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February 2022

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Spanish Fiesta Concert in aid of FNHC Aylesbury Waterside 27 February

Half Term Lionel Abel Smith Trust

Financial support It's that time of year again and the Trustees will be holding their 44th Annual meeting on 27 April 2022 to consider grant applications from individuals and organisations from within Wendover & the Moor Park Estate. I’m delighted to say our new website is up and running and we’ve received our first online application already! It’s user friendly, making applications for grants really straightforward, so if you are in need of financial support or have a project in need of funding please take a look at www.wendovertrust.org - we may be able to help. Applications should be received by 28 February, apply online at www.wendovertrust.org, email to clerk@ wendovertrust.org or send to Clerk to the Trust, 51 Dobbins Lane, Wendover, Bucks, HP22 6DL. Grants for urgent need will always be considered throughout the year. Gwen Williams, Chairperson

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Wendover Celebrates SAVE THE DATE: BH weekend (tbc), June 2022 Do you remember the first Wendover Celebrates in 2012 featuring the London Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee? Now we are preparing for the Platinum Jubilee. Your Directors have been working hard since before 2020 when the event had to be cancelled but it's all systems go for 2022. Please get in touch if you would like to help. Contact Fiona on stallswc@gmail.com. The current set of Directors, and others, will be stepping down after 2022. How do you see this event going forward?

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MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR

EVENTS

ROTARY OF WENDOVER & DISTRICT

LINDENGATE CHARITY

WENDOVER HS2 MITIGATION GROUP

YOUTH

Events Discover Bucks Museum

Tue-Sat 10am-4pm, Church St, Aylesbury PMG HELICOPTER PARK Two new exhibitions: Sit and Play – a sculptural WPC HS2 - UPDATE exhibition and play experience using interlocking pieces produced from recycled plastic. Also, Sew LOCAL NEWS New! in the Embroiderers’ Guild Gallery. Check EKFB - HS2 CONSTRUCTION UPDATE the website for details, booking and opening CHILTERNS MS CENTRE ART WEEKEND times. www.discoverbucksmuseum.org

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LOCAL FACES: NIGEL AND MARGARET COPELIN

EVENTS TABLES

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Kimble & Ellesborough Hort. Society

Tue 1, 8pm, Zoom "What Do I Do With This Space?" This talk by Darren Lerigo attempts to answer one of the most important questions you can ask when looking at your garden. If you are interested in more information, please email kehs.bucks@ outlook.com at least a week before the meeting.

Craft Group

Wendover Evening WI

Tue 8, 7.30pm, St Anne’s Hall A talk by Sarah Slater entitled “Working with the ghosts of Hampton Court Palace”. Interested in joining? Please contact Sheila on 07743 133963.

Free Wills and Estate Planning Surgeries

Thu 10 & 24, 12noon-2pm, Wendover Library With Wanstall Consulting. To find out more or arrange a consultation, please email Iain on iain@ wanstallconsulting.co.uk or ring 01296 415700.

Wendover Art Club

Thu 10 & 24, 7.30pm, St Anne's Hall 10th - A working evening. 24th - Graham Lester brings his expertise in paper sculpting to the group. £10 for visitors who are non-members but this is deductible from an annual subscription of £30 if they decide to join.

Hospital Hike Information Evening

Buckinghamshire Historical Association

Wed 2, 6.30pm, Zoom Taking place 10-11 September, the guided hike will cover a total of 50 miles across two days whilst raising funds for local hospitals. https:// scannappeal.org.uk/event/bucks-hospital-hike/ for more information and to sign up for the virtual information evening. Thu 3, 2.30pm, St Anne's Hall Clare De Carle, chair of Bucks Gardens. See p 18.

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Thu 17, 7.30pm, online - weekly until 10/3 Webinars with BBOWT offering top advice from the experts on how to help wildlife on your patch. Book on www.bbowt.org.uk/events.

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Events Aylesbury Centre of the National Trust

Thu 17, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm), Broughton Junior School HP20 1NQ Gordon Rogers speaks on "Winston Churchill's Toyshop." More on page 18.

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Book Club

Sat 19, 10.30-11.30am, Wen Christian Ctre No set book, just interesting discussion about what we have been reading recently and a chance to learn about authors and books we may not have encountered. We start with coffee (or other drink) and often cake.

Aylesbury Vale Stitchers

Sat 19, afternoon, online Emma Wigginton will be showing her amazing pictures and textiles made using fabric and thread. Email aylesburyvalestitchers@gmail.com.

