- Saturday 19 April – Councillor Terry Douris at Bridgewater Arms
- Monday 28 April – Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall
- Saturday 3 May – Village Produce Market, Village Hall
- Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 May – VE80 Celebrations, Various Locations
- Sunday 11 May – Gaddesden Gallop, Little Gaddesden Sports Ground
- Wednesday 14 May – Public Consultation for the Draft Ringshall Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Village Hall
- Sunday 18 May – Music Club Saxophone & Piano Concert, Little Gaddesden Church
- Little Gaddesden Drama Club – Radio Play Now Available Online
- Little Gaddesden Tennis Club Notice
- Little Gaddesden Cricket Club Notice
- Little Gaddesden Bowls & Croquet Club Notice
- Little Gaddesden Village Hall Notice
- Little Gaddesden Charities Fund
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Village Notices
Please note, going forward, Village Notices will normally be sent out fortnightly on a Thursday. Any copy to be included in a Village Notice should be sent to village.notices@littlegaddesden.org.uk no later than the Tuesday prior to circulation. The next planned Village Notice will be circulated on Thursday 24 April.
Monday 28 April – Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall, 7.30pm
Little Gaddesden Parish Council Meeting in the Village Hall – all welcome.
Saturday 19 April – Councillor Terry Douris at the Bridgewater Arms, 10.00am to 10.30am
Terry Douris, Dacorum and Hertfordshire County Councillor, will be at the Bridgewater Arms from 10.00am to 10.30am should you have any local issues you wish to discuss with him.
Saturday 3 May – Little Gaddesden Village Produce Market, Village Hall, 9.30am to midday
9.30am – 12.00pm
Village Hall, Church Road
Little Gaddesden HP4 1NX
Support your local community!
Lots of lovely varied local produce, crafts, bric-a-brac, plants, cakes and bakes, and not forgetting a cuppa with a bargain breakfast bap. Free entry and a very warm welcome. Contact: Jane 07966 187304
Thursday 8 May to Sunday 11 May – Little Gaddesden Commemorates VE80, Events and Locations Below
Thursday 8 May, Service at the War Memorial, Village Green, 6.00 pm
John Russell will conduct a short service of Remembrance followed by
Tree Dedication
The Royal British Legion are planting an Oak tree on the Playing Field, close to the Sports Pavilion. This will replace the ‘Quercus Coccinea Splendens planted November 1948 in honoured memory of SIX MEN from Little Gaddesden who gave their lives in the War 1939-1945’ The original tree was close to the Manor House NT car park, but was deemed unsafe and felled last year.
Saturday 10 May, Celebration Events, Village Hall
Display: 10.00 am – 4.00 pm
Slide Show
We are asking ALL villagers to submit photographs of relations who served in any capacity in WW2 to be used in a video slide show at a Celebration in the Village Hall. Preferably in uniform, with name, rank and regiment/unit if known and their relationship to family now living in the village.
Format: you can either submit a digital version of each photo – which is the preferred method – or let us have a print and we will scan it.
- if you have digital versions of the photos, which we would prefer, please email them to Jane Dickson (rjmd@btinternet.com) as JPEGs, PNGs or any other common image format. Please make the resolution reasonably high, as the image will be projected onto a screen. If you’re not sure whether your image is in the right format or high enough resolution, just send what you have and we’ll see what we can do! Jane’s phone number is 07795 348938 in case of queries.
- If you only have prints and can’t make a digital version, please either post or deliver them to Lyn Hyde at 22 Little Gaddesden HP4 1NU. They need to be in an envelope clearly marked with the name & address for return. Please make sure they get delivered, and don’t just hand them to Lyn if you see her around the village! Lyn’s phone numbers are 01442 842267 and 07869 268790 in case of queries.
Display
Those submitting one or more photographs for the slide show if possible put together a brief biography/anecdote about their relative. Please limit this to one side of A4 paper, size 14 font or greater (or handwritten) for display boards. To Jane Dickson (rjmd@btinternet.com, 07795 348938 in case of queries). Deadline: 28 April 2025
Even if you’re not submitting any photo for the slide show, Jane (rjmd@btinternet.com, 07795 348938 in case of queries) would also welcome an A4 sheet of details or anecdotes about relations who served in any capacity (military or otherwise), to be included in the Exhibition, as well as memories of the Over 80s of VE Day itself. The latter can be of any length and in any format (emailed, hand written etc). Deadline: 28 April 2025
There will be a display of items relating to Little Gaddesden during WW2, some from the Village Archive including Home Guard; and biographical details of the six men from the village who died and are commemorated on the War Memorial.
