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To the 78th edition of The Chesham Local Directory, the sister directory of the Amersham, Tring, Berkhamsted, Beaconsfield, The Chalfonts and Apsley Local Directory.

The month of March brings the Vernal (Spring) Equinox on 20th March, where both day and night are each approximately 12 hours long. In addition our clocks move forward by one hour on Sunday 29th March, giving us more light in the evening. Don’t forget to change your clocks!

March also brings many other days to remember and most of all Mother’s Day which is celebrated on Sunday 15th March.

Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday as it is often known, is a day to honour mothers and other mother figures, such as grandmothers, stepmothers and mothers-in-law. Mothering Sunday was originally a time when people returned to the church, in which they were baptized or where they attended services when they were children. This meant that families were reunited as adults returned to the towns and villages where they grew up.

In time, it became customary for young people who were working as servants in large houses, to be given a holiday on Mothering Sunday. They could use this day to visit their own mother and often took a gift of food or hand-me-down clothing from their employers to her. In turn, this moved towards the modern holiday, on which people still visit and take gifts to their mothers.

Another favourite day of mine in March is off course St. Patricks Day on 17th March. Now we all know you don’t have to be Irish to join in the celebrations of the anniversary date of the death of one of the most commonly-recognised patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick.

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CHILTERN SOCIETY WALKS

Chenies and Chess Valleywalk Walk via Latimer Prestwood This easy-going Walkwalk 8 takes you alongside the River ChessChenies to the picturesque village ofvia Latimer, and Chess Valley Walk Latimer then acrossThisthe river andyouup to thewoods other easy-going walk takes alongside River Chesson to the the picturesque village of Latimer, then across the river and up to woods on the other side of the With Helen Lodge side of the valley from there is aHampden pleasant valley from where there iswhere a pleasant walk back to Chenies, with views across to Latimer and returning past Chenies Manor House.

Road walk back to Chenies, with views across to Latimer Distance: 2¼to miles (allow 1½ hours) Start/ A wonderful opportunity combine a stroll round Finish and returning past Chenies Manor House.

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5.8 miles,and with Latimer c110m of ascent green. Chalfont Station is about 1⁄2 mile Refreshments: The Bedford Arms and the Red Lion pubs in Chenies. Nearby Chenies TERRAIN: A moderate walk, with main climb Manor serves tea on Thursday afternoons. from the nearest point on the the walk.

The walk can also at the start. Can be muddy in places.

Route: be startedFour at Westwood Park where there is plenty of stiles picturesque old buildings that make up From Chenies village green follow the Latimer village. Cross the road with care road down the hill. Just past a Ground. cottage on parking atOS the Recreation MAPS: Explorer 172 and Chiltern Society and 12 follow a footpath which climbs uphill your left take the path up the bank, which DISTANCE:

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REFRESHMENTS: The Polecat Kings Head pubs lake on your left), to a minor road where (ignoring a right turn) and until you meet the 2 Cross over picnic you turn left. 5 Walk down the road and again. with care (watch at point 8 on theroad map.

Otherwise, Hatches cross over the bridge, with the Neptune out for traffic on your right), turn left and, Lane in the Nature Reserve waterfall on your right, and cross a paddock after about 50 metres, turn right down Mill

Access Information: There is a gradual climb up to the top of West Wood from the Chess valley, otherwise to a gate by a Hughenden Cross the road and Lane and over the bridge past the former the walk is fairly level.

The route just afterroad.Valley VMill alley Farm PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Bus 48 (Great Missenden-High follow the path towards a wood. On mill on your right.

Cross another bridge reaching the wood, ignore a footpath on the over the There River Chess, then turn left

by Mill Wycombe-Lane End). are stops near point 3 and also section 6 to 8 can be muddy in winter. right, instead follow the broad main path left Farm and onto a riverside path (the

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Refreshments: Bedford Arms and the Lion along the top edgeRed of the wood and paths off toThe your right.

On your left, you will eventually brings you out to a minor road see a brick tomb to a local brick maker pubs in Chenies.

Nearby Manor serves tea on (Stony Lane).

