January 2025

16 Buckden Roundabout January 2025 Village News Happy New Year to you all! New Year, New You! We have loads of fun ways to keep all ages and abilities ac- tive and healthy on offer at the Hall from chair - based exer- cise classes (Weds, Thurs, Fri) to pilates (Mon and Tues) to a Fitness Bootcamp (Thursday evening) to Jive dancing and Lindyhop dancing. Please email or call me for more infor- mation. Pantomime returns! The pantomime returns to the Hall on Friday 7 th – Sunday 9 th March 2025! I don ’ t yet have the details on what the show will be but if previous years are anything to go by, it will be great fun! I ’ ll keep you posted! Keeping people connected and combating loneliness There is a tea and chat session after the Wednesday chair - based exercise class and a social morning here on Fridays between 10am and 12pm for retired and semi - retired peo- ple that also incorporates exercises. We also have a Making Memories group for those experiencing some memory loss on Thursday afternoons. CCTV Cameras We have CCTV cameras all around the Hall building so please be aware that anyone, including in the doorways, can be seen! Pedestrian safety With the weather continuing to get colder, please can eve- ryone take care when walking around the Hall building and the Valley. Vandalism If anyone witnesses vandalism taking place, please report it directly to 101 or online at www.cambs.police.uk. Please report any damage to the Hall Manager on ad- min@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk Contact: 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 News From The Knot Garden Happy New Year from the Knot Gardeners. We hope you ’ ve spotted our new Dona- tion Box to the right of the gate. Our old box came away from the brick wall so we have planted the new box into the fig tree bed. We are very grateful to Dave from Merchant Steel Solutions in Hun- tingdon for donating the pole, welding and painting. Thank you for continuing to use the QR code on the notice by the Knot Garden gate. We have paused our plant rehoming for the time being but hope to reintroduce it in the Spring in the warmer weather. The Knot Gardeners are still working in the garden through the winter as long as the weather is fine and not too cold. We are already making plans for the new season and have earmarked funds for 2 standard bay trees to replace the two in tubs by the terrace that suddenly died last summer and replacing the tall box bush in the corner of the lamb bed which was severely damaged by Box Moth caterpillars last summer. We need to keep a careful watch for the caterpillars and act quickly as the weather warms up. The box plants that were damaged by the box caterpillars are showing new leaf growth, we shall add box feed in the spring to encourage the new growth. A successful Tea Party for the over 65s was held in the Village Hall on 9th December. Many thanks to Sue at the Vine who provided the delicious food and to all those who helped out on the day. Special thanks to the children from Buckden School who started off the event with singing and dancing, which was much appreciated.