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Welcome to the Cuddington Village website

Welcome to the website for Cuddington, Buckinghamshire.  There is lots of content to explore, and the site is constantly updated by editors in the village.  Never miss out on village news and events that interest you by signing up in the Your Cuddington section.

The site has been created to be a hub of village activities and news and our ambition is that, as well as keeping everyone up to date, the website will become an interesting record of village life.

We would love to hear what you think of the website and any suggestions that you have on how we might improve it.  You can email us on the Contact Us page.

Street map of Cuddington     Postcode of village centre: HP18 0AP

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News
19/05/2012

 

Olympic Torch Relay

The Olympic Torch Relay is now touring the United Kingdom in the run-up to the London Olympic Games.  8,000 torchbearers will be carrying the flame on the 8,000-mile route.

The relay will pass through Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville on day 52, 9th July.  Details of the route and expected arrival times can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay/day52
18/05/2012

 

Youth Holidays

It is now less than 80 days till the start of the summer school holidays and there are still places on a wide variety of Christian Youth adventure holidays.

If you look at the following websites you will see that they are geared for 8+, 11+, 13+ and 15+ , reasonably priced, excellently run and great fun.  You don’t need to be a committed Christian to go but open to new ideas and making new friends.

They cover a wide range of activities including karting, windsurfing, mountain biking, sailing and other less energetic stuff like music, craft and drama.  This will be a holiday you will not forget!

Check out
www.ventures.org.uk
www.westrunton.org.uk
www.scriptureunion.org.uk
10/05/2012

 

Kampala Music School – 10th Anniversary Appeal Concert

The Friends of Kampala Music School is holding its annual FKMS concert at All Souls’ Church, Langham Place, London, on Saturday 19th May at 7.30 pm.  This year FKMS are making history and mounting a fully orchestral concert.  Professional players from all over Britain, including several ex-KMS volunteer teachers, are coming together to perform as The Orchestra Pro Musica Uganda, led by Andrew Bernardi and conducted by David Macdonald.

The programme will feature the three soloists who played so memorably at last year’s concert in Oxford.  Claire Hawkes will play the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Ivan Kiwuwa will play Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto and Terence Ayebare (baritone) will sing concert and operatic arias.

This year’s concert is in aid of the KMS 10th Anniversary Appeal and admission will be by ticket.  Tickets can be obtained from the St Martin-in-the-Fields Box Office, telephone 0207 766 1100, or on line at www.smitf.org

Download the poster here
10/05/2012

 

Village Tidy Up – Sunday 20th May

Sunday 20th May – 10.30 am

We’ve entered the Best Kept Village Competition.  It would be wonderful if you could spare some time on Sunday 20th May to ensure we’re spick and span in time for the official judging!

Please meet on the Upper Green at 10.30 am.
04/05/2012

 

The Aristocats

The Bernard Hall, Cuddington

Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th June  7.00 pm
(additional matinée performance on Saturday at 2.30 pm)

Cuddington Youth Drama present The Aristocats Kids, an exciting musical based on Disney’s classic 1970 animated film.

In 1910, in the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess bequeaths her entire estate to her high-society cat Duchess and her young kittens.  Furious upon hearing the news, the jealous butler kidnaps the cats and drives them out into the countryside.  It’s up to the street-wise alley cat Thomas O’Malley and his band of swingin’ jazz cats to save the day…

Tickets from the Box Office, telephone 01296 747 129 or email boxoffice@cuddingtonyouthdrama.org.uk.        Adults £8; Under 16s / Concessions £6.  Running time 75 minutes.
02/05/2012

 

Community Oil Buying Scheme Update

The price per litre for the April order was 56.8p plus VAT, a saving of up to £142 for an order of 1000 litres*.  If you are interested in joining the scheme and placing an order for the next delivery, please contact Chris Long on 291153 for more details.

Download an information leaflet

Download the membership application form

* compared with the highest price quoted
15/05/2012

Cuddington’s Victory at Boules Match

Breaking news..... Cuddington 10 Chearsley 6
29/04/2012

 

Music in Quiet Places

Music in Quiet Places is coming to a village near us:

on Saturday 9 June, 7.30pm at The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aston Road, Church End, Haddenham HP17 8AH.

There will be a village walk at 6.30pm.

Stirring chamber works with piano
   The Pizzetti Trio
   Orlin Dimitrov Violin
   Julian Metzger Cello
   Richard Black Piano
   Robert Secret Viola

Programme to include:
   Haydn – Piano Trio
   Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in C minor
   Schumann – Piano Quartet in E flat

Local ticket agent St Mary’s Centre, Church End, Haddenham
01844 291108 or office@haddenhamstmarys.org
07/05/2012
  • Mayday Madrigals 2012  Churchyard and Tower
  • Mayday Madrigals 2012  Church Tower
  • Mayday Madrigals 2012  Churchyard
  • Mayday Madrigals 2012  Churchyard
  • Mayday Madrigals 2012  Singing in the church
  • Mayday Madrigals 2012  Singing in the church
  • Mayday Madrigals 2012  Coffee afterwards

Mayday Madrigals in Cuddington

On Bank Holiday Monday the rain held off sufficiently for the Wichert Chorale to appear at the top of the church tower and sing their traditional Mayday madrigals.  A large crowd gathered in the churchyard to enjoy the spectacle.

Then everyone went inside the church to hear the combined Wichert Chorale and German Golgotha Kantore choir sing more madrigals, with the assembled audience joining in where appropriate.

This was followed by coffee and refreshments in the church.

