Community Association

29th June: Village fête & fun dog show

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It’s full steam ahead for our village fête on 29th June. The fête opens at 12:30 and the full schedule can be found in the programme which will be delivered to every house in Bellingdon & Asheridge (no mean feat
in itself) by our volunteer door-knockers this Wednesday, 19th June from 6-9pm.

We’ll also ask if you have any donations you can kindly offer to our fête. Items gratefully received include: Bottles of wine, raffle and tombola prizes, good condition toys, board games and books.

We will also give you both a free fête programme and an opportunity to buy some raffle tickets, which offer some great prizes, including rugby tickets to Twickenham, a car service from Priest’s of Chesham, £50 Fastbreak Sports voucher, a family pantomime ticket for The Elgiva and much more!

If you are out, we can collect black bags marked “Fête” from your doorstep.
will leave a card so you can call them to come at a more convenient time.

To donate, help out, or find out more about the fête, please contact Helen on fête@bellingdon.com

To join the door-knock as a volunteer or arrange a specific collection time, please phone Liz: 01494 758754.

On the day we’ll have a fun dog show run by OBH Chilterns Pony Club as well as the Hemel Hempstead Band, real ale festival and Pimms bar, BBQ, ice creams, kids’ fancy dress competition, alpacas, bees, tug-of-war, teas & cakes, kids’ corner, face painting, tombola, raffle, bouncy castle and lots more.

See you there!

Community association news

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Bellingdon and Asheridge Community Association (BAACA for short) is up and running following our name change which was approved at the AGM. Our new trustees have got stuck in straight away and are helping us to deliver our many ongoing projects (see below for more details).

We are, however, still in need of a secretary. The role consists of compiling an agenda, circulating minutes and minimal amounts of additional correspondence. If you feel you might be able to help with this please contact any of the current trustees or contact@bellingdon.com

Village hall goes keyless

Those of you who have used the hall recently will have noticed a change in access arrangements. We’ve installed a keypad entry system in order to reduce the amount of time our volunteer bookings secretary has to spend giving out and collecting keys for the various hires during the week and weekend.

Some of the weekend hires do not finish until midnight, so making sure that the hirers have returned the keys on time is an onerous task, one which has been undertaken for the last seven years by the very dedicated Chris and Julie Hood.

Newsletter update

The December newsletter will be out shortly and looks a bit different. We thought that it deserved a bit of a refresh, and we hope you like the result!

We’d also like to start including more news of what people have been up to starting with the Spring edition next year, where we’re hoping to have news of an expedition to Nepal, among other things. If you and yours have an achievement you’d like to share (for example, new baby, marriage, leaving school, winning a prize, a “significant” birthday etc) do please let us know.

Floor refurbishment
During the Christmas period (16th-24th to be precise) the hall will be closed to enable a full refurbishment of our lovely parquet floor to be carried out. We hope that this will refresh the surface and make it easier to keep clean.

Christmas 2018 – what’s on in Bellingdon and Asheridge

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There is a wonderful variety of Christmas activities available in the village this year – from the Children’s Party on 1st December and the Seniors’ Christmas Lunch on the 2nd to a community pub night on the 14th and “Welcome to Bethlehem” (children’s activities) in the church on Thursday 20th from 3-4:30pm.

There’s also a carol service at the church on Sunday 23rd (10am), the traditional Christmas Eve service at Huge Farm from 4pm (by kind permission of Anka and John Taylor) and a Christmas morning service at the church at 10am on the 25th.

Village Hall full for its 70th Birthday Party

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What a fantastic afternoon! Around 100 people of all ages packed the Village Hall on Saturday afternoon to pay tribute to the place that this wonderful building holds within our community.

We had tea, sandwiches and cakes, an exhibition of recent and past history, an audiovisual slideshow of what has been going on at the hall in the last ten years, entertainment from The Nightingales and the opening of the refurbished kitchen by Alan Page.

Huge thanks to the hall management committee for funding the event, to the Bellingdon Belles for catering and to everyone who helped by lending us equipment for the slideshow as well as photos, articles and other artefacts for the exhibition. Particular thanks to Jane Edmunds for her sterling efforts in hammering pins into a particularly unwilling backdrop! And of course to Helen Harding for marshalling the whole thing even when it looked like climbing Everest might have been easier.

We’d love to hear what you thought of the event so please do let us know – either by talking to a committee member or by emailing us. We’re having a think about what else we can do to keep people coming to the hall so if you have any ideas – bingo, coffee morning, film night, karaoke etc – do let us know as well!

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