Children are invited to prepare similar A4 sheets about what their Great Grandparents did during WW2 – were they evacuated, were they old enough to serve, did their house get bombed? Deadline: 28 April 2025
Supper and Film – ‘A Royal Night Out’, Evening: 6.00pm
The Gaddesden Society have kindly offered to take charge of showing ‘A Royal Night Out’ – Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret escape the Palace and go out on the town for the VE Day Celebrations 1945. This 2015 film has a 12A rating.
Tickets are now available, priced at £10 for adults; £5 for under 18 and Over 80 and limited to 100 – a supper reminiscent of 1945, we will serve Cottage Pie, followed by Oranges and Bananas.
How to Pay for the Supper and Film Evening:
The Gaddesden Society are handling payments for us, and we are keen to minimise the bank charges payable:
- The preferred method of payment is by internet bank transfer direct into The Gaddesden Society’s account at Lloyds Bank:
Account Name: The Gaddesden Society
Sort Code: 30-90-73
Account Number: 15560068
Account type (if asked): Business
Reference: VE80 [your name]
Please also email Lyn Hyde at ArnieAndLyn2223@outlook.com to say how many tickets of each type you have paid for. (We can’t tell whether £10.00 is for one adult ticket or two under 18/over 80 tickets.)
- Less preferred, you can pay cash to Lyn Hyde by delivery (not post) to her at 22 Little Gaddesden HP4 1NU. Please enclose a note saying who is paying for how many tickets of each type.
- Thirdly, you can pay by credit card by following this link: https://square.link/u/DuMyubXq. After you press Checkout, please be sure to include your phone number, email address and First and Last Names when making payment. Please also advise Lyn Hyde by email at ArnieAndLyn2223@outlook.com or by a note to her at 22 Little Gaddesden HP4 1NU saying who is paying for how many tickets of each type you have paid for.
- And fourthly – least preferred because of new bank charges, but still quite acceptable – you can pay by cheque made out to The Gaddesden Society. Please either post or deliver to Lyn Hyde at 22 Little Gaddesden HP4 1NU, with a note saying who is paying for how many tickets of each type
No bar, bring your own drinks.
In the hope of finding a pianist and song sheets we could finish with community singing.
Sunday 11 May
Display to be continued in the School Hall to run alongside the Gaddesden Gallop and School Summer Fair – tbc
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED – ‘many hands make light work’ for this three day event
If you have already sent me an email in response to my request last week, please can you re-send it to me at ArnieAndLyn2223@outlook.com? There was a typo in the Parish Council email address I gave last week – sorry! Lyn
Six more volunteers required to cook the pies; dish, ingredients and recipe will be supplied. If you can cook Cottage Pie for 12 please let Lyn Hyde know (ArnieAndLyn2223@outlook.com).
Fri Evening 6–8pm
We have quantities of red, white and blue bunting for decorating hall. Also set up the display boards
Saturday 10–4pm – Man the display (Possibly teas & coffees)
Saturday 4pm
The display will be transferred to the School Hall.
16 Trestle tables and 100 chairs to set out in the village hall; banqueting roll; catering equipment
Supper Service: 8 pm
The big wash up and clear away, take down the bunting and leave the hall ready for private booking on Sunday.
Sunday – time to be confirmed
Look after the display in the School Hall
Clear display from School Hall – return boards to Ashridge at end of the day
If you can help with any of these activities please let me know ArnieAndLyn2223@outlook.com. Thank you.
Lyn Hyde
Sunday 11 May – Gaddesden Gallop, Little Gaddesden Sports Ground, run starts at 10.30am
A fantastic cross country 10K & 5K run across the Hertfordshire countryside
Pre-registration: £20 adults, £5 under 18
Limited applications on the day: £25 Adult, £10 under 18
Mini under 12 races – £5 unlimited entry
The Village Sports Ground
Little Gaddesden
HP4 1NX
This year’s Gaddesden Gallop fun run event will be held on Sunday 11th May 2025.
