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Lights up for all
November 16, 2019
In order to make the town’s Christmas lights switch on as inclusive as possible, Aylesbury Vale District Council is working with Buckinghamshire Disability Service to provide additional support for those in need. The event on Thursday 21 November at 5.30pm, held in the Market Square, makes organising the event particularly ‘challenging’, says the council. The closest […]
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Pot for your plot
November 15, 2019
Aylesbury Garden Town is launching a funding scheme to support community projects in the local area. A total of £25,000 is available, in the form of grants of up to £3,000 each, to non-profit community or voluntary sector organisations. The launch of the Community Projects Funding Pot follows the recent unveiling of the Aylesbury Garden […]
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WhizzFizz to return
November 10, 2019
Aylesbury Vale District Council has announced the return of WhizzFizzFest on Saturday 27 June 2020. Festival-goers can expect another whizzfizzingly wonderful day as the eagerly-anticipated family-friendly literary and arts festival returns to Aylesbury for 2020. Following on from last year’s success, WhizzFizzFest will be brimming with exciting celebrity author guests, involving county-wide workshops and a giant […]
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Bard comes to Tring
November 9, 2019
Arguably Shakespeare’s greatest work Macbeth will be performed by a talented cast drawn from the Vale area. The production is directed by professional actor and director Andy Faber and the cast includes semi-pro and community players brought together by Frayed Knot Theatre Company. When Macbeth returns home victorious from war he is promised a golden future by […]
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Food for thought
November 5, 2019
At a time when environmental issues are quickly climbing the national agenda, it is a sobering thought that 7.1 million tonnes of food is wasted every year in UK homes. That’s not only a massive waste of the Earth’s resources, but a waste of money, too – about £230 per person annually in the UK. […]
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The Bard’s battle-axes
Shakespeare’s older women are the stars in The Power Behind the Crone on Sunday 10 November at the Players Theatre, Thame. This one-woman show is given by five-star review-winning actress Alison Skilbeck, from 7.45pm. Alison plays Prof Artemis Turret who sets out to prove there are first-class parts for older women in Shakespeare’s plays. Artemis […]
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