Hughenden Valley Residents Association

Category: Covid-19

  • Message from the Chair of Hughenden Parish Council

    National Volunteer Week
    5th June 2020

    Dear Volunteer,

    The arrival of the pandemic to our shores has bought so much unhappiness to countless families but it has also bought out the volunteer spirit and opened a stream of kindness across the UK.
    There have been so many helpful neighborly acts by residents, be it as part of the organized support groups that have sprung up across the Parish or as individuals, that it is not possible to personally thank you.
    In National Volunteer Week I would like to thank you all on behalf of the Parish Council for your help to our community.
    Hopefully we are on the slow steps back to normality from this awful situation but even so there will still be a need for your ongoing support for some time to come as many residents will continue to require your help.

    Thank you once again for your kindness.
    Stay safe

    Paul
    Paul Nicholls
    Chairman
    Hughenden Parish Council

  • Bucckinghamshire Council – National Volunteers week

    National Volunteers week 2020

  • Update from the Village Shop

    The Village Shop

  • Trading Standards alert over ‘test and trace’ scammers

    Virus lockdown has seen an estimated 40% increase in reported doorstep, phone and email scams across Buckinghamshire, and Trading Standards say their priority is to protect residents from potential text, email and phone frauds based on the new NHS Test & Trace system. More detail here.

    Contact tracers will:

    • call you from 0300 013 5000
    • send you text messages from ‘NHS’
    • ask you to sign into the NHS test and trace contact-tracing website
    • ask for your full name and date of birth to confirm your identity, and postcode to offer support while self-isolating
    • ask about the coronavirus symptoms you have been experiencing
    • ask you to provide the name, telephone number and/or email address of anyone you have had close contact with in the two days prior to your symptoms starting
    • ask if anyone you have been in contact with is under 18 or lives outside of England

    Contact tracers will never:

    • ask you to dial a premium rate (09 or 087) number to speak to them
    • ask you to make any form of payment or purchase a product or any kind
    • ask for any details about your bank account
    • ask for your social media identities or login details, or those of your contacts
    • ask you for any passwords or PINs, or ask you to set up any passwords or PINs over the phone
    • disclose any of your personal or medical information to your contacts
    • provide medical advice on the treatment of any potential coronavirus symptoms
    • ask you to download any software to your PC or ask you to hand over control of your PC, smartphone or tablet to anyone else
    • ask you to access any website that does not belong to the government or NHS

  • Bucks Council news 14th May

    The Newsletter covers the start of easing the lockdown, & other issues.

  • Street Association – News No 8

    Newsletter on 6th May

  • Wycombe Support Hub – 15th May

    Process for cancelleing food parcels, Food boxes from ASDA, sources of help for victims of domestic abuse. Guidance for dealing with scams.

    Details here.

  • Why kindness works for everyone – Mental Health Awareness week

    We need to think about our own mental health as much as that of others around us.

    This year’s theme is ‘kindness’ and we’ve been reflecting on how events of the past few months can make us forget to take time for ourselves. We’ve all experienced worry about loved ones, our jobs or finances and the changes to our day to day life which makes it really important for our mental health to keep checking in on ourselves too.

    Some useful tips are here.

  • Spike in doorstep crime as lockdown is eased

    Doorstep criminals have scammed a Buckinghamshire resident out of £20,000 for spurious roof repairs while his wife was in hospital being treated for Covid-19.

    Residents need to be aware of this threat & how to protect themselves & others.

    Read more here.

  • Medical students make calls to vulnerable residents shielding from coronavirus

    Medical students from the University of Buckingham are making regular ‘check-in’ phone calls to local elderly and vulnerable residents who are shielding from Covid-19. The calls allow the students to make sure the residents are feeling okay, and to check that they are receiving food parcels and any medication that they may need.

    Read more here.