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VOL.55 No3 The Journal of Bourne End (Bucks) Community Association JUN/JULY 2019 £1Suggested price Roll up! Come in! Look around! n Saturday June 8 the community Get information about Headway – the centre in Wakeman Road will be organisation for people with brain injuries open to greet the enquiring, the who have a day centre three times a week at JUNE 8th Ocurious, the regulars and especially those who the community centre. 9am to 1pm have never been through the doors. The University of the Third Age has an array Find out what it has to offer. Everyone is of regular group meetings in various halls. welcome. Tea and coffee will be available along While the Women’s Institute want more with lots of information on what happens at people for their walking netball – a fun way the community centre regularly. And it’s a to keep fit. Then the Junior Sports Club have free parking day courtesy of Wooburn & plans for their 50th anniversary in 2020. Bourne End Parish Council. You will be made welcome, treated as a Many of the clubs who meet at the centre honoured guest and shown the facilities from will have someone attending to talk about the May Woollerton Hall to the cosy Eghams what they do. Room, bar and other smaller meeting rooms. Have a look at the activities and you’ll find Wander into the garden and sit on the everything from bowls through to exercise secluded patio at the rear. And for a self- classes and then yoga and meditation. All the contained meeting space you can look clubs with reports in Target have regular slots around the Target room with its own toilets, at the community centre and you might be kitchen and outside access. tempted to join when you hear more. Mamma Mia – here we go again is a great If you haven’t discovered the joys of the film packed with colour and music. And it’s the other side of the doors. New Royalty Cinema there will be volunteers on that evening. Beforehand you can enjoy a See you on Saturday June 8 from 9am to 1pm to tell you all about the monthly screening, barbecue with everything freshly cooked on and again in the evening from 5pm for the the ice cream and the popcorn. Then you can the spot. barbecue and film at 7pm. find out about the centreTALKS and the Don’t miss the chance to check out your Get more info from the office on 01628 centreJAZZ. Maybe book a ticket on the spot? community centre and find out what goes on 522604 or email [email protected] PARKING RATES ARE UP! AND THERE’S Bourne NOW A SUNDAY End CHARGE Mum As a motorist you should be aware of the increased rates for parking Alexa in the Wakeman Road Car Park. takes on Also that a straight £1 charge has been introduced for Sunday parking and you can only pay by card or via the RingGo service. a 56-mile As a villager you need to be aware of these changes, particularly the Sunday charge and the payment arrangements, should you need to run for use this car park. Ignorance is not a defence if you get a parking charity ticket. Objections have been voiced and you can keep writing and emailing the district council with your views. Churchgoers to shoppers, regulars at the antiques market or table See page top sales, children’s party organisers and others have asked why a 24 community car park in a village has to be a source of revenue for the district’s car parks. TARGET READER SERVICE Useful telephone numbers DAY CENTRE, Wakeman Road, Bourne End SL8 5SX 01628 527024 and websites WYE VALLEY VOLUNTEERS, Portacabin, Wakeman Road Bourne End SL8 5SX Target magazine is published by Bourne POLICE 101 [email protected] 01628 521027 End (Bucks) Community Association and EMERGENCY 999 distributed free to over 5,000 homes in CRIMESTOPPERS 0800 555 111 BOURNE END LIBRARY the local area. The distribution network www.thamesvalley.police.uk Wakeman Road, Bourne End SL8 5SX 0845 2303232 includes Bourne End and Wooburn Green Sunday & Monday closed. Open from 9.30am, half day as well as the outlying hamlets of Hedsor, POST OFFICES www.postoffice.co.uk on Wednesday. Open Saturday until 2pm. Late Night on Well End, Little Marlow, Cores End, Upper (with last collection times) Tuesday Bourne End, Wooburn Common, Bourne End, Furlong Road 5.15pm 01628 520050 www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/libraries/branches/bourne_end Wooburn Moor and parts of Flackwell Flackwell Heath 4.45pm 01628 520524 Heath. Wooburn Green 5pm 01628 522939 British Rail Passenger Information 08457 484950 Bourne End Station, Station Road, Bourne End SL8 Bourne End (Bucks) Community DOCTORS 5QH www.nationalrail.co.uk Association Bourne End & Wooburn Green Medical Centre Carousel Buses www.carouselbuses.co.uk The Centre, Wakeman Road, Bourne End, Hawthornden, Wharf Lane, Bourne End SL8 5RX 01494 450151 Bucks SL8 5SX The Orchard, Station Road, Bourne End