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Inside this Issue: • Queen Victoria’s Celebrations • Ashridge Ramblings • Sporting Scoop The Quarterly Magazine The Quarterly Magazine of Ivinghoe Parish Council The Beacon Team... Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS Ivinghoe Flower and Thelp of the volunteer band of Produce Show distributors. We are looking forward to the Ivinghoe Many thanks to them all; Gloria Welcome from the Chair 3 Flower and Produce Show on Saturday Snowdon, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, 14th September being held in both the Karen Groom, Neighbourhood News Rob and Ann Cattle, Wendy Farrington, 6-31 Ivinghoe Town Hall and Ivinghoe Old Chair, Ivinghoe Keith Haynes – it couldn’t be done School Village Hub. Parish Council Ecumenical Enlightenment 32-37 without you! If you have any skills that will help Cultivation Clippings 42-47 us to keep the magazine going or you Ivinghoe and Ivinghoe would like to submit an article, please Beyond the Boundary 50 Aston Village Tidy-up let us know as we are always looking Thank you to the volunteers who have for new and varied talents! Sporting Scoop 52-57 been helping to keep the parish looking good. In Ivinghoe Lisa McCarthy has Councillor Communication 60-71 taken care of the planters by Ivinghoe Lawn and these are being enjoyed by all especially the local bees. We have BEACON COPY AND managed to keep last years geraniums ADVERT DEADLINES alive and these have brightened up the Church bus stop. Ivinghoe Aston had a

We aim to get the magazine distributed village tidy up earlier this year. Thank around the beginning of every February, May, Bucks Best Kept Village you to everyone involved. August and November. To ensure your article Competition 2019 Results Editor: Bridget Knight or feature makes the edition you would like Ivinghoe scored 84 marks in this year’s Roads Tel: 07960 605393 please see the submission deadlines below: Gurney Cup. Well done to all concerned. The Councillors have met with the Email: [email protected] A certifi cate of merit will be issued in Bucks CC Local Area Technician and Advertising Manager: Bridget Knight September and we will receive further he has suggested some more robust Tel: 07960 605393 feedback in due course. bollards to be placed on the corner of the won with 94 marks and Fulmer were Lawn entrance. Some HGVs have been Email: [email protected] November 2019 – 4 October 2019 runners-up with 93. ignoring the 18-tonne weight limit and February 2020 Edition – 3 January 2020 Design and Artwork: Laila Palfrey the council is working with the Thames May 2020 Edition – 3 April 2020 Tel: 01525 222214 Valley Police on this matter. August 2020 Edition – 3 July 2020 Christmas Trees Email: [email protected] Sadly, the both the Ivinghoe Aston and Ivinghoe Christmas Trees are dying. Ivinghoe Town Hall BEACON MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATES: We have taken advice and will look for After the former chairman moved alternative types of trees which suit our away the committee was left without 1/4 page £58 per year NB: Rates are for 4 editions. soil type. a chairman and the Library and u 1/3 page £65 per year 1/2 page £95 per year Artwork must be supplied Full page £130 per year as a jpeg or a pdf fi le.

2 Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 Town Hall risked losing their very Chris has recently completed a charity valuable charitable status. sky dive for local charity Nest As a temporary measure I have Vale. Nest provides accessible and become Town Hall Chairman and Cllr equitable support service for families, Lott Vice Chairman, this is to enable the with children under fi ve, living in Town Hall to continue. If you can spare . If you would like to help some time to join the committee please Chris reach his £1,500 fundraising target get in touch, there are four meetings you can sponsor him through the link a year and we have a very good https://www.gofundme.com/avdc- committee with an excellent Secretary, chairman039s-charity-skydive. COUNCILLORS NEWS Treasurer and Booking Clerk but more help is always very welcomed. Website Please check the website for regular AVDC District Councillor updates: www.ivinghoepc.org.uk Chris Poll Congratulations to AVDC District Councillor Chris Poll who has been appointed AVDC Vice Chairman.

Have you ever thought about ‘growing your own’? Growing your own fruit and vegetables can be very a satisfying experience and in Ivinghoe we are very lucky to have some beautiful allotments just off Church Road, overlooking St Mary’s Church. If you are an Ivinghoe resident and would like some more information about availability of plots – we have them in a range of sizes – please contact the Parish Clerk at [email protected]

NB: there may not always be an available plot but we do keep a waiting list!

4 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 5 RikkIAbout Message from our new Countdown BBUUCCKKSS neighbours My arm was gently twisted (= a few pints The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church were gently poured down my neck) by congregation members of the new Ketts back in 2015 to take over from him Ivinghoe Aston meeting hall live in the the task on ensuring that IA gets its fair CCOOUUNNTTYY surrounding area, and we are very pleased representation in the mag. Everybody’s to have found this excellent location in style of reporting and writing is different the friendly Ivinghoe Aston community. and I think it’s good to have regular NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS The hall will be used for Christian Bible changes. You can see where I’m heading. SSHHOOWW readings, prayer meetings and gospel In May 2020 I’ll have done fi ve years preachings. Whilst we don’t lend out (20 pieces) and I’d like to hand over. I see our meeting hall for other uses, we are the magazine as a useful repository for th affi liated with the Rapid Relief Team facts about the village, its events and its THURSDAY 29 AUGUST 2019 organisation, and look forward to showing people that might otherwise get lost in our support for the local community going the mists of time, as a sounding board Bolddog Lings Freestyle Motorcycle Display forwards. You can fi nd more information for ideas, but not so much as a vehicle Band about us on the following websites: for communication on immediate issues, http://www. which can usually be better dealt with Over 200 Trade Stands & lots of family fun plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org/ these days by electronic means. So, if you WEEDON PARK, AYLESBURY https://www.theplymouthbrethren.org/ fancy a go, get in touch. Please surprise A413, 3 miles North of Aylesbury https://togetherwearebrethren.com.au/ me, as I probably did Ketts – and I’ll happily 8am – 6pm https://www.rapidreliefteam.org/. pour a few pints down your neck – or invite you round for a cuppa and some nice Thump bikkies if that’s more your thing. ADMISSION: Another massive lorry has just driven over the pothole outside our shaking house. We Rikki Harrington ADULTS CHILD OVER 65 GROUP need a weight limit on this road now that Brampton, Ivinghoe Aston 01525 220625; (5 – 16 yrs) (2 adults & 2 children) the B488 has one and satnavs seem to [email protected]. ADVANCE £15 £5 £13 £35 think that we are the alternative. SHOW DAY £17 £6 £15 £40 Please get in touch if you have any * UNDER 5’s FREE * Street map news, views or ideas! If anybody would like a slightly-improved FREE BUS SERVICE electronic copy of the street layout from from Station Way, Aylesbury to Showground - First Bus 9.30am the last issue, please drop me an email. Rikki Harrington * * FREE CAR PARKING * * Pre Show Tickets available Online buckscountyshow.co.uk

6 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 7 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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8 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 9 WI News... SURGERY & Ivinghoe & Pitstone PITSTONE VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE, Women’s Institute 2019 FLU CAMPAIGN EDLESBOROUGH PITSTONE th th he year carries on apace... Since well as a highly enjoyable fused glass THURSDAY 19 SEPT WEDNESDAY 25 SEPT our last report we have had a talk course. What‘s this you ask, well for all 12.30 – 2pm Surnames A – M 12.30 – 2pm Surnames A – M 18 years and over only 18 years and over only Tfrom Cindy White on how to make you people that have glass ornaments SATURDAY 28th SEPT the most of supermarket fl owers. This hanging in your windows, you now 9am – 12.30 Surnames A – M NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS was very useful, and we have used the know. We all have glass birds in ours 18 years and over only rd th knowledge to make table decorations. made by ourselves. THURSDAY 3 OCT WEDNESDAY 9 OCT 12.30 – 2pm N - Z 12.30 – 2PM Surnames N - Z May saw our 102nd birthday SATURDAY 12th OCT SATURDAY 26th OCT celebration and resolutions to go to Also coming up…. 9am – 12.30 Surnames N – Z 9am – 12.30 the National WI Annual Meeting at August – a mystery tour All children also welcome All children also welcome Bournemouth. Tenor, Jacob Cole, September – Feel Good From the PLEASE NOTE DUE TO SUPPLY RELEASE DATES, NO CHILDREN’S FLU VACCINE (FOR 17 YRS & entertained us and he was magic. Ladies Outside In by Nikki Hall YOUNGER) WILL BE AVAILABLE UNTIL OCTOBER. PLEASE WATCH FOR UPDATES ON OUR were also invited from neighboring October – Supershoes by Sarah WEBSITE OR FACEBOOK PAGE institutes and they were very impressed November – Our Annual General with Jacob and the posh afternoon tea Meeting served to them. We are winners… with our fl oat, Don’t forget, when you receive your flu vaccine at your In June we had Lorraine Law and Ann entitled Be Fantastic Get Drastic With GP surgery, we will also check if you have any other Meader who started off making jams Plastic in the parade for the Ivinghoe vaccines and checks due. and chutneys from ingredients from their Church Fete. Well done to all the gardens. They have now progressed to other competition entrants. Our ladies three allotments and all proceeds from were dressed as mermaids and were Patients eligible for Flu vaccine are those who suffer from: their efforts go to local church funds. festooned with plastic. We really enjoyed All patients with DOB before 31/3/55 They make approximately £16,000 each the preparations as we felt like 5-year Heart, Respiratory, Liver year, well done to these ladies. olds. We were also selling our delicious & Neurological Diseases & Diabetes July, we all enjoyed a summer picnic. home-made cakes at the fete towards Lowered immunity. Ladies from Ivinghoe and Pitstone church funds. Carers (in receipt of carer’s allowance) represented your local WI at both the Talking of homemade cakes, we All pregnant ladies County and National meetings. progressed to home-made scones for All children aged 2 & 3years at GP surgery Children, in eligible school years, will be vaccinated at school About 30 of our ladies went on a trip Prosecco Cream Teas at the Music on All housebound patients will be contacted by the surgery to Highgrove and have been enthusing The Green event. A lovely day of music ever since. Unfortunately, they did not and cream teas. get to meet Charles and Camilla but still We would appreciate it if you could come at the above times in order to MINIMIZE YOUR enjoyed their lovely garden. Visitors and Guests are always welcome. waiting time. However, if you are unable to come at the allocated time for your surname, please feel free to attend any of the appropriate clinics above. If you are not available to Other educational trips include going th underground with the Post Offi ce on Further details are available from Sue attend any of the above clinics please call the surgery after October 15 to book an appointment in November their little postal train in as Eyre 01296 709281 / 07742 138955

