Good morning, Wycombe!
My week’s been swallowed by the dawning horror that part of my underfloor heating has packed up (#firstworldproblems) and that High Wycombe’s heating engineers are apparently booked solid until November. So you’ll know who to blame if I start losing digits 🥶
Thankfully, Wycombe’s warming up even if my house isn’t…
🧁 Free cupcakes in Eden this Saturday!
🎃 Halloween events across Wycombe
🖼️ A brand-new exhibition at All Saints
Plus Tinie Tempah’s in town, how to get involved with the giant bus station murals, and more.
Editor’s Highlights
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Tonight, doors 7.30pm
Mad Ron — Uxbridge's third-hardest man and Reginald D Hunter's tour support — headlines, with support from Paul Savage, Siobhan Dodd, Tasmin Sarkany and local favourite Elliot Wengler. Tickets £10, or £8 with code PULSE.
📍 All Saints Church | 🗓️ Mon 19th Oct – Fri 27th Nov, Mon–Sat 10am–2pm
Free exhibition by printmaker and chaplain Rachel Holdforth, depicting Christ with a disability. Drop in, or come to the free opening evening with Rachel on Monday at 7pm. There’s also a panel talk and a lino print workshop in November.
📍 Garsington Studios | 🗓️ Sun 18th Oct, 11.30am & 1pm
Free workshops with professional choreographers: 11.30am for families with 5 to 11-year-olds, 1pm for 11 to 18-year-olds.
📍 B'Hive | 🗓️ Tonight, 7pm
A relaxed evening tasting five wines from Chilterns vineyards, with the stories behind them.
📍 Hughenden Valley Village Hall | 🗓️ Sat 17th and Sun 18th Oct
Free photography exhibition with landscapes, woodland scenes and portraits.
7th Heaven, a brand new cake shop, café, bakery and gelato bar opposite TK Maxx, has its grand launch in Eden this Saturday, 17th October.
The first 70 customers get a free cupcake, there are free tasters for everyone, and all day it's buy one, get one free on bakery items, or a coffee and any bakery item for £4.50.
Wellness Moments
🧘🏻♀️ Rest & Reset
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Sat 17th Oct, 4pm
Reflexology, gentle yoga and sound.
🔔 Gong Bath Meditation
📍 Flackwell Heath Community Centre | 🗓️ Sun 18th Oct, 7pm
An evening of sound healing to wind down the weekend.
Get Creative
🖌️ High Wycombe Painting Club
📍 B'Hive | 🗓️ Sun 18th Oct, 10am–12pm
The Painting Club moves indoors now the outdoor season's over. £10, pay on arrival.
🏺 Pottery Foundation Course
📍 The Walled Garden | 🗓️ Starts Fri 16th October, 2.30pm
Three small-group sessions covering hand building and the basics of throwing on the wheel.
🎨 Introduction to Natural Dyeing
📍 Refresh, Church Street | 🗓️ Sat 17th Oct, 10:30am
Discover how to colour fabric using natural dyes.
💻 Neo Agency | The 10-Second Test 📲
Right now, someone in Wycombe is likely searching for a business just like yours on their phone.
With the majority of UK web traffic coming from mobile, why do so many websites look great on desktop but fall apart on a smaller screen? Tiny text, awkward menus and buttons that are difficult to tap could be costing you your next customer.
Grab your phone and open your own website. In ten seconds, can a visitor:
✅ Tell what you do?
✅ See that you cover their area?
✅ Find an easy way to call, enquire or book?
✅ Read your content without zooming in?
If you hesitated on any of those, that’s a job for Neo.
Neo are High Wycombe’s own web agency, who’ve worked with over 200 clients. They build your site and stay on to look after it. Plans start from £65 per month and include unlimited repairs and maintenance.
Neo rebuilt Drain Station’s website:
Markets 🛍️
Flackwell Heath Market | The Three Horseshoes | Sat 17th Oct, 9am–12pm | Fresh produce, homemade treats, artisan bits.
Haunted Blessings: The Spooky Market | West Wycombe Village Hall | Sat 17 Oct, 12–5pm | Stalls, spooky treats and readings.
📌 New on the Wycombe Noticeboard
Here's a glimpse at what's new this week:
And more!
Notices start at £9.95 and you can place them for a week or a month, with up to six photos, and every new one goes on our Instagram Stories.
🔍 Family Fun Finder
🎃 Pumpkin-Fest
📍 The Walled Garden | 🗓️ Sat 17th – Sat 31st Oct
Ten photo spots, pumpkin bingo for the kids and pumpkins to take home, plus face painting at weekends and half-term.
