Clubs/societies

A QUIZ night will be held at Chesham United Football Club to raise money towards the British Legion Rebuild Fund.
The event will be held from 8.30pm on Saturday, February 20, at the club, in Amy Lane.
Tickets cost £5 per person which will include a light supper with a raffle also being held. Call 01494 772256 for more details or to book a table.

ENTERPRISING Hawridge residents refused to be thwarted by the heavy snow in the county last week by holding a snow sculpture competiton.
Nine teams braved the freezing temperatures for the event, organised by Hawridge and Cholesbury Common Preservation Society on Sunday, January 10.
Isobel Clark, of the society, said: "The teams created a wide variety of designs including a cat and mouse, a crocodile, the Loch Ness monster, a boat surrounded by blue water, a teddy-chair, a sofa and TV, a castle and a Henry Moore-like snow maiden."
Winners were Jon and Jon Chaplin with their snow maiden with the pair receiving a bottle of bubbly for their efforts.

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.

CHESHAM & District Natural History Society will be hosting a special talk by John Britten on Monday.
Entitled 'Natural History Tour of Galapagos Islands it will take place at St Mary's Church Rooms, Church Street on Monday (11/1) from 7.30pm.
For more information call 01494 774945.

CHESHAM based choir The Knights of Harmony have been crowned Bucks' Best Community Choir at a competition at The Eden Centre.
The group, made up of 40 singers who practise in White Hill, won £1,000 at the ceremony on Saturday (12/12).

A NEW 170 mile cycle route will be built through the Chilterns after a £48,000 grant was given to the project.
The Chilterns Conservation Board (CCB) and Cyclists Touring Club have secured the cash from the Chilterns LEADER fund given to farmers, foresters or community groups.

A RACE night is to be held at Chesham United Football Club to raise money for the Veterans Club Appeal.
Cash raised from the night, on December 5 at the club, in Amy Lane, will go towards the British Legion rebuild project.
The first race will start at 8pm with entrance costing £4 and including a light supper.
For more details call Alison Pirouet on 01494 778985.

CHESHAM Rotary Club presented an award to a woman whose charity has helped thousands of African schoolchildren get a proper education.
Lady Joy Baker founded School Aid in 1998 and has reached more than 100,000 children in eight African countries supplying books and equipment.
Mrs Baker was presented with the Paul Harris Fellowship, named after the founder of Rotary, earlier this month when she paid a special visit to the volunteers working from a warehouse in Beaconsfield.
David Unwin, of the Rotary Club, said: "We sent them a container full of equipment. Juanita de Jager immediately telephoned, surrounded by the chatter of excited children waiting to unload the boxes to say they were "on Cloud Nine."

CHESHAM Scout Troop members were given an opportunity to learn masterchef presentation from the professionals.
A total of 12 from the 1st Chesham group completed their Scouts chef badge under the watchful eye of the head chef and his team at the Bull Hotel, Gerrards Cross on Saturday.
The Scouts learnt culinary skills, napkin folding and table preparations ahead of serving a three course meal parents and scouting dignitaries.
Graham Eades, Scout leader, said: "The leaders and scouts of 1st Chesham wish to thank the owners, staff and management of the Bull Hotel for this fantastic opportunity for the scouts to experience a commercial kitchen environment and the use of the sumptuous surroundings of The Beeches restaurant."

THE WAR dead will be honoured for their sacrifice for their country at remembrance ceremonies across south Bucks on Sunday (8/11).
Across the district, those who have died in the First and Second World Wars, and in more recent conflicts, will be remembred.