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Football charity’s goals
August 10, 2017
A newly formed charity is asking everyone who is a friend of Risborough, its schools and football to join it. Friends in Football in Risborough (FIFAR) is the newly formed club which aims to help raise money to support the growing needs of the club, support local schools and ultimately support children within Risborough. Here’s how to […]
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Green-fingered pupils
July 21, 2017
It is that time of year again when Aylesbury Town Council organises the annual Aylesbury in Bloom Garden competition, open to schools, residents, communal groups and businesses. While the judging for the residents, groups and businesses is still taking place until August, it was the schools which were first to be judged and awarded for […]
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Patients flock to Games
May 10, 2017
WheelPower, the national charity championing British Wheelchair Sport, recently brought 92 hospital patients from spinal injury centres across the UK and Ireland together for the annual Inter-Spinal Unit Games. Widely recognised as the flagship sporting event for newly injured patients, the Games, which took place between April 25th-27th, introduced wheelchair sport to recently paralysed people, many […]
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Funds for Paralympic archiving
March 13, 2017
Historic archives and artefacts dating back to the very origins of the Paralympic movement will be catalogued and conserved by the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. The archives department of Buckinghamshire County Council, in co-operation with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust, has been awarded a major grant of £175,566 by the Welcome Trust for cataloguing and […]
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Celebration hits right note
February 22, 2017
Thame Chamber Choir celebrated the 10th anniversary of Duncan Aspden’s appointment as its Musical Director with a festive drink during a break in a rehearsal for its forthcoming concert in St Mary’s Church, Thame on March 11th. Duncan is the choir’s second musical director since its foundation in 1999, and is credited with raising its […]
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Rowing legend honoured
November 23, 2016
Rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave CBE was given a special honour at a glittering sports awards night. He took centre stage as nearly 300 people gathered at Aylesbury’s Waterside Theatre at the 11th annual Bucks & MK Sport Awards on Friday (November 18). The annual event is organised to pay tribute to the people and organisations […]
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