The place you live The people you know A selection of stories and examples of people in Buckinghamshire helping their communities during the Covid-19 pandemic. 1 Wendover Youth Centre 3 Buckinghamshire Council 5 Denham Community IT department • Pen Pals: Young people are writing Support letters and emails to elderly isolated Enabling not only the council services but James Foraye, a small business owner and people. the GPs and the NHS to function during graphic designer at Prontaprint used his • Food Parcels: Young people are lockdown, by moving everyone onto resources and skills to design a website, preparing food parcels for those who teams in record time. leaflets, ID badges for volunteers, and are in need. coordinated a community response to • Family Phone Calls: Young people support people self-isolating in Denham. He has had some great feedback from and their families are calling isolated 4 Paul Kelly & Woodstocks individuals to help reduce loneliness. local residents. • Youth Work Sessions: multiple times Coffee house a week through group zoom chats. In conjunction with Paul Kelly, Woodstocks Coffee House have been 6 The Risborough Basket delivering a home-cooked, lunchtime 2 Seerah Today - Wycombe meal, on a daily basis to local elderly Supporting people to stay at home by residents currently in self-isolation, setting up a free local grocery delivery Delivering emergency same day food who have no family in the area that can service. supplies, with the help of volunteers support them. This service is free of including the Exiled Bikers; a charge to those in need and is being philanthropist local bike group and funded by Mr. Kelly, for a limited time. 7 Bin collectors donations from the public, including Thara Store Castlefield and Mak Foods Meeting the challenge and collecting Totteridge. kerbside waste despite staff shortages. Buckinghamshire Council Covid-19 Report - Appendix A 2 8 Buckinghamshire Council 11 Buckinghamshire 15 Daniel Austin Social Care teams, NHS council staff Producing over 1000 3D printed ‘ear staff and volunteers Rising to the challenge of keeping the savers’ for face masks worn by health Repurposing The Olympic Lodge into council running and helping communities and care workers. a 240 bed care centre for the vulnerable, during the COVID-19 crisis. (whilst also freeing up vital hospital beds. launching a brand new council!) 16 Childminders and 12 Bledlow / Saunderton child carers 9 Meals from Marlow Parish Council For continuing to look after key workers’ children so they can carry on doing Local celeb chef Tom Kerridge Organising mass deliveries of grocery their jobs alongside volunteers, business and and medicines to all Parish residents. Marlow Town Council are aiming to deliver 25K free meals to NHS staff 17 Restore Hope, and those most in need. Chiltern Food bank, 13 Stoke Poges Good Bernwode Community Neighbourhood Scheme Bus and local volunteers 10 Stoke Mandeville (SPGNS) Community Support For providing and delivering Using their Good Neighbour Scheme to hundreds of Easter eggs and toys to 80+ volunteers, inc Bucks and help support locals in need of extra help disadvantaged children across Bucks. Parish council staff, helping locals and telephone contact. who are self-isolating. Getting their shopping, prescriptions and making friendly phonecalls. 14 Waddesdon Manor Aspire School Delivering free school meals to pupils and vulnerable people in the area. Buckinghamshire Council Covid-19 Report - Appendix A 3 Buckinghamshire Council Covid-19 Report - Appendix A 4 18 Local support group in 22 Sir William Ramsay, Stowe, 25 Aston Clinton Covid-19 Whitchurch Beachborough and Support Group Westbury schools + the Set up by the local Church, now has 39 Local volunteers supporting their volunteers offering help in the village and University of Buckingham community and making sure everyone supporting anyone who needs them. Producing personal protective equipment has what they need to stay safe and well. for health and social care workers. 19 Sophie Jugé and students 23 Our Councillors 26 Shaun Marshall and 3D Print World Creating an uplifting version of ABBA’s For their hard work supporting their Producing over 300 protective visors in ‘Thank you for the music’. ‘Heroes to me’ communities during the Covid-19 crisis. his spare time with the kind support of thanks key workers, health and social Including organising a free curry delivery 3D Print World. care staff keeping us safe and supported. to emergency workers, litter picking/ grass cutting and collecting/ delivering donations. 