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valley on your left. When the path splits, 1km continue along the bridleway by a house on your right. At the end of the bridleway 8 go through a black estate gate and turn right along a driveway, then shortly left on a crossing footpath signed to Chenies village. Follow this past the manor house and gardens on your left. On reaching the road by Chenies school, continue straight from the before the on to the village green.

this point you may wish to turn right along 1. Exit the car park onto the road, turn left and views to5.Latimer After c250m two footpaths join village and the Chess the road for a short detour to see the then left again into Perks Lane. Walk up Perks right. Take the second of these paths heading 18 Lane for c600m, going past a footpath on the through the kissing gate. Ignore the path left on a sharp right-hand bend. joining from the left and continue down, then 2. As the lane nears the top of the hill,1turn right up the hill to a kissing gate. Go through it and into Longfield Wood. Follow the white arrows at the path junction continue straight ahead 5 on the trees through the Wood, staying on between two fences to a road. the main path for c1,500m until it meets a 6. Cross the road and follow the lane to Copes tall wood and wire stock fence on the left.

Farm. At the end of the drive go between the Continue along this fence line until it meets a brick pillars and take the path to the right2 driveway and the brick gateposts of a large hand side of the gate. Follow this path over house. Follow the driveway until it reaches a stile and through a kissing gate, continuing Hatches Lane. with the fence line on the left over a further 3. At the lane turn right and after c50m take two stiles. Once in the woods, head straight the footpath on the left. Follow it uphill, to up the hill with the fence on the left, ignoring the left side of the copse. At the brow of the other3paths, to the next road. hill, continue in the same direction and look 7. Cross the road and then turn left on the for the field gate in the hedge line ahead. pavement. Continue past Hare Lane on Continue through this gate into the next field, the right and after 200m turn right into heading for the far right corner. Go through Shepherds Gate. The footpath starts from the the kissing gate and turn right towards the left-hand side of the driveway straight ahead. lane. Once on the lane turn left.

Go through the kissing gate and follow the 4. At the end of Pipers Lane head directly across path into a field. At the path fork take the the road junction and through the footpath left path diagonally crossing the field. At the gate behind the Cockpit Road sign. Follow track turn right on the bridleway. Continue to the path across the field and through the a kissing gate on the left, go through it and 4 hedge line. In the next field, with the hedge follow the perimeter of the field and wood for on the right, continue to the footpath marker c400m. Then take the gate on the left into post in the corner. Here, cut straight across the woods. At the first path junction turn right the corner of the field towards the gap in to meet a road. the hedge line. Do not go through the gap, 8. Cross the road into the woods. Follow the instead turn left and follow the edge of the bridleway waymarks and keep to the leftfield with the hedge on the right. hand edge of the woods for 250m. Just

From Chenies village green 1 follow the road down the hill. Just past a cottage on your left take the path up the bank, which cuts out a road loop; follow the path (ignoring a right turn) until you meet the road again. 2 Cross over with care (watch out for traffic on your right), turn left and, after about 50 metres, turn right down Mill Lane and over the bridge past the former mill on your right. Cross another bridge over the River Chess, then turn left by Mill Farm 3 and onto a riverside path (the Chess Valley Walk and Chiltern Heritage Trail). Follow the riverside path, ignoring paths off to your right. On your left, you will see a brick tomb to a local brick maker William Liberty who died in 1777.

Pass through a large water meadow, finally reaching the road to Latimer village. 4 At this point you may wish to turn right along the road for a short detour to see the picturesque old buildings that make up Latimer village.

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to take the first footpath on the dell, Chorleywood left and follow it all the way to a road.

9. Cross the road and turn right, passing in19 front of the Polecat Inn. Take the footpath on the left at the end of the Polecat car park. Head across the gravel to the paddock beyond and through the kissing gate in the far right-hand corner. Then follow the telegraph poles down the hill, heading6to the far left corner of the field. Go through the kissing gate onto Perks Lane. Turn right and head down the hill back to the nature reserve car park.

a lake on your left), to a minor road where you turn left. 5 Walk down the road and cross over the bridge, with the Neptune waterfall on your right, and cross a paddock to a gate by a road. 6 Cross the road and follow the path towards a wood. On reaching the wood, ignore a footpath on the right, instead follow the broad main path left through an avenue of trees.