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hank you – to all our regular and Ivinghoe Town Hall regular events: ad-hoc Hirers! At our recent AGM Twe were pleased to report that over Monday: 4pm – 8pm – Ballet the last 12 months we had in excess of Lisa Sabatinni (07834 281434) 90+ Bookings! The Ivinghoe Town Hall Management Monday: 8pm – 9pm – Boxercise Committee (ITHMC) are still in need of Josh Thompson (07456 574405) Chairperson. It is not an arduous job but NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS someone local who would like to contribute Tuesday: 9.45am – 12pm – Beacon Art by supporting the small dedicated team Marion Jackson (01296 668429) which keeps everything afl oat for the benefi t of Ivinghoe, Pitstone and all our Tuesday: 7pm – 8pm – Zumba Local Villages. Carolyn Syme (07941 092673) The Town Hall (ITHMC) – Charity No.300287 – also incorporates the “Beacon Tuesday: 8.15pm – 10.15pm – Morris Villages Community Library”. ‘New Moon’ Dancers Martin Lindridge Karen Groom kindly agreed to Chair our (07803-149490) AGM meeting and it was agreed that we should appoint a Vice President, for which Wednesday: 9.15am – 10.15am Stephen Lott was nominated. For historic Natural Pilates Andrea (07855 138005) FORD END WATERMILL reasons Stephen Swinbank had been IVINGHOE, acting both as Booking Clerk and Secretary Wednesday: 7pm – 8:30pm Yoga The only working watermill to survive intact in the county.The mill, for many years. Fortunately Sue Eyre Sally Craig (07753-985155) recorded in 1616 but probably much older, was in use until 1963. was proposed and agreed to become our Now restored by volunteers and run by Ford End Watermill Society, Secretary, which was much appreciated. Thursday: 9.30am – 10.30am Zumba it retains all the atmosphere of a small farm mill of the late 1800s. As we reported last quarter, your Fitnes Joanna Read (07912 644654) Visitors can work the sack hoist and mill wheat on a rotary hand quern. Town Hall (17th Century Grade II – Listed Stoneground wholemeal flour for sale on milling days. Building) does require substantial remedial Thursday: 7.00pm – 10.00pm W.I. OPENING TIMES 2019 maintenance. Bucks CC are in the process of 2nd Thursday of each month Open between 2pm and 5pm on the following dates with LOCATION obtaining £’estimates, pending BCC fi nancial Sue Eyre (01296 709281 or 07742 138955) milling demonstrations between 2-30pm and 4-30pm approx Water level permitting Station Rd, Ivinghoe, Bucks LU7 9EA approval before any work can start. We will 600 metres from the church along Last Admission 4-30pm. Admission: Adults: £3 children (5–15) £1 Station Road. keep everyone updated via The Beacon. To Hire Ivinghoe Town Hall: 31st March - Sunday • 22nd April - Easter Monday • 6th May - BH Monday The B488 to Leighton Buzzard. Stephen Swinbank (The Booking Secretary) 12th May - National Mills Sunday • 27th May - BH Monday Useful tel no’s and email on 01296 660680. 16th June - Sunday • 14th July - Sunday • 29th July - Sunday The Beacon Villages Community Library Or email: [email protected] 11th August - Sunday • 26th August - BH Monday • 8th September - Sunday Tel: 01296-87890 Also, please try the web site at 13th October - Sunday as part of Tring's Own Apple Fayre. The Beacon Villages Community Library www.ivinghoetownhall.org.uk where Ample car parking – no toilet facilities. Restricted disability access School and other parties welcome by arrangement. Email: [email protected] you can see regular activities and search Contact: Mill Manager - Chris Tugby, [email protected] The Ivinghoe Post Offi ce and Shop for Hall availability dates, and make a or Telephone: 01442 825421. www.fordendwatermill.co.uk Tel: 01296 660682 Booking enquiry online.

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idsummer is upon us as I write this and the Village Fete Mhas already seen us all gather together as a happy community, the Hub talents – we in the Hub are seeking out workings of this community run voluntary 2 The process is explained by obtaining now storing the props we made for the market stall holders to book up online space, if and when you let us know you are from either source a vital Booking Save the Environment/Climate Change to entertain the community with harvest willing. USE IT LOOSE IT is a somewhat Form which includes the extra special theme that saw some of us dressed as home/ Autumnal themed market stalls in harsh phrase but sadly true. We saved the options bookable, the insurance cover plastic detesting sea mermaids! and around the outside Hub spaces, so building for this community and though and awareness of the hirers cleaning up NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS With a very happy Spring Market that locals can make a day of it if they our business plan is eminently sensible obligations - to be fi lled in and returned behind us – combining daffodils, face wish with refreshments at both venues!! and practical, the project is all about people within 7 days and the fee paid – if not painting, animal cuddling 45 Chocolate eggs Open to all ages and emerging talents - friendly activity and increased happiness, then – no later than 3 days before the courtesy of the trustees friend the Easter this Show welcomes all your entries to so please fully join in! We need you please date booked. Bunny, what was not to like and enjoy! keep this event as part of our community – you are all so welcome to be a valued 3 By this returned form and fee, the As usual many celebratory parties, sad fun. Do read the 2019 new challenges part of it! booking is made formal and then funeral wakes and gatherings to make and take part Paper copies of the Veg Carol Tarrant as Chair of voluntary penned into diary which means it cannot crafts, become fi tter and learn more, have Shows schedule of challenges and rules Trustees. be over-ridden or double booked. been fi lling the hall spaces with just last are to be found in the Hub Cloakroom and www.ivinghoeoldschool.com night a very tasty and friendly ‘Greek theme’ online on our website at this link – http:// Ivinghoeoldschoolcommunityhub@ Email: ivinghoeoldschoolcommunityhub@ pop-up restaurant being fi lled to capacity as www.ivinghoeoldschool.com/wp- btconnect.com. btconnect.com very satisfi ed guests of CuriosiTEA Rooms content/uploads/2019/06/FINAL-2019- Our Hub run by this community for all. Facebook: Ivinghoe Old School Hub café our Hubs unique tenants. SCHEDULE-of-FLOWER-SHOW-May-for- HOW TO BOOK HUB SPACE: Booking Website: ivinghoeoldschool.com Thank you to Andrea for running our Sept-2019.pdf – Good Luck! space within the Hub is easy but needs to freebie experiment in ‘exercise for the less Happy 6th Birthday Ivinghoe follow through by the Hirer who: Thanks, Carol T at the Hub mobile’ over several months which was Community Hub – Every year our 1 Approaches café team who man the well attended. As the grant has now run Community Hub will celebrating another Hub Diary 7 days a week at café counter out and the exercise class come to a halt years existence with a Friday evening or the Hirer approaches Trustee team I am sure those who used this facility will Wintry Market coming up in late November via phone 01296 661666 or email want to express thanks for the initiative with sparkling stalls of presents inside and Ivinghoeoldschoolcommunityhub@ to the Hub trustee grant fund form fi llers out and meanwhile the second Tuesday btconnect.com and Andrea? in each month welcomes stallholders and Half space £9/£7 per hour or whole hall So, looking forward as a community buyers alike on both sides of the hirable £12/£10 per hour. (or an element of the volunteer run Hub we have the annual Hub tables, so please come along and buy IT Room after negotiation) Ivinghoe and Pitstone Flower and Veg if you don’t hire a table to sell! Show 2019 Saturday September 14th All of these small things go towards taking place in the Hub space on and also an more open and inclusive community spilling into the Upper Town Hall this year spirit in Ivinghoe and surrounding spaces, to give it more elbow room! Whilst the so PLEASE consider becoming a Hub judges are doing the serious business of volunteer a few free hours a week. We weighing up our numerous entries for would welcome the generous volunteering growing, cooking, arranging and creating of your time and make you feel part of the