RSPB Aylesbury Group

Mon 21, 7.30pm, Prebendal Hall Community Centre, Aylesbury HP19 7QW Mike Wallen, the local county bird recorder, talks about “Skomer Island” which is known for its puffins and other amazing birds and wildlife. More info at www.rspb.org.uk/groups/aylesbury.

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Events

Antiques & Collectors Market Wendover Memorial Hall

Thursday 17 February 9am-2pm (Trade 8am) For updates Tel: 07771920780 or email: peter.stevenspeter@aol.com Entrance by donation to Charity

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Coming Soon - Save the Date!

Wed 23 / Fri 25, 9:30am-4pm, Wendover • Pop-Up Art Weekend at the Chilterns MS Centre Memorial Hall HP22 5LX - Saturday 5 March 10am to 5pm & For ages 7-13, £30 each day. Wed 23 - "Matilda Sunday 6 March 10.30am to 4pm, see page 16 Magic." Fri 25 - "The Greatest Show." Register on • Aylesbury Choral Society concert - 2 April, see www.dramaramaclubs.uk. below • Pace BIG Walk - 23 April, see below • Wendover Celebrates - June BH, see front page Weston Turville Historical Society • Hospital Hike - 10-11 September, see below Fri 25, 8pm, Weston Turville Village Hall “The Czech Connection - The Czech Cabinet in exile in Aylesbury Vale in WWII” with speaker Aylesbury Choral Society Concert Neil Rees. Entrance - £2 members, £3 visitors. The Society celebrates its 90th anniversary year, with a concert on 2 April, in Aylesbury’s St Mary’s www.wthsoc.org.uk Church at 7.30pm. Sun 27, 4pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre "Spanish Fiesta." The Aylesbury Vale Concert Orchestra will be playing a programme featuring orchestral favourites with a Spanish flair, as well as Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, played by international virtuoso guitarist Xuefei Yang and a piece by Classic FM’s John Brunning – his Magna Carta Concerto. The event will be hosted by Nathan Cooper (Bucks Radio) and all money raised from ticket sales and programme sales will be donated to Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity.

It will feature Gounod's St Cecilia Mass, together with Vaughan Williams’ Benedicite and Elgar's Benedictus. About Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass BBC Music Magazine said, "a hearteningly upbeat affair, culminating in a blazing finale." Details and tickets from www.aylesburychoral. org.uk.

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WENDOVER MUSIC 2022 Season of Concerts

We are very much looking forward to our 2022 season of concerts and seeing you all in person again at St Mary’s Church. All concerts start at 7.30pm

12th March - AGM & Leo Popplewell (cello) 9th April - Steven Osborne (piano) 14th May - Timothy Ridout (viola) and Tom Poster (piano) 11th June - Mini Mozart (daytime) Evening concert Ensemble Molière 9th July - Samuele Telari (accordion) and Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano) 8th October - TBC

Season tickets are £75 per person and include all four concerts (October is not included) and the AGM Streaming tickets £12.50 per device per concert (available to buy from website only) Concert tickets £20 (students £5). AGM tickets £10. Mini Mozart £6 per child (adults free) or £10 for 2 siblings

Tickets available online via www.wendover-music.org and from Just For further details or to buy over the phone, please call 01296 623435

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Walk for Pace and make a huge difference to the ages and abilities – where small steps can make charity's inspirational children, who face mobility a BIG difference. challenges every single day. Dress as your favourite superhero (optional) and The 18, 12 and 6 mile routes take in beautiful whether you are Superman or super gran, we views and scenery through woodlands and parts will clap, cheer and support our superheroes as of the Icknield Way and the Ridgeway National they walk around the grounds of the John Colet School. Trail. All in aid of the superheroes at Pace! Sign up for The Ridgeway offers a journey through either event at thepacecentre.org/thebigwalk. magnificent scenery as well as a passage through time. It is an ancient track which was used by Scannappeal Hospital Hike travellers, herdsmen and soldiers. 10-11 September Day 1 will see us following footpaths and The trail winds through fields, past small bridleways from Amersham Hospital to Great woodlands and passes through nature reserves Missenden, Wendover, Stoke Mandeville Hospital with lovely views over the Chilterns and is an and finishing at Princes Risborough where important habitat for wildlife, flowers, and birds. overnight accommodation will be provided. Day 2 from Princes Risborough will take you past You will also experience the highest viewpoint Bledlow Ridge, West Wycombe, Stokenchurch, in the Chilterns, Coombe Hill. From the summit High Wycombe Hospital and Penn before reaching of Coombe Hill, you experience wonderful views the finishing line at Amersham Hospital. over the Aylesbury Vale. You then make a short This new event aims to raise funds for descent into Wendover. Buckinghamshire NHS hospitals. To find out The Superhero Mile more, join our information event via Zoom on A fun, family friendly event which is open to all Wednesday 2 February at 6.30pm (see page 2).

