Sunday 13 November 2016
Village hall closed for refurbishment
Building work started in October; the work will take 12-14 weeks so look out for a grand re-opening in February!
Tuesday 27 September 2016
Thursday Coffee Mornings in the Church
Some twelve years ago two regular churchgoers, April Curnow and Rita Robinson, started the Thursday Coffee Mornings which have become such a popular social event for villagers and, thanks more recently to Tracey, they have continued to be so.
As the Village Hall will be out of use for several months, probably until February next year, the PCC has decided to hold a Coffee Morning in Church on the first and third Thursday each month, starting in October ie on Thursday 6th. I am afraid we haven't yet the facilities to provide Tracey's yummy bacon butties but she will be there with hot coffee/tea, cake and biscuits with the help of a member of the PCC.
We will ensure that the church is warm as I can't believe the hot weather will continue into October and November!
We look forward to seeing all the regulars again on 6th October in church.
Caroline Abel Smith
Churchwarden
As the Village Hall will be out of use for several months, probably until February next year, the PCC has decided to hold a Coffee Morning in Church on the first and third Thursday each month, starting in October ie on Thursday 6th. I am afraid we haven't yet the facilities to provide Tracey's yummy bacon butties but she will be there with hot coffee/tea, cake and biscuits with the help of a member of the PCC.
We will ensure that the church is warm as I can't believe the hot weather will continue into October and November!
We look forward to seeing all the regulars again on 6th October in church.
Caroline Abel Smith
Churchwarden
Friday 16 September 2016
Aston Abbotts Village Hall news – September 2016
Aston Abbotts Village Hall news – September 2016
Update on refurbishment
Just waiting
for WREN (our major funder) to approve our budget and choice of builder, then
we’ll let everyone know! Expecting to start around 17 October; the work will
take 12-14 weeks so look out for a grand re-opening in February!
Clear the hall
The last
bookings will be w/c Monday 19 September. We will be clearing the hall and
kitchen on Sunday morning 25 September from 8.30am. The kitchen equipment,
crockery, cutlery, glasses, chairs, and the best of the tables will be stored. A
small number of chairs, tables and some crockery will go into the church
temporarily. If any user groups have other things in the kitchen cupboards
please take them away or let us know what you’d like done.
Funding
We still
have a shortfall, so we are still very grateful for donations. Thank you very
much to the family of Denis Knight who kindly donated half of his funeral
collection to the hall. If you can help, please contact any one of us.
Vale Lottery
The top cash prize is £25,000 and every week a few people win £25 –
hopefully an Aston Abbotts winner soon! We are getting a small but regular
payout from our local supporters that’s really appreciated (particularly as we
won’t have any lettings income while the hall is closed). If this is your
thing, please buy your tickets from our page and we get 50%:
The chair test
Fete goers
tested sample chairs. Thank you
all! The green, upholstered chair took
an early lead but was overtaken by the blue, wipe-clean version by the end of
the afternoon. Maybe not blue though. We’ll look at more before deciding.
Village History book still available!
Aston Abbotts 1000-2000: A village
history is back in
print at £10 per copy, proceeds to the village hall. If you’d like one please
email us or give me a ring on 681373. Just
one box left!
Caroline
Lane – Aston Abbotts Village Hall trustees
Aston Abbotts Village Hall Trustees group: Caroline Lane
(Chair), Liz Hall (Secretary), Nigel Palmer (Treasurer), Peter Shorrock, John
Whyte, Kevin Copping. Email: astonabbottsvillagehall@yahoo.com
Saturday 10 September 2016
Harvest Festival Supper and Auction
The 2016 Harvest Festival Supper will take place in the Village Hall at 7.00pm on Monday 19th September.
The Coffee Morning finishes... for now
In July the popular Thursday Coffee Morning in the Village Hall closed for the holidays and in preparation for the imminent Village Hall renovations.
The Coffee morning started around eleven years ago and in recent years it has been run by Tracy Hinds along with a rota of volunteer helpers. It is highly valued, particularly by retired and older residents who are around in the village on a Thursday morning.
