Community Association

Ukraine collection – Tuesday at Bellingdon & Asheridge Village Hall

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We are coordinating a collection for the good people of Ukraine.
On Tuesday this week Bellingdon & Asheridge village hall will be open for drop offs of the following. Specific items required:

  • First aid kits,
  • burns kits,
  • bandages,
  • pain killers,
  • dressing pads,
  • warm socks,
  • thermal underwear,
  • gloves,
  • hats,
  • nappies,
  • torches,
  • batteries AA and AA

Please have any clothing items clean and in good order.

I will be closing down the drop offs at 6:30 pm so that the hall can be cleaned and prepped for a booking at 7:30.

At 6:30 pm, I’ll be taking the last of the collected items over to the Ley Hill Memorial Hall to be added to the Cub Scout programme, run by their leader Jo Kimber.

If you have friends over in Ley Hill who may want to drop some items off there, the memorial hall is open from 4:30pm on Tuesday.

Everything will then be taken to a central collecting point in Luton. I’m not sure when this will happen, but we may be seeking some help in getting everything over to Luton. More to follow on this when I have the details.

If you read this email but can’t get to either of the drop off locations above, let me know and I will buzz around on Tuesday morning to collect as appropriate. Please message me. 


Thanks,
Simon Church
Church International Consulting Ltd
+447801231730

Ultrafast broadband update 3/2/22

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In recent months you may have noticed the activity in the village regarding the installation of Gigabit Broadband. There have been many Openreach engineer visits and fibre has now been ‘pulled’ from the main cabinets through ducts and to the main poles carrying the existing telephony/internet services across Bellingdon.

Against this background you may, like us, have been rather surprised to have recently received an email from DCMS suggesting that your Gigabit Internet Voucher will be expiring soon. We were all looking forward to the ‘release’ of the new fibre network to service providers (e.g. BT, Sky, Talk Talk) in May enabling us all to order the new high speed service.

Tony Orr has this morning been in correspondence with Openreach who have advised that the sending of this email is an administrative process that they cannot control, but that we should not be concerned at this stage and there is no action that residents need to take. We have been promised an update ‘at the earliest opportunity on any remedial steps required if any’. We will be in touch again when we have more information.

Hugh Griffiths

BAACA (Bellingdon and Asheridge Community Association) Trustee
On behalf of BAACA

27 Feb 2-4pm Afternoon Tea @ the Village Hall

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We’re running a tea & cakes (coffee will also be available!) event on Sunday 27th February from 2-4pm. We hope that this will be a popular social event, perhaps for those who aren’t able to come to the pub nights.

No need to book, just turn up on the day (although if you’d like to tell us if you’re intending to come that will help us to work out how much cake to provide). You can let us know on contact@bellingdon.com