The occasion is recorded in the photographs opposite. 
22/04/2012

Diamond Jubilee Celebration page updated

The Diamond Jubilee Celebration page has been updated and now contains full details, locations and times of the events planned for the Jubilee bank holiday weekend.
21/04/2012

Councillors Jennifer Schram de Jong and Jim Hayward to represent Cuddington at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

The Parish Council are delighted to announce that Cuddington, just one of 15 Parishes to be selected from the County of Buckinghamshire, is to join the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations at a very special 3 County Event.

Councillor Jennifer Schram de Jong and Vice Chairman, Councillor Jim Hayward will be representing the Parish at the celebrations near Henley on Thames on 25th June.  Jennifer, initator of the forthcoming four day village Jubilee celebrations, and Jim Hayward, current Vice Chairman and Councillor of Cuddington Parish Council for over 40 years, are “absolutely thrilled” to be representing the village of Cuddington.

We wish them both a truly wonderful day.
10/04/2012

Village Fête 2012

Saturday 14th July

The 2012 Fête Committee are pleased to announce that the Fête will go ahead.  The annual event is important for fundraising for all the facilities, clubs and venues that the village has to offer to the local community.  It is also a great day out and many visitors come from miles around to visit family and friends just for the event.  The Show must go on!

We do understand that people are unable to commit to being on the Committee but hope that you will come forward and pledge your time and skills to help us make the event a success!

The 2012 theme is to capture the Golden Jubilee.  We look forward to seeing Crowns of all shapes and sizes being worn on July 14th.

If you can help in any way, please get in touch with any of us. Your Committee Members are:

Ian Cutler 295845; Karen Clayton 290404; Tony Digby 291310; Yvette Digby (Treasurer) 291310; Zoe Gibson 291349; Brenda Williams 290633.

WANTED

  • Baskets of all shapes and sizes to be filled for the Basket Tombola
  • Unwanted Christmas presents
  • Unwanted bottles and tins left over from Christmas

Please contact: Tony or Yvette Digby, The Malt House, Tel: 291310

03/04/2012

New Garden Waste Collection Service

Why make the trip to the tip?

Aylesbury Vale District Council is introducing a new garden waste collection service.  Residents in the Parish of Shabbington, Ickford, Long Crendon, Chearsley, Cuddington and Worminghall will be given the opportunity to sign up to the service before it’s made available to the rest of the Vale later in the year.

For an annual subscription of £36 you’ll receive a 240-litre brown bin, which we will collect fortnightly from February to November.

You can join the garden waste collection service at any time, but sign up before 22 May 2012 to ensure you are included on the first collection date at the end of June 2012. 

The council is withdrawing its garden waste bag collection service in September 2012, so sign up for a brown bin if you’d like the council to take away your garden waste .

If you have any queries, please contact Aylesbury Vale District Council on 01296 585510, or email gardenwaste@aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk, or visit our website www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/gardenwaste

Download the Application Form (1.09 Mb)
31/03/2012

The Ruby Small Sunrise Walk

Saturday 23rd June

From: Cuddington Lower Green at 4.00 am

To: The Observatory, Upper Winchendon

Put on your walking shoes and join the traditional Cuddington midsummer sunrise walk!

Light refreshments at the top.  Lifts available either up or down.  Any queries to Angela Wenham, telephone 291932.
15/03/2012

Vote for Funding for Local Projects

Villages within the Haddenham and Long Crendon Local Area Forum (LAF) which includes Cuddington are being offered the opportunity to vote for local projects which would then receive funding. Projects that receive the most votes will be given money from the LAF fund. In the summer voting boxes will be put in local pubs, shops, libraries etc. Suggested project ideas are:

  • support for carers and for older people to continue to live in their own homes
  • traffic calming schemes
  • activities and facilities for teenagers
  • encouraging cycling
  • promoting more sustainable life styles, such as car share; more recycling; tree planting 
  • encouraging more use of local businesses and shops and their development as community hubs.

Anyone who has a project which could be included on the list for voting should contact Mark Grindall of Bucks County Council on 01296 387542. Voting will be a chance for villagers to influence what happens locally. Look out for voting boxes in due course.
30/03/2012

Practice Training Sessions

Local practice training sessions for 2012 are listed on the Healthcare Page in the Community & Sustainability area
02/09/2011

Bulletin Board Page

On the Bulletin Board page you can discuss any matters of interest to the village, advertise items for sale, or arrange a car share.  There are four message Categories (although the administrators can add new ones very easily if there is sufficient demand):

  • Discussion Forum
  • For Sale
  • Lift Offered / Required
  • Wanted

Please note that you need to sign in on the Your Cuddington page before you can post a new message, or reply to an existing one.
14/01/2011

Sign up for Website Membership!

To enrol as a member of Cuddington's new website takes just a couple of minutes, is completely free of charge, and brings you all these benefits:

  • Highlight all your own particular areas of interest in the village, and then be notified by email the moment there’s a new article or calendar event of interest to you
  • Create your own personal calendar, filtered to show only those events that interest you
  • Promote your local business in our Business Directory pages
  • Add your own entries to the village calendar, to let everyone know about forthcoming events in which you're involved

Don’t worry – you won’t be inundated with junk mail.  Your personal details are held securely and will not be passed to a third party.  You will only receive an email when the editor of one of your favourite pages posts a new article or calendar event, or has something important to communicate.  And you can change your preferences as often as you like.

Make our website work for you – visit the Your Cuddington page and sign up as a member now!