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Good morning, Wycombe!
It’s the Wycombe Pulse, barrelling into December next week like nobody’s business. Michael Bublé has officially defrosted, Mariah is powering up, and my daughter has been cast as a camel in the school nativity. Naturally.
This week brings a mix of festive fun and non-Santa-related goodness.
Some highlights:
Huge town meeting 🦢
Stories with Father Christmas 🎅🏻
A stunning choral concert at All Saints 🎼
Plus a cracking new comedy night, carol concerts galore, Christmas markets, a panto, men’s mental health workshop and much more.
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Editor’s Highlights
📍Adams Park | 🗓️ Sun 30th Nov | ⏰ 10am-1pm
Run or walk 2.5k or 5k in aid of the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity and the Wycombe Wanderers Foundation. Festive wear encouraged.
📍All Saints’ Church | 🗓️ Sat 29th Nov | ⏰ 7.30pm
High Wycombe Choral Society and Wycombe Sinfonia join forces for an evening of beautiful British choral music.
📍West Wycombe Walled Garden | 🗓️ Fri 28th-Sun 30th Nov | ⏰ 11am-5pm
30+ boutique stalls, wreath bar, creative workshops, festive food & drink, brass band, and serious Christmas cosiness.
📍 The Front Room | 🗓️ Sat 29th Nov | ⏰ 7-11pm
The house band explores Arabic & Middle Eastern jazz — followed by a jam of brilliant local musicians.
📍Hazlemere Community Centre | 🗓️ Sat 29th Nov | ⏰ 7pm doors | 🔞
A new Laughter Craft Comedy night launches with
Angela Barnes (Live at the Apollo)
Zoe Lyons (Mock the Week)
Andrew Bird (tour support for Russell Howard / McIntyre)
📍Brunel Engine Shed | 🗓️ Sunday 30th November | ⏰ 1.30-4.30pm
Have your say on the future of High Wycombe. This community-led town meeting (with some councillors attending) is a chance for residents to come together, share ideas, and help shape a long-term vision for our town.
If you care about Wycombe’s future — from heritage to green spaces to local services — this is a brilliant opportunity to get involved and meet others who do too.
🎅🏻 Festive Fun
🎼 Advent Carols at All Saints Church
Sun 30th Nov | 5pm
A beautiful service on the theme of “light in the darkness.”
🎭 Beauty and the Beast Panto at West Wycombe Village Hall
Thurs 27th- Sat 29th Nov | 7.30pm
The latest production from the Masque Players of West Wycombe!
🎄Ladies of The Full Moon Christmas Party at The Full Moon
Tonight | 7pm
Includes welcome drink, festive grazing platters, Christmas quiz and live music.
🎶 Christmas Carols at The Walled Garden
Sat 29th Nov | 1-3pm
Free to attend and full of festive cheer.
🎄 Markets & Fayres
Lacey’s Farm Shop Christmas Fayre — Sat 29th & Sun 30th Nov, 10-4
Great Missenden Christmas Festival — Sat 29th Nov, 3-8
Hearing Dogs Christmas Market — Sat 29th & Sun 30th Nov, 11-5
Christmas on the Heath, Flackwell Heath — Sat 29th Nov, 3-6
Winter Wanderland Market at Adams Park — Sun 30th Nov, 9-1
Christmas Gift & Craft Fair at Hughenden Village Hall — Sat 29th Nov, 10-3
Naphill Christmas Gift Fayre — Sun 30th Nov, 12-4
West Wycombe Festive Fayre — Weds 3rd Dec, 5-9
🧘🏻♀️ Wellness Moments
🎨🎶 Art Music Wellbeing
📍 The Front Room | 🗓️ Saturday 29th November | ⏰ 2-3.30pm
FREE arts, crafts and wellbeing workshops alongside amazing live music.
📸 MenSnap: Mental Health & Photography Workshop
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Monday 1st December | ⏰ 7pm
A supportive photography group for men. ‘Relationships’ is this month’s topic.
🧘🏻♀️ New Moon Winter Relaxation Class
📍 Penn Village Hall | 🗓️ Friday 28th November | ⏰ 7pm
Breathwork, guided meditation and sound bath.
🔄 Menstrual Cycle Workshop
📍 Slohaus Wild Spa | 🗓️ Friday 28th November | ⏰ 11am
A workshop with “menstruality coach” Chloe Potter to help connect you to your cyclical nature.
🎨 Get Creative
Ikebana Workshop — Wycombe Arts Centre Sun 30th Nov, 11am.
MAOS Acting Workshop — Liston Hall Marlow, tonight, 8pm.
Seaglass Snowflake Decorations — Craft Coop, Sat 29th Nov, 10.30am.
Creative Writing Workshop — Wycombe Arts Centre, Sun 30th Nov, 11am.
Christmas Tealight House Workshop — Walled Garden, Weds 3rd Dec, 5pm.
Fresh Pasta Workshop — Oxmoor Farm, Sun 30th Nov, 11am.
🔍 Family Fun Finder
☃️ The Snowman & The Snowdog in Concert
📍William Borlase School | 🗓️ Sat 29th Nov, various times
Watch the Marlow Orchestra in action!