The event will start at 10.30 a.m. on the playing fields – along Church Road. With race number collection between 9.30am – 10.15am followed by a warmup before the race starts. Supporters are very welcome, food and drink refreshments will be available before and after the event, a well needed reward for those who ran and a great way to celebrate and socialise too.
The Gaddesden Gallop is a 5K and 10K fun run on public paths and roads around the villages of Little Gaddesden and Nettleden. There are also mini races held for little ones, on the sports field.
Online registration closes at 12:00pm on Saturday 10th May 2025. There may be space for registrations on the day: £25 adults/£10 under 18s. This is a fun and family event, there are no elite places.
The Run starts at 10:30am. The 5K and 10K participants all start together using the same lines. Children are very welcome to join and must be accompanied by an adult. We request no dogs please.
All runners will receive a medal, with individual trophies being awarded to category winners in the 10k and 5k races.
If you would like to enter the event, then please go to our race page on Entry Central: https://www.entrycentral.com/gaddesdengallopFOLGS . Please also check our Facebook page for regular updates and route maps: www.facebook.com/gaddesdengallop2021.
If running isn’t really your thing but you would like to support the event by marshalling the course, helping to organise the mini races, car park marshalling, setting up, clearing away or with the refreshments, please contact the Gaddesden Gallop Committee at gaddesdengalloprun@gmail.com or 07793825521.
A note about this year’s beneficiaries – Friends of Little Gaddesden School is a charity, run by parents, that supports the Little Gaddesden CofE Primary School. The funds raised go directly to the school to enhance the educational experience of our children. The school is in need of a new roof which is costly and these funds will contribute towards it. Funds from the day will be split between the FOLGS and Epilepsy Society, a charity with a link close to our hearts and those within Little Gaddesden.
Sponsors – We are grateful to all our sponsors who provide considerable assistance and financial support, enabling us to contribute most of our proceeds to our beneficiary charities. Please visit our www.facebook.com/gaddesdengallop2021 for details of this year’s sponsors. If you wish to sponsor us in the future, please send an email to gaddesdengalloprun@gmail.com. We will give you extensive publicity in our literature, Facebook page and on banners on the run day. We are also open to your sponsorship proposals.
The Friends remain grateful to those in the village who initially did all the hard work setting up this event and creating the great fundraising platform we were kindly gifted. So that we can continue to raise funds for the school and charities who have supported people in the village over the years.
We look forward to seeing you there!!
Claire Beard, Catriona Angel, Claire Owen & Hannah Jarvis
Wednesday 14 May, Village Hall 2 – 7 pm – Public Consultation for the Draft Ringshall Conservation Area Character Appraisal
Copies of the draft Ringshall Conservation Area Character Appraisal (CACA) will be available for comment.
Members of Dacorum Borough Council Conservation Department will be on hand to answer questions on the document.
If you are unable to attend on the day it will be available for comment for 2 weeks thereafter.
The CACA explains why an area is designated as a Conservation Area; expresses what the community particularly values; helps provide a robust policy framework for planning decisions and is given material consideration in planning decisions and appeals. It is also a fascinating historical document, with interesting old maps and beautiful photography from our own Michael Carver.
Sunday 18 May – Little Gaddesden Music Club: Saxophone and Piano Concert, Little Gaddesden Church, 6.00pm
Little Gaddesden Music Club
Concert open to non-members
in Little Gaddesden Church
with
Manu Brazo, saxophone
Sunday 18th May at 6pm
Saxophone and Piano
Manu Brazo and Prajna Indrawati
Programme:
Beau Soir – Claude Debussy
A Gershwin Fantasy – George Gershwin arr. Ralph Martino
Sonata for saxophone and piano – Robert Muczyinski
Three Romances op 94 – Robert Schumann
Three Preludes – George Gershwin
Sonata in C# minor – Fernande Decruck
Pequena Czarda – Pedro Iturralde
Open to non-members
Tickets:
£20 in advance from ianh72542@gmail.com or 07491 654415
Or £25 on the day.
Little Gaddesden Drama Club – Radio Play Now Available Online
The Heavenly Path, written by Patrick Isherwood, and performed by members of Little Gaddesden Drama Club, is now available to listen to online on LGDC’s website.