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All you need is friends - and Rotary in Wendover and District would like to say a big thank you to all our friends in Wendover and Weston Turville for their generosity during our Rotary Santa ecoSleigh collections in December 2021.

The biggest thank you, as always, is to the generous people who donated to this year's local charities, Chilterns MS Centre, https://www.chilternsmscentre. org/, based in Princess Mary Gate, and Pace, https://www. thepacecentre.org/, with a campus in Weston Turville. All charities are finding it difficult to fundraise at the moment.

First shout is to the wonderful volunteers who supported our collecting teams. Without helpers, it is not possible for Rotary in Wendover and District Rotary in Wendover & District will be making presentations of to send out the Santa ecoSleigh cheques in the next few weeks so please contact us as soon so watch out for more in future as possible if you think you Santa preparing to visit editions of Wendover News. Honeydene will be available in December 2022. Please get in touch through cheryl@ We celebrate Rotary Day on 23 February monkeypuzzlehighwycombe.co.uk or when we hope you will be enjoying the message https://www.facebook.com/ beautiful purple crocus flowers from corms RotaryinWendoverandDistrict. Apologies planted locally at intervals since 24 October to any areas we were unable to visit. Please 2010, World Polio Day. To find out more click contact us if you would like Rotary Santa on https://www.rotarygbi.org/projects/ ecoSleigh to visit your road this December. purple4polio/.

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Small Dean Works

Over the Christmas and New Year holidays HS2 completed the “sheet piling” at Small Dean, which will protect the Chiltern Line when the excavation starts for the foundations of the viaduct over the A413. There was some overnight noise, but this was considered better than the community impact of yet more weekend closures of the railway line throughout January and February.

progressing. This is expected to limit the number of local “Large Goods Vehicle” concrete lorry movements to a peak of (only) 536 per day over a four-year period, compared to delivering pre-mixed concrete from elsewhere.

That said, we remain focussed on trying to limit the impact of the line prior to the design getting approved by Bucks Council, and are now working closely with the Parish Council to see if our proposals for a minor redesign of the North Cutting can be adopted to save over 400 homes in North Wendover from night time noise over the World Health Organisation limit.

Community Mitigation Funds

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Demise of Ellesborough Cottages

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Other works at Small Dean have resulted in evening closures of the A413, and we’ve now managed to get advanced notice of those posted at the roadside so that regular motorists trying to get to and from Great Missenden know to avoid the area.

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considered by the Parliamentary Transport Select Committee who are understood to be concerned about the worsening business case for HS2. However, we doubt if their recent consultation will result in the cancellation of the entire project.

There are a small number of projects being successfully received for Wendover & surrounding villages. We encourage all groups to submit their pitches for mitigation funding. We have been supporting individuals who have been badly affected by HS2 plans, with some success. HS2 have reissued the Homeowner Payments Scheme, which now provides grants of up to £24,000 for people living within 300 metres of the line www.hs2.org.uk/ documents/homeowner-payment/.

We understand that demolition of the empty cottages in Ellesborough Road is now expected in April, but preparatory works including disconnection of the Gas and Electricity supplies have been done. Noise and Vibration monitors are also being installed in adjacent properties, which should enable us to see if the works are being done in accordance with HS2’s “Code of Construction Practice”. That can be downloaded from the HS2 website, and we If you have ideas or suggestions that would would encourage you to report anything non- mitigate the community impact, then get in compliant to their Helpdesk on 08081 434 434. touch at enquiries@whs2.org and we’ll assist however we can.

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Wendover Parish Council HS2 update The WPC Working group have a set of alternative mitigations to try and alleviate the noise issues for the area North of Wendover, as noted last month, because the mined tunnel is currently out of favour with the HS2 minister etc. These include extending the green tunnel by 300m to the north which would potentially solve the noise issue for over 400 homes (it does not help any water problems). This would be the best of our options after a mined tunnel. Alternatively, an option is extending the green tunnel canopy for 350m. This would help, but would allow some noise to be emitted from the sides, beneath the canopy, so is a secondbest option. Lastly would be to reinstate the external noise barriers at 6m along the length of the 300m. This option could be built after the rest of the project has been completed, whereas the others would need to be in the Schedule 17(3) planning applications, currently due in March 2022.

