Audley Digital Newsletter

WELCOME TO THE AUDLEY NEWSLETTER

Winter 2022

Welcome to the first ever digital edition of the Audley Newsletter. Compiled by team members across the villages, with information provided by you and by the Audley team, we hope you’ll enjoy flipping through the virtual pages of this newsletter

Every story has a clickable link to more information hosted on our website, readable on any smartphone, tablet or computer.

2022hasseenmanychallenges.InayearwhenwehadhopedtoseetheremovalofCovid restrictions lead tomoresettledtimes wehaveinsteadhadthetragedyofUkraine,politicaland consequenteconomicuncertaintyandacostoflivingcrisis.However,Iamalwaysamazedat howtheAudleycommunityrespondtowhateveristhrownatthem.Letushopeforamore peaceful2023. WithallofthevillagesnowfullypreparedforChristmasitisgoingtobeabusyfestivetime. MayI,onbehalfofallofusatAudley,wishyouandallofyourlovedonesaveryMerry ChristmasandHappyNewYear.

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Sunningdale Park

This striking new village opened in Ascot, Berkshire in September. The first owners moved in to their new homes in September 2022 and Kempton’s restaurant opened to the public a few weeks later.

Spanning 16.5 acres of beautiful gardens, lakes and natural woodland, this luxury retirement village offers a variety of properties, some of which are conversions of historic stables and lodges.

The village is centred around the magnificent Grade II listed Northcote House, home to the Audley Club, restaurant, library, and exceptional facilities for Audley homeowners to enjoy.

Dr Perrin at Flete House

In March 2021 Dr Perrin celebrated his centenary. The team at Flete House planted a tree and enjoyed a delayed celebration in 2022 (post-lockdown) to toast the 100th birthday.

Dr Perrin recently shared with us the tale of his decorated career in the military, spanning 27 years until he retired as a Major in 1966.

After qualifying in Chemistry and Agricultural Chemistry, followed by a PhD in Soil Science, Dr Perrin joined the Royal Artillery in 1939 (on Friday 13th no less)

From his first role as an Artillery Survey Officer to his later years as an educator, maps were a constant feature of his professional life.

Dr Perrin served in Egypt, Syria, Sicily, Salerno and Naples from 1941 until 1944 when he qualified as an aerial observation pilot and was promoted to Captain. It was shortly after that Dr Perrin met his beloved wife Wendy. He then served in the RAF in India and was demobilised in 1946.

Dr Perrin later became a member of the Geologist’s Pool Royal Engineers, serving in the Army Emergency Reserve as a soils specialist, where he served for ten years, working on projects in Malaysia and East Africa,

4th June 1944, two days

Photo taken

before D-Day

Photo taken during a pitstop in India in May 1946

Photo of Dr Robert Perrin’s tree, planted at Audley Flete House to celebrate his 100th birthday

Dr Perrin celebrating his birthday at Audley Flete House

A HISTORY - Of Audley Clevedon

The centrepiece at Audley Clevedon retirement village is Clevedon House. What was once a Victorian boys' boarding school has been rebuilt stone by stone, and now houses our restaurant, bistro, lounge, swimming pool and health club.

The former Clevedon House school closed in 2005 and opened as an Audley Village four years later. The village sits below scenic Ilkley Moor, providing panoramic views of the Wharfe Valley.

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With a gorgeous Victorian architecture the town of Ilkley is just two miles away from Audley Clevedon and Ben Rhydding. Having a glorious history, it has long been a destination for famous Britons.

Charles Darwin for example, found Ilkley to be a perfect location to hide and escape attention prior to the publication of his Origin of the Species. Author Jilly Cooper and one of the UK's most celebrated gardeners Alan Titchmarsh, also both grew up in the shadow of the Cow and Calf rocks, a famous rock formation on the Ilkley Moor.

SHARE YOUR STORY

Perhaps you know some interesting facts about the history of your village, Or you’d like to share a personal account of your interesting career or travel experiences, or your time living at an Audley village?

If so we’d love to hear, email us at stories@audleyvillages.co.uk

CRISPY CAMEMBERT AND HOT CRANBERRY SAUCE WITH A CELERY, WALNUT & RADISH SALAD

INGREDIENTS

100g crispy coated Camembert rounds

30g cranberry sauce

30g celery

5g walnut pieces

5g radish

30g mixed apples

2g mixed micro-greens

5g flat leaf parsley

5g olive oil

HOW TO MAKE IT

Peel the celery, thinly slice the radish, cut the apple into thin batons and finely chop the parsley.

• Mix together the celery, walnuts, apple, radish, parsley and walnuts with the olive oil

• Deep fry or oven bake the camembert – drain on kitchen paper

• Heat the cranberry sauce and roll the Camembert through to coat

• Place the salad onto your chosen serving dish

• Add the Camembert

• Garnish and serve

Wine of the month Da Luca Prosecco

A classic example of the Glera grape grown in the Prosecco region. Pear and peach fruit on a lively, yet soft and generous palate.

