Community Services and Facilities

Allotments
Car Share
Churches
Community Centre
Library
Local Newsletter
Marina
Neighbourhood Watch
Parish Council
Parochial Charities
Patients' Association
Playgroup
Post Office
Schools
Surgery

Allotments

For the keen gardeners there are a number of allotments at the A1 end of Silver Street. Contact Buckden Parish Council (buckdenclerk@btconnect.com) for more information.

Car Share

If you regularly drive from Buckden to a local railway station, this could be for you! Find out more information on the car share web page.

Churches

Three churches serve the spiritual needs of the village, they are:

The Parish Church of St Mary
The historic parish church of St Mary's is located in Church Street not far from the junction with the High Street.
The Parochial Church Council, together with the vicar and churchwardens, is responsible for the running of St Mary's Church. It is responsible for promoting in the parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It is elected annually at the church Annual General Meeting and any person on the church's electoral roll is entitled to serve on the council. It is responsible for the running of services, upkeep of the church, all decision making and all financial matters relating to the church.
For information about the church, its history, details of services, current projects and activities, please visit St Mary's website at www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/buckden
Catholic Church of St. Hugh of Lincoln
St Hugh's Roman Catholic Church is located within Buckden Towers, the entrance to which can be found in the High Street. For information about the church, parish, its personalities and activities, please visit St. Hugh's website at sthughs.claret.org.uk.
Buckden Methodist Church
The Buckden Methodist Church is located in Church Street close to the junction with Silver Street.

Also, there is the Trinity Village Baptist Church in nearby Perry, Cambridgeshire. (Perry is west of Buckden and south of Grafham Water.)

For more information on the churches and how they work together in and around the village, please visit the Buckden Churches Together (BCT) website at www.bctc.fsnet.co.uk .

The new Buckden Millennium Community Centre and Sports Pavilion is a village focal point and provides much needed amenities for many of the groups and societies in Buckden. It was built at a cost of nearly £700,000 of which half came from donations made by local residents, companies and organisations, and half from the Millennium Commission. (It is understood that the project is one of the largest of its type to be funded by the commission.)

The main hall is large enough to accommodate sizeable functions ranging from wedding receptions to antiques fairs, whilst a stage and workshop area at the far end of the hall allows the local theatre group to stage regular amateur dramatic productions. The hall also accommodates the local village club, children's playgroup and youth club as well as housing the new village library.

The Sports Pavilion provides changing and showering facilities for the various local sports groups and is located adjacent to the Community Centre.

The Buckden Millennium Community Centre and Sports Pavilion has a sizeable car park and is accessed via Burberry Road. The complex is well sign-posted from Buckden High Street. If you wish to enquire about hiring the hall, please ring 01480 811101.

Library

Buckden Library is housed in the Millennium Community Centre in Burberry Road. In addition to offering normal library services it also has several computers that can be used by members to access the Internet. Children of all ages are most welcome in the library. For more information, please visit Buckden Library's web page.

Local Newsletter

The Buckden Roundabout is an informative monthly newsletter which is delivered free to all properties in the village. It has entries from various local groups and societies and lists village events for the coming month. Also included is a newsheet from the parish council which details the progress of various project such as the new Community Centre and preparations for the Millennium celebrations. The Buckden Roundabout is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know what is going on in the village!

Marina

Just outside of the village, on the way to the Offords, is Buckden Marina which offers various sports and leisure facilities such as a health and fitness club and swimming pool. Find out more by visiting the Buckden Marina web page.

Neighbourhood Watch

Buckden is fortunate to have an active Neighbourhood Watch (BNW) organisation that effectively covers the whole of the village. Please visit the BNW's web page to find out how the organisation is helping to make Buckden a safer place in which to live.

Parish Council

The Buckden Parish Council meets on the second Tuesday of each month (except for August when there is no meeting) at the Buckden Millennium Community Centre. Members of the public are welcome to attend the meetings. For more details of the Parish Council and for an archive of past newsletters, please visit the Buckden Parish Council's webpage.

Parochial Charities

Several charities exist in the village to provide immediate relief to residents of Buckden who find themselves in unexpected hardship and to make occasional donations to village organisations providing communal amenities. The charities are managed by a group of trustees that also administer the two sets of Almshouses in Buckden. More information can be found on the Buckden Parochial Charities webpage.

Patients' Association

The Buckden Surgery Patient's Association (BSPA) runs a voluntary car scheme to help patients who, because of disability or lack of transport, would otherwise have difficulty in keeping their medical appointments. The BSPA is also responsible for raising funds to purchase specialist medical equipment and for running a medical library in the Surgery's waiting room. For more information, please visit the BSPA's web page.