Good morning, Wycombe!
I’m writing this off the back of a sugar high — my children collected so many Halloween treats that they’ve burst out of the cupboards (and, notably, straight onto my desk). Special thanks to the household giving out full-size Crunchie bars 😋
Here’s what’s in this week’s Pulse:
🎭 Two family tickets to Peter Pan up for grabs
🦢 First Friday is back tomorrow
💻 A free website build for 5 Wycombe businesses
Plus a bingo party night like no other, Wycombe’s first indie book fair, where to catch the fireworks and more.
🤣 Select Comedy Club | Back at Patch on Thursday 12th November 🎤
⏰ Doors 7.30pm | Show 8pm
📍Patch, Queen Victoria Road
Last month’s show sold out beyond capacity, so you’ll want to be quick with this one.
Over the past year, Select Comedy Club has made itself the place for live comedy in Wycombe, and there are just two more shows at Patch this year. November's line-up is a strong one.
🎭 Arielle Souma (headliner): a BBC New Comedian finalist and acclaimed circuit act. "Big and bold with bags of sass and nice garnishes" – Chortle
🎙️ Luke Harrower: a rising star with quickfire gags on asexuality and plenty of other adult themes. "A natural storyteller with real bite" – Just The Tonic
🎤 Elliot Wengler (host): your lovable local MC and an award-nominated comedian, with support from Dan Collins, Brendon Lemon and Dylan Chand
🎟️ £10 per ticket, or grab the earlybird 2-for-£15 before November 8th!
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Editor’s Highlights
📍 Trinity United Reformed Church | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov, 2.30pm
A High Wycombe Society talk by London Walks guide Colin Oakes on the road that made Wycombe a natural stop for travellers between London and Oxford. Free, followed by refreshments.
📍 The Walled Garden | 🗓️ Today, 4-8pm
A roaring bonfire, mulled wine and food trucks from Pizza Please, Lime Face and Friends & Flavours. All ticket money goes to charity.
📍 Brunel Engine Shed | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov, 10am-4.30pm
Over 20 layouts from the local model railway society, now in the restored 1854 shed. Plus demonstrators, a history talk and homemade cakes.
📍 Wycombe Arts Centre and other venues | 🗓️ From Sat 7th Nov
A free exhibition of local artists’ work, spread across six venues including the Museum, Library and Hughenden Manor.
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov 2026, 10am-3pm
Wycombe’s first indie book fair, with more than 15 fantasy authors selling and signing their books.
🎉 Bingo Party Night at Adams Park 🪩
Eyes down, hands up. This is bingo, but not as your nan knows it.
Bingo Party Night is back at Adams Park. This is a full-on night out: expect big tunes, superstar DJs and hosts who keep the whole room on its feet, with prizes up for grabs all night. It's loud, it’s funny, and it’s very interactive.
It’s an easy one for a work Christmas do, a birthday or a Friday night out with mates. Book a table of 10 and the drinks are sorted too.
📅 Friday 20th November, 6.30pm
📍 Adams Park
🎟️ £25 per person, including a basket meal
👥 Table of 10 for £250, with food and 10 drinks tokens
Get your group together and book your place! 🎶
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Get Creative
🖨️ Seeking the Disabled Christ: Lino Print Workshop
📍 All Saints Church | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov, 1pm
Make a lino print with the artist behind the exhibition.
🎨 Intention Setting: Watercolour Circle with Sound
📍 The Pavilion, Penn Street | 🗓️ Wed 11th Nov, 10am
A morning of guided meditation, playful watercolour painting and a sound bath.
🎨 Drink & Draw
📍 Mad Squirrel | 🗓️ Tonight, 8pm
A guided painting session. Grab a pint, pick up a brush!
💻 Neo Agency | A Free Website Build for Five Wycombe Businesses 🚀
Starting out in High Wycombe and still without a website? Neo will build you one for free.
Neo is Wycombe’s own web agency, with more than 200 clients so far. To help new businesses get off the ground, they’re building five local firms a new website, then staying on to look after it.
🖥️ Five pages designed around your business
📱 Mobile-friendly, so it works on every device
🔍 SEO groundwork so customers can find you
📩 Clear calls to action that turn visitors into enquiries
🗓️ All Neo asks is a 12 month commitment to a management plan from £65 a month (hosting and domain paid separately)
Hot & Cold Group snapped up the first place. “Getting a business off the ground comes with plenty of costs, so having Neo offer to build our website free of charge has been a massive help,” says Jamie Brewer.
That’s one place gone, with just four left.
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🔍 Family Fun Finder
🥨 Brezelbande: German-Speaking Family Meet-Up
📍 Marlow Bottom Village Hall | 🗓️ Sun 8th Nov, 10.30am
A morning of crafts, songs, stories and games for German-speaking families, with November's theme the Laternenumzug lantern parade.
🌿 Junior Farmers – Goodbye 2026
📍 Rosie’s Petal Patch | 🗓️ Fri 6th Nov, 10am-4pm
The last session of the year, with all-natural messy play to explore seasonal textures and smells. Plus marshmallows toasted on the fire 🔥
🦸 Coffee & Toys Meetup
📍 The Dove Café, Holtspur | 🗓️ Fri 6th Nov, 9:30am
Coffee morning with a soft play corner and an outdoor play space.
🧚 WIN: A Family Ticket to Peter Pan at the Wycombe Swan ✨
Opening night | Friday 11 December 2026 | Wycombe Swan
Oh yes we are! 🙌 We’ve teamed up with the Wycombe Swan to give away two family tickets (2 adults, 2 children) to the opening night of this year’s panto, Peter Pan, on Friday 11 December 🎄
🧚 La Voix is back for her fourth Wycombe panto, this time as a very mischievous Tinker Bell, with plenty of glitter and mayhem. She’s joined by comedian and panto favourite Kev Orkian as Smee, Steven Serlin as Captain Hook, Beth Scott as Peter Pan, Ruby Mann as Wendy and Eleanor Burke as Mrs Darling.
