Good morning, Wycombe!
It feels like we've finally hit that summer sweet spot — hot and sunny, without the Dante's Inferno of a few weeks back. This is spicy-margarita-in-the-garden weather, and I’m here for it.
It’s another bumper week of the Pulse:
🎭 Half price tickets to Wycombe Swan
🌾 Pann Mill Open Day
🎨 Family craft workshop giveaway for the summer holidays!
Plus the opening of Food Warehouse, Oh Shala festival, loads of family fun, and much more.
💆♀️ Body Balance Soft Tissue Therapy — Now at Flow, Marlow 🌿
Persistent aches, muscle tightness, or recovering from an injury? Meet Louise, founder of Body Balance Soft Tissue Therapy, now practising at Flow in Marlow.
✅ Qualified Soft Tissue Therapist
🩹 Clinical assessment and treatment of muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia to restore movement and reduce pain
🏃 Treatment plans tailored to your individual presentation, lifestyle and activity levels
🎯 Evidence-informed techniques: soft tissue mobilisation, myofascial release, assisted stretching, muscle energy techniques, joint mobilisation and dry cupping
Having tried it myself, what stood out was Louise's thorough assessment and clinical approach. She identified the underlying causes of my muscle tension and movement restriction before developing a treatment plan specific to my needs.
📍 Flow, Marlow — Mondays & Wednesdays
🎁 Book your initial consultation in July and get £10 off as a new client
Whether you're managing a sports injury, persistent muscular pain, postural issues or simply want to improve the way your body moves, Body Balance offers an individualised, clinically focused approach to treatment and rehabilitation.
👉 Book your initial assessment today
💯 Read her Google reviews here
📩 Email Louise at lkharman@icloud.com
Editor’s Highlights
📍 Patch | 📅 Tonight, doors 7.30pm
Wycombe's own comedy club closes out its summer run with headliner John Robertson — Dark Room mastermind behind 12 sold-out Edinburgh Fringes — plus BBC New Comedy Award nominee Matt Rouse. Tickets from £10 — get an extra £4 off with code PULSE.
📍 Big Park, Penn House Estate | 🗓️ Fri 10–Sun 12 July
A three-day holistic wellness festival — with 40+ workshops — yoga, meditation, dance, circus and more, plus 50+ practitioners, live music, vegan food and a dedicated family space. Kids under 12 go free. Plastic-free and fully vegan.
📍 Wycombe Retail Park | 🗓️ Tue 14th Jul, from 8am
To celebrate opening day, the first 150 customers through the door will share £1,500 worth of vouchers. Expect new and exclusive brands, big-value packs and all your household essentials.
📍 Pann Mill, The Rye | 📅 Sun 12th July, 11am–5pm
Meet the millers, watch the watermill grind local wheat, and see the newly refurbished water wheel in action. Stone-ground flour, cakes and cuppas in the garden, and community stalls too. Free entry, parking opposite in Railway Place.
🧘🏻♀️ Wellness
🧠 AuDacity
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Weds 15th July, 6:30pm
An open, insightful discussion exploring the unique complexities of neurodiversity — this month’s topic: The Inner Critic. Free.
🎵 Sound Sanctuary
📍 St. Paul's Church Hall, Wooburn Green | 🗓️ Tues 14th July, 7pm
A deeply immersive sound healing journey with Nicki Hough & Carolyn Calvert of Life in Frequency — crystal singing bowls, gongs and more.
Get Creative
🍣Sushi Making Workshop
📍 The Front Room | 🗓️ Sat 11th July, 11am
A hands-on class with Tomono Sushi Party — you'll make four types of authentic sushi, from smoked salmon temari to a sashimi-grade salmon temaki.
🎨 Sip & Paint: Wildflowers
📍 Peterley Manor Farm | 📅 Fri 10th July, 7pm
A relaxed guided painting session inspired by British wildflowers — includes materials, a seasonal tablescape to paint from, and a welcome glass of fizz.
🌸 Flowers After Hours
📍 Oxmoor Farm | 📅 Fri 10th July, from 5:30pm
Linger amongst the flowers on a summer evening — pick up to 15 stems of naturally grown seasonal blooms, tour the plot, and enjoy a complimentary glass of rosé or NA wine.
🎨 Art for Wellbeing Club
📍 Wycombe Arts Centre | 🗓️ Sun 12th Jul, 10am–12pm
A relaxed, welcoming space to make art with no pressure and no expectations — come along to unwind, explore materials and create at your own pace.
🎨 GIVEAWAY: Win a Family Craft Workshop with Easely Does It 🖌️✨
Some of the best summer memories aren't made on a screen — they're made shoulder to shoulder with a paintbrush in hand, laughing at whoever's zebra came out looking like a labrador.
Easely Does It are running a brilliant line-up of family workshops this summer at both The Walled Garden and Hughenden — paint-your-own sessions and crafting workshops for kids (and their grown-ups) covering everything from dreamcatchers to enchanted lanterns.
We've got two prizes up for grabs:
🌿 2 tickets to any Walled Garden family workshop of your choice
🏡 2 tickets to any Hughenden family workshop of your choice
Two winners, two chances to trade the tablet for a paintbrush and just be together for an afternoon.
🗓️ Entries close midnight, Wednesday 15 July
🎉 Winners picked at random and notified Thursday 16 July
⏰ Must accept by Tuesday 22 July or we'll redraw
👉 To enter, just reply to this email with your name
Good luck! 🍀
🪑 Chair Festival Fun
It's Chair Festival month, and there's plenty to celebrate our town's heritage this week. See our full guide to the festival here 👉
🌳 A Bodger's Woodland Walk
📍 Bottom Wood, Studley Green | 📅 Sat 11th July, 10.30am
Explore ancient Chiltern woodland and discover how the bodgers — the woodland turners who supplied chair legs to Wycombe's factories — once worked these trees.