14 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 15 Guides Get Out There... Our Hub run by this uides get out there and do Guides and Scouts camp where they community for all something really different. Our experienced lots of new activities such GGuides plan their own meetings as climbing, caving, pioneering, archery and explore new places, go on camps and survival skills. HOW TO BOOK HUB SPACE: Booking space within the and trips, and learn skills for life that Guides is open to all girls aged 10-14. aren’t taught in schools. If your daughter would like to find out Hub is easy but needs to follow through by the Hirer who: This term at 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone more we will be delighted to welcome 1. Approaches café team who man the Hub Diary 7 Guides we’ve learnt how to start a her at one of our meetings to experience NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS fire without using matches, cooked a what we do. days a week at café counter or the Hirer approaches chilli con carni on the open fire, learnt We meet at Ivinghoe Old School Trustee team via phone 01296-661666 or email life hacks to help make everyday Community Hub, 2 High St, Ivinghoe on [email protected] tasks easier, and learnt all about the Tuesday evenings from 7.00 – 8.30pm. importance of bees and how bees are To find out more contact Rebecca Half space £9/£7 per hour or whole hall £12/£10 per kept, plus some of our Guides have Capron on 07545 347787 or email hour. (or an element of the IT Room after negotiation) been on the Buckinghamshire joint [email protected]

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 returned within 7 days and the fee paid – if not then – no later than 3 days before the date booked.

3. By this returned form and fee, the booking is made Rainbows: Monday 4.30 – 5.30pm Pitstone Memorial Hall formal and then penned into diary which means it Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 cannot be over-ridden or double booked – This booking Brownies: Monday 5.45 – 7.15pm Pitstone Memorial Hall then translates to our ‘digital diary’ graphically – charted Guider: Elaine Thorogood 01296 661540 monthly by Bob to ensure visual awareness of all bookings- posted on Facebook Page, web-site and email Girl Guides: Tuesday 7.00 – 8.30pm Ivinghoe Old School Village Hub, data-base, hard copy on Notice Board for Public viewing. High Street, Ivinghoe Hall. Guider: Rebecca Capron 07545 347787 Email: [email protected] Join in with your DIY skills please! You are all so welcome to join in! To join us, please visit our website at Girlguiding.org.uk

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Magnifi cent Seven Up for ontinuing their festival to celebrate cello and piano, which have remained our Literary Festival the double bicentenary this year unpublished and unperformed until now, The sun came out, and so did the stars, Cof both Queen Victoria and Prince and also noteworthy is the inclusion of as BeaconLit – Ivinghoe’s answer to Hay Albert, Ensemble present works by three women composers – on Wye – notched up its seventh fabulous ‘Victoria and Albert – a musical Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann festival for book lovers. romance’ on Saturday October 5th (whose bicentenary also falls this year) NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Poldark actor turned thriller writer at 7.30pm at Holy Trinity Church, and Pauline Viardot. Robert Daws delighted the audience with Potten End. The Ensemble (Judith Sheridan, voice, anecdotes and charm in conversation A slightly shortened version of Margaret Richards, cello, Daniel King with the BBC’s Adina Campbell, while the programme can also be heard Smith, piano, and William Winfi eld, Quentin Bates brought a touch of frost on Saturday September 28th at reader,) performs regularly for music – a contrast to the tropical backdrop in 11.30am at the Church of Christ the clubs, churches and other organisations Brookmead School hall – as he chatted to Cornerstone, Milton Keynes, and on throughout the country and abroad. If local crime writer Dave Sivers about his Monday October 21st at 1.10pm at you missed our concerts in May come Iceland-based Scandi-Noir fi ction and a lot All Saints Church, High Wycombe. and join us this autumn as we celebrate more besides. The programme brings to life the the tastes and musical achievements of There were lively panels too. Hot musical world of the royal couple, Victoria and Albert, opening a window newcomers Noelle Holten, West through readings from their letters onto the musical life of Victorian Camel and Fiona Vigo Marshall showed and diaries, contemporary accounts . Holy Trinity Church, Potten why they’re being tipped as future and music by composers such as End, HP4 2UY on Saturday October bestsellers; Indie authors G L Twynham, Mendelssohn, Bellini, Elgar and Sullivan. 5th at 7.30pm. Admission £8 on Jane Davis and Lesley Lodge talked At the heart of the programme are three the door.or book tickets online about self publishing and going it alone; songs by Prince Albert himself for voice, www.ridgewayensemble.co.uk and crime authors Alison Bruce, Leigh Russell, A B Morgan and Dave Sivers compared notes about killing people on the page. Readers and writers alike enjoyed Morgen Bailey and Alison Morgan demystifying the publishing business, www.davesivers.co.uk and there were book signings and free BeaconLit promotes books and writing draws for super book bags. in the Beacon Villages and also raises BeaconLit 2020 will be in Brookmead funds for our local library. School on 11 July next year. Local book To see the full programme and buy lovers will be saving the date already! tickets, go to the festival website is Too Long Gone – the new Archer and www.beaconlit.co.uk. Baines novel from Dave Sivers, now available for Kindle eBook.pre-order Dave Sivers

18 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 19 VICTORIA & ALBERT – A MUSICAL ROMANCE ueen Victoria and Prince Albert’s mutual passion for music was at the heart of their A & A Qrelationship from the very beginning. An accomplished composer, Albert shared his creative I L process in letters to the young queen and, as their married life progressed, it was punctuated by R B concerts, private performances and audiences with the musical elite of Europe. O The Ridgeway Ensemble brings to life the musical world of the royal couple, through readings E from their letters and diaries, and contemporary accounts of meetings with composers such as T Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Liszt, Grieg and Sullivan. At the heart of the programme are R songs composed by Prince Albert for voice, cello and piano, which have remained unpublished C and unperformed until now. I T The programme reflects the tastes and musical achievements of Victoria and Albert, including music by Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Bellini, Elgar and Sullivan, opening a window onto the musical life of Victorian England. V

THE RIDGEWAY ENSEMBLE was formed in 2008 to bring both popular and V V less widely performed music to churches and communities within Bucks, Beds and Herts. They can be heard performing regularly at National Trust A property Claydon House, and recent engagements have included concerts for the Aylesbury Festival, University, Hampstead Music Club E and a tour of southern France. M Judith Sheridan (voice) studied at the RNCM and Lancaster University before C completing her studies at the opera school in Hamburg. After working as a U soloist in theatres and concert halls on the continent, she returned to the N UK to continue her career as a soloist and conductor. Judith regularly sings with ensembles in the UK and the USA, combining this with a busy schedule as a choral conductor, and is MD to the S A Berkhamsted Youth Theatre and guest conductor and vocal consultant to the Amade Players. I Margaret Richards (cello) is a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. For six years she played in the orchestra of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany, before returning to London to pursue her interest C M in baroque music in particular. As both cellist and viola da gamba player she has performed internationally with many A O ensembles, including the Hanover Band, London Festival Orchestra, New London Consort and Florilegium. She plays L R regularly with the Holborne Players, and with the Apollo Consort she has recorded works by the 17th-century composer John Jenkins.

Daniel King Smith (piano) performs internationally as both soloist and accompanist. A finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year, he went on to win the Harold Craxton and Max Pirani prizes as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, THE RIDGEWAY ENSEMBLE and prizes for both solo and accompaniment at the Haverhill Sinfonia competition. Formerly staff accompanist at both the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music Junior Departments and at the Purcell School, he has JUDITH SHERIDAN (VOICE) MARGARET RICHARDS (CELLO) performed at the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall, and now works entirely as a freelance chamber musician. DANIEL KING SMITH (PIANO) WILLIAM WINFIELD (READER) Daniel has recorded a number of CDs, including releases with Anna Hashimoto on the Meridian label.

The Ridgeway Ensemble is joined by William Winfield, a modern languages graduate of Cambridge University. The former head of a London independent RIDGEWAY school, William combines his lifelong passions for chamber music and RIDGEWAY language as reader for many Ridgeway concerts.

