WheelPower, the national charity for Wheelchair Sport, has announced the 50th anniversary celebrations for the world-renowned Stoke Mandeville Stadium in Aylesbury which will take place at the athletics arena on Friday 2 August from 2pm-6pm. WheelPower is inviting volunteers past and present to attend a Garden Party at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, which is recognised as the […]
Wimbledon may have come to a close for this year, but for Emma Regus it’s just begun after winning a luxury picnic hamper. The prize was courtesy of Breakspear Park following Emma’s entry into its tennis competition. Participants in the competition were offered a selection of themed props and asked to create a funny shot […]
Dacorum Borough Council is in the process of producing a new draft Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document (Parking Standards SPD) and is inviting feedback upon it over a six week period. The Parking Standards SPD is a document that sets out the council’s standards to govern parking requirements for new developments within the whole of […]
A student at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts who has just taken his A Levels has been given £100,000 by the West End producer of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the musical which opened at the London Palladium last weekend. Ben Culleton, 18, who has been at Tring Park School for […]
Lockers Park School’s Year 7 pupils visited The Box Moor Trust, gathering fascinating insights about the local area. Helping bring science to life is a vital component of Lockers Park’s creative curriculum. Year 7 Lockers Park pupils visited The Box Moor Trust to study biodiversity in the area as part of their Science Fieldwork programme. […]
Dacorum Borough Council has awarded £10,000 in grant funding to the borough’s businesses that dared to step into Dacorum’s Den. Ten companies pitched to a panel of judges which included the RT Hon Sir Mike Penning MP. Six were awarded grants of between £1,500 and £2,000 to help them develop a business idea. These were: […]
Dacorum Borough Council has announced its Business Heroes 2019. The awards recognise the businesses in the borough that really make a difference and have a positive impact on the lives of others – shaping the future of economic growth in Dacorum. The six winners are: Retail hero – Number Twenty A Berkhamsted charity gift shop […]
When summer strikes there nothing better than diving into a pool of cool water, not only that – when it comes to a workout, it beats a sweaty gym hands down. And the good news is, whether you are old or young, fit or not so fit, fast or slow, if you can swim, there’s […]
With the summer holidays looming, where can you take children that’s fun, educational and free? Why not visit Bletchley Park: a unique museum that brings World War Two codebreaking to life, and so much more. Free for the under-12s, the former top-secret home of Britain’s Codebreakers, now a vibrant museum, has a packed calendar of […]
Chris Bakalis (aged 17) from Hertfordshire is Youth Mayor of the Borough of Broxbourne and will be questioning witnesses alongside other members of the Youth Select Committee on knife crime. Just like the UK Parliament Select Committees, the Youth Select Committee will produce a report based on its findings, which will be sent to the […]
The 26th Aylesbury Beer Festival will build on the huge success of last year’s event which raised over £10,000 for Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity the first time. The event will be held at the Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 November. ‘Last year we added the Local Gin Showcase […]
Hemel Hempstead MP, Sir Mike Penning, joined Hobgoblins Theatre Company at Galley Hill Primary School where Dan Foley, one of their actors, was undertaking a challenge to run 5 marathons and perform 5 shows in 5 days in aid of VSO. Dan said: ‘The aim of the challenge was to run 5 marathons from my […]