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Exhibitions & activities at Bucks County Museum HP20 2QP, see page 2 Everyball UK Tennis Camps for children, Halton Tennis Centre, see page 25 Library Summer Reading Challenge, see page 2 Buckland, Drayton Beauchamp and Aston Clinton WI Knit & Natter (also Tue 21, 13.30-15.30), see page 2 Simply Walk at Wendover Woods, meet Cafe in the Woods - please arrive 15 minutes early if new to the group Wendover Library Reading Group, Wendover Community Library Room Aston Hearing “Hear Today” events. Tue, Cobbles Yard OX9 3DZ; Fri, Flint Barn Court HP7 0DB BBOWT events for all, throughout the month, see page 24 for date & location details Wendover FC 5-a-side Tournament, John Colet School playing fields, see page 24 Children's Book Group, Wendover Community Library, see page 2 Dinosaurs talk, Wendover Community Library, see page 3 Learn My Way FREE computer training, Wendover Community Library, see page 2 Breast Friends - Aylesbury, breast cancer support group, Mandeville School Craft Group, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 3 BBOWT Working Party, Bacombe Hill Chiltern Writers, Wendover Community Library Room, see page 3 Book Club, Wendover Christian Centre, see page 3 Wendover WI - Staying Fit, with Emma from BML Personal Training. St Anne’s Hall. See page 4. Messy Church, St Anne’s Hall & Wendover Christian Centre, see page 4 Meditation Class, Wendover Community Library Room “Mischief Makers” craft activity - make a pom-pom Gnasher, Wendover Community Library Memory Pathways, Lindengate Site. Wyevale Garden Centre, see page 12 Wendover Local Produce Market, Manor Waste Family History Talk, “Coram’s Children”, Turnfurlong Junior School, see page 4 Chilterns Dog Rescue Society Cream Tea, Cholesbury Village Hall HP23 6ND, see page 4 Contemplative Fire Gathering, St Mary’s Church, Wendover Parklife/Proms in the Park, Vale Park, see page 4 Cream Teas, St Mary the Virgin Weston Turville, see advert page 4 Reading Group for the Visually Impaired, Wendover Community Library Room BBOWT Working Party, Weston Turville Reservoir
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Lindengate A visit to Lindengate Fair
this significant donation of over £34k from the LEADER fund (LEADER, a rural help fund, could only fund a maximum of 80% of the pathways).
Andrew Hough, Buckinghamshire MCF (Masonic Charitable Fund) representative and Mike Clanfield, Provincial Grand Charity Steward, are pictured (above, right) with members of the Lindengate charity during their visit to the Lindengate fair recently, after the MCF awarded the charity £4000. Lindengate (www.lindengate.org.uk) is a mental health and wellbeing charity in Wendover which offers specialised gardening activities to assist mental wellbeing, boost self-esteem and social inclusion. The charity has received assistance from Buckinghamshire Masons to upgrade the facilities and pathways there. This has enabled wheelchair users and people with limited mobility to use the site and enhanced the infrastructure to make it fit to support the professional, social www.wendovernews.co.uk
“We actually still have a shortfall of £9k for the next phase of the pathways which is due to take place in August - Securing this balance of funding is now our most urgent priority.
and therapeutic programme developed by the centre. The new look site was very much admired at the recent Lindengate Fair and has been well received by the staff, volunteers and clients of the centre. Midge Blake of Lindengate said, “Your donation has been instrumental in securing
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“The new pathways are already making a huge difference to our Gardeners (as we call our service users), particularly those with disabilities or those who are elderly or frail. Previously they have been unable to access these areas of the site. The Sensory Garden is one of the areas now accessible and it provides a wonderfully calm space in which our Gardeners can sit and experience the gentle trickle of the water ball and breathe in the variety of fragrant flowers.” Wendover News August 2018
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