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A community get together is planned at Buckland Village Hall to celebrate its 25th anniversary and a photo competition is being launched today, Wednesday, April 16 with winners to be announced at the event.

To be held on Saturday, September 13 from 10am to 9.30pm the celebration will include the presentation of prizes for the best photograph of the village, the best essay written about the village and to the winners of our 20-question quiz about Buckland, which will be posted on the website in June.

The day will include an exhibition with photographs of activity and events through the years, a children’s entertainer, lunch for senior citizens and an afternoon and evening of music and entertainment.

All ages are welcome to submit photos of their favourite view or scene in Buckland. The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 1and they should be sent by email as a jpeg to Hallandbookingsmanager@bucklandvillagehall.com. Please include your name, address and phone number. 

Ross Holkham of Ross Holkham Photography ( Wedding Photographer Based in Aylesbury | Buckinghamshire) will judge the pictures and has generously donated a free family photoshoot worth £350 as the first prize. The second prize is £100, donated by Olleco, and the third prize, £50, donated by the Buckland Old School Trust. 

Said Richard Peel, Chair of the Trust, who are organising the event: “We want to bring the villagers of Buckland together, which happens too infrequently, to celebrate 25 years of the hall but also to raise its profile. 

Several local businesses have pledged their support, and the details will be announced in the upcoming months. If any other Buckland businesses or other local organisations would like to support the event through sponsorship or a prize, then please get in touch.”

The hire of the hall is now £12 an hour for villagers on a weekday and £15 an hour at weekends. There is a new marquee funded through a Community Development grant from Buckinghamshire Council’s Wendover Community Board, and signage for the hall will be improved because of this grant too.  

 

The event will be free for residents of Buckland, although there will be an opportunity to make a voluntary donation, and £10 for non-villagers.

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Further information from Richard Peel Email: rppr@hotmail.co.uk  Tel: 078 0508 3595 

 A campaign has been launched to revitalise Buckland Village Hall with the introduction of a new website and the appointment of two new trustees.

An online booking system, making it easier for hirers to choose dates and times, has been set up as part of an accessible website – www.bucklandvillagehall.com – with all the relevant information online.

Those wishing to hire the hall will be invoiced via the system and will be able to make their payments to the charity through the website. The website features a brief survey, also available on the hall’s Facebook page and Everything Buckland.  

The survey has been designed to get some basic answers from the local community on how they have used the hall in the past and what it might be used for in the future. All Buckland residents are encouraged to participate.

The two new trustees are Linda Oatley and Richard Peel, who has been appointed the Chair of the Charity. 

Said Richard: “We all want to reinvigorate the charity by holding more activities and events and creating a genuine hub for the community. We’ll do this by consulting more widely, locally; by promoting events and activities more vigorously and by being transparent in all we do. 

“We want to make this a ‘hall for us all’ and that means encouraging, in particular, more activities for young people, greater use of the hall for arts and educational purposes and the scheduling of a few bigger events to bring the community together.”

The website also features profiles of all the trustees, a history of the hall and a picture gallery. There is also an option for people to send in suggestions or make complaints via email and summaries of minutes of meetings will be posted for information.

The Village Hall is run by the Buckland Old School Trust, a registered charity, with a mission to fulfil its charitable purpose by making the village hall an all-inclusive place of recreation for the community of Buckland Parish by continuously consulting the public on its use and being transparent about its management and finances.