📩 How to enter: Just reply to this email with your full name. Entries close at the end of the day on Wednesday 11 November. Two winners will be picked at random and contacted by email 🍀
🎟️ Can’t wait? Peter Pan runs from Fri 11 Dec to Sun 3 Jan 2027 👉 Book tickets
Culture Vulture
🖼️ Talk: Jessica Hayllar's 'Rhododendrons'
📍 Wycombe Museum | 🗓️ Sun 8th Nov, 2pm
An illustrated talk on Jessica Hayllar, a Victorian artist who painted cosy scenes of middle-class home life.
🪔 Diwali Celebration – Festival of Lights
📍 High Wycombe Library | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov, 11:30am-2.30pm
Women’s Cultural Arena brings dance, art for all ages and traditional sweets. Everyone’s welcome.
🎨 Windmill Artists Art Exhibition & Sale
📍 Lacey Green Millennium Village Hall | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov, 10.30am–4pm
Fourteen local artists show and sell their work for one day only, with coffee, teas and cakes throughout.
✝️ Seeking the Disabled Christ: Panel Discussion
📍 All Saints Church | 🗓️ Fri 6th November, 7pm
Artist Rachel Holdforth joins disabled, neurodivergent and deaf theologians to talk faith and disability.
✏️ Word of Mouth Poetry Social
📍 Wycombe Arts Centre | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov, 7.30pm
Music, readings and an open mic. Bring a poem or just listen.
🪶 Follow The Feathers: First Friday Is Tomorrow 🦢
Friday 6 November | 5–7pm | Guildhall
Spotted the chalk feathers on the pavements this week? They’ve been popping up all over town.
It’s the first First Friday since the clocks went back, so the Guildhall will be glowing under the fairy lights. Finish work, round up whoever’s around, and come and see where the feathers lead.
🎶 Live music from Steph Willis under the Guildhall arches
🦢 Swan signs pointing you to a few side quests around town
🎟️ Free, no tickets, just turn up
Same town, new light. Come and see how it looks after dark ✨
Council Catch-Up
🚌 PickMeUp has gone: the on-demand bus made its final journeys last week when its DfT pilot funding ended, after 277,000+ rides in four years. Carousel says changes to various routes will provide some replacement. But that doesn’t help everyone. Reader Paul Homer from Downley, which has no GP surgery, says he and his wife are “devastated”. PickMeUp took them door to door to the GP and Wycombe Hospital; it was a lifeline for people with limited mobility who don’t qualify for Dial-a-Ride. Farakh Qureshi has started a petition to restore the service 👉 Sign the petition
🏛️ Cabinet, Tuesday 10 November. On next week’s agenda for Wycombe:
Later urgent care? A councillors’ report recommends trialling a 10pm close (currently 8pm) for Wycombe’s Urgent Treatment Centre.
Conservation area grows: Wycombe’s four conservation areas would merge into one, adding Temple End, Totteridge Avenue and Gordon Road, more of the cemetery and London Road east to the cricket club.
Local Plan: Cabinet will be asked to send the Local Plan to Full Council before an inspector examines it. The draft plan proposes new homes on town centre sites including Sword House (375), the Chilterns Centre (300), Easton Street car park (160) and the council offices on Queen Victoria Road (150). Losing car parks that serve the station was a major objection.
Running late: the budget report shows £1.39m of cycleway work and a Sands flood scheme have slipped to 2027/28.
🏪 Shutter refused: the council has refused retrospective permission for the roller shutter at 8A High Street (Phone and Vape Store), saying it “detracts significantly” from the conservation area and nearby listed buildings.
🏫 Have your say on schools: the draft SEND Accessibility Strategy closes on 15th Nov and the Education Places Sufficiency Strategy, which names Wycombe as a pressure area for school, early years and SEND places, closes on 13th Dec.
📌 New on the Wycombe Noticeboard
Here’s what’s new on the Wycombe Noticeboard 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.
Sports & Activities
🏃 Lift the Curfew Run
📍 The Rye | 🗓️ Today, 5.30pm
An after-dark group run to help people exercise safely now the clocks have gone back. All welcome.
🥾 High Wycombe to Saunderton walk
📍 High Wycombe Station | 🗓️ Sun 8th Nov, 10am
A hilly 8-mile guided walk via Hughenden, the Hellfire Caves and the Dashwood Mausoleum.
Community Notes
🗣️ The 2nd High Wycombe Town Meeting
📍 Brunel Shed | 🗓️ Sun 15th Nov, 2-5pm
No speeches, no party politics: conversations, “Vision 2035” ideas and local stalls, aiming to agree one project people can start themselves.
🌺 Poppy Dance
📍 Wycombe Marsh RBL Club | 🗓️ Sat 7th Nov, 8:30pm
DJ Chris Blow, bingo and a raffle, all for the RBL.
☕ Silver Series Coffee Social
📍 Eden Shopping Centre | 🗓️ Mon 9th Nov, 11am
A free monthly coffee morning for older adults. RSVP to hello@atomicbee.co.uk for the exact spot.
Business News
MAKEOVER: The Beech Tree on Amersham Road is closed for a £300,000 Star Pubs refurb. It reopens in early December, with a grand opening on Sat 19 Dec, a new menu of classics plus Italian and Punjabi fusion dishes, and 25 new jobs.
📣 The Marketing Meetup
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Wed 11th Nov, 6pm
An informal meet-up for local marketers.
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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