to local and national MPs, and the various Transport and Rail Infrastructure personnel. HS2 and EKFB are also on the list. We are hoping that one of these alternatives will gain traction within Government and that will encourage HS2 to do something! Meanwhile, HS2 are continuing with their groundworks. The bridge over the Chiltern Line has been removed and sheet piling next to the line has been completed, stopping the banks falling onto it. The next step is to protect a water main on the A413 which requires temporary concrete barriers to protect the workforce. These will be put out on Fridays from 8pm until 6am on Mondays. This requires a full road closure over the weekend, followed by 24hr, two-way traffic lights in that area. Dates are 21 January – 7 February at the moment. For further updates please go to the Wendover Parish Council website: https:// www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/hs2. Sheila Bulpett - Chair WPC HS2 Working Group

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It’s the most unusual behaviour for a bird normally at pains to avoid contact. He doesn't like his photo taken either. So next time you're up the road...look out for this extraordinary bird, and Really there is not much more to report. Internal maybe take some seed to bribe your passage. I for matches between members continue, as do one am hoping that February 1st comes around matches against other clubs. Don Knight with this character safe from harm as he adds to the wonderful walking and hiking experience that Pace Christmas Tree Collection our lovely town offers. Paul Gardner The total raised during the Pace charity Christmas Tree Collection in January was over £3000. Nightstop Aylesbury

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We are fortunate in having Clare De Carle, Chair of Bucks Gardens, who will speak about Maud Grieve, a herbalist who lived in Bucks and who had a large herb garden. With WW1 she expanded it into a plant nursery, supplying the herbs which were badly needed as medicines at the front, using the potential benefits of plants such as Henbane, Foxglove and Deadly Nightshade which would have also grown wild. We will learn a lot. Visitors are welcome at our meeting at 2.30pm on 3 February at St Anne’s Hall, price £3.00. Neville Morton

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way so there is no expectation to make every HP20 1NQ on a Thursday evening. For further single practice! information about membership of the Aylesbury Centre NT, please contact the Hon Secretary by Music-wise we are fairly contemporary and email to aylesburycentrent@gmail.com, or by have sung lots of well known modern songs (Eva phoning or messaging 07399 540626. Cassidy, Radiohead and Nick Cave in the mix!) plus Christmas carols and some spiritual music. Wendover Library Reading Group We ask for a small termly contribution to cover the cost of music but anyone can come and give us a try for free. There’s no pressure and we promise to make everyone really welcome! www.facebook.com/groups/1636815949989213/ Annalise Smith

Wendover Voices relaunch for the new year. We The Aylesbury Ctre of the National Trust rehearse weekly at Trinity Community Centre, The group runs a programme of social events for Tring Road. any NT members living in the Aylesbury Vale, with several members coming from Wendover and We are a community choir set up by a group Weston Turville. Events include coach outings to of local mums. We share a love of singing and National Trust and other properties (last year we hope to bring others together for music, new visited Mottisfont Abbey, amongst other venues friendships and a cuppa (or a glass of wine!) for instance), self-drive outings to more local All female voices are welcome - no experience venues such as Dorney Court, walks, and coffee necessary and you don’t even need to be able to mornings. Up to 100 members and visitors join read music. We rehearse every Thursday in term us for the monthly programme of talks held at time but we know work and family can get in the Broughton Junior School, Broughton Avenue

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The Girls Section started in 2021 and is continuing this year with an enhanced programme (of its own, but not signing up to the ECB Dynamos) – indoors from late February and outside from late April, both on Sunday mornings. We will also be offering some hard ball training on Fridays and teams have been entered into both soft and hard ball competitions. New recruits are welcome in Editor's Note: For the Wendover Bowls Club school years 4 to 7. February update, please see page 14.

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BBC South featured a segment on a change to the proposed closure date of RAF Halton on its broadcast the evening of 13 January. Wendover News has had the following statement from RAF Halton regarding the broadcast: “The MOD remains committed to the closure of RAF Halton as announced in 2016. The site will be sold on a phased basis from 2025 and its current staff and personnel will be relocated to new facilities. "It is standard process for investments of this kind to be reviewed and challenged during survey and design stages.”

