VOL.55 No4 The Journal of Bourne End (Bucks) Community Association AUG/SEPT 2019 £1Suggested price Local funding for future Lionesses The professionalism and skill of the players in disability football teams which can assist this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup matches towards the costs of FA coaching courses; FA A future has brought a whole new raft of fans to the league affiliation costs; referees’ fees; first aid Lioness? game. kits; football kit and equipment. Darcy Now women’s football is starting to get the Clare Leighton, vice chair and sports club Langley at attention it deserves. And local girls have their director said: “We started on our journey of the sports best chance ever to get involved in the sport creating girls’ teams in the summer term by club as Bourne End Junior Sports Club is on the becoming a SSE Wildcats centre. For the first hunt for the next generation of female players time, despite not having our own teams, we after receiving a £4,500 Grow the Game also included two girls age groups in our grant. annual football tournament Sportsfest. The scheme, which is funded by the Football “We started with four girls, but following Association and delivered by the Football the success of the Lionesses in the World Foundation, will enable the club to create Cup, and word spreading about the great three new teams over the next three years coaching that we offer, we have seen the starting with under10s. number of girls mushroom. We’ve invested In addition to joining their competitive heavily in the girls’ section, employing local teams, there are a number of ways that girls professional academy coach Marco Papa to can get involved in football; SSE Wildcats for put them through their paces and the girls girls from five to11; Tiny Kickers for girls from are thriving under his guidance. two to four years old and mini kickers for “We hope to put our first team together in girls from four to six years old. They also have September with a great group of Under 10 many girls playing in existing mixed teams up girls, we don’t think the other teams will be to Under 11s, too far behind. The Grow the Game scheme sees grants of “In addition to providing opportunities for £1,500 awarded to community football clubs girls to play football, we also offer a young wishing to create new teams, especially among coach development scheme to attract older under-represented groups. girls 16+ into coaching. in helping us achieve our amibitions. This year funding was made available for “The money that we have received from the For more information or to arrange a trial clubs looking to create new female and FA and the Football Foundation is invaluable email [email protected] Goodbye to the library ladies... Target Magazine, and we are sure many readers, will be sad to say goodbye to the hard-working, friendly and creative team of ladies who have been running Bourne End Library so brilliantly. Read Inka’s farewell message on page 32. STOP PRESS: New Local Plan published and includes housing on Hollands Farm and Slate Taking her chance to get her picture in Target, Chloe An armful of coconuts and all won by former pupil Meadow. Brown visited the Open Day at the community centre Chris Matei (12) at Wooburn Green Primary School’s WDC’s cabinet and council meet on in June. More pictures of the day are on page 27. Fun Day. More local fête pictures pages 36 and 37. August 19 to adopt. 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? Brian Wheal’s front room together with about 20 occurs. The residents’ association had input in local people including Keith and Brenda Harris who helping the village green to be registered. had put their name to the original letter. Dinnie Again using the law regarding access we were Hawthorne was another and David Bolton who able to get the footpath on the old railway line became the first chairman. Please no letters or calls between Blackbird Cottage and Willows Crossing to say that “I was there and didn’t get a mention”. registered on the definitive footpath map. A follow-up meeting in the Red Cross Centre at the Other memories come to mind with the publication bottom of New Road, now New Beginnings, of three volumes featuring old photographs. Without confirmed the desire from the community for a a doubt Brian Wheals initiated ‘The Way It Was’ with residents association. So in 1978 we were up and a collection of old photographs that are in the It’s always positive to start with a good news story. Six running. library. Then there are the bound copies of all years ago Bucks County Council was going to close Over the ensuing years there have been so many issues of Target magazines up to the present. and sell off our day centre (alongside the library in things providing a proud legacy.