JULY 2018 | ISSUE 25 AYLESBURY VALE aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk •• BinBin collectioncollection daysdays -- areare yoursyours changing?changing? •• AylesburyAylesbury GardenGarden TownTown -- havehave youryour saysay •• Win,Win, Win,Win, Win!Win! -- threethree fantasticfantastic competitionscompetitions ALSO:ALSO: What’sWhat’s onon thisthis summer,summer, latestlatest newsnews onon ValeVale Lottery,Lottery, UniversalUniversal CreditCredit updateupdate andand lotslots more!more! News from Aylesbury Vale District Council out and about • 1 GetGet readyready forfor PlayPlay inin thethe Park!Park! Our family favourite, Play in the Park, is returning to Aylesbury on Wednesday 1 August. The annual event, organised by AVDC and now in its 12th year, will offer a host of fun activities, games Play around the Parishes and entertainment for all the family. If you can’t attend Play in the Park, don’t This year, look out for… bouncy castles, face painting, worry, as there are plenty of smaller scale drumming workshops, climbing wall, petting play sessions happening throughout the farm, electric go-karts and much, much more! school holidays. Play in the Park will take place in Vale Park from Organised by AVDC in partnership with parish 11am until 4pm. Entry is free, but some activities councils, ‘Play around the Parishes’ consists of 36 free have charges of £1-£3. More information on the sessions taking place in the Vale between 24 July and event can be found here: 24 August. Towns and villages hosting the sessions www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/play-park include Buckingham, Stewkley and Winslow. Arts & crafts, giant games, soft play, circus skills Waterside Festival - a brand (and other fun stuff) will all be on offer. new event for Aylesbury There’s no need to book - just turn up. This September, there’s a For more information on these fun sessions, and new and exciting festival for to view a list of the dates and times, please visit: Aylesbury town centre. www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/patp Celebrating Aylesbury’s canal heritage coming together with its innovative new developments, Waterside Festival will Aylesbury Vale District Council be packed with a boatload of features and activities. For its first year, treat your senses to the festival’s continental market of over 40 stalls. There’ll also be a floating Follow the events on market, canal boat trips, a pieces-of-eight treasure hunt, social media arts & crafts, food tasters and lots more. Look out for the latest news and updates on Play in the Park and Play around the Parishes on our The event takes place on Saturday 8 September, 11am- Facebook and Twitter accounts, which both share 6.30pm, in Waterside, the canalside public space the handle: @AylesburyVale surrounded by Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Waitrose, University Campus Aylesbury Vale, Travelodge and the Waterside Festival has its own dedicated town centre’s canal basin. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, which can be found through the handle: @WatersideFestvl Waterside Festival is a new initiative led by the Aylesbury Town Centre Partnership, who are made up We look forward to seeing you at the events! of more than 100 local businesses, organisations and statutory authorities - including AVDC. For more information about the festival please go to: www.watersidefestival.org Welcome to the latest edition 2 • contents of AV Times In this edition, we have lots to tell you about our recycling and waste services, including essential information around changes to our bin collection days and Food recycling in Bucks Inside this issue: a new collection service for small electrical items. (See pages 12 and 13.) We also have some important news on Universal Credit. (See page 9.) In 1 Play in the Park returns addition, we’re celebrating summer with three fabulous competitions - where has never been easier to Aylesbury there’s something for everyone! Finally, as we go to press, our annual WhizzFizzFest is ready to take Vale Lottery - Aylesbury town centre by storm. This year’s event is set to be the biggest and sports club best to date, with a huge amount of interest shown in our celebrity guests, focus 4 Dame Darcey Bussell, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Tony Hadley. You can now use plastic bags to line Some fascinating stats from across the Vale: 6 Making your life easier: MyAccount 2,441 £9.5 million your food waste recycling caddy Individual comments received about Received from the government to help Aylesbury Garden the Vale of Aylesbury Local Plan enable the infrastructure for Aylesbury during the consultation period. Garden Town. A second bid has been Town wants you made for an additional £204m – and to have your say 8 has passed the first hurdle. Ordinary plastic bags are 9 Universal Credit now acceptable for lining update your indoor food recycling 12 Your bin day may be changing caddy, such as: 13 “Alexa, when is my recycling collection day?” 110 2,000 • freezer bags The number of outdoor events hosted by The average number of webchat Aylesbury town centre in the last year. sessions handled every month by our Win Saturday Customer Fulfilment team. • carrier bags Night Fever tickets! 