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Email: [email protected] www.streamlinepavingandbuilders.co.uk Innovation Centre & Business Base, Luton, LU2 8DL. James B Chadburn FBHI Fine Antique clocks & Barometers A note from the Specialist in repairs & Editor... NEW MEMORY SUPPORT SERVICE IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE restorations. I very much hope that you are still enjoying reading the Ivinghoe Beacon magazine, it If you are concerned about your memory, the earlier you seek help the better as there may be support or treatment available that can help you. Valuations & clock has changed a little since the Parish Council took over the production of the magazine. finding service. There are many different things that can cause memory problems but sometimes it can be an early We really want the magazine to be sign of dementia. something you get pleasure from reading Advice & assistance on This new service helps you to take control of your situation by offering a single point of contact for: as well as a useful reference tool for local formation & disposal of events and advertising. private clock collections. • Advice and support through memory screening and diagnosis We are always looking for new ideas to keep • A listening ear and practical support afterwards the magazine an interesting read, so if you Quality clocks/barometers have something that you would like to be Bought & sold. considered for inclusion, please do get in touch! Get in touch today to find out more. Many thanks and happy reading. Telephone 01525 221165 01296 331749 Mobile 07790 000629 Bridget Knight The Editor E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

22 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 23 Streetlight update... JTS DECORATING SERVICE he project to replace the streetlights detailed schedule, we will advertise this within the parish of Ivinghoe on our website. AND PROPERTY Tcontinues. Separate contracts for Over the same period, Bucks CC MAINTENANCE the supply and installation of the new are planning to replace their lights in FIRST CLASS DECORATION WITH LED lights have been issued and we are High St, Ivinghoe. We are advised that 35 YEARS EXPERIENCE now in the fi nal phase of planning before the style of lights that they are going we start changing the lights. to use will be the same as that being Private and commercial properties all The works should be completed during used by IPC, thereby giving a uniform interior, exterior decoration and coving. NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS the summer months. approach to all streetlighting within the Wall, Floor Tiling and Plastering. Over the coming weeks and months, parish. At the time of going to press, it Floor stripping and renovation local you may come across our installation is not envisaged that Bucks CC will be references available, contractor Sparkx anywhere in Ivinghoe, replacing the 3 lights in Church Road contact: John Ivinghoe Aston, Ford End or Great Gap. or the 3 lights along the footpath by They will be highly visible in their orange Brookmead School until possibly next T: 01525 240372 gear and logo’d vehicles. year, so some orange lights may remain. M:07809 113090 For most of the lights owned by IPC it If you have any enquiries or comments will only involve a straight replacement. about the upgrading of the streetlights, Email: [email protected] In some cases, we are having to replace please contact Bridget Knight, lampposts while other sites are going Parish Clerk, via the website to need major works with replacement www.ivinghoepc.org.uk or phone on electrical supplies being required. 07960 605393. Please bear with us while these works are completed. As soon as we have a Ivinghoe Parish Council

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24 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 25 Another busy year for activities included shooting, drumming The Scouts are always on the lookout and dance lessons, infl atables, climbing for ideas for interesting activities and if the 1st Ivinghoe and walls, crafts, circus activities, go carts, you have any particular skills that could there was something for everyone during help us do some of the more specialist Pitstone Scout Troop the day and live bands, fi lms a roller badges or know of any exciting places disco and free candy fl oss in the evening. we could visit, please contact us on: n the Autumn Term, the Scouts and A great weekend was had by all. fi [email protected] if you are Cubs had a very successful and interested in joining any section of the Iwet joint water camp at Longridge Scout Group, please email: experiencing amongst other activities, [email protected] dragon boating and paddle boarding. We NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS also had the opportunity to invest some Izzy Robinson new Scouts on the water. We enjoyed a joint Wide Game with Cheddington Scouts in Tring Park followed by fresh Back in the hut for the Summer term chips in Dolphin Square, a morning and we have serviced our bicycles in volunteering with the Greensands anticipation of a Summer cycle, hosted Trust at Woods, helping at the our District St Georges Day event, Church Christmas Market and delivering showcased our pioneering skills at the Church fl yers, an evening of climbing at Church Summer Fete, assisted with car XC Hemel Hempstead, and December parking at the Marsworth Steam Rally, saw the return of our popular Scout and had a very enjoyable visit around Christmas Post. the Arla Dairy at , were we had the chance to sit in a lorry cab, saw

milk bottles being fi lled and labelled and watched the robots move the crates of milk bottles around the factory. 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

1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Cubs (8-10 year olds) Wednesday 6:30-8pm (Dan) Akela as Windmill Pack leader The Spring term found us out of the Thursday 6:30-8pm (Rob) Shere Khan as Watermill Pack leader hut and based at Brookmead School. We worked towards our Personal Challenge 1st Ivinghoe and Pitstone Scouts (10 1/2 -14 1/2 year olds) and Disability Awareness badges, Friday 7-8:30pm Andrew as Troop Leader managed an overnight Bivi camp at Braid The highlight of the Summer term has For any enquiries or to join the waiting list please contact us Wood building our accommodation from to be Mission 00 Bucks – a County Camp on [email protected] tarpaulin, trees and branches and cooking on the Claydon House Estate at the end Or our Group Scout Leader, Andrew Woods on [email protected] on an open fi re, and got thoroughly of May. Over 4000 children plus leaders or 07768 980311 dusty cleaning St Mary’s Church and Bell attended, with our Scouts and Cubs Tower. We fi nished the term with a Scout camping from Friday night to Monday We are also raising money to rebuild the village a purpose built scout hut and are selling choice evening – laser quasar at Hemel lunch and our Beavers visiting for the day. bricks to supporters for £10 each. Please email the above address for details. Hempstead. There were 5 activity zones available and

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Tring and Cheddington Railway Stations

ondon Northwestern Railway, As a part of getting to know how working with local Town and Parish you use your station, we’ve made LCouncils, community organisations a survey to give you your say! It and local authorities – are putting should only take 5-10 minutes and together a comprehensive station travel asks you about a variety of things on plan to cover Tring and Cheddington. how the station serves the community. NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS The fi rst part of the process is all about From travel habits, station facilities and understanding travel needs of people accessibility issues. See the following that use – and don’t use – the stations pages for the survey which you can fi ll at present. Can you help out? Your in and hand in at our drop off point at feedback would be invaluable. Tring Station. If you can’t make it to the Stations as Places is a chance for station to drop your survey off but still your community to have a say on your want to have your say, you can also fi ll local station! The Stations as Places in an online version of the surveys at programme aims to make your station https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ work for the community it serves. We TringLNR/-for Tring https:// want our stations to be accessible to www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ everyone who may want to use them CheddingtonLNR/-for Cheddington and be welcoming places that offer you To fi nd out more please contact the information you need to not only get Jon Harris, the Integrated Transport and from home to work but also for family Accessibility Manager – you can reach to days out, business travel and other Jon on 07970 447880 or email leisure travel. To do this though, we [email protected] want your help! We want to know how you use and see the station so we can help it fi t your communities’ needs.

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FORD END WATERMILL

Ford End Watermill, for those not familiar with it, is a small farm mill, which has produced flour and animal feed for centuries. On Station Road, just a short distance from the centre of Ivinghoe, it is run today entirely by volunteers. The mill is fully operational and we mill at each opening to the public. Our wholemeal flour is NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS much sought after.

Would you like to join our team of volunteers?

We would welcome volunteers who can:

− help maintain the mill through this Autumn, Winter and Spring in readiness for next year's openings. − help us welcome our visitors as they arrive for one of our openings each Summer - on Sundays and Bank Holidays; and/or − guide visitors around the mill describing how we use the power of water from our millpond to drive our waterwheel, our gears and our millstones to produce our sought-after wholemeal flour.

There are opportunities for individuals with a variety of skills. So whether your preference is to meet our visitors, to explain all about the mill to visitors or to get to grips with the mill building and its machinery – the choice is yours. We can provide you with the necessary training and we have all the relevant information about the 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 comes from showing how the sustainable power of water can be used to produce flour for the baking of bread.

So, if you are interested, please telephone: John Wallis on 01296 661997; Chris Tugby on 01442 825421; or Stephen Booth on 01296 661745.

