St.John’s Bellingdon – 18th April 2021

Dear all

Here are the details for the service for Sunday 18th April – for St John’s Bellingdon.

Our Psalm is Psalm 4. The readings are 1 John 2:28-3:7 and Luke 24:36b-48 and they are read by Fionnagh with the intercessions led by me.

It is on the Parish YouTube channel and this link should take you there

https://youtu.be/5_XHCyahwCQ

As usual the service is available after 09.45 tomorrow when it goes public!

With prayers and best wishes to you all. Take care

Tim and Fionnagh

St.John’s Bellingdon – 11th April 2021

Dear all

Here are the details for the service for Sunday 11th April – for St John’s Bellingdon.

Our Psalm is Psalm 22:22-31. The readings are Acts 4:32-35 and John 20:19-end and they are read by Terry and Tricia. Jill Dwight is leading the intercessions.

It is on the Parish YouTube channel and this link should take you there

https://youtu.be/z0BuBbiqyvI

As usual the service is available after 09.45 tomorrow when it goes public!

With prayers and best wishes to you all. Take care

Tim and Fionnagh

St.John’s Bellingdon – 4th April 2021

Dear all

Happy Easter!

Here are the details for the service for Easter Day – 4th April – for St John’s Bellingdon.

Our Psalm is Psalm 114. The readings are Acts 10:34-43 and Mark 16:1-8 and they are read by Chris Emery. Linda is leading the intercessions.

It is on the Parish YouTube channel and this link should take you there

https://youtu.be/BdtnoD5Ulb4

As usual the service is available after 09.45 tomorrow when it goes public!

With prayers and best wishes to you all. Take care

Tim and Fionnagh

Ultrafast broadband: Last day to pledge/confirm!

Today (31st March) is the last day you can pledge/confirm your voucher for the ultrafast broadband project.

We’re currently at 80% so it’s not looking good, but openreach tell us we have £45,000 of vouchers that have been pledged but not confirmed.

For the project to go ahead the difference would need to be made up by the community so we’ll be in touch when we know how much that figure is.

In the meantime please PLEDGE or CONFIRM your voucher (links go to step by step instructions) TODAY!

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Ultrafast broadband update 28 March ACTION NEEDED

Just a quick update on the status of the “Two Gates Lane/Bellingdon” Ultrafast community project (not to be confused with the “Cholesbury/The Lee/Asheridge etc” project that you may have seen discussed on the Grapevine.

  • If you have not yet PLEDGED your voucher please do so ASAP – time is running out! Instructions on how to pledge (with pictures) are here.
  • Once you’ve pledged you should receive an email from gigabit.vouchers@notifications.service.gov.uk to CONFIRM your voucher. This locks in the funding and is VITAL. There are instructions (with pictures) on how to do this here.
  • If you have pledged and confirmed your voucher, thank you, there’s nothing more for you to do at the moment. Please don’t pledge again if you’ve already done it – duplicates are deleted.

Even if you’re happy with your broadband speeds, please spare a thought for your neighbours who might not have as good a connection as you and/or consider the value that ultrafast broadband might add to your property.

Some background information

After 6 months of back and forth, for which we have Tony Orr’s unending patience to thank, the project was initially costed, from afar, by Openreach, on a certain number of properties – a good number of which were either non-existent or duplicated.

This led to an extremely high initial cost for the project. Subsequently Openreach removed a number of the properties from the project scope, but did not have time to re-cost the project before the funding window ends – 31st March.

This leaves us in a situation where we need everybody who can sign up to do so. The additional funding we were hoping for from Bucks council has all been allocated, and the pot is empty.

The bottom line is, we are currently over £50,000 short, more if you count those who have pledged but not confirmed their vouchers.

So please, pledge and/or confirm your voucher as soon as you can. It could just make the difference.

https://www.openreach.com/connectmycommunity