The Heavenly Path is a 57 minute radio play, a comedy/thriller which deals with a serious subject that has come to the forefront of public debate.
Visit Little Gaddesden Drama Club’s What’s On page to listen.
Little Gaddesden Tennis Club
Now is the time to join our friendly village tennis club at Little Gaddesden. We offer new members to join early for the 2025-26 season at the same price as an annual membership.
You can start playing as soon as you join and don’t have to wait until April!
We have 3 excellent all-weather outdoor courts in the beautiful village of Little Gaddesden.
Our Club also has coaching opportunities for juniors and adults provided by Evolve Tennis throughout the year.
Don’t delay join today!
Please see our website for details on how to join www.clubspark.lta.org.uk/littlegaddesdentennisclub
Little Gaddesden Cricket Club
Little Gaddesden Cricket Club welcomes all and looking forward to Season start in April.
The members of Little Gaddesden Cricket Club would like more people to enjoy cricket in the village. Our Saturday team plays in the Mid Bucks Cricket League, we have a mid-week T20 team, regular six-a-side tournaments (open to all abilities) and a number of friendly fixtures.
Our vision is to provide a safe, welcoming and inclusive club, representing the best traditions of village cricket, for people of all abilities and experience. We have a fabulous ground at Church Road and have re-introduced cricket teas to make watching or playing cricket on a Saturday afternoon an enjoyable experience for all.
Like many clubs, our player pool is shrinking, and ageing, and we want more people to enjoy what we all love doing and to pass on a thriving club to the next generation of village cricketers in Little Gaddesden.
Whatever your experience or interests we would love to hear from you, be that a regular or occasional player wanting to get involved in Saturday or midweek or friendly cricket, a scorer, umpire or someone who wants to get involved in the upkeep of the club – or maybe you know someone else who might be interested?
We are currently holding indoor winter nets in Dunstable on a Thursday evening (all abilities welcome), after which we often go for a drink providing a great opportunity to meet some of the players, so come along and say hello.
Contact: jeremyfennell@btinternet.com
LITTLE GADDESDEN BOWLS & CROQUET CLUB
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PLAYING BOWLS?
Little Gaddesden Bowls Club invites you join our friendly club and discover competitive and social Bowls in a beautiful country setting. Beginners and experienced players are very welcome.
We are holding an Open Afternoon on Saturday 3rd May between 2.00pm and 4.00pm and everyone is invited to come along and try bowls. No equipment needed – just bring a pair of flat soled shoes to wear on the green and we will provide the rest.
If you can’t make the Open Afternoon, we hold regular informal ‘roll-ups’ on Monday mornings between 10 and 12 starting on 21st April (weekly thereafter). If you would like to come along to a Monday morning session just get in touch so we can be sure that someone is on hand to welcome you.
If you have any questions or would like more information please contact Anne Isherwood on 01442 842780 or email: anneisherwood@btinternet.com
Hope to see you on the green soon!
LITTLE GADDESDEN BOWLS CLUB
Church Road Little Gaddesden HP4 1NX
Little Gaddesden Village Hall
As many may know, Pre-School have closed down in the village.
This now means the Village Hall currently has good availability during the week, particularly for anyone wishing to organise something on a regular basis, e.g. dance or fitness classes.
If you are interested, please visit https://littlegaddesdenvillagehall.co.uk/
Or contact:
David Brattle 07948 080689 / littlegaddesdenvillagehall@outlook.com
Little Gaddesden Charities Fund
Established in 1997 (as a combination of a number of established local charities), the Little Gaddesden charities has supported individuals and families in Little Gaddesden Parish for 25 years.
The charities’ sole purpose is to help individuals or families resident in the parish with small one-off requests for financial support.
The committee are aware that local parishioners may or may not be aware of the charities and wish to promote the purpose to all residents.
Requests for support are made by either contacting The Revd John Russell on 01442 214898 or by emailing vicar@littlegaddesdenchurch.org.uk. John chairs the charities’ small committee of trustees based on his role within the Parish.
In such a period of financial uncertainty and with the cost of living crisis it is even more important to ensure that members of the Parish are aware of the support availability, and we would welcome being able to provide more support from funds available.
All requests are treated with the utmost confidence and no personal information is shared.
We would also welcome any local organisations providing information of how to access the charity in any
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