August 2024

16 Buckden Roundabout August 2024 Village News Bookings August is usually a quieter month at the Hall due to the summer holidays, so we have fewer private functions. How- ever, we still have all our regular hirers in! Footpath upgrade on playing field We have been given a date of 2 nd September for the start of the footpath upgrade on the playing field. This is thanks to: We are very excited about this and can ’ t wait for the work to be done! Chair - based exercise classes We have two chair - based exercise classes at the Hall run by HDC. Rightstart 1 runs on a Wednesday 10am – 11am. In this session, all exercises take place in the chair, no standing required. This level is suitable for wheelchair users. Rightstart 3 takes place on a Thursday 11am – 12pm and is a strength and balance class which involves some standing for short periods of time. The chair is used as support when standing. Police surgery last month The police held their second surgery in the library last month. If anyone who lives close to the playing field or Val- ley notices any antisocial behaviour/vandalism taking place, please contact the police on 101 or www.cambs.police.uk How you can help Buckden Village Hall when buying online It costs a lot of money to maintain the Hall and of course right now with the utility prices being astronomical, it ’ s costing even more. There are two ways in which everyone can help to raise money for the Trust while simply shopping online and it doesn ’ t cost a penny! 1. Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ buckdenvillagehall 2. Sign up for free 3. Get shopping! It doesn ’ t cost you anything more. Ihe online shops make the donations and are collected by easy- fundraising and automatically sent to us! There are no catches or hidden charges, and Buckden Vil- lage Hall Trust will be extremely grateful for your donations, especially at this challenging time. Jo Harvey, Hall Manager Email: admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk Tel: 01480 811101 Please call or email to arrange any appointments Office hours: 9am – 2pm Burberry Road, Buckden, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5UY Tel: 01480 811101 www. buckdenvillagehall.co.uk email: admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk W.I. It was a delight to welcome Lisa Sheehan of the Ukraine Commu- nity Support Group, along with some Ukrainian friends, at our meeting on 2 nd July. Tetiana and Nataliya (respectively a lawyer and a financier in their home country) brought along Yulia, Timofii, Vlada and little Michelle as well as their Grandmother, Lubov, who had made us some most wonderful Medovk (honey) - layer - cakes to taste. The ladies showed us some beautifully folded napkins, tradi- tionally used in Ukraine to decorate the tables at Christmas, in many styles including water - lily, fish, butterfly, swan, bootee, heart and tree. Sadly, our individual efforts to try out one of the designs were a bit chaotic but we have been sent the de- signs by email to try again at home, as well as being given a link to the delicious cake recipe. The ladies left us with a lovely post - card thanking their English friends for their help and sup- port through the current troubled times. Our competition this month was to find the longest serving WI member in our midst. The winner was Audrey Gill who first joined a WI in1964. Well done Audrey! Our August meeting takes the form of a trip on the Ladybird Boat from Hartford Marina on the afternoon of 6 th August. Our next evening meeting will be on September 3 rd when we shall be sharing our memories of a favourite travel destination. Visitors are always very welcome to attend and for further in- formation please contact Emma Spencer - 07960018412 or Gill Baker - 079052114336