N e w s l e t t e r s
Christmas Newsletter 2024
Dear Tracy Trust Members,
CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our Christmas Party on:
Friday 13th December from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30p.m.
There will be a touch of Christmas magic in the air as professional magician Roy Davenport will attend to entertain and surprise us with his digital dexterity. His floor show will be followed by a delicious Ann Tennant tea. No Tracy Trust Christmas Party would be complete without some singing, so come in good voice so that you can join in with well-known carols played for us by Trustee Tony Reading. Let’s hope that Father Christmas will drop in to see us too!
PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM ATTACHED TO YOUR NEWSLETTER TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE, YOUR DIETARY NEEDS AND, IF REQUIRED, YOUR REQUEST FOR A LIFT.
The Tracy Centre:
Over the Christmas period, the Monday and Wednesday morning coffee / bowls / dominoes sessions
will stop after WEDNESDAY 18TH December 2024 and will reopen on MONDAY 6th January 2025.
HEDGERLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUTING
Stratford and Worcester have been the destinations for the Hedgerley Historical Society’s day trips in 2023 and 2024.
The 2025 destination is Bristol and will take place on August 6th 2025.
John Lovelock writes: ‘Join us as we venture West to the Maritime City of Bristol.
Departing from Hedgerley shops at 8.30am with a stop at the Services along the way, we should arrive in Bristol
about 11am which will give approximately 6 hours to explore. Attractions include Brunel's ship,SS Great Britain,
the floating harbour with boat trips, the City Museum and Art Gallery. Return time will be approximately 19.30’
Tickets cost £27 but the cost will be £13.50 to the first ten Tracy Trust members to sign up.
Please contact John Lovelock by email: [email protected] or our Secretary, Helena, telephone: 64366,
if you are interested.
CHRISTMAS VOUCHER:
The Tracy Trust Christmas vouchers are attached to your newsletter which you will receive shortly or will have received
by now.
Please find £30 in the form of two vouchers They are redeemable at our village shop Premier by 31st January 2025.
They come with our good wishes for Christmas and 2025.
If for any reason you do not wish to use your voucher but would like to help others who are struggling,
please strike it through, write ‘NOT USED’ and then return TO OUR SECRETARY at ‘Hilltop’, Hedgerley Hill.
As many of you know, the beginning of 2024 brought an unexpected cancer diagnosis for me. Among my concerns was
the running of The Tracy Trust while I was having an operation and treatment. I need not have worried! Our wonderful committee comprising of Barbara, Barbi, Janet, Margaret, Maurice, Nicki, Paul, and Rita, together with
Trustees Jim and Tony, not to mention Secretary Helena and Treasurer Rainer moved up a gear and covered
magnificently. But I would like particular thanks to go to Vice Chairperson Gail, who took up the reins and steered
our special charity through 2024 with her usual cheerful efficiency, masterminding old events and new, and caring for all things to do with The Tracy Trust. Thank you all; I am so very grateful.
On behalf of all at the Tracy Trust, a very Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year to you.
Vanessa Pilgerstorfer
Chairperson of the Tracy Trust
STOP PRESS!
Have you heard about Buckinghamshire Council’s Domestic Resource Efficiency Service, funded by the UK Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund? A team of Energy Doctors can come to eligible households to do an energy assessment of the home and then install some instant energy efficiency and water saving measures. This can help keep your home warm and save money on your energy bills.
The Energy Doctors will be visiting Hedgerley Memorial Hall from 2pm-4pm on Friday 6th December 2024 and can:
- advise on ways that eligible households can reduce energy consumption and costs
- show the low-cost easy retrofit resource efficiency measures that can be installed in residents’ homes, such as smart plugs, draught proofing, LED bulbs and heated throws.
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Christmas Newsletter 2023 |
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Dear Tracy Trust Members
CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our Christmas Party on
Friday 15th December from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
There will, of course, be a delicious Ann Tennant tea served around a pantomime performance of Jack and The Beanstalk. No Tracy Trust Christmas Party would be complete without some singing, so Louise from our ‘Singing for Fun’ classes has offered to entertain us with some Christmas favourites. Come in good voice so that you can join in the fun! Let’s hope that Father Christmas will drop in to see us too!
PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM ATTACHED TO THIS LETTER TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE, YOUR DIETARY NEEDS AND, IF REQUIRED, YOUR REQUEST FOR A LIFT.
The Tracy Centre: Over the Christmas period, the Monday and Wednesday morning coffee / bowls / dominoes sessions will stop from MONDAY 18th December and will reopen on WEDNESDAY 3rd January 2024.