We hope that the coffee morning will be restarted in the not too distant future, but in the meantime we offer our thanks to Tracy for her hard work. Tracy is pictured below dishing up her delicious bacon rolls.
The Coffee morning started around eleven years ago and in recent years it has been run by Tracy Hinds along with a rota of volunteer helpers. It is highly valued, particularly by retired and older residents who are around in the village on a Thursday morning.
We hope that the coffee morning will be restarted in the not too distant future, but in the meantime we offer our thanks to Tracy for her hard work. Tracy is pictured below dishing up her delicious bacon rolls.
Monday 6 June 2016
Aston Abbotts Village Hall news – June 2016
£44,100 offered to us from WREN
This was our major grant application. We are all very pleased!
The money, awarded by WREN’s FCC Community Action Fund, will be used to underpin and replace floors, install a new kitchen, fit out the new disabled toilet and rewire the hall.
WREN is a not-for-profit business that awards grants for community, biodiversity and heritage projects from funds donated by FCC Environment through the Landfill Communities Fund.
Queen’s birthday weekend 11-12 June
Village Hall, Saturday 11 June 10am-4pm and Sunday 10am-12 noon, exhibition covering 90 years in Aston Abbotts. Photos, newspaper articles, maps. Buy a reprint of local history book Aston Abbotts 1000-2000: A village history. We’ll also have a few copies of Neil Rees’ The Czech Connection to sell, hard to find these days! Refreshments. Admission free, donations to the village hall improvement fund.Email: astonabbottsvillagehall@yahoo.com
Friday 13 May 2016
Aston Abbotts Fete 2016
The 2016 Aston Abbotts Fete will take place on The Green and in The Grove on Saturday 23rd July at 1 pm.
There will be all of the usual attractions, including Hot Dogs, Pimms, Bric-a-Brac, the Plant Stall, the Book Stall, Tombola, rides and games for the children, and much, much more!
We look forward to seeing you there.
There will be all of the usual attractions, including Hot Dogs, Pimms, Bric-a-Brac, the Plant Stall, the Book Stall, Tombola, rides and games for the children, and much, much more!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Thursday 14 April 2016
MVAS Speed Sign - First report
The MVAS speed sign organised by your Parish Council was positioned in Moat Lane between 31st January 2016 to 20th March 2016. It looked first at traffic approaching the village and then at traffic leaving the village. It counts the total number of vehicles approaching the sign and flashes up the speed limit if they are exceeding 35 mph. Just over 15% of vehicles were recorded as exceeding 35 mph.
A brief report summarising the initial results has been compiled and this may be read or downloaded by clicking here.
The sign is being shared with Cheddington. At the moment it has been relocated in Wingrave Road, after which it will probably return to Cheddington for a while.
This sign produces valuable statistical information. It will be augmented soon by a Speed Watch operated by village volunteers that will record more precise information, including video-recording and logging the registrations of speeders.
A brief report summarising the initial results has been compiled and this may be read or downloaded by clicking here.
The sign is being shared with Cheddington. At the moment it has been relocated in Wingrave Road, after which it will probably return to Cheddington for a while.
This sign produces valuable statistical information. It will be augmented soon by a Speed Watch operated by village volunteers that will record more precise information, including video-recording and logging the registrations of speeders.
Monday 11 April 2016
Pub Quiz at The Royal Oak - Sunday 17th March
The next Pub Quiz, in aid of Parkinson's Research, will take place at The Royal Oak on Sunday 17th April at 7.30pm.
Monday 4 April 2016
Aston Abbotts Village Hall news – April 2016
Grant from Community Chest!
We’re delighted to say that we’ve been offered £14,000 from the Community Chest,
a grants scheme for community projects run jointly by AVDC and VAHT
(Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust). This is payable when our major
funding application is confirmed (we’re hoping this will be end April).