You can also contact us by email at [email protected]

Stephen Booth, Chairman, Ford End Watermill Society

30 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 31 ‘Time for a Rhyme’ Pitstone Church

Marsworth Flower Festival 24th-26th August itstone Church Committee would There will be a service in the church like to thank everybody who on Heritage Sunday 8th September. e will be running our fl ower For many people life is lived at a hectic Phelped in any way at the Festival Check the Ivinghoe Church website festival this year at All Saints pace. We are busy with so many things this year. We made over £1,200 and and noticeboards for details. WChurch, Marsworth over and cant escape the unremitting 24 hours much of that money came from the teas. the August Bank Holiday. The theme per day fl ow of news and social media Our cakes have an excellent reputation. This years’ programme we have given to our team of fl ower from the web. Perhaps the fl ower festival Our next event will be a performance Icknield Sixteen Concert Saturday arrangers is ‘Time for a Rhyme’ It will not only be a moment to stop and of Wind in the Willows by the This is my 13th July at 7.30pm. sounded catchy and as we hoped they enjoy the artistic skill of the arrangers and Theatre company on Thursday 22nd have been choosing poems, nursery the beauty of creation but an inspiration August at 3pm in the church. Wind in the Willows Thursday rhymes and sayings of all sorts. We to discover poetry afresh and fi nd the This is my Theatre is a company 22nd August Matinee performance. are looking forward to a wide range of time it opens up to us as we slow down who specialise in performances in ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT imaginative and colourful displays. and discover depths of meaning in life. churches and other historic spaces. Christmas Memory Tree Poetry is an important expression We are looking forward to seeing Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th December. of our wonder at the world around us how they use Pitstone Church. We look forward to seeing you at these and our deepest feelings. Many of the The Pitstone Church Committee events. The Church will be open every hymns we sing in church started as Rev Adrian Manning,. (Friends) have devised a varied Sunday and Bank Holidays from May to verse and were later set to music. There Vicar of St Mary’s Ivinghoe with Pitstone programme for this year. September from 2.30 – 5.30pm. Drop in are poems in scripture that date back Tickets and information are available and enjoy our peaceful atmosphere. thousands of years that still resonate from: www.thisismytheatre.com, with our thoughts about God today. tel: 07732 253311. All the ticket The mathematician in me is fascinated information is on the website, but briefl y, by the patterns in poetry and I fi nd tickets are £10 each, £8 for concessions myself reading and re-reading the words (over 65 and under 16). Family tickets to spot rhythms, rhymes and word-plays are available. Gillian Arney in the text. One sometimes senses that each word was chosen and each line and each sentence constructed precisely by the author. We would never gallop through a book of poems with the haste we move through a novel excited to know what will happen next. Reading poetry is a much slower process; it takes time and so ‘Time for a Rhyme’ is rather apt. Poetry slows us down. It stimulates refl ection. It makes us to take time, to stop and think as we read.

32 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 33 IVINGHOE HAND-BELLS We have a beginners group meeting fortnightly in the church ringing the beautiful hand-bells that belong to St. Mary’s Church Ivinghoe. If you missed the taster evening, and would like to have a go, or see and hear what happens it is not too late so please get in touch or come along to a Monday evening meeting. We have fun, a break for refreshments and experience the ECUMENICAL ENLIGHTENMENT very special sound of our 139 year old bells. Dates for 2019 Alex Wynne 01296 668336

17th March 19th May

21st July Ivinghoe & Pitstone Chapel Fellowship 15th September 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 8th December *** FIRST THURSDAY FRIENDS

Come and enjoy a family film on the first Thursday of each month. From 2.30-4pm at St. Mary’s Time: 2pm - approx 4.15pm in the millennium room, Pitstone Hall *** Ivinghoe 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. Come and join us! We meet at the Yardley Centre, Yardley Avenue, on the third Thursday of each month: 2.00 – 4.00 p.m. For more details contact Sandra Interested? Need more information? on: 01296 668648 01296 668005

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38 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 39 The King’s Head, Ivinghoe 01296 668388 RUM BABA, CHANTILLY CREAM

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40 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 41 Ivinghoe Allotments Tales from the Plot

ell, Summer is really here of butter once drained, add fresh broad – without a list the Parish Council cannot 14th September 2019 is the Ivinghoe – beautiful sunny days and beans, small courgettes and a couple assess the demand for plots. Flower and Vegetable Show and it Wvery pleasant evenings. The of lamb chops complimented by a nice Finally, a couple of dates for your diary: opens at 2pm. real scorcher was Saturday 29th June bottle of Australian red wine – please do Ivinghoe Allotments will be open to the when the temperature read 43 degrees not rush to order! public on Saturday 17th August 2019

CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION and despite the door and the windows The allotment site is really looking 1.30pm until 4pm so come along and Mind how you go… of the greenhouse being open the good at the moment, with plenty of rich, see what we get up to! Also, Saturday Ernie Ivinghoe Allotmenteer thermometer showed 45 degrees! Even vibrant and healthy colours. Well done the tomato plants were wilting and I to everyone for doing their bit to keep it just happened to be cutting logs in the looking that way! morning and I had to have a siesta in the In the last edition of the Beacon a afternoon due to the heat. mention was made of an attempted The sunshine is great but then what break in on the site, some of us were about the rain we had a few weeks not aware of it until reading the article. before? I had to lift my garlic up before It would be useful if anyone is aware of they became water-logged and turned something similar happening to let other soft. The changeable weather has plot holders know – perhaps put it on the certainly affected some of my crops in noticeboard – remember, prevention is different ways and talking to other plot better than detection. holders (as you do) they appear to have In view of the fact that we have experienced identical problems. Peas had new allotment holders and all have been slow to get going, spinach the plots are allocated we should sprouted very quickly while other plants perhaps consider creating an Ivinghoe thrived – lettuce, beetroot, onions and Allotments Association to create more shallots all doing very well. of a community spirit – BBQs, plant I have also been picking lettuce – swopping, sharing surplus produce – the Webb variety, it’s a good crisp lettuce list is endless! Ivinghoe allotments is and no plastic wrapping! Courgette’s are much older than Pitstone allotments and also doing well. I like to pick them when just look at what they are achieving. If they are fi ve inches long as they taste you are interested in joining together better than when they are larger. then please email Michelle at During the next week or so I will be [email protected]. doing one of the most enjoyable, exciting If anyone is interested in obtaining and rewarding jobs in allomenteering a plot having read about the fi rst early – digging up my fi rst early potatoes! potatoes then please contact Bridget Golden nuggets in the soil, and once Knight and she will give you all the dug up the skin comes off at the touch advice and guidance you need. Please of a fi ngertip. Simply boil, add a knob do not be put off if there is a waiting list

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nce again everyone is busy or used like vine leaves to wrap meat to watering. The warm spring cook on a barbeque, she has given me Obrought everything on early so the one to try. allotment plots are bursting with produce. I am growing some African spinach I have never had such a good crop of as something new, but at the moment sugar snap peas they climbed to over four although it looks very pretty cannot feet and have been delicious. I have taken decide whether to grow.

CULTIVATION CLIPPINGS CULTIVATION a chance and put all my gourds on one The spring blossom has produced a bed they are not as well protected but I good crop of fruit on several of my fruit am keeping fi ngers crossed badger and trees especially the Comice pear which deer do not fi nd them. I have already had has fruited for the fi rst time, I am looking several courgettes and marrows will be forward to those. Unlike last year when ready this week (although you are reading they struggled to get going the runner this in August the articles are submitted beans are doing very well, full of fl owers mid-July). and I have had my fi rst pickings. Alistair and Ran have worked wonders It would be nice if we could have some on their plot especially the “Hugelkultur” rain as the plants do so much better than I can only describe this as a living with tap water, however I might have a compost heap, you can check it out on different story to tell in the next issue. the net if you are interested or go and Hope everyone has a wonderful speak to Alistair. Ran has grown several summer and perhaps we will see you on Korean vegetables which are very the allotment open day. interesting, one in particular, a salad plant a cross between mint and cinnamon whose leaves can be chopped in salad Gloria

46 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 47 Ivinghoe & Pitstone’s Windmill PreShool

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he Chilterns Conservation Board The Ashridge rangers and volunteers has recently commissioned an spend an enormous amount of time www.mbbka.org.uk Taerial LiDAR (LIght Detection And trying to remove invasive non-native Ranging) survey of the hills. This can plants that have become established be used to see through the tree canopy here and which pose a threat to our Following the long winter of 2017-2018 and the late Spring, colonies of honeybees are and pinpoint previously unnoticed native wildlife. Please support us by not

