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September/October Edition SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021 Bengeo Magazine SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF BENGEO, CHAPMORE END AND TONWELL BENGEO PARISH MAGAZINE AND COMMUNITY NEWS | SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021 PAGE 2 BENGEO PARISH MAGAZINE AND COMMUNITY NEWS | SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021 Bengeo Parish Magazine and Community News Contents Local Services Adverts 4, 5, 8 and 14 Bengeo Community Garden 5 Hertfood Rotary Award; Bengeo Horses; Bengeo Scouts; Children’s Society 6–7 Herts Lynx Bus Service 9 What’s On in Bengeo 10 Bengeo Club Reopens 11 Local Events 12 Food Bank; Future Hope 13 Local School News 15–19 A Word from the Rectory; Pet Service 20–21 Parish Calendar 22–23 Prayers for September and October 24 Contacts Page 25 Editorial Team Items for the magazine should be sent to Back to normal [email protected] Our contributors this time are showing that life is Copy dates for 2021 getting back to normal: a new school term, new pub Items should be sent by the middle of the month openings, activities resuming in Bengeo and Harvest preceding publication. Festival time. Even so we are not forgetting those Advertising who supported us in lockdown. See Carrie Bone’s Please address all advertising enquiries to article on the Hertfood Rotary Award. [email protected] Distribution Though the evenings are drawing in there are Bengeo: Pam Martin opportunities for getting out and keeping busy – Tonwell: Pat Lavis whether it is volunteering with the Scouts or Future The magazine can be delivered to your door for a Hope, joining a fitness session at the Church Hall or subscription of £6.00 per year. Contact Pam Martin, phone Bengeo Club, or just socialising again. 01992 422441, to ask about obtaining the magazine. There are more ideas in the following pages, so read Individual issue: £1.00. Cheques payable to: ‘Bengeo Magazine’ or pay by BACS on… to Bengeo Magazine, 20-05-73, 53580091. The Editorial Team 6 issues per year: January/February; March/April; The views expressed by the contributors are not necessarily those of the Editorial May/June; July/August; September/October; Team or the PCC. Whilst every care is taken, we cannot be responsible for the action November/December. of any of the contributors or advertisers in this magazine. The magazine is designed by GREENGilbert [email protected] and printed by MSPC Ltd, Front cover photographs: Unit 10, Hartham View Industrial Estate, Hartham Lane, Late summer on Waterford Heath. Hertford, Hertfordshire SG14 1QN. PAGE 3 BENGEO PARISH MAGAZINE AND COMMUNITY NEWS | SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021 PAGE 4 BENGEO PARISH MAGAZINE AND COMMUNITY NEWS | SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021 Our Bengeo Community Garden – on its way Using the space on the corner of Tower Street and in preparation. Inevitably, before we can actually enjoy Duncombe Road as a community garden was endorsed sitting in the garden, there’s quite a lot of work to be as part of the Bengeo Neighbourhood Plan in the May done before any digging and planting. Firstly, we need to referendum. The next step is making it happen! The resolve leasing arrangements and to reassure UK overall aim is to create an attractive and welcoming Powerworks that nothing we do will compromise the community garden which will be similar to the larger one security of their adjacent site. We want the garden to near St Leonard’s Church. With the help of Mudlarks we look attractive for years and that means a plan for plan to maximise the use of native, wildlife friendly ongoing maintenance. We are also likely to approach plants, resulting in a garden that looks attractive for as local businesses and individuals who might donate, or much of the year as possible but isn’t ‘overtidy’. build, a bench, birdbox, perimeter wall or be able to The site is already rich in trees, most of which have been provide something from our ‘shopping list’ of shrubs and neglected for years, as well as an excess of ivy. Some plants. These things will take time; meanwhile watch the pruning and clearance has taken place already and a plan space! for enhancing the space, to include a path and bench, is Veronica Fraser PAGE 5 BENGEO PARISH MAGAZINE AND COMMUNITY NEWS | SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021 Hertfood gets Rotary award for feeding Hertford Amwell Rotary Club has awarded Debs Bonfield the Paul pandemic, we will continue to help as long as our funds Harris Fellowship award for outstanding service to the last. We are doing an extra 40 families with lunch packs community after providing families with fresh food. Debs