SCHEDULES for the Exercise and Singing Classes during the Spring Term can be found overleaf, as well as the Bus Timetable for the coming months.
HEDGERLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUTING
You may remember that we teamed up with the Hedgerley Historical Society to offer half price tickets to an outing they arranged in Summer 2023. Well, it’s happening again!
The 2024 destination is Worcester beside the River Severn where there is a wide range of things to see and do in the city including the Museum of Royal Worcester, Greyfriars House and Garden (NT), Worcester Cathedral and River walks. There is also The Firs, Elgars birthplace (NT) in Lower Broadheath. Fort Royal Park (for picnics) is located on the site of the Battle of Worcester and has some of the best views across the city.
The outing will take place on Wednesday August 7th 2024, starting in Hedgerley at 9 a.m. and returning around 6 p.m.
Tickets cost £27 but the cost will be £13.50 to the first ten Tracy Trust members to sign up.
Please contact John Lovelock by email: [email protected] or our Secretary, Helena, if you are interested.
CHRISTMAS VOUCHER: The Tracy Trust Christmas vouchers are attached to this letter.
Please find £20 in the form of two vouchers They are redeemable at our village shop Premier by 31st January 2024. They come with our good wishes for Christmas and 2024.
If for any reason you do not wish to use your voucher but would like to help others who are struggling, please strike it through, write ‘NOT USED’ and then return TO OUR SECRETARY at ‘Hilltop’, Hedgerley Hill.
All of us at The Tracy Trust wish you a very Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.
Tracy Trust Secretary: Helena Makowski: Telephone: 643663
The Tracy Trust warmly invites you to its annual
Christmas Tea Party
to be held on
Friday 15th December 2023
from 2 – 4.30 p.m.
in the
Scout Hut
..................................................................................................................................................................................................
If you would like to attend, please detach this invitation, fill in and return to PREMIER (our village shop)
by Friday 8th December.
Name(s): __________________________________________________________
I would like a lift to the party YES NO (please circle)
Special dietary requirements: _______________________________________
CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our Christmas Party on
Friday 15th December from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
There will, of course, be a delicious Ann Tennant tea served around a pantomime performance of Jack and The Beanstalk. No Tracy Trust Christmas Party would be complete without some singing, so Louise from our ‘Singing for Fun’ classes has offered to entertain us with some Christmas favourites. Come in good voice so that you can join in the fun! Let’s hope that Father Christmas will drop in to see us too!
PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM ATTACHED TO THIS LETTER TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE, YOUR DIETARY NEEDS AND, IF REQUIRED, YOUR REQUEST FOR A LIFT.
The Tracy Centre: Over the Christmas period, the Monday and Wednesday morning coffee / bowls / dominoes sessions will stop from MONDAY 18th December and will reopen on WEDNESDAY 3rd January 2024.
SCHEDULES for the Exercise and Singing Classes during the Spring Term can be found overleaf, as well as the Bus Timetable for the coming months.
HEDGERLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUTING
You may remember that we teamed up with the Hedgerley Historical Society to offer half price tickets to an outing they arranged in Summer 2023. Well, it’s happening again!
The 2024 destination is Worcester beside the River Severn where there is a wide range of things to see and do in the city including the Museum of Royal Worcester, Greyfriars House and Garden (NT), Worcester Cathedral and River walks. There is also The Firs, Elgars birthplace (NT) in Lower Broadheath. Fort Royal Park (for picnics) is located on the site of the Battle of Worcester and has some of the best views across the city.
The outing will take place on Wednesday August 7th 2024, starting in Hedgerley at 9 a.m. and returning around 6 p.m.
Tickets cost £27 but the cost will be £13.50 to the first ten Tracy Trust members to sign up.
Please contact John Lovelock by email: [email protected] or our Secretary, Helena, if you are interested.
CHRISTMAS VOUCHER: The Tracy Trust Christmas vouchers are attached to this letter.
Please find £20 in the form of two vouchers They are redeemable at our village shop Premier by 31st January 2024. They come with our good wishes for Christmas and 2024.
If for any reason you do not wish to use your voucher but would like to help others who are struggling, please strike it through, write ‘NOT USED’ and then return TO OUR SECRETARY at ‘Hilltop’, Hedgerley Hill.
All of us at The Tracy Trust wish you a very Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.
Tracy Trust Secretary: Helena Makowski: Telephone: 643663
The Tracy Trust warmly invites you to its annual
Christmas Tea Party
to be held on
Friday 15th December 2023
from 2 – 4.30 p.m.
in the
Scout Hut
..................................................................................................................................................................................................
