Welcome

A village website run by villagers for the villagers of Speen, Buckinghamshire.

Speen Pre-School Feasibility Study

A feasibility study is now underway to establish viable options for the most effective provision of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum for children in Speen and the surrounding area over the next 10 years. This will  look specifically at the existing pre-school age range of 2 – 5 years but also to extend consideration to younger age groups if required. If you want to have a say in this matter or for more information, please visit the Pre-School website at www.speenpreschool.org.uk and click on the ‘Feasibility Study’ menu item.

The Mark Experience and other events

Welcome to the Speen Village site on this bitterly cold late-January Friday. As always, time has flown between website updates not helped by a snowy start to the year which kept people occupied with other matters. However, as the snow melts and the drab brown  slush disappears like an unwelcome guest and gives way to brighter crystalline mornings where the sharpness of the air is only alleviated by the beauty of our wondeful village softly cossetted in a diamond-encrusted coat, we now have a flurry of updates.

John Holmes has kindly taken on the management of the online village diary – this is something that you should check regularly to help with your planning for the year. We have been asked to post news on this page of a particularly interesting event at the Old Plow: The Mark Experience looks to be an enlightning and informative evening and the organisers urge you to attend. Last but by no means least, the organisers of the Speen Business Forum have had to cancel the planned networking event in the King William IV on January 29th; the economic and climatic woes of January made for a poor response so the date will move to brighter pastures in Febuary or March now. Check here for more details and updates.

Finally, if you have any updates for this page, we urge you to mail them either John Holmes or Andy Forkgen who will consider them for publication. Please stop by soon!

Post Office Re-Opens

Speen Post Office re-opened during the week of 28th September.

Take a look at this page for the new simplified opening hours.

Summer of Fun in Speen

Summer is always a busy time in Speen and we have a number of exciting events in the coming months to entice locals and visitors out into the village to enjoy the fun and entertainment on offer.  In June we have the Grand Opening of the new village marquee on the 5th, followed by the village Fun Day weekend on the 12 & 13th.  Fun Day kicks off with world music from Kasai Masai on Friday night and on Saturday the annual battle of the village teams will take place on the playing field, this years theme is medieval games.  June events conclude with the annual summer Ball run by Speen School PTA on the 20th.  This years Mad Hatters Ball has the theme of… yes you guessed…. hats!  July sees our annual Village Fete held on the playing fields with many traditional stalls and an exciting programme of events for the main arena.  This year is also a Speen Festival year and while the main festival takes place in September some events and Speen Festival Interactive have already started.

This year’s events look like being some of our best yet, so forget all these ecomonic woes and ‘duck island’ expenses and come out and enjoy yourself!