Community Treet Plant – Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th January 2020, between 10:00-12:00 hrs.

To coincide with the Woodland Trust tree planting mission as part of Big Climate Fightback, we are launching our community tree-planting campaign to encourage 600 residents all ages and walks of life to plant one tree – a total of 1km – beside Willow Wood. This will complete our legacy project which has seen 5,000 trees planted in Willow Wood in the last seven years.

‘The Big Climate Fightback’ is the largest mass tree planting campaign encouraging people to pick up a spade to take action against climate change. The Woodland Trust aims to get one million people to pledge to plant a tree. Tree planting is a simple way to reduce the impact of carbon emissions and positively contribute to our environment.

All are welcome to join us for one last hurrah and to do your bit to help the environment. All we ask is that you bring a fork with you!

Access to Willow Wood, very much a hidden gem in Amersham, is via Stanley Hill Cemetery or by accessing the public footpath beside the cemetery entrance gate, just past the college in Stanley Hill.

HS2 Ltd are holding a community drop in on Thursday 21st November and Thursday 19th December 2019 between 3pm and 7pm, at The Royal British Legion Hall, 58 Whielden Street, Amersham, HP7 0HU. More details below.

The Town Mayor, Councillor Mark Flys, would like to invite you to the Amersham Town Council Community Carol Concert taking place at St. Michael & All Angels Church (Sycamore Road, Amersham, HP6 6DR), on Tuesday 3rd December 2019. The concert commences at 6.30pm, and seats are limited and on a first come first serve basis.

All guests are welcome to stay for seasonal refreshments at the end of the service.

The 2019 autumn edition of the Town Council Newsletter has now been released! It can be viewed online here, or downloaded via the link below.

The new Buckinghamshire Council will be launched from 1 April 2020 and will replace the existing County Council and four District Councils in Bucks.  The new Council’s responsibilities will include waste collections, roads, education, social care and planning.  The new Buckinghamshire Council wants to know your views on what it should focus on in its first year.  The survey is available online at https://shadow.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/consultations/budget2020/

To create awareness of Rotary’s contribution towards a polio-free world, the Town Council joined forces with Rotary in Amersham and Stony Dean School to plant 8,000 purple crocus corms on the verge beside the roundabout at the Boot & Slipper.

Purple flowering crocus were chosen by Rotary to signify the purple dye painted on children’s pinkie fingers when immunised with the polio vaccine.
Read more about Rotary’s involvement in the fight to end polio.
www.endpolio.org

Following the Britain in Bloom award for working with young people and children we were delighted to welcome the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to Amersham earlier this week.

The RHS team filmed footage for promotional video which will be used nationally to encourage more towns to engage with their younger residents.
Three of the ‘Design a Flowerbed Competition Winners’ were filmed re-planting two of the signature flowerbeds at the Boot and Slipper roundabout, while pupils from St Mary’s CofE Primary School were then filmed planting bluebell bulbs at Pondwicks Community Orchard and Nature Area.

Amersham in Bloom win gold at the Bloom Regional Awards Ceremony 2019!

After an exciting afternoon at the Thames and Chilterns in Bloom regional awards ceremony, it is with great pleasure to announce that Amersham received 🥇GOLD 🥇 while scooping Best Town, Gold award for the Memorial Gardens, Best Park in Bucks, Berks and Oxfordshire, a national distinction for the Memorial Gardens AND an outstanding achievement award for the Amersham in Bloom team! A HUGE thank you to everyone who has contributed to our efforts, enabling us to receive the joint highest score EVER for the region. Congratulations to all involved!

This resolution is from the minutes of Full Council on Monday 8th July 2019.

Council Consultation

The Amersham Bowls Club Finals took place on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September 2019, with the Deputy Mayor of Amersham, Councillor Julie Cook in attendance to present the awards.

Deputy Mayor of Amersham, Councillor Julie Cook (centre) joined by members of the Bowls Club, along with their awards.