SL8 5QE Arriva Bus Company www.arrivabus.co.uk Telephone: 01628 522604 0844 8004411 Office Hours: Mon - Fri 9am to 4pm Pound House, 8 The Green, Wooburn Green HP10 0EE Senior Administrator: Sue Ambrose 01628 530 997 OR 01628 522864 Visit: www.bourneendcommunitycentre.org.uk www.hawthorndensurgery.co.uk OR THE SAMARITANS for current information or email www.poundhousepractice.co.uk (free number even from mobiles. Texts also accepted) [email protected] HEALTH VISITORS’ SERVICE 01628 482788 116123 Katharine House, 17 Uxbridge Road, Editor Cherrymead Surgery Slough, Berks SL1 1SN Debra Aspinall Queensmead Road, Loudwater HP10 9XA Tel: 07881 558027 MESSAGES, VISITS & APPOINTMENTS 01494 445150 BUCKS COUNTY COUNCIL, County Hall, Walton [email protected] www.cherrymeadsurgery.co.uk Street, Aylesbury HP20 1UA www.buckscc.gov.uk 0845 3708090 Managing Editor & Distribution Highways (Transport for Bucks) 01296 382416 Barrie Penfold NHS 111 or www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk Consumer’s Helpline 03454 040506 Tel: 01628 525415 HOSPITALS Amersham Hospital Advertising & Production WYCOMBE DISTRICT COUNCIL Barrie Penfold Whielden Street, Amersham, Queen Victoria Road, High Wycombe HP11 1BB Tel: 01628 525415 Bucks HP7 0JD 01494 434411 www.wycombe.gov.uk 01494 461000 [email protected] Wycombe Hospital WOOBURN & BOURNE END PARISH COUNCIL Our advertising rate card is on Queen Alexandra Road, Council Offices, Town Lane, Wooburn Green HP10 0PS www.bourneendcommunitycentre.org.uk. High Wycombe, Bucks HP11 2TT 01494 526161 www.wooburnparish.gov.uk 01628 522827 Click on Community Association, then Stoke Mandeville Hospital LITTLE MARLOW PARISH COUNCIL Target. Mandeville Road, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 8AL Community Office, The Pavilion, Church Road, Little www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk 01296 315000 Marlow SL7 3RS Proofreading Christina Martell and St Mark’s Hospital, www.littlemarlowparishcouncil.org.uk 01628 890301 Meriel Riseley 112 St Mark's Road, SCHOOLS Printers Maidenhead SL6 6DU 01628 632012 Gpex, Pinstone Way, Wexham Park Hospital, Claytons County Combined, Wendover Road, Gerrards Cross SL9 7BJ Wexham Street, Slough SL2 4HL Bourne End SL8 5NS Telephone: 01753 887450 www.heatherwoodandwexham.nhs.uk 01753 633000 www.claytonsps.org.uk 01628 525277 Little Marlow School, School Lane, Little Marlow SL7 3SA BOURNE END DENTAL PRACTICE www.littlemarlow.bucks.sch.uk 01628 473316 Station Road, Bourne End SL8 5QF 01628 523353 St Paul’s School, Stratford Drive, www.bourneenddental.co.uk Wooburn Green HP10 0QH ADVANCE DENTAL SERVICES www.st-pauls.bucks.sch.uk 01628 521553 1 Station Court, Bourne End SL8 5YP 01628 525223 Wooburn Green Primary School, School Road, www.advancedentalservices.co.uk Wooburn Green HP10 0HF All material appearing in Target is the ASH TREE HOUSE DENTAL SURGERY www.wooburngreenprimary.co.uk 01628 521634 copyright of Bourne End (Bucks) 6 The Green, Wooburn Green HP10 0EE Bourne End Academy, New Road, Bourne End SL8 5BW Community Association. The Editor 01628 532932 reserves the right to select letters and www.bea.bucks.sch.uk 01628 819022 reports for publication and to edit for grammar, style and length. TARGET COMPETITION (page 40) Terms and conditions: Entrants must be aged 18 or over, only one entry per person, no cash alternative to this prize, our decision is final, no correspondence can be entered into. The meal must be booked in advance and is subject to availability. Drinks not included. 2 Could you become one of the Target delivery team? Wooburn Fête returns to The Green on Saturday survey. Our thanks go to the parish council for the WOOBURN June 15 for its annual fun, frolics, music and fence and also for agreeing at a recent meeting that barbecue, showcasing many of the fabulous Wooburn Park is not the place for Bourne End RESIDENTS community groups and businesses we are lucky Junior Sports Club’s proposed swimming pool. We enough to have on our doorstep. The fête will run wish the club all the best in finding a suitable site. ASSOCIATION from midday until 4pm and includes school children By Margaret Amos dancing and singing; the Sappers singers, Dave For the latest news visit our website: Secretary to the Association Kimber on his DJ decks, First Responders giving www.wooburnresidents.org and follow us on first aid demos plus the Scouts providing Facebook at entertainment and games. https://www.facebook.com/wooburnresidents Entrance is free and there is something for every For a copy of Wooburn News – email Margaret member of the family – young and old. Do come Amos at [email protected] along and support this traditional summer fête – all Contact can made with the Association through the monies raised go to community groups or to support website. the work of Wooburn Residents’ Association.