Points of aInterest At the top turn sharp left along bridleway which Prestwood: The name has Anglo-Saxon origins runs along the topand edge of the woodIt was andformed eventually means priest-wood. as an 7 District in 1849 Lane). from parts brings you out to Ecclesiastical a minor road (Stony 7 of Great Missenden, Hughenden and Hampden.

Major industries were based on agriculture and furniture making. This part of the Chilterns was famous for its cherry orchards and in the 19th century Londoners took day trips to see the spring blossom.

Peterley Manor Farm: Farm shop, nursery and pick your own.

Turn right along the lane for a few metres then left along a bridleway, first through a wood and then along the top of a field with views to Latimer village and the Chess valley on your left. When the path splits, continue along the bridleway by a house on your right. At the Helen end Lodge of the bridleway 8 go through saw the advert asking for volunteers to for the Chiltern Society Hughenden a black estate gatedesign andwalks turn right along aviadriveway, Valley Residents’ Association. While researching then shortly left on a crossing footpath signed potential routes, it was a pleasant surprise to fito nd footpaths she had not previously walked. She hopes Chenies village. Follow this past the manor house and that this route has managed to capture some of the stunning in the areathe roundroad Prestwood gardens on your left.

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Top Tech For 2015

Te c h n o l o g y

The tech you might be watching this year - if it isn’t watching you

Every year, the great and the good of technology travel to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, CES. It’s where we see the top trends for the coming year and the tech firm’s best ideas.

So what’s coming our way in 2015?

TVs were big this year, literally: screen sizes are getting bigger and bigger, with resolutions increasing too: if you thought True HD was impressive, 4K Ultra HD offers twice the picture quality. Some firms are also trying to convince us that curved screens are the way forward, but so far such screens appear to be little more than a gimmick. We’re much more enthusiastic about firms using OLED (Organic LED) displays, which deliver amazing colours and deep blacks while using relatively tiny amounts of energy.

TV boxes too.

The other big trend on show was fitness technology and wearable computing. Bragi’s “The Dash” manages to pack fitness tracking into a tiny pair of wireless headphones, and we saw endless fitness tracking bands and smartwatches from the likes of Withings and Sony. We even saw a smart belt: Belty, which automatically adjusts its fit as your measurements change and which tells your phone whether you’re getting bigger or smaller.

One of the oddest gadgets was the Belfie stick. You may have heard of Selfie Sticks, which enable you to take selfies by sticking your phone on a long pole and shooting yourself from a distance; the Belfie stick is an evolution of that idea, designed to take selfies showing your bum.

been overhyped for years, but in 2015 it’ll actually start to deliver on its promises - first for gamers but ultimately for everyone. Fancy a Facebook where you can actually see your friends when you talk to them?

We saw lots of transportation ideas at CES this year, with Mercedes Benz showing off a particularly stunning self-driving car concept, but there were plenty of smaller transporters too. There was Onewheel, a skateboard with an electricpowered wheel in the middle and clever technology to keep you balanced; the GenZe, Inu and Ecoreco lightweight electric scooters; and the Ninebot, a “personal transportation robot” that looks like a shrunken Segway and which can travel 20Km at 20Km/h on a single charge.

The devices differ in how they look and work, but they all have the same aim: to get us out of our cars and onto cleaner, more eco-friendly transport. Or you could always walk.

If that makes you despair of the Also on the TV front was real world, why not try a virtual Android TV, Google’s third one instead? Virtual reality attempt to take over our living headsets were everywhere rooms. All 2015 Sony Bravia TVs will have Android TV inside and 2015 should see the likes of the Facebook-owned to deliver the usual Netflix and Images left to right:Sony’s ultraOculus VR, Sony’s Project iPlayer services plus specially slim Sony Bravia; Bragi’s The Morpheus and similar sets developed Android apps and Dash wireless headphones and from firms such as Microsoft fitness monitors; Oculus VR virtual games, and lots of other TV taking gaming and movies reality headset; Ninebot personal firms are making Android TV transporter into a newLocal dimension.