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Local Faces: Nigel and Margaret Copelin Both Margaret and Nigel came to Wendover for work related reasons, from small villages north of Aylesbury, and each thought Wendover a thriving big town: a High Street abuzz with local shoppers having most of their needs easily met. Another highlight was the large number of pubs! They've been here around 45 years and in their present house nearly 37 years while bringing up four children who all live elsewhere now and have given them seven grandchildren aged 17½ to 2½ . Margaret came to work in Brown & Merry Estate Agent while Nigel wanted somewhere nearer to his work which involved river water and he was then based in Amersham. Over the years, Margaret and Nigel have become very involved with many aspects of Wendover life. Margaret's work trajectory took her from

office work to working with children, ultimately in Wendover Preschool at

Wendover Memorial Hall, giving her a strong were not allowed to visit or carry out these connection with growing families and hence simple tasks. While realising that no-one she became embedded into Wendover life. wants to be beholden to their neighbours, least of all we British, Margaret in particular Nigel stuck to working with river water found that the new relationships they were quality, first of all with that elusive chalk developing gave her an inner satisfaction stream, the Misbourne, and then with the she hadn't anticipated. Thames from Oxford. This inspired him to walk the Grand Union Canal from London As the lockdowns came one after the other to Birmingham to raise money for Leukemia culminating in our current "fully boosted" Research and the MS Centre. Nigel served on stage, most of their neighbours were able Friends of John Hampden School, Wendover to return to their former self sufficient state, Carnival Committee and the Coombe Hill often with family support, but Margaret and Nigel are still there in case of emergency. Run, raising money for local charities. They have noticed that the initial feeling When the call came from Wendover was very much universal fear of going out, Parish Council, they joined the Warden as instructed by the Government. Some Scheme because they wanted to help seemed frightened even to open their their neighbours as the country went into front door to a familiar face, but now their lockdown. As long standing residents, they neighbours have learned how to order already knew the neighbours near to them deliveries and are able to go about their but now they took on the responsibility business as before, still observing sensible of collecting prescriptions and generally precautions and enjoying the opportunity to making sure they were well provisioned and take more exercise, which came as a surprise often took the place of family members who to some!

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Every Day am/pm John Lingley Fitness Training, see website for details www.aspirationsfitness.com Every Day morn/eve Cat Booker Fitness classes, times vary, see website for details Every Day morn/eve Jodie Digby Fitness courses, times & locations vary, see website for details Every Day morn/eve JAZZERCISE classes to suit you. www.jazzercise-uk.com. Every Day day/eve BML Personal Training classes, see website for details - www.bmlpersonaltraining.com Every Day times vary Simply Walk - locations vary, book online to confirm location & availability Every Day times vary Hatha yoga - please contact for details Every Day see listing Yoga with Alice D - please contact for details. See advert page 7. Mon-SAT morn/eve Pilates. Times & costs vary, see website for details, see advert page 24. Mon-Fri daily Activities at Wendover Youth Centre. Ages & costs for each activity vary, see page 9. Mon, Tue, Wed am/pm Communi-tea Friends, Mon - St Nicholas, Gt Kimble, Tue - Wen Christian Ctre, Wed - St Michael’s AClinton Mon, Tue, Wed day/eve Tai Chi & Qigong Classes, Tue 10-11am, Wed 4-5pm. Beginners Mon 2-3pm, 6.30-7.30pm. See ad p 15. Mon, Wed morn/eve Adult & Teenager Yoga Classes, St Anne’s Hall. Contact Sarah to book or for class details. Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri morn/eve Yoga classes with Zest Yoga. Contact to book. Mon, Wed, SAT morn/eve Zumba® and Zumba® Gold classes: private studio or locations in Chivery or Wendover. Mon & Fri evening Badminton Club. 19.45-21.45 Mon, beginners 18.45-19.45 Fri, John Colet School (term time) Mondays am Monday Club Café, Wendover Christian Centre, please book. Mondays 10.00-11.30 Sparklers Baby & Toddler Group, St Mary’s Church, Wendover Mondays 11.30-14.00 ArtSmart classes, St Anne’s Hall. Mondays 14.00-16.30 Rhubarb Café, St Michael’s Aston Clinton. Cakes, savouries & hot drinks. Gluten free avail. Pay by card. Mondays 15.40, 16.30 Dramarama, St Anne’s Hall. 15.40-16.30 - infants, 16.30-18.00 - juniors Mondays 19.30-21.00 Badminton Club for over 18s, £6, (Sep-July, no BH’s) Green Park Sports Centre HP22 5NE Mondays evening Wendover Singers rehearsals, John Colet School 09.45, 10.25, 11.05 Monkey Music, term time, Wendover Guide Hut HP22 6HH. Tue & Wed Tue, Thu & SAT see listing Drama Hub, Wendover Youth Centre. Tue 18.10-20.50, Thu 18.10-19.25, SAT 09.00-12.20. Tuesdays 10.00-11.30 Thames Valley Police at Wendover Community Library Tuesdays 16.00-18.05 Perform drama classes. 4-7 year olds 4-5pm 7-12 year olds 5.05-6.05pm. Wendover Memorial Hall. Tuesdays 18.00-20.30 Sparrowhawks Netball Training, John Colet School - contact the club for details Tuesdays 19.00 or 20.15 IMAGEZ Camera Club, contact the club for details Tuesdays 19.30-21.00 Aylesbury Choral Society, contact for details Tuesdays 20.00 Sep-Apr - Whitchurch Morris Side practice sessions, Wilstone Village Hall HP23 4PE Wed, Fri times vary Nia Classes - Wed 12.00-13.00, Fri 18.30-19.30, Balance Studio, Halton Tennis Centre Wed, SAT see listing Rest & Reflect, Lindengate HP22 6BD - W 13.30-15.30, S 13.00-16.00. See p 7. info@lindengate.org.uk Wednesdays 10.00-12.00 French Conversation has moved for the winter to: The Crow’s Nest, Tring Hill. 07398 799 977 Wednesdays 19.00 The Rotary Club of Wendover & District, meetings online, usually 2nd Wednesday Wednesdays 19.15-20.30 Spring Sage Health Qigong, Wendover Memorial Hall. Thu, SAT morn/eve Zumba with Nikki, Thu 1830 Halton School, Sat 0930 Chiltern Way Academy Wendover Thu, SAT see listing GTAG (Give Tennis Another Go) at Halton Tennis Centre, Thu 7-8.30pm, Sat 4-5.30pm Thursdays 09.00-16.00 Wendover Weekly Market, Manor Waste Thursdays 10.00-11.30 Noah’s Ark Baby & Toddler Group, Wendover Christian Centre. £1 donation Thursdays 13.30 Wendover Afternoon Bridge Club, Memorial Hall Thursdays 18.45-22.00 Lucy Clark Scottish Country Dance Club, Wendover Memorial Hall - beginners 18.45, general 20.00. Thursdays evening Wendover Voices women’s choir, Trinity Community Centre, Tring Road, RAF Halton, see page 18 Thursdays 19.00 Taekwondo for ages 5 and up, Wendover CofE School Thursdays 19.45 Wendover Choral Society rehearsals, St Mary’s Church Fridays see listing Slow Flow Yoga with Sabina, Wendover Library Room. 9-10.15 & 10.25-11.25. Fridays 13.30 Bounce & Rhyme, Wendover Community Library - term time only, tickets from the Library SATURDAYS see listing Nordic Walking, contact Ridgeway Walking for more information & location details. See advert page 10. SUNDAYS 09.30 Cycle Rides with Aylesbury Cyclist Touring Club, locations vary