If you would like to attend, please detach this invitation, fill in and return to PREMIER (our village shop)
by Friday 8th December.
Name(s): __________________________________________________________
I would like a lift to the party YES NO (please circle)
Special dietary requirements: _______________________________________
YOUR EASTER NEWSLETTER 2023
Dear Tracy Trust Members
We are delighted to invite you to a Coronation Lunch on Saturday 6th May 2023 starting at 10.30 am.
The venue is the Memorial Hall to enable us to live-stream the BBC coverage of the Coronation itself. Timings from Buckingham Palace have yet to be confirmed but we are assuming that the Coronation ceremony will be around 11a.m.
as it was for Queen Elizabeth.
Coffee / Tea will be served on arrival and then we shall all settle to watch this historical event together. Lunch will be served afterwards at approximately 1p.m.
Please fill in the invitation attached to this letter to indicate your attendance and give any special dietary requirements. Also indicate if you need a lift to and from the lunch.
HEDGERLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUTING:
As previously ‘advertised’ in our Christmas newsletter, HHS is going to Stratford-upon-Avon on August 9th 2023,
with a bus starting from Hedgerley at 9 a.m. and returning at 6 p.m.
Tickets are £25 but the cost will be £12.50 to the first ten of our members to sign up. Some of these tickets have
already been taken but there is still room for our members.
Please contact John Lovelock by email: [email protected] or our Secretary, Helena, if you are interested
in going on the outing.
Please find the spring/summer dates for our regular activities in the Events & Service and Transport sections,
greatly enjoyed by those who attend.
Why don’t you join us?
As a member of the Tracy Trust, it won’t cost you anything!
Contact any of the names at the bottom of this page if you’d like to find out more.
The Trustees and the Local Committee of the Tracy Trust wish you continued good health and send you their warm wishes for a very Happy Easter.
Gail Hurst (Trustee): 643590 Helena Makowski (Secretary): 643663
Vanessa Pilgerstorfer (Chair): 646883
website (www.thetracytrust.co.uk)
The Tracy Trust warmly invites you to
its Coronation Lunch
to be held on
Saturday 6th May 2023
from 10.30 to 2.30
in the
The Memorial Hall
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
If you would like to attend, please detach this invitation, fill in and return to the village Premier shop (formerly Spar) by Saturday 22nd April 2023.
Name: __________________________________________________________
I would like a lift YES
(Please circle YES if required and we will be in touch)
Special dietary requirements:
___________________________________________________________
Christmas Newsletter 2022
Dear Tracy Trust Members
CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY:
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our Christmas Party which we are able to hold again this year.
The date is Friday 16th December from 2 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Sue Gehnich will speak to us in her capacity as Welfare Rights Officer at AGE UK Bucks. There will be an opportunity to ask questions so please raise with her, either publicly or privately, anything you are interested in or worried about. This session will be followed by a delicious Ann Tennant tea.
No Tracy Trust Christmas Party would be complete without some singing, so Louise from our ‘Singing for Fun’ classes has offered to entertain us with some Christmas favourites. Come in good voice so that you can join in the fun! Let’s hope that Father Christmas will drop in to see us too!
PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM ATTACHED TO THE NEWSLETTER TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE,
YOUR DIETARY NEEDS AND, IF REQUIRED, YOUR REQUEST FOR A LIFT.
The Tracy Centre:
Over the Christmas period, the Monday and Wednesday morning coffee / bowls / dominoes sessions will stop
after Wednesday 21st December until WEDNESDAY 4th January 2023.
FILM EVENT:
The film and afternoon tea we held in the Memorial Hall proved to be a great success. The film was deemed eminently watchable and the tea and cakes in the interval were delicious. If you were there, please tell other members about it as another such afternoon will take place in February, date and film choice to be announced nearer the time.
SCHEDULES for the Exercise and Singing Classes during the Spring Term can be found under the relevant headings, as well as the Bus Timetable for the coming months.
HEDGERLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUTING:
You may remember that we teamed up with the Hedgerley Historical Society to offer half price tickets to an outing they arranged in Summer 2022. Well, it’s happening again, this time with a trip a little further afield. HHS is going to Stratford-upon-Avon on August 9th 2023, starting in Hedgerley at 9 a.m. and returning at 6 p.m. The journey each way is approximately 80 / 90 minutes. There will be a good six hours to enjoy at the destination. John Lovelock of HHS writes:
“Every visit to Stratford would not be complete without finding out more about the English poet and playwright that makes it famous. Shakespeare's Birthplace allows you to visit the house where the world’s most famous playwright was born and grew up to discover more about his early years. Other Shakespeare locations include Hall's Croft (home to William's daughter), Shakespeare's New Place (the last chapter in his life), Anne Hathaway's Cottage (Shakespeare's wife) and Mary Arden's Farm (the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother). There are regular public 45-minute boat trips on the River Avon, sightseeing bus trips and town and river walks. For shopping there are many high-quality independent shops plus plenty of places to eat and drink or you may wish to take a picnic and enjoy watching the river and canal craft from Bancroft Gardens”
Tickets cost £25 but the cost will be £12.50 to the first ten of our members to sign up. Please contact John Lovelock by
email: [email protected] or our Secretary, Helena, if you are interested.
CHRISTMAS VOUCHER:
The Tracy Trust Christmas vouchers are attached to this letter. Please find £25 in the form of two vouchers as requested by members last year, some of whom found the single larger voucher difficult to spend in one go. They are redeemable at our village shop Spar by 31st January 2023.
If for any reason you do not wish to use your voucher but would like others to benefit, please strike it through and write ‘NOT USED’ and then return to the shop or to our Secretary.
All of us at The Tracy Trust wish you a most Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.
Tracy Trust Secretary: Helena Makowski: Telephone: 643663
CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY:
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at our Christmas Party which we are able to hold again this year.
The date is Friday 16th December from 2 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Sue Gehnich will speak to us in her capacity as Welfare Rights Officer at AGE UK Bucks. There will be an opportunity to ask questions so please raise with her, either publicly or privately, anything you are interested in or worried about. This session will be followed by a delicious Ann Tennant tea.
No Tracy Trust Christmas Party would be complete without some singing, so Louise from our ‘Singing for Fun’ classes has offered to entertain us with some Christmas favourites. Come in good voice so that you can join in the fun! Let’s hope that Father Christmas will drop in to see us too!
PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM ATTACHED TO THE NEWSLETTER TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE,
YOUR DIETARY NEEDS AND, IF REQUIRED, YOUR REQUEST FOR A LIFT.
The Tracy Centre:
Over the Christmas period, the Monday and Wednesday morning coffee / bowls / dominoes sessions will stop
after Wednesday 21st December until WEDNESDAY 4th January 2023.
FILM EVENT:
The film and afternoon tea we held in the Memorial Hall proved to be a great success. The film was deemed eminently watchable and the tea and cakes in the interval were delicious. If you were there, please tell other members about it as another such afternoon will take place in February, date and film choice to be announced nearer the time.
SCHEDULES for the Exercise and Singing Classes during the Spring Term can be found under the relevant headings, as well as the Bus Timetable for the coming months.
HEDGERLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OUTING:
You may remember that we teamed up with the Hedgerley Historical Society to offer half price tickets to an outing they arranged in Summer 2022. Well, it’s happening again, this time with a trip a little further afield. HHS is going to Stratford-upon-Avon on August 9th 2023, starting in Hedgerley at 9 a.m. and returning at 6 p.m. The journey each way is approximately 80 / 90 minutes. There will be a good six hours to enjoy at the destination. John Lovelock of HHS writes:
“Every visit to Stratford would not be complete without finding out more about the English poet and playwright that makes it famous. Shakespeare's Birthplace allows you to visit the house where the world’s most famous playwright was born and grew up to discover more about his early years. Other Shakespeare locations include Hall's Croft (home to William's daughter), Shakespeare's New Place (the last chapter in his life), Anne Hathaway's Cottage (Shakespeare's wife) and Mary Arden's Farm (the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother). There are regular public 45-minute boat trips on the River Avon, sightseeing bus trips and town and river walks. For shopping there are many high-quality independent shops plus plenty of places to eat and drink or you may wish to take a picnic and enjoy watching the river and canal craft from Bancroft Gardens”
Tickets cost £25 but the cost will be £12.50 to the first ten of our members to sign up. Please contact John Lovelock by
email: [email protected] or our Secretary, Helena, if you are interested.
CHRISTMAS VOUCHER:
The Tracy Trust Christmas vouchers are attached to this letter. Please find £25 in the form of two vouchers as requested by members last year, some of whom found the single larger voucher difficult to spend in one go. They are redeemable at our village shop Spar by 31st January 2023.
If for any reason you do not wish to use your voucher but would like others to benefit, please strike it through and write ‘NOT USED’ and then return to the shop or to our Secretary.
All of us at The Tracy Trust wish you a most Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.
Tracy Trust Secretary: Helena Makowski: Telephone: 643663