The village hall trust’s annual general meeting – Tuesday 19 April, 8pm, Village Hall
The village hall trust’s AGM is on Tuesday 19 April. Janet
Blake, Council Member for Stewkley and Community Chest Grants Panel
Member, will be joining us as a funder representative. Village residents
are also very welcome. It will be a short meeting – chairman’s summary
of what we’ve done over the last year, the treasurer’s report, election
of officers (chair, treasurer, secretary) and 10 minutes for taking
questions from the public.
If you can’t make 19 April, we’ll also be attending the Annual Parish Meeting on 13 April, so come along then if you want to hear a quick update from us and other village groups.
The Vale lottery
Every little still helps – if you are playing the online Vale lottery, please buy your tickets from our page and we get 50%:
Caroline Lane – Aston Abbotts Village Hall trustees
Saturday 26 March 2016
Annual Parish Meeting - The Village Hall - 8pm Wednesday 13th April 2016
The Annual Parish Meeting is a public meeting. This year's meeting is in The Village Hall at 8pm on Wednesday 13th April. You can find out more about the Annual Parish Meeting and read the minutes of last year's meeting at http://www.aston-abbotts.co.uk/annualparishmeeting2015.htm.
You can read the agenda here.
We hope to see you there.
Thursday 21 January 2016
Happy New Year from Aston Abbotts Postbox
The Aston Abbotts Postbox is now celebrating its first year of operation. During the past year we have distributed nearly 200 notices via email and we hope that you have found them informative and useful.
The Aston Abbotts Postbox distributes notices of interest to Aston Abbotts residents and friends via email. Posts are moderated, approved and checked for spam. Currently around 2-4 emails a week are distributed.
If you have any suggestions or comments on this service then please send them in to the postbox. Comments won't be sent out to subscribers, but they will be read by the Postbox team. A few tips for getting the most out of your postbox are below.
In the meantime, the Postbox team would like to wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful 2016.
Steve, Stuart and Phil
TIPS FOR USING THE POSTBOX
To join the postbox mail list please end an email asking to be joined to :
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of each posting.
Please send submissions to the correct address : postbox@aston-abbotts.co.uk. Emails sent to personal email addresses may get delayed or missed.
When responding to messages please make sure that you respond to the email address (or phone number) given in the message. Responding directly to the Postbox just causes us extra work and delays as we have to manually forward them on to the recipient.
We don't like to send out Word documents for fear of distributing viruses. Generally the only attachments we will forward are pictures and PDF files. We realise that not everybody can convert their Word files so we will endeavour to convert them as appropriate for you, but please bear in mind this might cause a delay as it is all a manual process.
Finally - check your junk/spam folder! At least one subscriber was missing many of our emails as his email program was incorrectly seeing some postbox messages as junk mail. You may need to add our server address - postbox@emaildodo.com - as 'good' in your email settings.
Thank you.
The Aston Abbotts Postbox distributes notices of interest to Aston Abbotts residents and friends via email. Posts are moderated, approved and checked for spam. Currently around 2-4 emails a week are distributed.
If you have any suggestions or comments on this service then please send them in to the postbox. Comments won't be sent out to subscribers, but they will be read by the Postbox team. A few tips for getting the most out of your postbox are below.
In the meantime, the Postbox team would like to wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful 2016.
Steve, Stuart and Phil
TIPS FOR USING THE POSTBOX
To join the postbox mail list please end an email asking to be joined to :
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of each posting.
Please send submissions to the correct address : postbox@aston-abbotts.co.uk. Emails sent to personal email addresses may get delayed or missed.
When responding to messages please make sure that you respond to the email address (or phone number) given in the message. Responding directly to the Postbox just causes us extra work and delays as we have to manually forward them on to the recipient.
We don't like to send out Word documents for fear of distributing viruses. Generally the only attachments we will forward are pictures and PDF files. We realise that not everybody can convert their Word files so we will endeavour to convert them as appropriate for you, but please bear in mind this might cause a delay as it is all a manual process.
Finally - check your junk/spam folder! At least one subscriber was missing many of our emails as his email program was incorrectly seeing some postbox messages as junk mail. You may need to add our server address - postbox@emaildodo.com - as 'good' in your email settings.
Thank you.
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