Good Causes

AGE Concern Bucks have appointed their new chief executive who is relishing the challenge of leading the vital charity.
Mike Brooks has been Befriending Services Manager at the charity for the past five years and has helped develop the scheme into one of the largest in the country with nearly 300 older people visited by volunteers each week.

BOYS from The Beacon School are aiming to raise £2,000 for the victims of the Haitian earthquake by filling empty sweet packets with cash.
Pupils in Years Three to Five at the school, in Amersham Road, Chesham Bois, took home empty packs of Smarties and raided their piggy banks to gather vital funds.
Family and friends have helped out too and so far have raised more than £1,000 for the Disaster Emergency Fund after hundreds of thousands of people were killed when a devastating earthquake hit the poor Caribbean country.

CHESHAM is preparing to honour the outstanding achievements of its residents by launching the 2010 Mayoral Awards.
The annual event recognises individual, groups, and businesses who have made a significant difference to the town's community with the winners announced at the annual town meeting in May.

PLANS to turn a Bellingdon pub into a two-bedroom cottage were rejected outright by the planning authority after over-whelming anger from the local community.
Fortitude Investments Ltd, owners of The Bull, in Chesham Road, submitted a planning application to Chiltern District Council last month which would have allowed them to knock-down the pub and build a residential home instead.

POST Office officials pulled out of a public meeting to discuss the future of the Chesham site leaving the 180 people who turned out seething on Wednesday night (20/1).
A representative from the company had agreed to attend the meeting at the town hall on Wednesday night but emailed organiser and town mayor Justine Fulford at 1pm to say the risk of snow meant they could not travel.

DETERMINED Bellingdon residents have vowed to fight to stop their local pub being torn down by property developers.
More than 100 people piled into Bellingdon Village Hall, in Chesham Road, on Friday night (15/1) after a public meeting was called to discuss the future of The Bull just yards down the road.

A QUIZ night will be held at St Mary's Church to raise money for Chesham Museum.
Tickets for the event, on March 13, cost £12 and include a fish and chip supper.
Simply visit the museum, in Market Square, in normal opening hours to book or place or call John Drinkwater on 01494 786387.

A FASHION challenge has been launched in Chesham to help spread the Fairtrade message in the town.
Chesham4Fairtade will be inviting winners to showcase their designs at a special Fairtrade Fashion Show at The Elgiva in March which will also include reading of winning poems in the Fairtrade Poetry Competition.

THE Chess Valley Male Voice Choir will hold their Christmas concert at Amersham Free Church on Saturday (19/12).
They will be joined for the fourth successive time by the 80-strong Chamber Choir from High Wycombe High School from 7.30pm.
A variety of festive tunes including White Christmas, and Quem Pastores will be performed.
Tickets cost £10 and £8 for concessions. Call Les Brum on 01494 782249.

CAROLS echoed out from Workaid last week as musicians from Chesham High School paid a visit.
The charity, in Townsend Road, Chesham, was packed to the rafters with guests last Friday (11/12) who sang along with five classic carols - One In Royal David's City, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, The First Nowell the Angel Did Say, and Oh Come All Ye Faithful.