October 2022

15 Buckden Roundabout October 2022 Village News Bookings Update During October we have a 5 - day corporate booking, a 50th birthday party, a Wedding Reception, a Craft Fayre (on 16th) and a kids birthday party alongside all our regular hirers. Buckden Village Hall Trust AGM This takes place on Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 7:15pm in the Lincoln Room. Everyone is welcome! Autumn Gift & Craft Fayre Sunday 16th October, 11 – 4 Come on over to the Hall on 16th October and nose around lots of stalls selling jewellery, soaps, wax melts, arts and crafts and much more. You can treat yourself to something nice … or get ahead of the game and get some Christmas presents sorted! New Love To Move sessions Love To Move sessions, run by the One Leisure Active Life- styles team who also run the popular Right Start classes, are an age and dementia friendly seated gymnastics programme which is transforming the lives of people living with demen- tia. The classes are suitable for people wanting to exercise for the first time or those returning to exercise after a medi- cal condition. These sessions are weekly and run on Wednesday ’ s 2pm – 3pm in the main Hall. For more details please call Danielle on 01480 388111. They are running a free 8 - week trial so please come along to see if it suits you! No Parking at the Hall Friday 28th – Sunday 30th October We have the annual Jivenites Crystal Blues weekend from Friday 28th October to Sunday 30th October inclusive. This is always a very well - attended event and the car park will be full over the weekend. There will be no room for any cars relating to football or other events, particularly on the Sat- urday. We politely request that any cars relating to any football matches or other events park outside the school and walk the couple of minutes to the playing field. This will ensure that the cars directly related to the event in the main Hall can park in the car park and therefore don ’ t park along Burberry Road/Vineyard Way, causing issues for local resi- dents. Valley update We are delighted to report that over the summer Buckden Parish Council purchased an established floating island which has been installed in the Valley to help mitigate the effects of the very hot weather which had caused the stream which feeds the Valley to dry up which has caused the water quality to deteriorate. The roots of the plants on the floating island extend 1.5m into the water, providing shelter and sucking out pollutants. The island will provide cover for fish and a natural food larder for insects and inver- tebrates whilst also filtering water, removing excess nutri- ents, phosphate and nitrates. How all of you can help Buckden Village Hall when buying online 1. Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ buckdenvillagehall 2. Sign up for free 3. Get shopping! It doesn ’ t cost you anything more the 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 difficult time. If you shop using Amazon. You can shop and donate to the Village Hall by using www.smile.amazon.co.uk just follow the instructions and then amazon will make a small donation to the trust for everything you buy. Shopping using the smile URL is just the same as using the normal amazon website. Don ’ t forget to select Buckden Recreation Ground and Village Hall Trust as your nominated charity. Jo Harvey, Hall Manager Email: admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk Tel: 01480 811101 Burberry Road, Buckden, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5UY Tel: 01480 811101 www. buckdenvillagehall.co.uk email: admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk Kimbolton Castle Country Fayre & Classic Car Show The 29 th Kimbolton Country Fayre and Classic Car Show held on the 10 th July in the magnificent grounds of Kimbolton Cas- tle, attracted over 1000 classic cars with a footfall of around 6000. A Committee of 10 Rotarians, 2 Sporting Bears mem- bers over a 10 - month planning cycle steered the event to frui- tion and organised over 60 volunteers on the day. An income of over £47,000 generated £20,000 for charities and good causes supported by the Rotary Club of Kimbolton Castle and/ or our partners, the Sporting Bears. Amazing entertainment was provided by the Stannage stunt team, Welsh Axeman, four different music and dance enter- tainers and groups. A wildlife display, visiting beagles and a flypast by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight all added to this rich community event. Thank you to all those who helped at the event and attended to make it a successful day.