Page 1 - Ickford Informer Newsletter Summer Issue June 2021

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Informer
Ickford
Summer 2021
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The latest village news and events, delivered to your door
have already held two services at St. SEVEN GATES
St. Nicholas Church Update
We are at last emerging out of
lockdown and, at the time of writing,

Nicholas. We are still required to wear
masks, sanitise our hands, socially
distance and sign in under Track-and-
Trace. Our services are required to be INSTALLEDand
short and we can sing hymns quietly.
Services at 10:00am. The third Sunday another four still to go
Until the end of July services
are back to the monthly pattern. The
first two Sundays are lay-led Praise

is Holy Communion at 9:00am and
the fourth Sunday is Holy Communion
at 10:00am. Please check with the
noticeboards outside the shop and
opposite the porch in the churchyard.
In August the United Benefice
service of Holy Communion is at St.
nd
Nicholas on 22 August at 10:00am.
Activities have started resuming:
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Monday 7 June,
Prayer Group in the church at 1:45pm.
Tuesday 8 June,
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Rendezvous, coffeeshop. 10:30am.
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Friday 11 June,
Little Stars, Toddler Group, 10:00am.
Puppet Club commences again in
September, new members are
welcome. Contact: Anita, 339952
or Meryl, 339608. Look for posters
around the village nearer the time.
Bell Ringing, If you are interested?
Contact: Brian Woodham, 339683.
Churchyard, Can you spare time
during the growing season to mow the
grass in the churchyard? It would be L-R: Bill Piers, North Bucks rRIPPLE Co-ordinator, Jerry Michell, Peter Smith, Keith Wheeler-Cherry and Derek Holland
much appreciated if you could as ‘many
hands make light work’, and it is an S A LONG STANDING MEMBER OF ‘THE RAMBLERS’ I have been acting
excellent way of keeping fit! Contact: A as Path Checker for Ickford and Shabbington for the past four years.
Garry 338807 or Michael 339952.
The Garden Fete is to be held on Problems with footpaths are reported to a confusing mix between the landowner
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Saturday 4 September at 2:00pm at ‘The Rights of Way Operations’ team at and BC and, since funding is limited,
The Old Rectory, courtesy of Chris and
Irene Sandham. Please put this in your Buckinghamshire Council (BC) online by progress in achieving improvements is
diary as the church really needs your going to: often slow. Despite this I have achieved
support in its recovery after Covid-19. v a few successes locally with BC having
http://transportforbucks.net/report-it-prow.
IN THIS ISSUE aspx replaced three footbridges in Ickford in
the past couple of years.
• Ickford School John Ronane 3 and I would encourage everybody to do
• Ickford Village Show 4 this as the more noise we make the better. These are located on the footpath
• Village Hall Update 4 between the Rising Sun and
• Neighbourhood Plan Update 5 The online system has a very user-friendly Worminghall and two footbridges on
• Ickford Pre-School 5 mapping system making it simple to identify
• Ickford Parish Council 6 the path, report problems and upload the path heading north towards Oakley
• Nature Notes 8 (turn left at the T junction at the top
• Deanfield & Turnfield Update 9 supporting photographs, etc. of Worminghall Road head towards
• Book Reviews 10
• Ickford Tug-of-War 10 Responsibility for maintaining footpaths and Worminghall and the path is on the right
associated gates, stiles, footbridges etc., is after about 200m).

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