over the holidays” she says. “At our height we were was recommended for the award following the impact of feeding 160 families a week, we are now looking after her work in the community. Debs Bonfield, who owns around 40 that are still trying to get back on their feet,” Manic Ceramics in Port Vale, Hertford set up Hertfood she adds. with Annegret Scott in April 2020 after realising many Despite it being mid-August, meetings for Christmas local children were going without fresh food. have started. Last year, Christmas hampers and gifts were “The Rotary Club have been very generous to us in the given out also. As the summer holidays come to a close, form of donations,” says Deb, who said it would have with return to school on the horizon there is still work to been wrong to turn the award down, despite be done. reservations about feeling unworthy of the accolade. “I will run Hertfood as long as our money lasts, I cannot Despite the grip of the pandemic and lockdowns walk away from our families. We are currently sourcing loosening, there are still families in need of help in the uniform for certain families, back to school is an community. expensive time!,” she says. “Lots of families are still struggling as a result of the Last year the scheme was given support by Hertford 2nd Bengeo Scout Group Needs You Do you like the Bags of activity materials were delivered to the outdoor life, youngsters and they did various craft activities, camping, and scavenger hunts and badge work. They attended practical activities virtual camps in the summer and at Christmas either such as cooking camping in their gardens or in indoor homemade growing plants and dens. making things? We We do hope that some of you will be able to help us. need your help to Get in touch come to a meeting in September and see help the young if it would be something you could do. people of Bengeo. Please contact me if you can help. We have lots of I am Barbara Kiln the group Secretary. boys and girls in My email is [email protected] or our group, but you can phone on 01992 552562. need some new leaders. We have Beavers aged 6 to 8, Cubs aged 8 to 10 and a half and Scouts aged ten and a half to 14 years. You could help once a week in the early evening. We are a very friendly group and full training is given. Our group started in 1945 and we have been at our present headquarters in Watermill Lane since the middle of the 1960s. Over the last few years our building has been refurbished and is also available for hire. We are trying to develop it as a community hall. It has a nice lawn outside. Please contact me if you would like to hire it. Due to the fantastic efforts of our leaders we ran a weekly programme throughout the pandemic and most of our members attended the virtual meetings. PAGE 6 BENGEO PARISH MAGAZINE AND COMMUNITY NEWS | SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2021 Town Council with a £1,200 community grant in addition During July we were to boxes of food from Hertfordshire County Council able to hold an when Operation Shield ended. Since March last year, Afternoon Tea and more than £7,000 has been donated to the scheme, in Bring and Buy in our addition to fresh food donations. garden, as this was Currently a JustGiving page created by Annegret Scott 10 before Covid restrictions were lifted our numbers months ago is aiming to raise £15,000 and has met 89% had to be limited. However, we were blessed with of its target. You can donate here – www.justgiving.com/ good weather and we had a socially distanced tea crowdfunding/hertfoood?utm_term=xPGy2yDW2. with waitress service under various gazebos. Many thanks to everyone who provided the Bengeo horses to delicious cakes and scones for the tea and for bringing items for the Bring and Buy stall. We had receive crowdfunding cards for sale and a raffle and thanks to everyone’s generosity we were able to raise £788 for the work cash of the Children’s Society. A crowd funding appeal for rescue horses living in This was very pleasing as we were not able to Bengeo has smashed its original target and continues to fundraise last year. receive donations by the day. An added interest were Pete’s model railways in his The online JustGiving page shed, especially for small boys and even bigger set up by Colette Lloyd ones! initially hoped to raise £100 We are so grateful to all our Helpers Sue selling to provide funds to help raffle tickets, Kath and Carol running the Bring and improve the conditions of Buy, the waitresses Brenda, Christina and Teresa, where the horses are living Mike for washing up and of course Mary and Sue in Bengeo, however that making endless cups of tea and serving up the target was quickly scones and cakes.
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