Good morning, Wycombe!
What a week. High winds, Wycombe High in the middle of a national row and, for me personally, a mega-tantrum at Rush Trampoline Park from a 4-year-old with nothing to lose. Half term’s nearly over, so bring on the Halloween sugar crash. 🤪
Here’s what’s on:
🧸 Smyths Toys opens today
🎆 Halloween fireworks at the Cricket Club
🧟 Frankenstein at Wycombe Abbey
Plus a Halloween scare maze, up to 400 new jobs at the old J&J site, have your say on the Chiltern Rangers’ new home, and much more.
⚽ Quid-A-Kid at Adams Park | Wycombe v Burton Albion 🎃
Half-term’s big finish, for just £1 per kid.
Quid-A-Kid is back at Adams Park for Halloween, so every kids’ ticket is £1, anywhere in the stadium.
Wondering if your little one's ready for their first match? This is the low-stakes way to find out. At a quid a ticket, nobody minds if they're more into the bouncy castle than the second half, and these games turn hundreds of kids into new Chairboys fans every season.
Get there early, because there's loads on before kick-off. Kids can bounce on the bouncy castle, try the fast feet challenge, have a go at football darts or head to the Mini Blues Zone, and the club's putting on some Halloween fun around the ground too.
📅 Saturday 31st October,
⏰ Warm-ups begin 2.10pm, 3pm kick-off
📍 Adams Park
🎟️ £1 for fans aged 15 and under
🍔 Food and drink in the Chairboys Village, plus the new giant screen
🚗 Book parking at Adams Park or Millbrook School
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Editor’s Highlights
📍 Train Station | 🗓️ Sun 1st Nov, 2pm
A free guided walk taking in old photos of the station, the US airbase that helped win the Second World War, and the oldest standing structure in Wycombe.
📍 Eden (next to Boots) | 🗓️ Today
Prepare your credit cards: the big toy and games store lands just in time for Christmas lists.
📍 Wycombe Abbey School | 🗓️ Today-Sat 31st Oct
Fourways Theatre Company stages Nick Dear’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, told from the Creature’s point of view.
📍 High Wycombe Cricket Club | 🗓️ Sat 31st Oct, 5–11pm
A family fireworks night with the display at around 7pm, plus BBQ, pizza, a bar and fairground rides.
📍 The Front Room | 🗓️ Sat 31st Oct, 7pm
MLN Ensemble reimagine Michael Jackson’s Thriller, followed by jazz, funk and soul with special guests.
🎃 Halloween Weekend at The Venue | Clown Town & Return to The Manor 🤡
Two nights, two nightmares, and two parties waiting on the other side of each.
The Venue is being completely transformed for Halloween, with live scare actors waiting in the dark on both nights. Make it out of the maze and you've earned it, so head for the club room or grab some headphones in the silent disco.
🤡 Friday 30th October — Clown Town
The circus has come to town, and something’s very wrong with it. Expect sinister clowns, dark corridors and actors jumping out exactly where you don’t want them.
🏚️ Saturday 31st October — Return to The Manor
The Manor’s doors are open again, and this time the halls are darker. If you went last year, it remembers you…
📍 The Venue, Bucks Students’ Union
🕙 10pm–4am, last entry 1am
🔞 Strictly 18+, physical ID only (driving licence or passport)
🎓 Free for BNU students through The Big Deal
🎟️ £8 a night, or £12 for both nights
Brave enough? Book ahead. You can try your luck on the door, but there's no guarantee any tickets will be left.
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🔍 Family Fun Finder
Crafting 🎨
Sip & Paint Tweens & Teens | Patch | Fri 30th Oct, 10am
Potion Workshop | Hughenden | Fri 30th Oct, 10.30am
Design Your Own Ghoul | Wycombe Arts Centre | Sat 31st Oct, 10:30am
Little Ones 👧🏻
Junior Farmers: The Halloween Hunt | Rosie’s Petal Patch | Fri 30th Oct, 10am
Dads Playgroup | The Dove Cafe | Sun 1st Nov, 10am
Parties 🎉
Halloween Roller Disco | Hazlemere Youth Centre | Sat 31st Oct, 1pm
Bright Lights Party | Christ the Servant King Church | Sat 31st Oct, 6pm
Halloween Party for Kids | Totteridge Community Centre | Sat 31st Oct, 3–7pm
Pirate Praise Party | Christ Church, Flackwell Heath | Sat 31st Oct, from 3.30pm
Light Party | St Michael’s Church, Hughenden | Sat 31st Oct, 4.30–6.30pm
Halloween Kids’ Disco | Hellfire Caves | Sun 1st Nov, 2–4pm
🪩 Christmas Party Night with Disco Inferno 🎄
Dinner, drinks and a dance floor full of disco. This is how a Christmas party should be done.