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• You’ll save money and smell more pleasant.

Helping You Quit Withdrawal symptoms such as agitation, irritability, insomnia, headache, depression, difficulty concentrating, dizziness and constipation usually peak 24 hours after your last cigarette, before easing off over 2-4 weeks.

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Is tutoring necessary?

Teacher assessments and the sets your child belong to at school can be a good indicator of your child’s ability, however 11+ testing can throw up surprising results.

Sometimes, children who are seen as very academic, fail to qualify or only just scrape through; whilst their seemingly less academic peers may pass the test easily with the appropriate support.

As well as highlighting areas to work on, tutoring often brings out a child’s natural talents. Some students may have a real aptitude for maths, but find it hard to visualise words. Others may be gifted at language, but struggle with numbers. A good tutor will support and extend a pupil’s strengths as well as boosting their weaker areas.

An important factor when it comes to passing the 11+ is the ability to focus and work at speed. Whatever your child’s ability, effective tutoring teaches them to concentrate better, aids memory and boosts their confidence.

By Sian Goodspeed, Founder of Flying Start Tuition

with each other and developing a sense of camaraderie. This makes preparing for the 11+ less lonely and more fun. Healthy competition can also spur your child on to achieve his or her best.

One to one tuition is a good option if your child has specific needs or is struggling to concentrate. Individual lessons will give your child an opportunity to work in a peaceful environment with the undivided attention of a supportive adult. This can do wonders for your child’s confidence.

You know your child best – choose the option that works best for him or her.

For advice on choosing the right tutor, see last month’s Local Directory feature, ‘The Eleven Plus: How to choose the right tutor’.

If you would like to find out more about Flying Start Tuition’s courses, running in Chesham, Little Chalfont or Aylesbury, please visit our website or contact us to arrange a visit or free assessment session.

So, the short answer is – tutoring doesn’t guarantee a pass, but will give your child a better chance of success, whatever his or her ability.

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Christmas & the party season has passed - how was it for you? “Sorry, pardon, what did you say?” Even with good hearing, one of the most challenging environments to have a conversation is at a party, pub or restaurant, especially as the evening progresses and people’s spirits rise so does the noise level. Background noise is the biggest challenge for anyone’s hearing but if you have a hearing loss the challenge is so much greater and wearing hearing aids certainly help but there are still challenges to overcome.

Hearing speech in noise is difficult even for people with excellent hearing so it is not surprising that this is the biggest challenge facing audiologists and hearing aid companies; it is the ‘Holy Grail’ of hearing aid use.

So what is to be done in our search for the ‘Holy Grail’ - the ability to hear better in noise?

GO DIRECTIONAL One option is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The signal-tonoise ratio is the level of the speech (signal) versus the level of the background noise. For best hearing results the speech signal needs to be higher and clearer than the background noise. It is not easy to control your environment so hearing aids have been developed to help artificially improve this.

GO BINAURAL If aids for both ears are recommended, then it is best to follow that recommendation. Studies have shown that understanding conversation improves by 30% when listeners can locate where the voice is coming from. Once we have located the voice, the visual cues can really improve our understanding. Two aids are essential in locating sound, and seeing the person speaking is fundamental to us all in the understanding of speech.

GO NEW TECHNOLOGY January 2015 sees the launch of two exciting new hearing aids, which are helping us to move closer to this Holy Grail. Phonak Hearing Instruments and Siemens Hearing have taken full advantage of the increased processing power of the latest tiny microchips. This increased power improves processing speed and the ability of the aid to deal with competing sound sources.

Aston Hearing Services, a private hearing consultancy in Old Amersham were in the fortunate position to fit two pairs of Phonak’s latest hearing technology to two very experienced hearing aid wearers prior to the officinal launch this January. The results were impressive to say the least, and two months on, after the ‘honeymoon period’, the results are still very encouraging.

