Community Association

Tues 13th July: Community Association AGM

~ bacaadmin

The Bellingdon & Asheridge Community Association AGM will be held on 13th July at 8pm. Unfortunately due to continuing restrictions it will be held on zoom again.

Please let us know (contact@bellingdon.com) if you’d like to attend and we’ll send you the link in advance. 

Every adult resident of Bellingdon & Asheridge is entitled to vote at the meeting, there’s no obligation to get involved (turning up doesn’t mean you’ll get lumbered with organising next year’s fete; unless you want to of course!) and its your annual opportunity to find out what BAACA has been doing, both to maintain and improve the hall and to foster a sense of community.

BYO drinks and nibbles! 

For reference:

BAACA-AGM-13.07.2021Download
Minutes-of-AGM-23.07.2020-finalDownload

Chairmans-Report-2021Download

Summer news

~ bacaadmin

Printed newsletters will be delivered to all houses in Bellingdon & Asheridge over the next few days by our wonderful team of volunteers. If you can’t wait (!) or prefer your news online we’ll be posting the individual articles on the website plus more that we couldn’t fit in. We’ll also send out a newsletter this month after a few months’ hiatus which will contain broadly the same content.

BAACA AGM 

The Community Association AGM will be on 13th July at 8pm. This year we’re hoping to go “hybrid”; that is have the option to be in the hall or to log in remotely via zoom for those who are unable to be there in person. 

Every adult resident of Bellingdon & Asheridge is entitled to vote at the meeting, there’s no obligation to get involved (turning up doesn’t mean you’ll get lumbered with organising next year’s fete; unless you want to of course!) and its your annual opportunity to find out what BAACA has been doing, both to maintain and improve the hall and to foster a sense of community. Plus there will be drinks and nibbles! 

Hall reopening according to government guidelines

As restrictions gradually lift, we are able to reopen more and more of the village facilities. The recreation ground, car park and playground are open already, during the daytime. Huge thanks to the team who give up their time to be on the gate opening/closing rota. The hall is accepting bookings in line with the guidance at the time. If you’d like to find out more or book the hall please see our dedicated pages on the village website. 

Fete update

Given the proximity of the intended fete date (26th June) to the full easing of restrictions (21st June) the committee, after much discussion, felt it would be too risky to proceed with the fete in June. Plans are in progress for a scaled-back community event on 11th September, which the committee feels gives us the best chance of actually being able to run something. Stay tuned for more information or to volunteer to help please get in touch.

Ultrafast Broadband
You may be wondering what happened to the promise of Ultrafast Broadband. Well the wheels grind extremely slowly but we’re hopeful to be able to share good news by the time of our next newsletter (early September). Please cross your fingers and toes… 

Help please!

And finally, if you’ve ever thought you could do a better newsletter (printed or e-news)…now is your chance. The current editor has been in post for five years and would be delighted to hand over the reins. Help also sought with the website and associated social media. Some experience would be an asset. 

Please get in touch if you’d like to know more – all and any help appreciated to make this a really useful resource for our community. 

New look for the village website

~ bacaadmin

If you’re an avid follower of the bellingdon.com news stream you’ll already have noticed that we have had a refresh. If you’re not, hello! We hope to see more of you.

We’ve given the site a “proper” homepage rather than just a news feed with some bits at the side.

We hope you like it, if there’s anything you’d like to see on the homepage (sensible ideas only please!) then do contact us.

Keep in touch
General e-News: http://eepurl.com/dlWkLH
Ultrafast broadband project news ONLY: http://eepurl.com/bUdAdH
www: www.bellingdon.com
f: www.facebook.com/bavhall
t: www.twitter.com/bellandash
Bellingdon & Asheridge Community Association
Registered Charity No: 1087494

Ultrafast broadband: Last day to pledge/confirm!

~ bacaadmin

Today (31st March) is the last day you can pledge/confirm your voucher for the ultrafast broadband project.

We’re currently at 80% so it’s not looking good, but openreach tell us we have £45,000 of vouchers that have been pledged but not confirmed.

For the project to go ahead the difference would need to be made up by the community so we’ll be in touch when we know how much that figure is.

In the meantime please PLEDGE or CONFIRM your voucher (links go to step by step instructions) TODAY!

Keep in touch
General e-News: http://eepurl.com/dlWkLH
Ultrafast broadband project news ONLY: http://eepurl.com/bUdAdH
www: www.bellingdon.com
f: www.facebook.com/bavhall
t: www.twitter.com/bellandash
Bellingdon & Asheridge Community Association
Registered Charity No: 1087494

Ultrafast broadband update 28 March ACTION NEEDED

~ bacaadmin

Just a quick update on the status of the “Two Gates Lane/Bellingdon” Ultrafast community project (not to be confused with the “Cholesbury/The Lee/Asheridge etc” project that you may have seen discussed on the Grapevine.

  • If you have not yet PLEDGED your voucher please do so ASAP – time is running out! Instructions on how to pledge (with pictures) are here.
  • Once you’ve pledged you should receive an email from gigabit.vouchers@notifications.service.gov.uk to CONFIRM your voucher. This locks in the funding and is VITAL. There are instructions (with pictures) on how to do this here.
  • If you have pledged and confirmed your voucher, thank you, there’s nothing more for you to do at the moment. Please don’t pledge again if you’ve already done it – duplicates are deleted.

Even if you’re happy with your broadband speeds, please spare a thought for your neighbours who might not have as good a connection as you and/or consider the value that ultrafast broadband might add to your property.

Some background information

After 6 months of back and forth, for which we have Tony Orr’s unending patience to thank, the project was initially costed, from afar, by Openreach, on a certain number of properties – a good number of which were either non-existent or duplicated.

This led to an extremely high initial cost for the project. Subsequently Openreach removed a number of the properties from the project scope, but did not have time to re-cost the project before the funding window ends – 31st March.

This leaves us in a situation where we need everybody who can sign up to do so. The additional funding we were hoping for from Bucks council has all been allocated, and the pot is empty.

The bottom line is, we are currently over £50,000 short, more if you count those who have pledged but not confirmed their vouchers.

So please, pledge and/or confirm your voucher as soon as you can. It could just make the difference.

https://www.openreach.com/connectmycommunity