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Dear Readers Welcome to the
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August issue of In and Around Iver It was great to be back in business last month and successfully make our way through your doors again. It certainly wasn’t without its challenges, but like most businesses, we’ve had to learn to adapt and make things work. It’s great to see just how resilient and creative many people have been when it comes to finding ways to keep running and offer their services. Indeed, I think for a lot of us, the lockdown period allowed time for planning and improving things, as for once we weren’t caught up in the day to day general operations. Time is a valuable asset and whilst effectively being forced to stop working for three months was far from ideal, I personally am grateful for the once in a lifetime break that it provided and a pared down, simpler way of living for a while. Retirement has become just that little bit more enticing. On the downside, it looks like no Summer holidays abroad for us this year, so I’ll just have to spend more time enjoying my garden and as many barbeques as possible. Here’s wishing you all a safe and happy August! Until next month
.Angela & Sammy
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Greyfriars Bobby Pg 32
Citizens Advise Bureau The latest looks for your windows
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Coffee Break Puzzles
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Beauty: Bare face benefits
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Iver Heath Residents Association
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Karen Munro: Careers
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The Ivers Parish Council Updates
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Iver Village Junior School Update
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The Tale of Greyfriars Bobby
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A Summer Holiday on Four Wheels
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Gardening: Watery Delight
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Motoring: The best vans for camper conversion 40 Health: Water Worries
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Richings Park Residents Association
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Puzzle Solutions
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SEPT COPY DEADLINE 17TH AUG We are grateful for the support of local businesses whose adverts appear in this publication and whilst every care is taken to ensure accuracy, the publishers cannot accept responsibility for any errors, omissions, claims made by advertisers or endorse companies, products or services. This publication, its contents and advert designs are © of In and Around Publishing. Any copying or reproduction in part or fully, is strictly forbidden without our prior consent.
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Ashford Kitchens & Interiors Are Back Doing What They Love Most ‘The Flowers Are Weathering The Storm’ Like other local independent businesses, owner Stephen Flower and his gallant team had to adapt quickly to cope with the very unusual circumstances that the Covid-19 Pandemic has brought.
Pantries and dresser units are becoming increasingly popular, they can be configured in many ways to suit your storage requirements and offer a wonderfully more organised and accessible space. Aside from the practicalities of having a larder cupboard, they can also stand out as a Making a considered and heavy-hearted decision to beautiful design feature in your kitchen. With the rise in temporarily close both Farnham Common and Ashford people working from home, they are also seeing an increase showrooms prior to official lockdown, they felt this was in Home Office Enquiries, offering a complete design supply absolutely necessary to protect the team, customers and and installation service. With a fantastic choice of styles local community. Proud of the fact that all installations were and the ability to tailor the space to your personal completed to a point where no customer was left without a requirements. Fitted Bedroom enquires are also plentiful working kitchen. ‘perhaps we are all valuing our home a personal space more than ever before’ Quickly modifying their website to easily direct people to information that would guide them to measure their own The message from this family business is clear and positive space or send in building plans so that they could start the through these stressful and turbulent times - ‘We are open design process. They continued to service existing and new and would love to welcome you back into our showrooms’ enquiries remotely. says Richard Flower, founder of the business which first opened its doors in 1984. ‘Our fantastic team set themselves up working from home around family life and we were able to provide remote design consultations. We are now fitting installations of customers that first got in touch during the period that the showroom was closed!’ MD Stephen Flower proudly explains. ‘Our trusted and long-standing suppliers have been incredible, resuming production and distribution quickly and responsibly. It is testament to the relationships we have built together that we have been able to get through this unpredictable time and resume installations to our usual high standards.’
Halfway through an exciting new refit in both the Ashford and Farnham Common showrooms as they closed, they are now pleased to say they are now completed and throughout both showrooms there are some beautiful new displays. Guy Fox, Director and brother-in-law to Stephen, describes the new additions ‘Autograph (one of the new displays pictured) is a new door style; handless and smooth, pairing traditional and super modern, it is available in 21 different painted finishes. Lustre Metallic is another new door style we now have on display; it has a beautiful glossy finish and is a perfect choice if you want to make a statement in your kitchen!’