20 Dial-a-Ride 27 Chesham & Amersham Sewing for Carers Offering their services for food deliveries 24 Aylesbury Grammar Creating headbands to make and taking vulnerable or elderly residents School pupils wearing masks and visors much more to health appointments. comfortable and brightening up the Setting up a food bank collection/ place for care staff. donation service. Created a website with a simple online form to collect items from 21 The Ivers Community doorsteps and deliver to a local food bank. Kindness Outreach 28 Gerrards Cross Support Volunteers and residents pulling together Group and delivering 100’s of weekly Kindness Helping people in the community Kits to vulnerable locals. with food, loo rolls & groceries as well as leafleting half GX to see if people need help. Buckinghamshire Council Covid-19 Report - Appendix A 5 29 Charlie Clare and 32 Rev. Doug Zimmerman 36 Berryfields Parish Paul Fealey For becoming the new paper round Council Working hard to ensure local schools person for many of the Old Town Helping vulnerable people in their in the north of the county benefit from residents during lockdown. local area to stay safe and well. the Community Fund ready for the new term. 33 BuDs 37 Covid-19 Support Group High Wycombe 30 Buckingham Young After receiving a @HeartofBucks Carers coronavirus UK grant they launched a Creating a community group to assist Providing children’s activity packs to the professional new BuDDies befriending people self-isolating and help them most vulnerable children in homes with service for disabled people and carers. gain access to support. adults who need care. 34 Schools in Bucks 38 Local MP, our councillors and volunteers 31 Buckinghamshire Fire Sir William Borlase, Holmer Green & Rescue Service Senior, Akeley Wood, The Beaconsfield Greg Smith, Rob Butler, Angela Worked closely with our GPs and Sir Henry Floyd Grammar schools Macpherson, Ashley Waite & Paul Irwin and Primary Care Networks, for donating or using their 3D printers/ plus all the volunteers, supporting Bernie Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust, laser cutters to make headbands and the Bus on his trips collecting donations Oxford Health, Buckinghamshire visors for health and social care staff. for Aylesbury Vineyard foodbank. Clinical Commissioning Group and Buckinghamshire Council to help to set up a range of COVID-19 vaccination 35 Downley Covid-19 Group 39 The Buckingham centres across Buckinghamshire. Food Bank We now have 20 vaccination centres Getting Street Reps on all roads in Supported by Buckingham Athletic across the County. the Parish, setting up a home delivery Club and the Rotary Club of service from local shops and running a Buckingham - local volunteers pharmacy collection/ delivery scheme. collecting and delivering donations. Buckinghamshire Council Covid-19 Report - Appendix A 6 Buckinghamshire Council Covid-19 Report - Appendix A 7 40 Old Town Street 43 Hyundai 47 CSP Community Association Hyundai offered the use of a fleet of brand A volunteer group in Chalfont St Peter A group of 12 volunteers are shopping for new, fully insured cars for members of the which helps support the local residents anyone at risk who does not have support BORG 4x4 volunteers group. and businesses during a difficult time. from family, friends, or carers. Running their operations from a vintage caravan, parked in the Rectory, they are taking care of 30 households, they have completed 49 44 Chartridge Parish Council 48 The White Hart shopping lists in less than two weeks. Set up a Covid-19 support group to help in Preston Bissett has produced hundreds vulnerable people in the village. of food boxes for local residents. 41 Chesham Citizen Advice Bureau 45 Raj Khan, Niknam Hussain 49 Buckingham Support For supporting local residents and Network continuing to provide help and advice and Waheed Raja The Facebook group was started by a by telephone about food, benefits and Delivering 100 individual portions of resident and is dealing with all sorts of local support. Chicken Biryani to Stoke Manderville adhoc calls for shopping, medications hospital, NHS staff said that “It was and advice. all very tasty, gratefully received and 42 Katie Galvin from enjoyed”. Buckinghamshire Council 50 “Stay at Home” Food & Katie was made aware of some toys and Supplies directory toiletries leftover from the Christmas 46 Shires Scrubs toy appeal. Each Community Hub was Warren Whyte has created the allocated a bag, Katie arranged for hers In just 4 weeks they have made and “Stay at Home Food & Supplies to go to the Restore Hope Latimer - delivered to various hospitals: 170 sets Directory” to help promote businesses Storehouse in Chesham, to be delivered to of scrubs, 5,035 headbands and 16,035 in and around Buckingham that have families in need over the Easter holidays. scrub wash bags. adapted their business to offer special takeaway services, delivery options and even mail order. Buckinghamshire Council Covid-19 Report - Appendix A 8 51 Royal Mail 54 For the Love of Scrubs 57 Jim McKellar, Orchard View Farm Mr Kashifr, a manager at Royal Mail 25+ seamstresses in Holmer Green When Jim heard about a local man who realised hand sanitiser was in very are making Making new scrubs and was a priority food customer, couldn’t short supply. So he took the hand rub recycling old duvet covers into wash get hold of basics. Jim decided he formula from the WHO website and bags for local hospitals.