Wycombe Swan is bringing its Christmas Party Night to the Old Town Hall. You'll get a festive welcome drink when you arrive and a three-course Christmas dinner from the Swan's chefs, then Disco Inferno take over with a full live 70s show straight out of Studio 54.
Expect the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Sister Sledge, Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, Village People and more. If you’ve been waiting all year for a proper excuse to do the Hustle, this is it.
📅 Friday 18th December, 7.30pm
📍 Old Town Hall
🍽️ Welcome drink, three-course Christmas dinner and live show
🔞 18+
🎟️ 10% off for Wycombe Pulse readers
👥 Booking for a work do or a big group? Get in touch with the Swan
Glitter optional. Flares encouraged. 🕺
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🎨 Get Creative
🧵 Creative Exchange with Craftivist Collective
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Today, 6pm
Award-winning craftivist Sarah Corbett talks about mixing craft and activism, followed by a hands-on workshop and Q&A.
✂️ See What Sticks
📍 The Front Room | 🗓️ Sun 1st Nov, 11am & 2pm
A free collage drop-in — the first event from new local creative project Emerge & Flourish.
🪡 Introduction to Punch Needle
📍 Cedar Barn | 🗓️ Tue 3rd Nov, 7pm
Try punch needle embroidery and make your own pouch bag or decorative hoop. Homemade refreshments included.
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🦢 First Friday: Live Under The Arches… ✨
Friday 6 November | 5–7pm | Guildhall, High Street
Next Friday, close the laptop at five and head into town. Local favourite Steph Willis is playing live under the Guildhall arches.
First Friday is back, the easy bit between the end of the working week and wherever the evening takes you. Bring a friend, catch a few songs, and see where you end up. The perfect weekend warm-up.
Free — no ticket required. If you’ve seen Steph perform around Wycombe before, you’ll know this is the place to be.
🪶 Keep your eyes on the pavement this week. Word is the chalk feathers are making a comeback.
📌 New on the Wycombe Noticeboard
Here's a glimpse at what's new this week:
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.
Council Catch-Up
🏗️ Of note in the planning inbox:
Shrublands flats extension refused: going against officers’ recommendation, councillors refused two extra storeys on the former Queens Road day hospital. Members found the design too big and overbearing for the area.
69 Marlow Road refused again: councillors narrowly backed officers and refused a third bid to keep a house built 3m deeper than approved, finding it overbearing on next door. The owner’s representative told the meeting that council enforcement officers had twice said the build matched the plans.
Last call on Chiltern Rangers’ “The Barns”: comments on plans for a permanent base at Abbey Barn South, with room for volunteers, schools and groups, close tomorrow (Fri 30 Oct).
Johnson & Johnson’s old HQ to become warehouses: five industrial units have been approved for the empty site, and owner Legal & General says they’ll bring 200–400 permanent jobs. Work starts before Christmas, with the park opening in late 2028.
🏥 Getting seen at Wycombe’s UTC could soon be quicker: minutes from the council’s health committee from 1st Oct say the Urgent Treatment Centre will trial letting patients book straight into a face-to-face appointment, with no phone assessment first — potentially freeing up 20–30 extra appointments a day, and the trial gets its first review in November. The same meeting heard that plans for a Women’s Health Hub on Queen Victoria Road are in the works.
Entertainment
🎵 80s vs 90s Disco Night
📍 JB’s Bar | 🗓️ Fri 30th Oct, 8pm
DJ Lou takes over for a night of 80s pop classics up against 90s dance floor fillers.
🧛 Film Club: Dracula
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Sun 1st Nov, 6:15pm
Hammer’s 1958 Dracula, followed by a short talk on the film and its influence on horror.
Community Notes
🌺 Poppy Appeal stall open in Eden from 10am–4pm every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday until 7 November.
👁️ Diabetic Eye Screening Patients Forum
📍 The Hut at Artisan, Hillbottom Road | 🗓️ Today, 5–6.30pm
First patient forum for the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Diabetic Eye Screening Programme: share your experience and help shape the service.
🧠 Children & Young People ADHD Screening Check
📍 Wycombe Library (Health on the High Street) | 🗓️ Fri 30th Oct, 10am–12pm
Free drop-in or by appointment.
🌍 Wycombe Friends of the Earth & Environment Centre Anniversaries
📍 Trinity United Reformed Church | 🗓️ Wed 4th Nov, 7.30pm
Wycombe Friends of the Earth turns 20 and the Environment Centre 25, with FoE chief executive Asad Rehman as guest speaker.
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! Have a spooktacular Halloween weekend 👻
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See you next Thursday,
Steph
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