This cracking white Sparkling Wine by Da Luca is grown in the Prosecco area of Veneto. Whilst famed as an apéritif, the soft fizz of Prosecco also partners light chicken dishes, delicate seafood and salads

Citrus Blossom Green Apple Honey Pear

Health and wellbeing tips

From Kevin Daly, Club Manager at St George’s Place

It can be very tempting to stay indoors during the winter months, naturally becoming less active. It is essential for your physical and mental wellbeing to keep your body moving, even when the temperatures drop and the nights and mornings are darker. Don’t use the weather as an excuse for your activity to reduced. There are ways to keep an active routine with positive movement through the day.

1. Walk indoors

When it’s cold outside or the paths are more slippery than usual, walk indoors. This easy activity can help you lower your risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. Walking keeps bones and muscles strong and helps improve your balance.

Walking indoors could be done in the form of taking the stairs more often, using the treadmills in our leisure clubs and walking around the ground of your village at warmer times in the day.

2. Join a fitness class

Exercising indoors and in good company will increase motivation to exercise with others and also increase social activity. You could make new friends while taking care of your health. Classes with Audley can also be very specific to help improve balance, strength, range of motion and circulation.

3. Try water fitness

An indoor heated pool can be a huge advantage to have and promote movement in the water that cannot always be performed on land. Water based fitness can be a fun way to improve cardiovascular fitness and muscular tone. You can use our pools all year long and it can also take pressure off your joints and get a great workout that feels more like fun than a challenge.

4. Let a personal trainer help you

Making exercise specific to you and creating a more personal experience can result in quicker improvements. We offer a personal training service tailored to you.

A personal trainer can meet you at your Audley Club gym, or they can come to your home. Our personal trainers are experienced with assisting you and can help you keep moving indoors to prepare you for enjoying a more active outdoor lifestyle when conditions improve.

Review of The Foundation work undertaken at Chalfont Dene

by Anne Foster, Owner at Audley Chalfont Dene and Audley Foundation Trustee

As the end of the first year for The Foundation approaches, it seems a good time to look back over 2022. We are proud to have reached the target we set ourselves at the outset, and £1,000.00 has been raised by Chalfont Dene.

We are happy to have involved village owners and outside people and look forward to distributing the money raised as soon as we can to local charities serving local older people.

Plans are already being set out for events in 2023, when we aim to carry forward the success we achieved this year.

How did we do it? Which events have we found to be the most successful? We began by forming a small working group in the village, to promote the new charity, to involve as many owners as possible, to reach out to the local community and to raise funds for local charities serving older people. In our first year, we aimed at raising £1,000.00 for The Foundation and this has been achieved.

We began indoors, with a Bingo evening. This proved very popular, and we intend either to repeat Bingo, or to offer a Beetle Drive early in 2023.

We next agreed to provide a raffle at our monthly Quiz nights, as these are always well attended. All proceeds went to The Foundation funds. This raffle continues every month.

As summer arrived, our efforts moved outside. The Grounds staff offered us 3 events: a car wash, a Beat-the-Goalie football morning and an Over-the-lake golf challenge. Although the football game was not well received, further funds came from the other 2 events.

Chalfont Dene holds 2 regular charity fairs: summer and Christmas. The Foundation group manned a Tombola stall at each of these fairs, and added to our funds. Outside visitors helped the contributions.

Financially, our greatest success came from our afternoon Bridge Tea. Once again, this was open to local players as well as to village Owners and this helped to swell our funds.

Our ESG Commitment

At Audley we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and endeavour to take a more sustainable approach in everything that we do, and we encourage our owners to do the same.

Ask yourself; Do I recycle everything I can? Do I use more water than I need to? Are my lights energy-efficient?

Every little positive change you make, makes a difference.

Anne Foster

How to spot a scam

Useful tips from Wilma at Audley St Elphin’s Park

You may be approached in person, over the phone, by text, or by email or on social media

What to look out for

• Offers that come out of the blue

• Requests to share your bank account details or verify a password or PIN

• Prizes that ask you to send money up front to claim your winnings

• Time-limited offers that ask you to act quickly

• Companies with vague contact details, such as a PO Box or mobile number, or a premium rate number usually beginning 090

• Companies that call you repeatedly and stay on the phone a long time

• Confidential offers that you're told not to tell family or friends about.

How to protect yourself

On the phone: Hang up on cold callers and ignore cold texts.

Register with the Telephone Preference Service Online:

• Install legitimate anti-virus and firewall software and make sure you keep it up to date.

• Don’t click on links or attachments in an unsolicited email, even to unsubscribe. Go to the organisation’s own website.

• Don’t reply to scam emails even to say no – this lets the scammer know the account is active.

• Don't use public WiFi to make any financial transactions, such as online banking or shopping.

If you need any help with either logging in and setting up any of the suggestions above or how to block numbers on your telephone , please contact one of the team on Reception who will be only too pleased to assist

Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy