Local at home care company, Home Instead Senior Care Hemel Hempstead and Chilterns, is delighted with the success of its annual Christmas gift giving scheme, having received over 206 generously donated gifts for the elderly living in the local area. Sainsbury’s in Apsley and Tesco in Tring and Jarman Park kindly hosted gift collection points, […]
Lockers Park Preparatory School’s highly-regarded Chapel Choir was honoured to be invited to perform at a fundraising carol concert for blood charity Anthony Nolan at St Pancras Church, London in December. The prestigious event saw the choir performing alongside award-winning actress Olivia Colman CBE and Game of Thrones star Nathalie Emmanuel, who both gave Christmas […]
On behalf of the Steering Group, Chiltern Countryside Group: We certainly live in challenging times but let us go forward in hope that our newly elected Government will make wise and thoughtful decisions. This is a golden opportunity for us to make a difference and try to positively influence those in positions of responsibility. Whilst […]
These beautiful cats are currently with Cats Protection Hemel Hempstead & Berkhamsted Branch – can you offer one of them a forever home? Chloe This lovely girl is Chloe; she is a mature lady of 14 years. She is now looking for her forever home and to start 2020 completely different to 2019. She is […]
In October 2019, Dacorum Borough Council with the Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Hertfordshire County Council and St Albans Districts Council commissioned a sustainable travel consultancy, Go Travel Solutions, to update the Maylands Area Wide Travel Plan and deliver some pilot projects. There is significant growth planned over the coming decades in the Maylands area, with […]
The fantastic Health Walk volunteers of Hertfordshire County Council have put together a great range of health walks in the new January to April 2020 programme. To find walks within Dacorum visit the website here, where you’ll also have chance to register. Why not get 2020 off to a fun and healthy start by joining […]
On Sunday 5 January, thousands of residents throughout Dacorum recycled their Christmas trees for free at chipping points throughout the Borough. The annual recycling day, which has been running in Dacorum for 24 years, allowed families to give their festive friends the chop at chipping points which were set up in Hemel, Berkhamsted and Tring. […]
Is your New Year’s resolution to focus more on your family? Have you recently experienced a significant life change such as moving house, getting married, retiring or welcoming a new addition to the family? One way of making sure your loved ones are taken care of in future is to have an up to date […]
This week, ‘Save the High Street’ are offering local independent businesses a free Health-Check, designed to help you better understand and achieve your potential on the high street this year. Over the past 3 years, ‘Save the High Street’ has been studying the key strategies that 100s of successful high street businesses across our community […]
As the fun of the festive season has been and gone and sunny smiles are at an all-time low, it’s official, January really is no laughing matter. Research commissioned by Thai restaurant group, Giggling Squid, has revealed: Almost 1 in 3 Brits (29%) say they’re least likely to smile in January Almost half (48%) of […]
The Chiltern Society is on a mission to get the public doing their bit to improve their local environment. By encouraging the people to make better connections between their habits and the impact that these actions have on the environment, they hope to help foster positive change and support people in making easy and innovative changes […]
You may remember that Nick Laing from Northchurch, Berkhamsted challenged himself to run 500 miles in aid of Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) – a small charity which runs opticians clinics for homeless and vulnerable people. Back in April, Nick signed up to a sponsored challenge through VCHP’s Sponsored Events & Challenges programme, challenging […]