15 • pedal bin liners 17 What’s on this summer (cut out and keep) • salad or bread bags. 19 Spotlight on Stoke Mandeville Compostable bags can still Local Loves - Advertise with us be used, or you can wrap meet Sarah To find out more about how we could help your company or Lewis 20 your food waste recycling in organisation, please email: [email protected] newspaper. Aylesbury Vale Times is a publication from Aylesbury Vale 01296 585858 (main switchboard) www.recycle4bucks.co.uk/food District Council. It is printed on environmentally friendly www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk paper; please recycle after reading. The editor: 01296 585216 If you’d like a free copy of this magazine in large print, or [email protected] or on CD, call 01296 585861. This edition of Aylesbury Vale Times costs around 13p per copy.* recycle4bucks Some stock images are used in the production of this magazine to help illustrate an article, this is in part to ensure costs are kept to Cover photo by Matt Fowler. a minimum. *Copy price may vary slightly per issue, depending on advertising revenue and postage costs. Magazine design by Fortem Digital. External advertising in the magazine does not imply an endorsement or The views expressed by individuals in Aylesbury Vale Times are not promotion of the advertisement, nor its content, products or services by necessarily the views of Aylesbury Vale District Council. Every effort is made Aylesbury Vale District Council. to ensure that all information is accurate at the time of going to press. AVT summer 2018 full page.indd 1 01/06/2018 09:23:06 4 • Vale Lottery community • 5 Don’t forget every week, there’s also the chance to bag the £25,000 jackpot! If you want to sign up to Vale Lottery for just a pound a week (60p from each pound goes to good causes), please visit www.valelottery.co.uk Does your sports club need a boost? Vale Lottery, which is an online Win with Vale Lottery! initiative, helps a whole range Another seven parishes Since it started, Vale Lottery has raised close to of local good causes including Winslow United benefit from New Homes Great Brickhill Parish Hall Football Club an amazing £175,000 for local good causes. more than 20 local sports clubs. Football Club Get your club to join, encourage Bonus Project Grants! And it’s not just the causes who are winning – to date your members to buy tickets and you could soon be Seeking funds for Over £225,000 of AVDC New Homes we’ve given away almost £35,000 in cash prizes and in earning some extra funds. It’s easy! Here’s how some of Bonus (NHB) funding has been awarded your voluntary or the last few weeks alone two players have scooped a those already on board are benefitting: tidy £2,000 each! for the following projects: community sector Amount raised New windows and radiators for Halton One of those winners was Clare Sports club annually • organisation? Withers, who supports the Village Hall Brill Sports & Social Club £1,040 If yes, our voluntary and community sector grants fund Vale Lottery Community Fund. • A fully accessible slope at Cotton End in could lend a helping hand. Winslow United Football Club £858 “I was so surprised then Buckingham Dinton Cricket Club £804 To be considered for funding, your not- shocked to find I had won • New perimeter fencing for Ivinghoe £2,000 on the Vale Lottery. I had Buckingham Athletic Sports for-profit organisation must be based in £364 Village Lawn completely forgotten I had joined! It’s nice to & Social Club Aylesbury Vale. It should also offer one or give something back to the community.” • Partial funding for traffic calming more of the following: Bierton Lawn Tennis Club £234 measures in Drayton Parslow • Services to older people • A community netball court in Wingrave What are you waiting for? Join up in minutes at www.valelottery.co.uk! • Services to people with disabilities The refurbishment of the kitchen in • Services supporting the emotional and Haddenham Youth and Community Centre • mental well-being of vulnerable and at-risk People power! Crowdfunding • Roof repairs to the Buckingham Slade young people launches in the Vale Recreation Club If it does, then the organisation may be eligible* to Alongside our partners Spacehive we’ve just launched Our Vale, an online NHB funding is open to parish and town councils receive a one-year revenue project grant from us. crowdfunding platform, to connect and empower local communities and that have been affected by growth (or the impact Applications are open until 5 October 2018 for funding help shape the Vale for the better.