Duncan Collet-Fenson, Managing Director of Aston Hearing, ‘the first person I fitted with the new Phonak Venture hearing aids, was able to hear a conversation very clearly whilst standing in the busy high street, with cars, trucks and buses going past - she was even able to clearly identify bird song, whilst in this very challenging Directional microphones are the most common tool to help listening environment. We were both impressed and manage listening to speech in noise. They are available in most encouraged!’ hearing aids depending upon the size and style and can have BOOK A TEST DRIVE TODAY different levels of sophistication. Some simply focus forward If you would like Aston Hearing Services to help you and cut out noise from behind, whilst others actively search out hear better in noise, why not take advantage of our the strongest speech signals from different directions and focus four week free trial of new technology? Call 01494 amplification on that signal whilst dampening down the noise 733840 or email Kate@astonhearing.co.uk to find signals generally, not just those behind the listener. out more details.

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This year, instead of showering mum with chocolate and flowers, treat Mum to a fun day out with the National Trust and make Mother’s Day even more memorable.

Whether you decide to have a delicious afternoon tea, take a spring-time stroll or make your very own gift, you can really treat Mum and show her just how special she is with a day out at a beautiful National Trust house and garden.

Not only will you be spending precious time together on a day out she’ll never forget, but you’ll be helping to look after these special places - every single National Trust visit helps look after these places for future generations.

These are some of the best spots to enjoy with the National Trust in this area on Mother’s Day, and some special ways to mark the occasion:

Basildon Park, near Reading

This elegant Georgian mansion in glorious grounds was brought to life in the 1950s and was recently used as a key location in Downton Abbey.

Get ready for Mother’s Day Sat 14 Mar 12noon-4pm Make a special gift for your Mum.

Cliveden, near Maidenhead

The magnificent formal gardens that surround the Italianate mansion (now a hotel) are full of surprises, with fine views over the River Thames, walks and fun for the whole family.

Mother’s Day at Cliveden Sun 15 Mar 11am-3pm Bring your Mum for free visit and treat her to a wine tasting.

HughendenManor,HighWycombe This fascinating house was home to Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria’s favourite Prime Minister, and also played a crucial role on behalf of the Allies during World War II. The gardens and grounds full of daffodils and spring blossom at this time of the year.

Mother’s Day craft and trail Sun 15 Mar 11am-4pm Make a gift for Mum and follow the daffodil trail around the gardens.

Stowe, near Buckingham

The vast landscape gardens of Stowe have attracted visitors for 300 years, and people still marvel at their scale and splendour. With lakeside paths, temples and follies, Stowe is the perfect place for a family walk and tearoom treat.

Grow with Stowe on Mother’s Day Sun 15 Mar 10am-6pm Plant bulbs in the gardens and come back year after year to see them bloom.

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ollywood darling Emma Stone comes across as free-spirited and funny, but the 26-year-old actress isn’t afraid of hard work. She’s been busy flitting between shooting with Woody Allen, promoting The Amazing Spiderman franchise, performing on Broadway, and attending multiple awards ceremonies for her role in the much-lauded Birdman.

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Los Angeles would be the best for her acting career and for the whole family.

Winning over her parents, Stone soon found herself home-schooled in LA, before securing herself a debut role in the spotlight, playing teen Jules in the outrageous Superbad.

Since then, natural comic and improvIn fact, growing up in Arizona, 15-yearfan Stone has dipped her toe into all old Stone took it upon herself to deliver sorts of genres; from drama, to rom com, a PowerPoint presentation to her to mega action franchise The Amazing parents, convincing them that a move to Stone has 24 Please mention Chesham LocalSpiderman. when responding to successfully adverts

jumped from teen sidekick to leading lady material, and still only in her midtwenties, has impressively already worked with Woody Allen twice and been dubbed his latest muse - not that she basks in the attention; “I don’t know what people will label me as.”

In fact, Stone tries not to engage in what the internet has to say about her. “Personally, I’m not on Twitter or any kind of social media,” she says. She’s famously insisted that; “I've always followed the (Ernest) Hemingway quote: ‘If you believe the positive stuff then you've also got to believe the negative.’ So I just stay away from it.”

That said, in the past Stone has used her celebrity status – and the obligatory paparazzi following – to raise awareness for great causes. Along with Spiderman co-star and boyfriend Andrew Garfield, Stone has been snapped holding a sign promoting charities Gilda’s Club, which supports people living with cancer, and Worldwide Orphans Foundation, providing health care, mentoring and education to orphaned children.

