ST NEOTS FOODBANK St Neots Foodbank is part of the Trussell Trust, providing emergency food for local people in crisis and is run entirely by volunteers. In addition to a longlife box of food people who use the foodbank are given a box of fruit, vegetables and eggs, giving them

THE JOHN BUNYAN COMMUNITY BOAT The Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust is a charity established in 1995 to promote a new 16-mile Waterway Park, incorporating a new navigable waterway connecting the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes to the River Great Ouse near Bedford. By car from St Neots

HOPE BECAME THE ENEMY Igrew up in a very small village in Essex where the most exciting thing that happened was the fortnightly visit from the library van. As I delved into those exciting adventures, I dreamt of being one of the heroines inside those books. Once I left school,

LEMONADE FOR UKRAINE Brody; An amazing little boy raising money for Ukrainian refugees. Brody is a 4-year-old lad from St Neots who started up his lemonade stand after watching the news with myself (mum) and seeing a little girl crying saying she doesn’t want to die as they hid in

CENTRE GUIDE Some Bonus spring content from our friends at Realfit Centre, click below to download their guide to learn about all the Realfit community and their ethos to Health, Wellbeing and Fitness. Centre Guide Download Keep an eye out on their social media for some great new

MAY DAY IN EATON SOCON IS BACK! May Day has been a special day in Eaton Socon, certainly since before living memory. The entire village green would be given over to traditional dancing and other festivities, and the whole community would turn out to watch. ESCA has now been organising

VOLUNTEERING Volunteering by definition is offering to do something of your own accord, with no payment at the end – this is why I started to take part in Girlguiding, specifically the Brownies section. I started the journey, when I prematurely left school due to the pandemic - I wanted

MEET THE ROMANS Come and meet the Romans on Saturday 12th March at the Friends of St Neots Museum family open day. Meet members of the Longthorpe Roman Legion, resplendent in their replica armour and find out what life was like for a Roman soldier. Try on armour (child size

CONSUMER ADVICE The worst of the winter weather may be over, but with ongoing headlines of utility bill hikes and more of us permanently working from home – how can we save money? Popping on the kettle for that extra cuppa, keeping the chill off during daytime hours and having

IN PRAISE OF SNOWDROPS By the time you read this article, you will have almost certainly seen and admired your first garden snowdrop of the year. In local parklands and woodlands, many come into flower at the end of January, and in these dark days the snowdrop brings much needed