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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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%:

www.valelottery.co.uk/support/aston-abbotts-village-hall-trust

Caroline Lane – Aston Abbotts Village Hall trustees

astonabbottsvillagehall@yahoo.com

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.