When she’s not on set, Stone likes to retain a degree of normality. “I love to hang out with my friends. Whenever you shoot a film, your regular life is put on hold for three or four months at a time and then you find yourself trying to get back to your usual life.” While her friends make her feel “normal” again, “I also like to spend a lot of quiet time reading or just walking around and finding cool little cafés where I can hang out and not attract any attention.”

That said, Stone does admit fame can have its perks too, especially when it comes to the world of fashion.

“While I've been living in New York I've had the chance to meet a lot of brilliant designers and get to go to a few fashion shows, which are really exciting events…”

Not simply looking at the clothes close up, Stone often gets to wear them, too.

She’s landed cover shoots with the likes of Vogue, Elle and W, and enjoys experimenting with her style.

Stone might enjoy chilling with friends and sitting front row at Fashion Week, but it’s surprising she has time to fit any of that in lately. “I was in the middle of shooting Spiderman when I did Birdman.

I finished Spiderman and then did Magic in the Moonlight. It’s been busy!” she laughs. Add into that her leading role in the stage production of Cabaret, the press tours that accompany each film, and finding the time to spend time with her fellow celebrity boyfriend, too. It’s a demanding schedule, and there’s no denying Stone is a driven actress – but one who knows how to have fun, too.

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AMERSHAM FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA with Paul Lewis (piano)

“How does he do it?” (Brian Kay, BBC Radio 3)

Mendelssohn, S chumann & Beethoven

Wednesday 15th April 11.30 am - 4.00 pm

STUDY DAY - The Golden aGe of ITalIan opera

Amersham Free Church, Amersham

with Adriana Festeu (singer and lecturer)

Friday 17th April 7.30 pm

DR CHALLONER’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham

Sunday 19th April 7.30 pm The Chapel, Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Tuesday 21st April 7.00 for 7.45 pm Chenies Manor House, Chenies

Wednesday 22nd April 8.00 pm St James' Church, Gerrards Cross

JAZZ BAND with the NYJO Sextet ORGAN SPECTACULAR with Iain Ledingham & Friends RULE BRITANNIA Concert trio 'In Voice and Verse' VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL with Nazrim Rashidova (violin) Iain Ledingham (piano)

Saturday 25th April 7.30 pm St Clement Danes School, Chorleywood

Sunday 26th April 2.30 pm St Mary’s Parish Church, Old Amersham

St JOHN PASSION - J.S. BACH with SBCS & Amersham Festival Orchestra YOUNG ARTISTS' CONCERT with

Con Brio Vocal Ensemble & Mary Reid (harp)

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Shared parental leave is coming in next month.

How will the new rules work?

This month Chiltern Citizens Advice Bureau looks at how the new rules allowing parents to share their maternity/paternity leave will work from April 2015.

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What are the changes?

A If you are expecting a child on or after 5 April 2015 (or if you adopt a child on or after that date), you will be able to share your maternity leave and pay with your partner. Under the new rules, mums will still take at least 2 weeks of maternity leave immediately after birth, but after that working couples have the opportunity to take Shared Parental Leave for up to 50 weeks and up to 37 weeks’ pay before the baby’s first birthday (or within 1 year of adoption).

You will be eligible for statutory shared parental pay if you qualify for statutory maternity pay, or if you qualify for statutory paternity pay and have a partner who qualifies for statutory maternity pay or maternity allowance.

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I want to share parental leave with my partner. How do I let my employer know when we want to take it?

A The pattern of leave must be agreed between the employer and employee with 8 weeks’ notice. Parents can take leave at the same time, so they can be at home together from the birth if this is arranged. For more information about how to arrange your Shared Parental Leave within the new rules visit www.gov.uk.

If you change your mind, there is a six-week window after the child’s birth during which a mother who has said she plans to share her leave can change her mind and decide to remain on leave.

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Will there still be keeping-in-touch days?

A Yes, each parent on Shared Parental Leave can use up to 20 “Shared Parental Leave In Touch” (SPLIT) days to go into work, which means you could effectively take Shared Parental Leave and work on a part-time basis for a period. These days are in addition to the 10 Keeping in Touch (KIT) days already available to those on maternity or adoption leave which are subject to agreement of both employer and employee.

