Good morning, Wycombe!
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Now… onto the good stuff. This week we’ve got:
🎺 A live brass performance of The Snowman
🍷 An Après-Ski & Alpine wine tasting
🗺️ A brand new American history trail around Wycombe & S Bucks
Plus kids’ festivities galore, carol concerts by the bucketload, twinkly light trails, creative workshops and loads more to dive into.
👶⚽ Kickstart Your Toddler’s Football Journey with BabyBallers High Wycombe!
Looking for a fun, active weekend activity that boosts confidence, coordination and early learning?
BabyBallers High Wycombe offers high-energy football sessions for children aged 16 months to 5 years — packed with imagination, colour games, number play and movement skills.
🏟 Booker Memorial Hall, Limmer Lane, HP12 4QR
📅 Classes every Saturday and Sunday morning
Class times:
• Babies (16m–2.5y): 9:30–10:05
• Minis (2.5–3.5y): 10:15–10:50
• Ballers (3.5–5y): 10:55–11:30
💥 Try your first class FREE!
Spaces fill quickly — come and see why local parents love our friendly, confidence-building sessions.
👉 Book your free trial:
Saturday: https://babyballers-pinner.classforkids.io/term/11
Sunday: https://babyballers-pinner.classforkids.io/term/12
📧 highwycombe@babyballers.com
☎️ 07826 730121
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Editor’s Highlights
🎬 Chiltern Hills Brass presents The Snowman
📍Wycombe Arts Centre | 🗓️ Sunday 14th December | 2 & 4pm
Watch the beloved animated classic on the big screen, with the iconic score performed live by Chiltern Hills Brass. A warm, musical, festive outing for all ages. 🎄
🍷 Après-Ski & Alpine Wine Tasting
📍Peterley Manor Farm | 🗓️ Friday 12th December | 7pm
Warm up with a cosy alpine supper club at The Barn Kitchen. Expect a wine-tasting dinner curated by wine-expert Tim Killen, with wines you can also buy by the glass or in discounted cases.
🎅 Storytime with Mrs Claus
📍Wycombe Museum | 🗓️ Friday 12th Dec | Various times
A relaxed Storytime with Mrs Claus — a gentle festive session perfect for younger children. SEN-friendly session at 11.15am.
🧘♀️ Nervous System Flow
📍Guildhall | 🗓️ Wednesday 17th Dec | 7.30pm
Take a moment to reset with Hanae Harmony — a calming blend of gentle movement and breathwork to soothe stress and restore balance.
🔥 Festivities at the Farm
📍Oxmoor Farm | 🗓️ Friday 12th Dec | 6-11pm
A magical festive evening at Oxmoor Farm with carols by Holy Trinity Church Choir, followed by The Hornbrokers brass band. Enjoy complimentary canapés (6–7pm) plus slow-cooked food over open flames, mulled wine and a full bar.
🇺🇸 Explore the High Wycombe Society’s American Trail
Did you know South Bucks is packed with links to early American history? The HWS American Trail is an 18-mile self-guided route connecting historic sites from Rickmansworth to West Wycombe — including Jordans’ Quaker Meeting House (resting place of William Penn) and Loakes Manor, where Benjamin Franklin once visited.
It’s a brilliant way to explore local heritage, enjoy the Chiltern countryside and uncover the surprising transatlantic stories woven into our towns and villages.
📍 Self-guided trail
🔗 More info & trail maps found here
🔎 Family Festive Fun Finder
🗓️ Friday 12th Dec
Light Trail Event ✨
📍Holmer Green Sensory Garden
⏰ 5-7pm
🎟️ Free
Titchy Toddlers Christmas Special 🎅🏻
📍The Roald Dahl Museum
⏰ 10am-12pm
ℹ️ Exclusive Christmassy access for 4s and under (with their grown-ups!), plus a visit from Santa!
🎟️ £5
🗓️ Saturday 13th Dec
Children’s Christmas Party & Craft Fayre 🎨
📍Loudwater Centre (Boys Club)
⏰ 12-3pm
🎟️ £5 for kids / £2 for adults (Includes a visit with Santa!)
Tickets available on the door.
Penn Street Village Christmas Festival 🍻
📍Penn Street
⏰ 10am-6pm
ℹ️ A full day of festive cheer! Includes a Handmade Christmas Craft Fair, mini beer festival, community carols, and the Christmas tree lights switch-on!
Lighthouse Christmas Crafts & Santa’s Grotto 🌙
📍The Full Moon
⏰ 1.30-5pm
🎟️ £5
Childrens Xmas Party 🎉
📍 The Riverside Club
⏰ 2pm
🎟️ £3
🗓️ Sunday 14th Dec
Children’s Xmas Party 🍗
📍 Wrights Meadow Centre
⏰ 2-5pm
ℹ️ Nuggets & chips, grotto visit, gifts, plus entertainment!
🎟️ £15 members, £20 non-members
Family Christmas Party 🎤
📍Cressex Community Centre
⏰ 3pm
ℹ️ Hosted by John Johnny!
🎟️ Adults £3, children £5
Christmas Nativity 🌟
📍 Christ The Servant King Church
⏰ 3pm
ℹ️ Bring the family for a fun and entertaining take on the nativity story. Mince pies and mulled wine to enjoy at the end!
🎟️ Free
🗓️ Monday 15th-Wednesday 17th Dec
Christmas Fun Family Swimming Session 🏊
📍Flackwell Heath Swim Stars
⏰ Various times
ℹ️ A special Christmas fun session for Swim Stars swimmers, their families, and the local community. Enjoy family-friendly swimming, and holiday cheer.
