalf of • Plant Sale 22nd May 10am-Noon, B&A Village Churches Together for Chesham at St John’s Church, Hall TBC Bellingdon which will be available on YouTube from If we are unable to run the Plant Sale 22nd May 10.30am on 5 March. from the Village Hall due to Covid restrictions we will be again offering plants via email, as we did in The service will be on the Parish of Great Chesham May 2020. If any members, who have not previously YouTube channel @ St John’s, Bellingdon. supplied their email address, would like to be Further details at www.wwdp.org.uk. included they should contact Mike Allenby on [email protected]. As there will be no offering at the service, donations can be made online at www.wwdp.org.uk, quoting Tracey Ryan our Chesham reference CHES0401. There is a tick box for Gift Aid. St John's Church Marjorie Davies It already seems a long time since Christmas, but I’d like to thank all who helped with the online ‘Huge Heard it on The New Farm Carols’ on Christmas Eve. We had over 100 Grapevine… views which probably means 200 or more watched it! We also had good numbers watching our other From photos of our beautiful locality to finding a online carols (75 views) and our family craft event recommended tradesperson or even a missing (45 views)! And we did manage one short service of dementia patient, The New Grapevine offers a readings and recorded carols in church before we wide spectrum of information and advice pertinent moved into the current Lockdown but it was only to local needs. Whilst no longer unique I’m willing possible for 10 people to be there. to bet that few areas were served by such a service before ours. Now we’re starting to look forward to Spring – though the snowdrops and crocus seem to have Developed as an adjunct to The Hilltop News – the been checked by the cold weather – and onto Easter local newsletter serving the villages of Hawridge, and hopefully a time when we can resume services Cholesbury, Buckland Common and St Leonard’s, in church alongside the recorded ones which will the New Grapevine serves as an information and continue for at least some more months. advice exchange. At the Tin Tabernacle we’re hoping to have some New Grapevine is strictly a social service without work done to improve the car park and some commercial overtones. To prevent it becoming an decorating and improvements in the kitchen and advertisement board for local businesses and private toilet/store. And then when we’re able to return to sales, thus diluting the value of the content is was regular services in the church building, we’ll have a set up to provide, such postings are discouraged and good spring clean to be ready to welcome people gentle reminders posted following transgression of back! these rules. Persistent offenders have their future postings moderated to filter out unwelcome Tim Yates, Minister for St John’s Bellingdon 3 BELLINGDON & ASHERIDGE COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER SPRING 2021 messages. Otherwise, postings are not previewed by Whoever the originator and admin are, we should anybody. be grateful to them for such a foresighted and useful public service. Whilst active comment and discussion is allowed – a great way to engage with your community, proving [To sign up for The New Grapevine please go to especially useful during lockdowns, Grapevine cholesbury.com and follow the links on the homepage allows no discussion that may lead to dispute or – Ed] acrimony. Obviously content has to be moderated With thanks to the New Grapevine Team and to this end the anonymity of the administration is necessary. Solicitations for sale of goods and employment are not welcome. Children’s work Nature notes experience and solicitations for the activities of only charities that have a relevance to the Hilltop community are welcome. For the avoidance of doubt, welcome charities are limited to the local school, the village and parish halls, local societies and preservation groups, the hilltop churches and nearby hospices. Over more recent years, the admin have seen the benefits of widening its coverage to include slightly more outlying areas including Bellingdon with Asheridge, Hastoe, Chivery and Wiggington.
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