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BUCKDEN SURGERY PATIENTS’ ASSOCIA-
TION
As a patient registered with Buckden Surgery, you
are a member of the Buckden Surgery Patients’
Association (BSPA) which exists to support the sur-
gery in its services to you. The BSPA committee
meets four times in the year and consists of a
Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, 200 club organis-
er, Car Scheme co-ordinator and village represent-
atives from Buckden, Little Paxton, Diddington and
Southoe, Grafham and Ellington, Perry.
At the Annual General Meeting later this year, there
will be vacancies for
Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer
Car scheme co-ordinator
since all the present office holders will have served
their permitted terms of office.
If you would be interested in joining the committee
and would like more information as to what this en-
tails, please contact
Richard West (Chairman) tel 01480 811467
Lorraine Toogood (Secretary) tel 01480
811352
John Sharman (Treasurer) tel 01480 810705
Audrey Gill (Car Scheme Co-ordinator)
01480 8127757
WEA BUCKDEN
The Self Portrait
A Rembrandt self-portrait, Virginia Woolf’s diary, Sir
John Soane’s house and Wordworth’s Prelude are
varieties of the maker’s portrait. We will study the
many faces of the self-portrait and what they mean to
us.
Tutor: Fiona Lucroft
Tuesdays: 29 September to 8 December 2015
Half-Term 27th October
10 sessions of 90 minutes, 10.00 to 11.45 with coffee
FEE £48
Venue: The Claret Centre, Buckden Towers
Contacts: Bridget Hale 216391
Bill Templeton 456788
Royal British Legion
Members already receive the season-
al LEGION magazine. For local news
and information we rely on newslet-
ters etc. Unfortunately receipt of these
items rarely usefully coincides with
the Roundabout`s production dates. If
you would like to know about local
events etc. please send your e-mail address to
rbl.buckden@yahoo.co.uk
Veronica Hunstone
Secretary, RBL Buckden Branch
The late Margaret Moorhouse
Margaret was an excellent example of the behind-
the-scenes volunteers who make a village tick. The
Roundabout is now printed by an outside contractor
but for most of its life to date has been produced by
volunteers on a succession of copiers provided by
the founders of the magazine, Buckden Churches
Together.
For the nine years however between the last of the
copiers and the advent of the contractor the maga-
zine was printed on an advanced machine provided
by the Parish Council and operated by Margaret
assisted by her husband David who still acts as
proof reader. Margaret was well qualified for the
job as she had worked in the Reprographics De-
partment at RAF Brampton producing all manner of
documents.
Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Appeal.
Oh dear, it the hottest day of the year and I am already
preparing for the shoebox appeal but I wanted every-
one to know that Buckden Methodist Church will be
taking part in the above appeal and shoe boxes will be
collected in November.
Operation Christmas Child is a worthwhile charity mak-
ing a difference at Christmas, by giving shoe boxes
containing small gifts to children in poor countries.
Leaflets will be available in September and also pat-
terns for knitting puppets.
If you would like more information then please con-
tact Carol Swepstone 810053 Thank you.
THANK YOU
On Sunday 21st June the Rotary Club of Kimbolton Castle organised a Hog Roast in the gardens of the Old Vic-
arage, Great Staughton. The event was to raise much needed funds for the West Hunts Friendship Club (a social
group for some of the areas senior citizens) and for the Great Staughton Youth Club. About 200 people attended
and enjoyed music by the Frockettes (a harmony group), a Punch and Judy show, bar provided by the Great
Staughton Red Brewery, a vast cake stall and, of course, the hog roast. The event was blessed by fine weather
and raised approaching £1,800 to be shared by the two charities. Many thanks to Richard and Elizabeth Ed-
munds who opened their gardens to the village, to all those who attended and the helpers who made the event
such a success