Penny Post Hungerford

PP Hungerford – March 2021

Welcome to March's Penny Post Hungerford with the latest from the Town Council, Town & Manor and local businesses plus property, jobs, news, features and more...

News from Hungerford Town Council

The latest from HTC including reports from the Police and the Mayor, the Council's strategy document, the NDP, the possible need for volunteers, co-options and local infection rates...read more

News from the Town & Manor of Hungerford

Safety and precautions at the weekly Wednesday market, The Green Recovery's sparkling streams initiative, preparing for the cows and a message for dog walkers during the nesting season...read more

Hungerford High Street

Latest news from: Fare Wise Travel, M&P Hardware, Hungerford Bookshop, Luna Boutiques, The Emporium, Belle Chic Health & Beauty, The Naked Grape, Coin & Stamp Centre, The Clockmaker...read more

Quick Covid Lateral Flow Test

About 30% of people who have Covid are asymptomatic and could be spreading it unwittingly. A lateral flow test site has been set up at Hungerford Ruby Club offering quick-result tests for eligible groups...read more

Jack Williams, 1928-2021

Our condolences to the family and friends of Jack Williams who died recently. We look at his immense roll-call of achievements and include a tribute from the town's current Mayor, Helen Simpson...read more

More News

• Kickstart Apprentice update from Karen Ferris, Hungerford Legal & Financial Centre.
• Volunteers may be needed for Covid surge-testing work in the area.
• Calling local drivers – pleeeease remember Hungerford's Wednesday market.
• The Rose of Hungerford – volunteer crew is working hard to welcome passengers.
• Hungerford Environmental Action Team – river conservation & hope from Bill Gates.
• Date for the diary: Disco Dan Dance for Corona Heroes Sat 3 July.
• Smarten Up Hungerford update – help needed with May planting and litter picking.
• St Lawrence's Church – Sunday worship and Foodbank appeal during Lent.
• Herongate Club is excited to be re-opening on 12 April.
• More news and views from Hungerford and further afield.

Win a Hungerford Hamper in our special prize quiz! Enter here by 15 March
The lucky winner will receive a hamper of Hungerford goodies and vouchers worth over £250 including: £10 voucher from Hungerford Bookshop • £10 voucher from The Naked Grape • Pamper Gift Set from Belle Chic Health & Beauty • trip for two on The Rose of Hungerford donated by Fare Wise Travel • Apple Juice from The Town and Manor • bottle of wine from The Emporium • £10 voucher from Hungerford Arcade • £10 voucher from Hungerford Coin and Stamp Centre • Day Pass to Herongate Club • £10 voucher for Honesty Coffee Shop • £15 voucher from M&P Hardware • £10 voucher from The Clockmaker • £10 voucher fom Inklings • £20 voucher from Barrs Yard • DIY Pizza Kit for two from Phoenix Wood Fired Pizza • £10 voucher from Luna Boutiques • Martin & The Magpie plant donated by Hungerford Legal & Financial Centre.

Mother's Day, Sunday 14 March

There are lots of ways to treat your mum at home this year, from Sunday lunch delivery to spa vouchers and home-made simnel cake and bath bombs...read more

Shopping

• The latest news from Barr's Yard.
• The latest news from the Hungerford Antiques Arcade.
• March's Wine of the Month is a "creamy and super elegant' Chardonnay.
• March's Book of the Month is a "powerful and suspenseful" novel.

Appeals

• West Berkshire Injury Clinic has launched a pay-it-forward scheme so you can support someone who is struggling with pain or injury and can't afford treatment.
• Please support JOG PSA fundraising for the John O'Gaunt School Hall Lighting Project to make Hungerford community events even better.

Keep Busy & Smiling

• Book a fab online fitness class with Bernie at Love Lotte Fitness.
• Join Hungerford's Bookends Book Club to suggest and discuss favourite books.
• Join the Keep Hungerford Happy facebook group to share fun ideas.
• Lots more ideas here for coping with lockdown.
• Worried about drug or alcohol consumption during lockdown? Stewart Kennedy Counselling has recently moved to Hungerford and is very experienced in this field.

Listen/Watch Again

• Penny talks to Veronica Bailey from Fare Wise Travel about the prospects for foreign and domestic travel in the rest of 2021.

Features

• Tribute to the leek (and happy St David's Day for yesterday).
• Pat Murphy's racing column looks forward to the Cheltenham Festival.
• Is there a looming global shortage of prime numbers? Brian seems to think so...
• Guide to the March night sky from the Newbury Astronomical Association.
• Can the mind cause pain? – Andy from West Berks Injury Clinic looks at the evidence.
• Film Reivew: Sofia's Last Ambulance - by Adam Quinn
• A guide to delivery and take-away services in the area.

Spot the Difference: the answers

There are six differences between these two photos of Hungerford Town Band. Can you spot them and identify the instruments that have been changed?...have a go here

Property

• To rent: two-bed house in Hungerford. £895pcm. Contact Nina Clark Lettings.
• To rent: two-bed flat in Newbury. £950pcm. Contact Nina Clark Lettings.
• For sale: one-bed maisonette in Hungerford, GP £260,000. Contact Brearley & Rich.
• For sale: four-bed house in Hungerford, GP £435,000. Contact Brearley & Rich.
• A wide range of properties throughout the area. Contact Marc Allen.
• Office space to rent next to Herongate Club. Click here for details.

Jobs

• Click here for situations vacant in and around Hungerford which currently include: community care assistant, community navigators, co-responders, mechanics, service manager, heavy-recovery operator, on-call firefighters, creche volunteers, nurses, laundry assistants, housekeepers and carers.

See also volunteer positions

Hungerford Events

Wednesday Market 8am to 2pm with fruit, veg, flowers, bread, meat and more.
Free Hungerford Camera Club Meetings on Zoom, 8pm Thursdays.

Fri 5 Mar
World Day of Prayer Online Service

Wed 10 Mar
Hungerford Bookshop Book Club Evening with author Naomi Wood.

Fri 12 Mar
Cheltenham Preview Evening hosted by Ed James.

Sun 21 Mar
Nick Lumley Talk: My Life in Theatre in aid of St Lawrence's Church.

Tue 30 Mar
Hungerford Bookshop evening with Clare Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground.

Thought for the month: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
(Peter Ustinov)

Penny & Brian

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