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Grace Flower, wife to Stephen ‘We are here when you are ready. We have put procedures in place to keep everyone safe and comfortable. We love what we do and this period has highlighted just how much we enjoy making a positive difference to the homes and lives of our customers’ We are so glad to be back in the showrooms and we look forward to welcoming you.’ Ashford Kitchens & Interiors offer a local, friendly, knowledgeable kitchen, bedroom and home office design service. Whether you are after some inspiration for a new home project or would like advice on the latest appliance they are ready to help! For more information please go to their website www.ashfordinteriors.co.uk If you would like to enquire about a free design consultation or to visit a showroom please call Farnham Common - 01753 642362 Ashford Showroom - 01784 245964
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Dear Residents, We are happy to welcome the Citizens Advice Bureau back to The Ivers Community Hub 45B High Street, Iver, Bucks SL0 9ND on the third Thursday of each month from 10am to 12 noon by appointment only. We have given careful thought to the added safety measures needed to provide a safe environment to reopen services at the Hub. To book an appointment slot please telephone: 01753 655331 between 9am and 2pm Monday to Friday. As our community begins to emerge from the coronavirus crisis, calls to the C19 dedicated Hotline we set up in March as a response to the crisis have declined significantly and for some time requests for support have been reduced to very low levels. We have therefore taken the decision to close the Hotline number down effective from July 31st .This date coincided with changes in Government guidance which includes pausing of shielding for all in the community from August 1st. If you need ongoing help or assistance, we have listed support groups and helplines below: Ivers Good Neighbours Scheme If you need help with transport to medical appointments, please contact The Ivers Good Neighbours Scheme. To register with the Good Neighbours Scheme or to volunteer as a driver please call 01753 358101 or email gns@theivers.org.uk Prescription Pick Up Services Please contact your GP and ask to join the GP online service Use the Boots online repeat prescription service https://www.boots.com/online-prescriptions Use Lloyds Pharmacy prescription service Echo https://www.echo.co.uk/help Foodbanks: How to get help from a food bank 1. Get in touch with your nearest food bank. Either by telephone or email and explain your situation. ... 2. Arrange a conversation with the referral agency suggested by the food bank. ... Take the voucher to your nearest food bank centre. Slough 01753 550303 Hillingdon 01895 252224 Uxbridge 01895 233466 If You Are Worried About Money: Citizens advice national Helpline You can contact an adviser through their free Help to Claim phone service. Advisers are available 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday: Bucks Adviceline call 0344 245 1289 National Adviceline: 0800 144 8 444 textphone: 18001 0800 144 8 444 Universal Credit Help To Claim Adviceline call 0800 144 8 444 National debt line 0808 808 4000 Monday to Friday 9am – 8pm. https://www.nationaldebtline.org/ If you are worried about Mental Health Adults Mental Health Services: Healthy Minds Buckinghamshire Telephone: 01865 901600 https://www.bucksmind.org.uk/ Safe Haven 01494 463364 Email us at: info@bucksmind.org.uk Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Buckinghamshire 01865 901 951 Young Minds - if you are a parent 0808 802 5544 If you need urgent help text YM to 85258 28
Other helplines, information and advice include: Samaritans – Freephone 116 123 – open 24 hours Saneline – 0300 304 7000 – 4.30 pm to 10.30 pm daily Rethink – 0845 456 0455 – 10 am to 2 pm Monday to Friday FRANK – 0800 77 6600 – open 24 hours No Panic – 0844 967 4848 – 10 am to 10 pm If you need help with transport to medical appointments, please contact The Ivers Good Neighbours Scheme. To register with the Good Neighbours Scheme or to volunteer as a driver please call 01753v 358101 or email gns@theivers.org.uk Domestic Abuse If you are in immediate danger please call police on 999. Non-emergency call 101. National Centre for Domestic Violence 0800 970 2070. For help text "NCDV" to 60777 Refuge Freephone 0808 2000 247 Parish Council Meetings – details of how to join meetings via zoom are found on our website: www.iverparishcouncil.gov.uk Tuesday
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The Multi Faith, Meditation & Yoga Centre Sachkhand Nanak Dham Spiritual Hub @ 25 North Park, Richings Park, Iver. We are pleased to announce to local residents the opening of our community initiative Food Bank. We will be providing a variety of fruits, vegetables groceries and vegetarian based tinned foods. We have found that there are many residents in Iver who know someone who may be vulnerable or in need of food supplies. We are here to Humbly Serve. This free service Food Bank will be open weekly every Wednesday 9am-11am. Please contact me further by if you have any queries or need to organise a collection. Harry Bhogal Tel: 07932 766 848 39
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richingspark.com Contact : chairman@richingspark.com Tel: 654010 Sally Munn Heathrow
The appeal hearing on the National Air Policy Statement has been scheduled for October. We have heard from Heathrow that the Heathrow Rangers team will be redeployed to work again on the shops area and the residents’ garden as before.
Bathurst Walk East/ Bathurst Close We need a volunteer to take on the role of road warden. Please contact us to discuss what is involved.
Link Park and Thorney Sidings The owners of this site have made an informal proposal to Bucks Council and Hillingdon to convert the entire site into a data centre thus displacing the current users. It is by no means certain that that this is the real intention judging by the answers that were given to various questions that were put to them. They shortly intend to leaflet all adjoining properties with a description of their proposal to obtain community support prior to making a formal application.
Neighborhood Plan RPRA have recently been co-opted to participate in the creation of the Iver Parish Neighborhood plan. When complete this will be subjected to a referendum of everyone in the Parish. If adopted, then it will give the planning authority a framework to judge future planning applications upon.
Annual General Meeting All depends upon the government rulings on when gatherings like this are safe to take place.
Subscriptions As well as accepting cash or cheques as before, our website also allows for on-line subscription payments. Our current financial year started on April 1st, 2020.
Residents Garden and Shopping Precinct If you would like to support the upkeep of the Residents Garden and the planter tubs by the shops, you can buy a lottery ticket from the South Bucks and Chilterns Lottery. This means that if you buy a lottery ticket from their website and nominate us as your chosen cause then we receive 50p per ticket which we are putting towards the cost of upkeep for the garden. Tickets can only be purchased on-line at www.chilternsouthbuckslottery.co.uk
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