John 07747 604155 www.catbookerfitness.co.uk www.jodiedigbyfitness.uk 07900 987230 Emma 07969 433351 www.buckscc.gov.uk/simplywalk www.lizbrownyoga.co.uk yogawithaliced@gmail.com www.physioandpilatesinbucks.com peter@wendoveryouth.co.uk www.facebook.com/CPJFieldBucks/ www.yangshengtaichi.com sarahyoga@sky.com, www.sarahyoga.co.uk annabel@zest-yoga.com Roxanne 01296 623683 www.wendoverbc.org/ wendoverds@gmail.com 01296 625838 www.artsmartuk.com www.dramaramaclubs.uk Allen 01296 631159 info@wendoversingers.com aylesbury.highwycombe@monkeymusic.co.uk 07808 960632 or dramahubwendover@gmail.com 01296 382415 www.perform.org.uk/free-drama-class/wendover wendoverladiesnetballclub@hotmail.com www.imagezcameraclub.co.uk acschairman@gmail.com www.whitchurchmorris.org.uk melinajoyofnia@gmail.com 01296 622443 www.lindengate.org.uk Katy 07398 799 977 www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=2041

Jake 07867 389542 nicolepistak.zumba.com, 07876443392 office@haltonuk.com

www.bridgewebs.com/wendoverafternoon lucyclarkscottish@gmail.com www.facebook.com/groups/1636815949989213/ www.btkd.co.uk www.wendoverchoralsociety.co.uk sabina.dye@happywellyoga.com 01296 382415 https://walxridgeway.co.uk/ southbuckscycling.org.uk/rides

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10.00-16.00 Discover Bucks Museum open, Church St, Aylesbury HP20 2QP, see page 2.

www.discoverbucksmuseum.org

Wed-Sun

10.00-15.00 College Lake Nature Reserve Tring HP23 5QG open - see website for details.

bbowt.org.uk

Wed-Sun

10.00-17.00 Waddesdon Manor grounds and selected buildings open - please book online before visiting.

waddesdon.org.uk

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times vary Volunteering opportunities at nature reserves with BBOWT - check dates, times & locations online. 13.30 Knit and Natter, Wendover Community Library. Please ask at the Library for details.

bbowt.org.uk 01296 382415

Tue 01 14.15 & 15.30 “Learn My Way” technology sessions at Wendover Community Library. Please book early!