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Where can I find out more information about Shared Parental Leave?

A Visit www.gov.uk for further information. An online calculator has been developed to help prospective parents work out what their leave and pay entitlements are.

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COMMUNITY BOARD Whats on & Groups

www.tdmrc.co.uk Saturday 11th April Beacon-Rail 2015 Model Railway Exhibition The Pitstone Memorial Hall Opening Times: 10.30am – 4.30pm Admission: Adults £3.00 Children £1.50 Family (2+2) £7.00

Chesham Beer Festival Saturday 30 May 12 noon - 7 pm Chesham United Football Ground (off Amy Lane) Free Admission Drinks - Live Music - Food all day

Pepper Foundation Ladies Charity Lunch The Gatsby

Berkhamsted Tuesday 28th April 2 course lunch with celebrity speaker

To book: telephone 01442 507311 email: d.butler@pepper.org.uk £35.00 per person

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Sat 28th March 12pm-3pm Brushwood School Chesham.

Come along for an afternoon of fun.

TOMBOLA - RAFFLE - CHILDRENS GAMES FACE PAINTING - NAIL ART - HENNA SWEET MAKING & CAKE DECORATING .

FREE EASTER HUNT AND COLOURING COMPETITION Refreshments available Other exciting stalls to browse.

Entry £1 per adult - includes one entry to raffle draw.

Free entry for children.

Chalfont & District Flower Club

Meets monthly on the 4th Monday except May & August at Royal British Legion Club, Woodside Road Amersham at 2.00pm.

23rd February - Mig Kimpton - In the Potting Shed 23rd March - Gill McGregor - Spring Sensation Visitors Welcome.

LITTLE CHALFONT EVENING WI Meets at Little Chalfont Village Hall, Cokes Lane at 7.45pm Every second Tuesday of the month (except August)

The WI celebrates its centenary in 2015 and we hope you will join us in marking this special year. Why not come along to one of our monthly meetings? Call Gill Glover on 01494 763879 for further information or go to: Facebook.com/littlechalfonteveningwi 10th February: OUT of the DARK High Wycombe based charity which recycles discarded furniture while training the crafts people of tomorrow.

10th March:

1000 YEARS OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY Watermills of the River Chess

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COMMUNITY BOARD Whats on & Groups

Probus Club Old Beaconsfield

Amersham Travel Club

Just coming to retirement age?

Meets twice monthly on Thursdays from September to April in the Barn Hall, Amersham Community Centre at 7.30pm The programme contains amusing, interesting and well illustrated talks. The next meetings of the 41st season are on 5th and 19th March featuring Wildlife Photography and Member’s 10 minute Miscellany.

Wanting to have stimulating topics to talk about?

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HYDE HEATH THEATRE COMPANY (1965‐2015) presents

Making Every Moment Count

MOON OVER BUFFALO

By Ken Ludwig ‘A RIP‐ROARING COMEDY’

APRIL 23rd,24TH AT 7.45PM APRIL 25TH AT 2.30PM & 7.45PM

Children’s Hospice Week 11th-17th May

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Would you like to ride the next

Ride London 100 cycling event?

We have guaranteed places for riders who can raise sponsorship for WAVES.

2nd August 2015

If you are interested please contact us for an application form The Kerrigan Savage Waves Charitable Trust Registered Charity No : 1063921

www.wavestrust.org.uk email waves.trust@virgin.net or call 01494 674985

Amersham Art Group - March AGM and Critique The Amersham Art Group welcome visitors to our upcoming AGM and critique from June Perkins, on Tuesday March 3rd. Anyone of any ability/experience or artistic medium is welcome. £4 entry for non members.

All in The Lounge, Amersham Community Centre at 7:30pm. See our website http://amersham-art-group. co.uk or email amershamartgroup@gmail.com for more information.

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2nd Amersham Common Scout Group JUMBLE SALE Admission 50p - Doors open at 9.30am SATURDAY 21st MARCH St John’s Church Hall Woodside Road Amersham

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