BEYOND THE BOUNDARY under tremendous stress. In the wild the survival chance of a honeybee swarm is about manmade structures which might be fl y-tipping garden waste and if you do 20%. Collected, and housed in a hive by a beekeeper, the survival rate triples. The thousands of years old. The National spot any, please contact us. MBBKA needs the help of everyone in the area to ensure we collect as many swarms Trust is a partner in the project and is this year as possible. If you see a swarm of bees please contact the MBKA on the looking for volunteers to help examine Life in the Slow Lane swarm-line number below. We will send a beekeeper to collect the swarm and provide it the archaeology hiding within the Whilst doing my Duke of Burgundy with a new home. Ashridge Estate. A LiDAR Web Portal survey on the north slopes of the has been launched, which allows you to Beacon and Gallows Hill, I spotted the Honey Bee Swarms: Swarms such as the ones pictured are merely view the survey data, complete online little fellow pictured below slithering out Colonies that are in transition. Normally these Swarms are found hanging from tree branch, fence post or any place where the swarm can gather around the tutorials and search for the tell-tale of his hidey-hole – then beating a hasty Queen while scouts are sent out to look for a more permanent home. A swarm signs of earlier times. You will be able retreat. I hadn’t seen a slow worm for a left alone will only be in place from just a few minutes to a few hours and to trace over features which you think while, so went home and looked them occasionally a few days. Generally, these swarms are very docile and the might be of archaeological interest, and up. To my surprise, I found that they can swarming Bees usually will not sting. Before Honey Bees swarm they gorge your spots will be sent to the project’s live 30-50 years – I would probably have themselves with honey before leaving the hive. This makes it very hard for them to double over and sting. central database, where a team of guessed 5. So were he (or she) old, (s)he trained volunteers will be checking was born roughly when Neil Armstrong What Causes Honey Bees to Swarm: Honey Bees have a natural instinct to create new what everyone is fi nding. Groups will was taking his one small step. Should colonies by swarming. They may also swarm through overcrowding or because an old queen is thought to be then go out into the fi eld to investigate (s)he be young, King William may be failing and they wish to raise a new one. Honey Bees usually swarm in early spring just as the colony is sites identifi ed by the survey. If you are in his eighties before slowy sloughs off building up numbers in anticipation of the upcoming honey flow but swarming can happen through to late summer interested in getting involved, please his mortal coil. It is difficult to predict if weather conditions will lead to a large number of swarms in a particular year. email Shona Waldron shona.waldron@ MBBKA members attended nearly 100 calls to swarms last year and are on standby to collect throughout nationaltrust.org.uk. our area in 2018 If You See a Swarm: The collection of swarms an important part of the work of bee keepers. You Tip-Off should never interfere with a swarm and pest control companies will not kill a swarm unless absolutely There have been several instances of necessary. illegal fl y-tipping of garden waste on the Please contact: Ashridge Estate of late. It not only poses MBBKA Swarm Hotline 07770370132 a hazard to the natural environment but Brian Bush – Mid Bucks Beekeepers and BBKA Swarm Officer is extremely unattractive and encourages BBKA British Bee Keepers Association website others to do likewise. Garden waste http:www.bbka.org.uk often contains seed sources or root material of plants that can become invasive in the natural environment. Rikki Harrington www.bbka.org.uk

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54 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 55 Pitstone and Ivinghoe JFC Waste King in Local Football U16s achieve the treble! Sponsorship Deal

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58 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 59 Councillor News from Committee, with councils nominating can take up to 3 years to eradicate. We a specified number of councillors in have also secured funding to carry out accordance with political balance. cyclical herbicide treatment during 2019 Anne Wight The Committee’s main role will be on all priority 1 and 2 footways across to scrutinise and have overview of the Buckinghamshire. This has started with hope everyone is making the most budget and the transition to the new completion due in October 19. of the warmer summer weather in council, although other matters may be Work on road surface improvement IIvinghoe Division. referred to the committee. Further details schemes identified by Local Area I’m sure you may have noticed that on scrutiny arrangements can be found Technicians in conjunction with local the Temporary Traffic Regulation Order Anne Wight in the Constitution document on the members commenced in April and the (TTRO) is now on the Brownlow Bridge Bucks County Councillor, Ivinghoe Division Shadow Authority website. first phase of works is planned to be in Ivinghoe, and so vehicles over 18 Full details of the Shadow Authority completed in June. A second and final tonnes should not use the bridge. and Shadow Executive, including phase of works is due to be carried While I know this is causing difficulty new unitary on dates, agendas, webcasts and records out in August and September. The

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION particularly for our farmers and some 3rd June. The Shadow Authority consists of public meetings can be found at reinstatement of road markings and road local businesses, unfortunately the issue of all district and county councillors shadowbuckinghamshire.gov.uk. studs will also be actioned to coincide is one of public safety as we have been for Buckinghamshire.. Its main duty is While there is a lot of work ahead to with the delivery of the surfacing work. advised by the Canal and River Trust--- to ensure a smooth transition to the ensure that key senior staff appointments The part of Cheddington High Street near who own the bridge---that their structural new council by 1 April 2020. Its key are made and to set the budget for the tennis courts towards is analyses indicate that the bridge is too responsibilities include setting a budget the new council before it comes into also going to be resurfaced as part of the weak to handle vehicles over 18 tonnes. for the new Buckinghamshire Council and effect on 1 April, 2020, there is great Capital Maintenance Program scheme. As this is a temporary TRO limit on appointing members to committees. At enthusiasm on the part of all of us This quarter TfB completed quite the bridge, the Freight Strategy team the first meeting, we elected a Chairman, councillors who are now looking ahead a few road improvement Plane and at Bucks County Council is now in Councillor Richard Scott, and a Vice to some of the advantages which the Patch schemes in Ivinghoe Division, the process of looking at traffic flows Chairman, Councillor Peter Strachan, to new unitary council will bring in terms of including the whole length of the roads through the surrounding villages, and will the Shadow Authority and also agreed the savings and efficiency. I will continue to of Pebblemoor in Edlesborough, Eaton also take into consideration resident and constitution for the Shadow Authority. keep residents informed of developments Bray Road in , Road business views on the 18 tonne weight The Shadow Authority has now also as we move towards the new unitary in Mentmore, and Crafton Lodge Lane in limit over the coming months before confirmed the membership of the Buckinghamshire Council. Crafton. At the recent Local Area Forum deciding whether to make the 18 tonne Shadow Executive, which will consist meeting, parish councillors across our limit permanent, or whether to discuss of 17 members from across the five Transport for Bucks update division mentioned how the Plane and the possibility of reinstating the bridge existing councils who will take key I am sure that everyone will be delighted Patch works are high quality and prevent for vehicles over that weight. decisions needed to create the new to hear that we have got funding for the development of “pothole farms” If you have a view on this issue either council over the coming year. It met for more weed spraying this summer. BCC in whole areas of the road surface. way, please write to the Freight Strategy the first time on June 11th The Leader currently carry out herbicide treatment On the back of ‘Plane & Patch’, the team at the email address below to of the new Shadow Executive is Martin of noxious weeds, primarily Japanese Government has released an additional make sure your view gets counted. Tett, Leader of Buckinghamshire County Knotweed and Rag Wort, throughout £4.6M to Bucks County Council and [email protected] Council and Katrina Wood, Leader of Buckinghamshire. These sites are on Transport for Buckinghamshire to spend Wycombe District Council was appointed our noxious weed site registry and are on highway repairs. The funding can The new Buckinghamshire as Deputy Leader. now plotted on our ‘Confirm’ data base be used to repair areas of potholes, Council Under the constitution that was agreed, for annual programmed visits. Herbicide road defects, bridges and the local I was pleased to have attended the first the Shadow Authority will also establish application occurs three times a year. highways infrastructure generally and meeting of the Shadow Authority for the a cross-party Overview and Scrutiny Established Knotweed sites in particular will be spread across the County. u

60 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 61 We are very fortunate to be able to have Trust took the sudden decision to stop how difficult it can be to try to cope with If you are not sure whether a caller is some extra surface dressing between grass cutting for areas around Aylesbury depression until finding treatment options genuine or not, you can make a note of the Canal Bridge near the Red Lion and Vale which they had historically been which are effective. Since this year the number from the Caller ID or after the county boundary around Lower cutting. This has had severely adverse around one in four people will experience hanging up simply by using the 1471 End in Marsworth. The idea behind effects in Pitstone in particular and I a mental health problem, we hope that service. At that point it is helpful to enter this surface dressing is that we surface am very conscious of the difficulties by actively promoting discussion about the number into the Who Called Me dress over the patching completed in and inconvenience this has caused mental health experiences, we can online phone number check at the link 2018 to reduce the need for reactive residents in Glebe Close and Yardley ensure that everyone feels confident and below. This will let you know whether maintenance in the future. Hopefully, Avenue, as well as in other areas around comfortable enough to approach a friend, others have complained about this phone that work will be completed by late the division. When I learned of this, I their GP, or any of us Time to Change number, or whether it is a scam and July/early August. emailed Cllrs Steven Lambert and Angela champions so that we can listen and what experiences others have had with As for grass cutting across the Macpherson, who are on the board signpost them to the right places to it. There is also a listing of the number county, BCC manage a total area of of VAHT, and explained the severely get treatment. as being Dangerous or Neutral, and it is 9,948,148 million M2 of rural grass negative impact this was having on my For more information on Time to well worth checking if you are not certain