🎟️ £6
🪷 Wellness Moments
🧘🏻♀️Yoga Retreat Session — Wrights Meadow Centre, Fri 12 Dec, 5pm.
🕯️Women’s Winter Wellness Event — Penn St, Tues 16 Dec, 7.30pm.
🎨 Get Creative
🗓️ Tonight
Brush Party: ‘Christmas Lights’ 🖌️
📍 Spindle & Thread
⏰ 7pm
ℹ️ A fun, festive 'paint and sip' session.
🎟️ £33
🗓️ Saturday, December 13th
Crochet in the Church 🧶
📍All Saints Church
⏰ 10am-1pm
🎟️ FREE (All abilities welcome!)
Gluten Free Workshop with Cecoelia’s 🍋
📍Carrington Junior School
⏰ 10.30am
ℹ️ A festive workshop where you’ll make a delicious gluten-free lemon or chocolate tart
🎟️ £40
🗓️ Sunday, December 14th
Wreath Making Workshop 🌿
📍 The Front Room
⏰ 10.30am
🎟️ £45
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16th
Festive Prosecco Bottle Painting 🍾
📍 The Crown, Penn
⏰ 7pm
ℹ️ Easely Does It workshop: create a hand-painted prosecco bottle with matching flutes.
🎟️ £40pp (Includes all materials, the bottle, and a welcome glass of fizz!)
🗓️ Wednesday 17th Dec
Paint + Sip 🎨
📍Peterley Manor Farm
⏰ 7pm
ℹ️ A fun festive paint-and-sip evening with The Paint Lab. Create a gingerbread-house canvas (all materials & drink included).
🎟️ £55
🎶 Carols & Christmas Music
🗓️ Tonight
🎄 6 Lessons and Carols
📍 St Lawrence’s Church
⏰ 7pm
ℹ️ Refreshments available and free parking.
🗓️ Saturday 13th December
🎄West Wycombe Christmas Concert
📍St Lawrence’s Church
⏰ 7pm
ℹ️ Christmas carols and more from the West Wycombe Chamber Choir.
🎟️ Tickets from £10 (+ booking fee)
🎄 Rowdy Carols
📍Hazlemere Church
⏰ 6pm
ℹ️ Carols plus Christmas tipples and a hog roast!
🗓️ Sunday, December 14th
🎄 The Blue Bird Belles Live
📍 Hughenden NT
⏰ 11am-2pm
ℹ️ Festive jazz music.
🎄 Carols at King’s Church
📍King’s Church
⏰ 11am, 3pm and 6pm
ℹ️ Carols, performances, and a message of hope.
🎄 Carols & Canapés
📍Hazlemere Church
⏰ 7pm
🧺 Markets & Fayres
🎄Christmas Fayre — Cressex Community Centre, Sat 13 Dec, 10-4.
🌟 Christmas Fair — Danesfield House, Sat 13 Dec, 11-3.
👶🏻 Preloved Baby Market — The Front Room, Weds 17 Dec, 5-8.
🥳 Entertainment
💃🏻 Drag Night with Luna
📍The Bricklayers Arms
🗓️ Sat 13 Dec, 8pm
🎯 Christmas Boogie Bingo
📍Adams Park
🗓️ Tonight, 6.30pm
Pub Quizzes
At The Full Moon Little Kingshill on tonight at 8.30pm
At the Belle Vue on tonight at 8pm
Sports & Activities
⚽ FOOTBALL
Wycombe Wanderers vs Burton Albion away on Saturday 13th December. KO 3pm.
Wycombe Wanderers FC Women vs Beaconsfield Town at home on Sunday 14th December. KO 2pm.
🏉 RUGBY
HWRUFC vs Oxford at home on Saturday 13th December.
HW Belles Women vs Ruislip RFC Women away on Sunday 14th December.
🏃🏻♂️ RUNNING
Regular runs: Parkrun (Saturday, Rye Lido, 9am) | Junior Parkrun (Sunday, Pann Mill, 9am) | Risborough Run In The Park (Sunday, Wades Park, 9am).
🧩 The Wycombe Wordle
Six guesses to find the word — this time it’s a famous name with a Wycombe link. Let me know if you get it!
Game rules:
🟩 Right letter, right place
🟨 Right letter, wrong place
⬜ Not in the word
Community Notes
🔨 Wycombe Repair Cafe is on this Saturday 13th December in All Saints Church from 10am-1pm. Bring along any broken items and textiles for restoration and repair.
💸 High Wycombe Town Committee Grants
Local community group or charity? You may be eligible for:
Up to £1,500 for events or projects
Up to £10,000 (50% match funding) for community building improvements
📩 For support or to discuss your idea: partnerships&communities@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
🔗 More info: High Wycombe Town Community Grants
A great opportunity to boost local projects!
🎉 Refresh Wycombe Is Moving!
Great news — Refresh Wycombe is relocating to a new home at 16 Church Street (the old Collectibles unit).
They’ll close their current shop in the Chilterns on 21 Dec and plan to reopen in the new space on 13 Jan.
They’re looking for local volunteers to help with painting, packing, light DIY and moving days over Christmas and early January.
👉 Offer help here
👉 Or email info@refreshwycombe.org
A brilliant community project entering an exciting new chapter!
That’s a wrap for this week’s Pulse!
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