The Aylesbury Business Against Crime group brings together many local firms to help spot and stop criminal behaviour. In addition to having cameras on their own premises, the members have recently installed CCTV around St Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury.
#AutismAcceptanceWeek has just ended, but Discover Bucks Museum continues to increase understanding of autism in partnership with Hannah Ellams from Inspiring Places. Children can decorate a piece of a giant jigsaw with sensory and glittery items.
Thanks to Cllr Mark Winn Aylesbury East , Cllr Richard Gaster and Cllr Shade Adoh for joining me on a litter pick in a muddy Bedgrove Spinney. Collected a lot of sweet wrappers and plastic bottles. Also discovered some serious fly-tipping - reported on fixmystreet. Keep Britain Tidy
Great to join community volunteers, including Cllr Shade Adoh in Stokenchurch, for a litter pick this morning. Thanks to so many people for turning up to help keep the village tidy as part of the #GBSpringClean
Multiply is a new government-funded scheme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. The Multiply bus was in Aylesbury today, with experts from Buckinghamshire Adult Learning and Cllr Joseph Baum, Deputy Cabinet for Skills highlighting the free courses on offer.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our local economy. One excellent example is JCL Glass based at Gatehouse in Aylesbury. Since it started in 2007, this family firm has grown from two to 25 staff, expanded its factory and made substantial investments in new, high-tech machinery.
Farming is important to the Buckinghamshire economy, so I was pleased to meet Mark from Drovers Hill Farm near Saunderton and Ben from National Farmers Union.
We discussed the challenges to livestock farming resulting from high energy prices and the ways Department for Environment, Food and Rural A
