About 80 schoolchildren from St Mary’s Northchurch, St Thomas More and Westfield set the highest commercial standards in the Young Enterprise Fiver Challenge competition this summer. Given £5 a head to create a money-spinner in just a month, budding entrepreneurs from Years 5 and 6 succeeded spectacularly. As sole traders or in groups of up […]
Tring artist Sheila de Rosa’s participation in Bucks Open Studios this year (11-26 June) is a profoundly personal view of the conflict in Syria. Her exhibition Spent, displayed in the corridors of the Akeman Business Park in Tring, uses spent matches to represent the nearly 2,000 days since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in […]
The Royal British Legion is urgently looking for an organiser in Berkhamsted to coordinate this year’s Poppy Appeal. Keith Bayliss has stepped down after overseeing a campaign last year in which the town raised over £25,000 for the Appeal. Although November is still six months away, Poppy Appeal organisers are urgently looking for help with […]
Sunday 15 May is the date of this year’s Ashridge Spring Plant Fair. It starts at 11am, but the thousands of plants donated by nurseries and gardens attract what seem like thousands of visitors, so you may be well advised to get there early. Pass the time by climbing the monument, perhaps… The following weekend, […]
The Queen will visit Berkhamsted on Friday 6 May. According to the Buckingham Palace website the Queen will visit Berkhamsted School ‘on the occasion of the 475th anniversary of its foundation’. This will be the first ever visit by a reigning monarch to Berkhamsted School, which has enjoyed the patronage of kings and queens as […]
Berkhamsted Audio Trail No 3 has just gone live on the Berkhamsted Town Council website. Go to the website and scroll down. This third Trail will please lovers of Graham Greene especially. Subtitled Graham Greene’s Common (a description to delight lovers of ambiguous apostrophes), it takes walkers out of town and back via Kitchener’s Field, […]
Berkhamsted Castle will be the focus of a great weekend this July. On Saturday 9 July, the Illyria theatre company presents an open-air Ruddigore in the castle grounds. On the following day, Sunday 10 July, there’s a day of cycle racing as Berkhamsted Cycling Club (BCC) brings the Tour of Herts and the Berkhamsted Castle […]
Berkhamsted author Sue Hampton, an Ambassador for Alopecia UK, took her awareness campaign to national television on Thursday 17 March and her team thrashed the formidable Eggheads. Sue’s team, playing as The Clearer Heads, won £29,000 for Alopecia UK by beating the Eggheads 3-2 in the final, having first eliminated three of their opponents in […]
Plans to restore Rectory Lane Cemetery in Berkhamsted were boosted today (14 January) as the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund backed the project. The Friends of St Peter’s Berkhamsted aim to restore the town’s burial ground and to enhance it as a community asset. Development funding of £73,600 will help them in […]
Luke Mills first became aware of the Anthony Nolan charity when he was 18, six years ago. ‘I stumbled across it whilst researching blood disorders for an A-level biology project,’ he said. Anthony Nolan helps match donors with the 2,000 people in the UK every year who need a stem cell transplant to fight blood […]
Hemel Hempstead’s business community welcomed Greg Clark (above), Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government, to the launch of its Hemel Hempstead Business Ambassadors scheme this morning. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Buncefield fire, the HHBA launch aims to build on Hemel’s recovery from the devastating blaze and promote the town as […]
Two of the regular frustrations of life in Berkhamsted collided on Thursday night and almost brought a public meeting to a standstill. One is Dacorum Borough Council’s treatment of Berkhamsted electors. If not cavalier disregard, then at least a certain carelessness characterises the borough’s dealings with the town. And DBC has a hand in the […]