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION across Buckinghamshire. Our 2018 rural residents. They were then able arrange Change, please have a look at the that the caller might be genuine, or to grass-cutting programme was carried out for an additional two summer cuts website link: https://www.time-to- help you decide if you want to ring the on budget and to time. Our main focus by VAHT during the transition period. change.org.uk number back. https://who-called.co.uk on highway verges is around areas that Going forward, Bucks County Council If you receive phishing emails or scam are key to maintaining visibility, such is currently in discussions with VAHT to CyberCrime and how to spam, you can forward them directly as at junctions, laybys, and the inside discuss the reallocation of grass cutting Stay Safe without clicking on any links to the UK’s of bends. The aim of grass-cutting is to for these areas. I will keep my parish Finally, one issue I know which is of online police team, Action Fraud, at keep the highway safe by maintaining councils informed as to developments. concern to many of my residents is this address: NFIBPhishing@city-of- visibility for all road users. We carried the growing problem with cyber crime, london.pnn.police.uk out 4 cuts throughout 2018 consisting Mental Health Awareness phone scams and phishing emails. I There is also a special team for of 3 visions splay / junction cuts and a Week in May thought I might take this opportunity to businesses specifically where 24/7 single swath cut, 1.2m (48”) wide from I would just like to say that I was mention a few things you can do to keep online crime reporting can be handled the edge of the carriageway or footway pleased to have been able to participate yourself and your families safe from this separately to that of residents, along which was completed in October as per in Mental Health Awareness Week in growing threat to our communities. with news articles about the latest the program. May, both by manning our lift lobby While many of us are familiar with scams and what to look out for, as This program is designed to stand at county hall and by attending call blocking on our mobile phones, not well as a live chat option if you need maintain the necessary sightlines our staff mental health awareness picnic everyone may have invested in a landline advice or guidance and information on and vision splays at junctions. Based in the park. I am privileged to be both Call Blocker device with caller ID. While victim resources. on the effectiveness of last year we a Time to Change Champion as well the call blocking service is also available If you are a business, charity or other are proposing to continue with this as a mental health champion at Bucks through BT and Virgin Media, as well organisation which is currently suffering methodology for the 2019 season with County Council. Time to Change is all as on certain landline phone sets, it is a live cyber attack (in progress), please the addition of a full width cut on both about reducing the stigma associated also possible to buy one of the CPR Call call 0300 123 2040 immediately. This A and B strategic routes. This is with mental illness through encouraging Blockers which is recommended by the service is available 24 hours a day, designed to keep encroaching vegetation people to share the stories of their police to try to ensure that residents are 7 days a week. in check before it reaches a size/ personal experiences and journeys not troubled by phishing phone calls. If you are member of the public you diameter that our conventional flailing through mental health issues. In my This can be especially helpful for elderly must call to report through the core machines are capable of cutting own case I suffered badly from post- residents living alone who are particularly opening hours below. Unfortunately, we recently learned natal depression after my first baby, vulnerable to phishing and hard-sell Specialist advisers are available that the Vale of Aylesbury Housing and I know from firsthand experience scammers. by phone: u

62 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 63 • Monday – Friday 8am-8pm minutes then the call will typically cost • Saturday – Closed 35p per minute depending on your • Sunday – Closed network provider. Please do visit the website You can report fraud or cyber crime for more information at to Action Fraud any time of the day https://www.actionfraud.police.uk or night using the online reporting tool Remember to also use different on the website. You can also report and passwords for each of your various get advice about fraud or cyber crime by social media, utility, banking and any calling 0300 123 2040. other online accounts. That way if one The times above represent Action of your accounts were hacked, the Fraud’s core contact centre opening hacker would not be able to access any hours, although from time to time they of your other accounts automatically. do extend the service provided. Strong passwords should be more than

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION Action Fraud will not call you unless eight characters if possible, and use a you have requested them to, and will combination of upper case, lower case, never ask for your bank details. If you are symbols and alphanumerics. Never give unsure whether a call is genuine, call the your passwords to friends or say the full Action Fraud team on 0300 123 2040. password over the phone, most genuine Please note this number will be charged companies now ask for only for a few at your normal network rate. of the letters of your password over If you have inclusive minutes within the phone, such as the 2nd, 6th or 10th your mobile tariff then calls to the Action alphanumeric in the password. Let’s age well together Fraud number are included at no cost. If you have used all of your inclusive Anne Wight Keeping active is a fantastic way to make new friends and help keep our health in check. Active Bucks has a collection of fun, introductory physical activity sessions available to help us age well together. For hundreds of activities to keep fit and healthy visit:

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64 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 65 modifi cations are necessary to rectify the ensuring that this new council delivers From District Councillors unsoundness problems that have already excellent services and improved outcomes been identifi ed in the examination hitherto. to the communities we serve. Sandra Jenkins and Derek Town Once the Inspector is reasonably satisfi ed Local government in Buckinghamshire is on that point, the modifi cations will be facing the biggest change in a generation published by the Council to give the public as the fi ve existing councils – Aylesbury an opportunity to make representations Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe AVDC elects last chairman on them. This is expected to take place district councils and Bucks County Council (15 May 2019) for at least six weeks towards the end – prepare to be abolished in 2020 and Aylesbury Vale District Council elected of the summer. Representations should replaced with a brand new ‘unitary district’ its last chairman – Cllr Judy Brandis confi ne themselves to new matters raised council. This means just one council – whose term of offi ce will end with by the modifi cations; a simple repetition of providing all council services in Bucks. the establishment of the new unitary representations previously made does not This is a golden opportunity to transform Buckinghamshire Council in May 2020. assist the process. The Inspector is likely all service provision in Bucks – the new At the same meeting Cllr Chris Poll to consider the new representations made council will not be a continuation of any

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION (previously Cheddington Parish Council in the autumn of 2019, following which he existing authority, but a completely new Chairman) was elected vice chairman. Cllr will issue his fi nal, binding, report. start. We are all keen to play our part in Brandis has served as a district councillor, ensuring that this new council delivers representing Haddenham and Stone, for 20 Local Democracy excellent services and improved outcomes years and has been chairman of Licensing diffi cult times for as long as it is helpful As we previously mentioned our local to the communities we serve. for over 12 years. Previously, she ran her or needed. This friendly and accessible elections will now take place next May own children’s nursery near where she parent-to-parent support is a simple yet 2020. The elections were due to take AVDC successfully lived in Amersham, before moving to effective way of enabling families to get place this May but because the decision prosecutes three drivers Haddenham. Cllr Brandis said: “It is an back on track. “Unfortunately even a to put in place a new Unitary Council for ‘blagging’ honour and privilege to have been elected largely volunteer led organisation needs these have been put back until May 2020 On Friday 28 June 2019, Aylesbury Vale as the district’s last chairman and I am funds, and Nest is no exception. They with the resultant reduction in the number District Council (AVDC) successfully looking forward to working with people, are a vital resource for ordinary families of councillors. prosecuted 3 drivers for illegally plying community groups and other organisations going though extraordinary times and I The and Crime for hire (blagging) at Milton Keynes from across the Vale. In my role as am looking forward to working with them Commissioner elections will also take Magistrates Court. The cases were chairman I hope I will be able to help them and others across the Vale promoting their place in 2020. The present Commission bought before the court following an raise their profi le and let others see the work and organising and supporting a range Anthony Stansfi eld who was elected in enforcement operation carried out by magnifi cent work they all do to contribute of fundraising events”, said Cllr Brandis. 2012 is standing down. All information offi cersfrom Aylesbury Vale District Council to the life and vitality of the area”. on the Police and Crime Commissioner’s in November 2018. Cllr Brandis has nominated Nest Update of The Vale of role and responsibilities can be found on These drivers were operating private Aylesbury Vale as her charity for the year. Aylesbury local plan the website. hire vehicles licensed by AVDC accepted Formerly known as Home-Start Aylesbury VALP LOCAL PLAN 2013-2033 journeys by counciloffi cers who were Vale, Nest is a local independent charity EXAMINATION Inspector Paul Clark BA Unitary acting as members of the public. From that has been supporting families, with one MA MRTPI AVDC has advised the This is a golden opportunity to transform one destination to another in Aylesbury child under fi ve, throughout Aylesbury Vale Inspector that it will have prepared all service provision in Bucks and we’re thatwere not pre-booked via their operator. for over 16 years. Nest provides carefully modifi cations to the plan together with encouraged that the Minister for Local This in turn meant that it invalidated the selected volunteers, with parenting an updated Sustainability Appraisal by the Government has reaffi rmed that the new insurance for the vehicle as the policy in experience themselves, who will regularly end of June 2019. These will be submitted council will not be a continuation of any place only covers the vehicle for journeys visit a family in their own home, offering to the Inspector for him to be reasonably existing authority, but a completely new that were pre-booked. emotional and practical support through satisfi ed at that point that the proposed start. We are all keen to play our part in Fayaz Ali Ghumro of Cambourne u

