Pub Night returns this Friday, 18th March 6:30-10:30. All welcome.
Join us at Bellingdon & Asheridge Village Hall for home-cooked food (cottage pie), pizzas, ice cream, the usual array of drinks, pub games and neighbourly chat.
🇺🇦 Any profits from the evening will be donated to the DEC appeal for Ukraine 🇺🇦
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:
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
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
This afternoon at the Village Hall from 2-4pm. Come and join us! Absolutely everyone is welcome.
Join us on Sunday 27th from 2-4pm in the hall for a cup of tea or coffee, some locally made cake and a chance to catch up with friends and neighbours. Very informal, no need to book, everyone welcome!