🪑 Explore! For Home Educators: “Bodgers & Bottomers”
📍Wycombe Museum | 🗓️ Fri 28th Nov, various times
A hands-on workshop exploring our local furniture-making heritage.
🎅🏻 Stories with Father Christmas
📍West Wycombe High Street | 🗓️ Weds 3rd Dec, 5.15-8.45pm
Settle in for a cosy festive storytime as Father Christmas reads a heartwarming tale to groups of up to 16 children. Each paying child receives a gift.
🏓 Girls in Motion Squash
📍Wycombe Air Park | 🗓️ Sun 30th Nov, 10am-1pm
A special event for junior girl squash players aged 5-18 with team activities and games, food and social.
🍫Charlie’s Chocolate Christmas Storytelling
📍Roald Dahl Museum | 🗓️ Sat 29th Nov
Storytelling from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
🚂HWDMRS Open Day
📍Duke St Clubrooms | 🗓️ Sat 29th Nov, 10am-3pm
See their current projects, operate their layouts and test track.
For Parents & Carers
👶🏻 Baby & Child First Aid
📍 The Walled Garden | Mon 1st Dec at 10am
A friendly and hands-on session, perfect for parents, grandparents, nannies and carers.
☕️ Neurodiversity Empowerment Parent Coffee Morning
📍The Crown Penn | Weds 3rd Dec
A professional-facilitated space offering support, shared experiences and practical strategies.
🧩 The Wycombe Wordle
This week is tricky — or at least the Wycombe link is. A quick clue: it was something once discovered here.
Six guesses. You can do it.
Game rules:
🟩 Right letter, right place
🟨 Right letter, wrong place
⬜ Not in the word
🥳 Entertainment
Bed By 10 at Trilogy on Saturday 29th November from 4-9pm — 30+ daytime clubbing with hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s.
LBD Bottomless Brunch at High Wycombe Judo Centre on Saturday 29th November at 12.30pm — get your little black dress ready!
🧠 Pub Quizzes
Tonight: The Crown Penn (7.30pm), Mad Squirrel (8pm), and The Belle Vue (8pm).
Disney Quiz at Butlers on Tuesday 2nd December, 8pm.
🎉 Bingo
At the Front Room on Fri 28th Nov at 7pm.
80s Music Bingo at the Bricklayers Arms on Fri 28th Nov at 8pm.
Sports & Activities
⚽ FOOTBALL
Wycombe Wanderers vs Rotherham United away on Saturday 29th November. KO 3pm.
Wycombe Wanderers vs Northampton Town away on Tuesday 2nd December. KO 7pm.
Wycombe Wanderers FC Women vs AFC Varsity at home on Sunday 30th November. KO 2pm.
🏉 RUGBY
HWRUFC vs Chinnor III away on Saturday 29th November.
🎾 TENNIS
High Wycombe Lawn Tennis 1st Team vs Burnham 1 away on Sunday 30th November at 1pm.
🏃🏻♂️ RUNNING
Regular runs: Parkrun (Saturday, Rye Lido, 9am) | Junior Parkrun (Sunday, Pann Mill, 9am) | Risborough Run In The Park (Sunday, Wades Park, 9am).
🇮🇪 IRISH DANCING
Step & Sip by Dance Irish
📍 Moc & More, Flackwell Heath | 🗓️ Fri 28th Nov | ⏰ 7–8.30pm
Beginner-friendly Irish dance class with BYOB/prosecco options.
🗺️ ORIENTEERING
Keephill & Deangarden Woods Orienteering Races on Saturday 29th November at 10.15am — ideal for all ages and abilities, with different courses for runners and families.
Community Notes
It’s National Tree Week! 🌳
If you’d like to help care for Wycombe’s natural spaces, The Chiltern Rangers have plenty of opportunities to get involved in planting trees and native hedgerows. It’s a simple, hands-on way to boost local habitats, support wildlife, and make our surroundings that little bit greener.
They’re running events throughout this week and into December. Find out more and book your spot via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/national-tree-planting-week-4794579
🎁 Red Kite’s 12 Days of Kindness Returns
Starting Monday 1st December, Red Kite Community Housing is giving away a £200 voucher every weekday (except Fridays) to a local community group.
Nominate your favourite group by commenting on their daily Facebook/Instagram post — closes 3pm daily.
👉 Follow @RedKiteCommunityHousing on Facebook and on Instagram
👉 Tag with #12DaysOfKindness
Business News
🎬 Marlow Film Studios is Approved
The long-debated Marlow Film Studios application has officially been approved by the Secretary of State. While the project has been somewhat controversial locally — particularly around traffic and countryside concerns — it also brings significant opportunities for our area.
The studios are expected to create new training routes, apprenticeships and creative career paths for local young people.
But beyond that, it’s a major investment in our region and could have a huge impact beyond just the film industry.
🍻 New owners for The Antelope & The Three Tuns
Both pubs have been snapped up by community pub operator Admiral Taverns in a wider 21-pub sell-off by RedCat Hospitality.
Admiral says both venues fit its mission to champion “great community pubs” as it grows its national footprint.
(Though apparently… news to The Antelope 😬)
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