🪑Design a Chair Drop In
📍 We Make Wycombe Hub | 📅 Fri 10th July, 2–4pm
Design your own chair and create an advert for it. A free drop-in activity for primary school-aged children — no booking needed.
🔍 Family Fun Finder
🎉 Lighthouse Live Summer Spectacular
📍 St Michael's Church, Hughenden | 🗓️ Sun 12th July, 3–4:30pm
A free afternoon for children packed with games, craft and celebration — finishing with a BBQ. Sign up in advance so they can plan numbers.
🎪 Heath Fest 2026
📍 Carrington Field | 🗓️ Sat 11th July, 12:30pm–10pm
Flackwell’s beloved community festival turns 5, with six hours of live music, plus funfair rides, a Silent Disco tent, street food and drink, and a free wildflower nature trail for kids.
☕ Afternoon Tea with Baby
📍 JB's Café | 🗓️ Tues 14th July, 10am–12pm
A relaxed afternoon tea for parents, grandparents, childminders and nannies with little ones aged 0–2. Meet new people, build friendships, and enjoy quality time with your baby.
🦆 Mucky Ducks
📍 Rosie’s Petal Patch, The Walled Garden | 📅 Sat 11th Jul, 11:30am
A wonderfully messy sensory play experience for little ones aged 4 months+ — tuff trays, paddling pool, mud kitchen, edible painting, bubbles and a seed to take home.
🧸 Stay and Play
📍 St Mary and St George Church | 📅 Sat 11th July, 9:30–11:30am
A free, welcoming drop-in for 0–4 year olds and their grown-ups, run by SMG Church on the second Saturday of every month (except August). Refreshments provided.
Entertainment
🎸 Rock of Ages – MAOS
📍The Lancaster Arts Centre, Wycombe Abbey | 📅 Thurs 9–Sat 11 July
Big hair, big heart, even bigger anthems. MAOS bring the Sunset Strip to Wycombe Abbey with a full-throttle 80s rock musical (Journey, Bon Jovi, Foreigner, Poison).
🎶 Chiltern Flute Ensemble
📍 St Lawrence Church | 🗓️ Sun 12th Jul, 2–4.30pm
A relaxed afternoon of informal flute performances, plus refreshments in aid of St Lawrence Church. Drop in any time.
🚂Princes Risborough North Signal Box Open Day
📍 Princes Risborough Railway Station | 🗓️ Sat 11th July, 10am–4pm
A rare chance to step inside the largest surviving GWR signal box, once immortalised by Dickens and now being lovingly restored by volunteers.
Soul at the Loft | HWCC (The Loft) | Fri 10th July, 8pm
Cabaret with Drag With No Name | O’Neill’s | Fri 10th July, 9pm
Quiz Nights
Belle Vue | Tonight | 8pm
Shopmobility Quiz @ Riverside Club | Weds 15 July | 7.30pm
Micklefield Community Centre | Fri 10th July | 8pm
🎥 Watch: I tried the HydroDiamond Oxytight Facial at Beauty Quantum Aesthetics
Excuse this hyper close-up after the treatment - just trying to show off my pores. Why do I look so smug 🫣
Calling all skincare obsessives 👀 I finally caved and got a facial in Wycombe — and I'm still glowing a week later. Marci at Beauty Quantum Aesthetics (Patch, old library building) talked me through the skin science, and I haven't touched face makeup since. 👉 Watch the full reel
Sports & Activities
🎧 Headphones & Horizons – Silent Disco Walk
📍 Pound Lane Car Park, Marlow | 🗓️ Weds 15th July, 7pm
Pop on some headphones and set off on a gentle walk through Marlow — mood-lifting soundtrack, a home-baked treat halfway, and good company.
Community Notes
👕Clothes Bank
📍 Christ the Servant King Church | 🗓️ Fri 10th July, 10.30–11.30am
Browse pre-loved kids' clothes (0–14yrs) over a hot drink and cake, with toys to keep little ones busy.
☕ Silver Series Coffee Social
📍 Eden Centre | 🗓️ Mon 13th July, 11am
A free monthly social morning for older adults at Eden Shopping Centre. Limited spaces, RSVP to hello@atomicbee.co.uk to book and venue details.
🔧 Repair Cafe
📍 All Saints Church | 🗓️ Sat 11th July, 10am–1pm
Bring your broken items and skilled volunteers will fix them for a donation — clothes, electricals, bikes and more all welcome.
Business News
🤝 In-person Small Business Meet-up
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Fri 10th Jul, 11am–12pm
Connect with local small business founders in a relaxed, supportive environment, hosted by Enterprise Nation and Patch's Jodie Brown.
🗓️ Dates for your Diary
🎨 The Art of Urban Sketching: Food and Drink
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Weds 22nd July, 6:30pm
Local artist Rory Neary runs these warm, welcoming urban sketching sessions for all abilities — this one focuses on food and drink.
🌿 Free Composting Workshop
📍 Back Lane Allotments, Wycombe Marsh | 🗓️ Mon 20th Jul, 6pm
A hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop from Grow Together Bucks — turn kitchen scraps into compost gold. Free to attend.
The Wycombe Wordle
Six guesses. Five letters. One Wycombe connection. Let me know if you get it!
🟩 Right letter, right spot
🟨 Right letter, wrong spot
⬜ Not in the word
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