01296 382415

Tue 01

www.breastfriends-aylesbury.org.uk

Tue 01 Wed 02 Wed 02 & 16 Wed 02 Thu 03 Thu 03 Fri 04 Sat 05

19.00-21.00 Breast Friends Aylesbury - Breast Cancer Support Group, please contact for details. 20.00 Kimble & Ellesborough Horticultural Society meeting - “What Do I Do With This Space?” - via Zoom, see page 2

https://e-voice.org.uk/kehs/events/

10.00 Wendover U3A monthly meeting, St Mary’s Church, Wendover

u3asites.org.uk/wendover/welcome

10.00-12.00 Craft Group, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 2 18.30 Scannappeal Hospital Hike virtual information evening on Zoom, see page 2

scannappeal.org.uk/event/bucks-hospital-hike/

14.30 Wendover Horticultural Society, St Anne’s Hall. Speaker Clare DeCarle, see page 18. evening Bucks Bird Club, online meeting. See website for details.

www.bucksbirdclub.co.uk

20.00 Local History Group, St Leonards Parish Hall. Treasures from the Social History Collection with Will Phillips. See p 2. 01494 758784 10.00-12.00 Monthly Produce Stall, All Saints’ church in Buckland

Sun 06

16.30 Candlemas Service, St Mary’s, Drayton Beauchamp

Tue 08

19.30 Wendover Evening WI, “Working with the Ghosts of Hampton Court” with Sarah Slater. St Anne’s Hall. See p 3.

Sheila 07743 133963

Wed 09

20.00 AC, B & DB Horticultural Society, “The Duchy of Cornwall,” with speaker Geraint Richards, Anthony Hall AClinton

www.astonclintonhorticulturalsociety.co.uk

Thu 10 & 24 Thu 10 & 24

12.00-14.00 FREE Wills & Estate Planning Sessions with Wanstall Consulting, Wendover Library. See page 2.

Sat 12

09.00-12.00 Repair Café, St Michael’s Aston Clinton. Donations for repairs performed welcome!

Sun 13

11.00-12.00 Messy Sunday, All Saints’, Buckland

Wed 16

iain@wanstallconsulting.co.uk

19.30 Wendover Art Club, St Anne’s Hall. 10 - working evening; 24 - Graham Lester, paper sculpting. See page 2.

20.00 Bucks Historical Association, via Zoom. With speaker Prof Richard English. See page 2.

www.wendoverartclub.co.uk

secretarybucksha@gmail.com

Thu 17

09.00-14.00 Legacy Fairs Antiques & Collectors Fair, Wendover Memorial Hall, see advert page 4

peter.stevenspeter@aol.com

Thu 17

19.30-20.30 “Team Wilder” webinars with BBOWT, weekly until 10 March, see page 2

bbowt.org.uk/events

Thu 17 Fri 18

20.00 Aylesbury Ctre of the National Trust, “Winston Churchill’s Toyshop,” with Gordon Rogers. Broughton Jr Schl. See p 2. aylesburycentrent@gmail.com 16.30 Storytime, Wendover Community Library - booking essential, please book via the Library

Sat 19

10.00-14.00 Wendover Local Produce Market, Manor Waste

Sat 19

10.30-11.30 Book Club, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 3.

Sat 19 Mon 21 Tue 22 Wed 23 / Fri 25

01296 382415

contact Aylesbury Vale Stitchers, online meeting, speaker Emma Wigginton. See page 3.

aylesburyvalestitchers@gmail.com

19.30 RSPB Local Group, “Skomer Island” with speaker Mike Wallen. Prebendal Hall HP19 7QW. See p 19.

www.rspb.org.uk/groups/aylesbury

19.45 BBOWT Talk, online. “The rewilding project at Knepp in Sussex.” with Laurie Jackson. £5, see page 18

bbowt.org.uk/events

09.30-16.00 Dramarama Performing Arts Activity Camps, Wendover Memorial Hall, ages 7-13, £30 each day, see page 4.