📖 African and Caribbean Stories and Rhymes
📍 High Wycombe Library | 🗓️ Sat 17 Oct, 11:30am
Free drop-in of stories and rhymes celebrating African and Caribbean culture.
🚂 Model Railway Clubroom Open Day
📍 HWDMRS Clubroom, Duke Street | 🗓️ Sat 17th Oct 10am–3pm
Working layouts, plus a model of West Wycombe Station in the last years of steam. BYO trains for the test track.
Council Catch-Up
💷 Last chance to have your say on the council budget: Your Bucks, Your Say survey closes this Sunday, 18th October. Council leader Steven Broadbent has said that government funding changes will cost Bucks around £44 million.
🏛️ West Bucks planning committee, Wednesday 21st October: three Wycombe-area applications are on the agenda:
Shrublands Day Hospital, Queens Road: five more flats, taking the former hospital to 13 with six parking spaces. Called in by Cllrs Clarke and Hussain over parking and overdevelopment; officers recommend approval.
69 Marlow Road: a six-bed house built three metres further back than permitted, already under an enforcement notice. The latest fix is a climbing plant to screen the side wall, but officers say it’s still an “unneighbourly and overbearing” structure for the house next door and recommend refusal.
High Hedges, Cryers Hill Road: a four-bed house in a Green Belt garden, refused twice before. Officers now class it as "grey belt" and are minded to approve; Great Kingshill Residents Association objects over the driveway by the school entrance.
🏢 Up to 30 flats proposed in Cressex offices: Twyford Place, an office building on Lincoln Road, could become flats under two alternative schemes: 23 flats, mostly two-beds, or 30 smaller flats. Both would have 50 parking spaces. Pending decision.
🚑 Plans for new building at ambulance station: South Central Ambulance Service has applied to replace two garages at its West End Street station with a “Make Ready” building, where crews clean and restock ambulances between call-outs. The 1955 station is in “a poor state of condition and in desperate need of investment”, and plans for a new one were dropped in 2021/22 because of the cost.
Sports and Activities
⚽️ Wycombe Wanderers v Notts County
📍 Adams Park | 🗓️ Sat 17th October, 3pm
The Chairboys host the oldest club in the Football League. Get there early for the Chairboys Village: food, drink, a giant screen and a bouncy castle in the Mini Blues Zone.
🏃 Women's Self-Defence Workshop
📍 B’Hive | 🗓️ Sat 17th Oct, 11am
A friendly, hands-on session, run by local instructor Jennifer.
🏓 Pickleball Tournament
📍 Wycombe Leisure Centre | 🗓️ Sun 18th Oct, 4.30pm
Open to all ages and skill levels.
🏊 Wycombe Rye Lido’s Gym is getting a refurb: new gym equipment and fresh flooring.
Community Notes
💬 Free counselling with BNU’s trainee therapists: supervised, confidential sessions in person, by phone or online for anxiety, stress, bereavement and more. Email primarycare.educationcentre@bnu.ac.uk to get started.
🕯️ Wave of Light for Baby Loss Awareness Week: A candle-lit walk at Hughenden Manor today at 6pm, and a service at Christ The Servant King Church on Sycamore Road on Sunday 18th October at 7pm.
🌍 Stop violence against women: today at 6pm, local police join a Walk for Women on The Rye, in front of the Lido, for a friendly chat about women’s safety. On Sat 17th Oct, 10am to 1pm, the High Wycombe Soroptimists host From Silence to Safety in BNU’s Willow Room, a conference on practical ways to protect women from violence.
❤️ Restart a Heart
📍 Wycombe Rye Lido | 🗓️ Fri 16th October, 9.30-11.30am & 5-7pm
Learn CPR with Royal Life Saving Society UK.
Business News
🐴 The Grove Riding School has a year to find a new home: After 40 years on the West Wycombe estate, it has been given notice to quit by Sir Edward Dashwood. With 150 regular riders, Riding for the Disabled groups and 40 horses and ponies to rehome, the team is appealing for ideas, help and old photos of the Grove on Facebook.
🎓 Next Gen Business Network: Focus on AI
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Tue 20th Oct, 9.30am
Morning networking for up-and-coming professionals, with a talk on getting your business found in AI search (AEO), then 30-second pitches.
🎓 Social Media Basics for Creatives
📍 We Make Wycombe, Cornmarket | 🗓️ Tue 20th October, 12.30pm
A free lunchtime workshop on choosing platforms, setting up your profile and how often to post.
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
That’s a wrap for this week’s Pulse!
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