66 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine August 2019: Issue 110 August 2019: Issue 110 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 67 Avenue, Aylesbury attended Court and Environmental Health “It is vitally important that all premises Planning Committee pleased guilty to plying for hire and driving Officers track down and all practitioners offering any cosmetic • NB planning and Licencing committee without motor insurance committed on 03 unregistered microbladers or other services that pierce the skin are member are obliged to take training every November 2018. He was fined £146 for Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) registered or licensed with AVDC. This not year to qualify. plying for hire, £440 for no insurance, given Environmental Health Officers have been only protects them and their business, but 6 points on his DVLA licence and also has tracking down unregistered providers it also gives customers confidence that Going Forward – to pay £200 costs and a charge of £44. of increasingly popular microblading they are using properly trained and insured the Challenges Raja Sajid Kiani of Meadowcroft, Aylesbury services in Aylesbury Vale. Businesses and providers who apply effective infection 1 There is going to be difficult planning attended Court and pleaded Guilty to plying practitioners need to be registered with the control procedures. decisions to be considered due to the for hire and driving without motor insurance local authority – in the same way that you “We are concerned that there may expansion of housing development in committed on 03 November 2018. He need to be licensed to carry out any other be practitioners who have come to the Vale of Aylesbury. There is also the was fined £140 for plying for hire, £420 for skin piercing services, including tattooing, microblading from other procedures, such adequacy of the infrastructure to support no insurance, given 6 points on his DVLA cosmetic piercing, ear piercing, electrolysis as eyebrow tinting or threading, who do not the new developments. licence which resulted in the loss of his and acupuncture. If you are a business or appreciate the need to be registered if they DVLA driving licence due to exceeding 12 practitioner that hasn’t done this already, you now offer this service.” 2 This year will be a year of change due

COUNCILLOR COMMUNICATION points on his licence. He also has to pay can quickly and easily register via the AVDC AVDC Environmental Health Officers to the new Unitary Buckinghamshire £200 costs and a charge of £42 Amir Yasin website: https://aylesburyvaledc.gov. believe they have tracked down all Council being established in a relatively of St Edmunds Close, Aylesbury failed to uk/tattooing-piercing-electrolysis-and- unregistered microblading providers, but short time span. attend Court however had pleaded Guilty acupuncture. Unregistered microblading are calling on local residents to contact to plying for hire and driving without motor service providers risk being prosecuted. them if they are aware of anyone offering 3 Ensuring AVDC’s service provision is insurance committed on 03 November If you are a customer, you should only use microblading or other procedures that maintained during the process move to 2018. Mr Yasin is awaiting sentencing at registered practitioners, as this will give you isn’t registered or licensed, or if they have the single unitary council a later date. the confidence to know that they have been any other concerns about services being The Council will now consider action trained by an approved training provider, offered. You can contact AVDC on Derek Town – 01296 661637 regarding their Private Hire / Hackney that they have valid insurance in place, and 01296 585858 or go to [email protected] Carriage driver licences. that they follow safe working practices www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/complaints Councillor Susan Renshell, Chair of and effective infection control procedures Sandra Jenkins – 01296 668587 AVDC’s Licensing Committee, said: to limit the spread of infections that might Our membership [email protected] “Unlawfully plying for hire is a serious range from mild irritations to the much more responsibilities for offence. Apart from taking legitimate serious Hepatitis C. 2019/2020 District Councillors for Pitstone and work from licensed hackney carriages Microblading is a technique similar Sandra Full Council Cheddington Ward whose livelihood depends on picking up to tattooing that is performed on the • Chairman of the Living and Environment

passengers, it impacts significantly on eyebrows to give a thick, natural look – Scrutiny Committee Dear Dog Walkers of the Parish public safety. The effect of unlawfully plying or whatever the client desires. A small, • Economy and Business Development The walks round here are nice, we think you’ll all agree, for hire is that it invalidates the drivers’ handheld tool with 10-12 needles at the Scrutiny Committee And many people comment, on the views being so pretty. But sometimes on the path you walk, you look and you do see, insurance and may leave customers and end is used to scratch the surface of the • Bucks Playing Field Association A squidgy thing you stepped on, is something that’s sh***y.

third party drivers without financial redress skin. Medical grade pigment is implanted • Bucks Health and Adult Social Care So we kindly ask you, when Rover needs a poop, You make a little effort; you simply bend and scoop, in the event of an accident. These drivers using lightweight strokes to create the look Select Committee And have a thought for fellow (wo)man, do not commit a sin, must take responsibility for the safety of the of natural hair. It is unlike tattooing as it is You know you need to pick it up, and put it in the bin!

passengers they carry in licensed vehicles. not in the deeper layer of skin, and it is also Derek Full council (The Dog Warden can be contacted on 01296 555605) Aylesbury Vale District Council will not permanent – the colour fades within • Development Planning Committee continue these operations to ensure 18 months. • Audit Committee compliance with the law in a bid to eradicate Councillor Sir Beville Stanier, Cabinet • New Homes Bonus Panel illegal plying for hire in our district. Member for Waste and Licensing, said: • Substitute Member for Strategic

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Cllr Karen Groom Cllr Pat Roach Areas of Responsibility: Allotments, Beacon Magazine, Areas of Responsibility: Health, Community Impact Bucks Beacon Villages Library, Conservation Area, Footpaths and Liaison, General Parish Maintenance, Lawn and Trees, Music-a-thon Bridleways, Parish Maintenance, Ivinghoe Aston Village Local Area Forum A day of continuous singing and music Hall, Lawn Hire, Lawn and Trees, National Trust/Chiltern Add: Church View, Church Road, Ivinghoe LU7 9EU Soc., Planning Tel: 01296 668482 At St Mary’s Church Ivinghoe Add: Willowdene Farm, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EA Email: [email protected] Tel: 01296 668326 or Mob: 07882 3562411 Saturday 19th October 10am to 5pm Email: [email protected] Mrs Bridget Knight Cllr Claire Bamber Clerk to Ivinghoe Parish Council Areas of Responsibility: Conservation Area, Human Add: Parish Office, Ivinghoe Town Hall, Resources (Clerks employment and training), IPC Website High Street, Ivinghoe, Bucks LU7 9EP and Social Media (inc Facebook and Twitter), Planning Tel: 07960 605393 Sub-Committee, Police Liaison, Streets, Street Lights and Email: [email protected] Highways (inc Traffic Calming), Grants and Fundraising Add: Bruce Grove House, Great Gap. Ivinghoe. LU7 9DZ Tel: 01296 668134 or Mob: 07711 107 114 Email: [email protected] Cllr Anne Wight Bucks County 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 Tel: 01296 668587 Areas of Responsibility: Beacon Villages Library, Footpaths Email: [email protected] and Bridleways, Ivinghoe Aston Village Hall, Lawn Hire, Local Area Forum, Playgrounds (Ivinghoe and Ivinghoe Aston), Police Liaison, Town Hall Committee Add: 2 Yew Tree Close, Ivinghoe, LU7 9ET. Tel: 01296 668897 Email: [email protected] Cllr Chris Poll Cllr Anna Stone District Cllr Edlesborough Ward Areas of Responsibility: Education, Footpaths and Add: 43 Gooseacre, Cheddington LU7 0SR Bridleways, Town Hall Committee, Grants and Fundraising Tel: 01296 663 737 Add: Willowdene Farm, Ivinghoe, LU7 9EA Email: [email protected] Tel: 01296 668326 Raising funds for the oldest building in Ivinghoe village Email: [email protected] Refreshments available throughout the day Lunches available 12noon to 2pm Cllr Sheena Bexson Cllr Derek J Town Areas of Responsibility: Community Impact Bucks Liaison, Tel: 01296 661637 If you would like to take part or come and support us we would love to see you. Planning sub-committee, Play Areas (Ivinghoe Aston & Email: [email protected] Ivinghoe), Streets, Street Lights and Highways (inc Traffic For further information please email or telephone Sandra Green: Calming). Email: [email protected] [email protected] 01296 668648

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PITSTONE COMMUNITY CAR SCHEME

CAN YOU HELP COULD YOU DRIVE SOME OF SUPPORT THE OUR RESIDENTS LOCAL TO MEDICAL COMMUNITY? APPOINTMENTS?

LIMITED LOCAL TRANSPORT DOES NOT PROVIDE RESIDENTS WITH ACCESS TO VITAL HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS

PLEASE JOIN US AS A VOLUNTEER DRIVER ALL YOU NEED IS YOUR CAR, A DRIVING LICENCE AND A FEW HOURS A MONTH TO OFFER SOMEONE LOCAL A LIFT YOU CAN DRIVE AS LITTLE OR AS OFTEN AS YOU LIKE IT DOESN'T AFFECT YOUR INSURANCE MILEAGE EXPENSES ARE PAID

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