Fri 25

20.00 Aston Wine Club, “St Emilion,” with Gerald Sacks. Buckland Village Hall.

Fri 25

pm Flicks in the Sticks, All Saints’ Buckland. Tickets and details via email.

www.dramaramaclubs.uk astonwineclub.co.uk bucklandvillagefits@gmail.com

Fri 25

20.00 Weston Turville Historical Society, “The Czech Connection” with Neil Rees, WTurville Village Hall. See page 4.

www.wthsoc.org.uk

Sun 27

16.00 Concert for Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity, “Spanish Fiesta,” Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, see page 4

atgtickets.com/aylesbury

17.00 Lionel Abel-Smith Trust grant applications due, see front page

clerk@wendovertrust.org

Mon 28

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Wendover Parish Council Matters Arising View from the Chair

Parish Council Meeting Tuesday 1 February, 7.30pm St Anne’s Hall For all meeting and committee dates please visit our webpage www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/meetings Cycle-path renovations were due to start on 24 Hedges, Trees and Shrubs Now we are well into the new year, I must thank all those who came to the Clocktower on New Year’s Eve for tidying up and leaving very little evidence of the gathering, so the Council groundsman had minimal work to do on New Years Day! Good to have a celebration without mess.

Manor Waste Consultation

We are seeking your views on the use of Manor Waste, the area outside Budgens at the heart of the village. Via the following link, please share your thoughts: https://www.wendoverpc.gov.uk/manor-waste. Please be quick, the consultation period has been extended until the end of January.

January for 3 months. Another part of the canal Did you know - Section 154 of the Highways Act Wendover Produce Market towpath was repaired, just before the winter wet 1980 requires hedges, trees and shrubs to be Saturday 19 February, 10am to 2pm season, with more due in the spring. cut back to avoid overhanging a highway, road Manor Waste Disappointingly, the Helicopter Park between or footway to which the public have access. This Hampden Pond Cruickshank Drive and Haddington Close has is to avoid danger or obstruction of the passage Back in October, the of vehicles, pedestrians including those with been the target of sustained vandalism recently. fencing around the Heron pushchairs or wheelchairs, cyclists, or horse The costs of repairing the play equipment have Path and Hampden riders and any streetlights. been borne by the RAF but that is no longer Meadow sides of the sustainable. As a result, damaged pieces are Wendover Parish Council’s role under devolved Pond was replaced. In being removed and the park has been closed. services by Buckinghamshire Council is to ensure addition some annual Sadly, vandals win and children have lost a much- that home and business owners maintain hedges maintenance tasks loved playground! If anyone has any information, to avoid danger or obstruction to users of the were completed, such please notify either police, RAF or the Council. highways. as cutting back the lilies Following the 20mph zone questionnaire, Any obstructing trees or hedges need to be and some tree thinning unfortunately Buckinghamshire Council has trimmed back by the landowner. Before the works. In recent weeks, bark has been laid on decided it cannot fund any of these zones within bird nesting period starts, please check the the path along the Heron Path side of the Pond. Wendover or the wider county. Their view is that boundary of your property and ensure you are The Church Lane side of the pond needs to be relevelled before bark can be laid; these works will be they are not enforceable. The costs of installing not encroaching onto the public highway. done late January or early February. Our vision is any signs or calming measures are exorbitant and out of reach of the Parish Council budget. If you would like any further advice or guidance that the Pond remains a wildlife haven, therefore when visiting the pond please keep dogs on leads please contact the team at the Clock Tower. On a more positive note, with Bucks Highways, and ensure litter is placed in the bins provided. we are in the process of replacing some of the Five Year Strategic Plan trees and planting six new ones on the green Our Five-Year Plan Working Group has conducted Farewell Jane in Stanhope Close; designated as a Local Green a significant amount of desk & in-person research Jane, our Admin Support, is leaving at the end Space in the Neighbourhood Plan. Bucks Council and held many meetings and discussions with of January. Based downstairs at the Clock Tower, are currently running a consultation in preparation Council. Due to the current climate the Council Jane was the first point of contact for most visitors of their Local Plan, see website survey: https:// has decided to focus on the next 18 months and took the lead in Planning, the Local Produce yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/planning/ rather than five years. The action plan for the next Market and Allotments. The staff and Councillors local-plan-2021 18 months is complete and can be found on our would like to offer Jane best wishes for her future website: https://www.wendover-pc.gov.uk/vision endeavours. She will be missed by us all! Hoping for an early Spring and sunny weather, enjoy! Sheila Bulpett Wendover Parish Council, The Clock Tower, High Street, Wendover HP22 6DU

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www.wendover-pc.gov.uk

clerk@wendover-pc.gov.uk

01296 623056

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St Anne’s: 9am Mass St Mary’s: 9am and 10.45am Wendover Free Church: 10.45am

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