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Buckden Roundabout
February 2020
Village News
On Saturday 11th January Buckden Parish Council held an event
called ‘What on Earth Can Buckden Do?’ organised to highlight the
need for the Parish to take action to try to address issues in relation
to climate change.
The event put together in one place Chairman / CEO’s of major envi-
ronmental agencies, like Alan James Chairman CPRE, Brian Ever-
sham CEO Wildlife Trust, Emily Bolton Energy Projects Officer Cam-
bridgeshire County Council , Tim Lancaster Former Director of the
Carbon Trust, and Jonathan Djanogly member of Parliament.
Also representations were made from Peterborough City Environmental Trust, Huntingdon District Council, along with experts
in the field of the environment and climate change, Like Eco YouTuber Dave Borlace “Just Have a Think”, environmental retail-
ers like Orangehouse Renewables with their extensive knowledge on Heat Pumps and other environmentally friendly solutions
and of course Buckden residents and other members of the public, all in one place, and all talking and listening to one another.
350+ people packed Buckden village hall. The hall was host to 18 exhibitors displaying an interesting and diverse range of ser-
vices, information and entertainment, ranging from Cambridgeshire County Council policies to face painting and even a Virtual
Reality trip into space and orbiting the world.
We had a fantastic response from both the public and exhibitors alike and in some ways they describe it better than we could,
here is what they said;
“Our CPRE team found it fascinating, a great way of communicating the many aspects of climate change concerns and neces-
sary mitigating and preventive actions. The sharing of ideas about such a complex and potentially divisive subject in such a pos-
itive atmosphere was heart-warming. What a great idea it turned out to be. I think you should all be very proud of what you
achieved.”
Alan James, Chairman, CPRE Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
“What a day. There was such a buzz in the hall, even later in the day.”
Rosey Studd, Women’s Institute
.
“Yesterday I had the privilege of attending and speaking at a community event. The event was a great success and I just wanted
to say how impressed I was by the number of different environmental organisations and speakers.”
Dave Borlace, ‘Just Have a Think’
We hope that other councils will follow this example and with every extra event, the message will spread throughout the coun-
ty, the region, the UK, the World, to infinity and beyond. There are those who will say that anything you try to do, is just a drop
in the ocean... to them we say, the ocean is made of drops.
Bookings
February is another busy month for us at the Hall and in-
cludes the rehearsals for the upcoming pantomime,
‘Cinderella’. See below for more details!
Pantomime is returning to the Hall!!
After the success of last year’s pantomime ‘Aladdin’, Melo-
dramatics return on 6
th
, 7
th
and 8
th
March with Cinderella.
Tickets are on sale now.
CCTV cameras
A new CCTV camera has been fitted on the Hall building so
there is now completely uninterrupted, clear vision of all of
the building including its entrances. The Hall has suffered
some vandalism over the past few months so the cameras
now mean that all activity around the Hall can be tracked on
CCTV footage.
Jo Harvey
01480 811101
admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
Office hours 9am to 2pm.
Burberry Road, Buckden,
Cambridgeshire, PE19 5UY
Tel:
01480 811101
www.
buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
email:
admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk