🎁 £100 D'Luna Gift Card Giveaway!

Good morning, Wycombe!

This is issue 100. One h u n d r e d. When I started the Pulse a couple of years ago, I hadn’t planned much past issue two, so this feels like a real milestone — and it’s entirely down to you. Thanks for opening these emails, replying, sharing, and putting up with the bad jokes and random rants along the way.

To say thanks, there’s a giveaway competition below for a voucher to my favourite Wycombe restaurant. Consider it a small bribe to keep you around for issue 200 😉

Enough about that — on to the week ahead, and it’s a busy one:

🚨Emergency Services Day on the High St
🪏 Go behind the scenes of Bucks’ biggest archaeological dig
🧙🏻‍♀️ Wildflower & witchcraft walk

Plus we’ve got loads of events for Dads, an Ibiza night at the Airpark, news of a brand new festival, and much more.

🤣 Select Comedy Club @ Patch — Thursday 9th July 😂

Wycombe's got its own proper comedy club now — and the line-up for this one is no joke.

Select Comedy Club's final show before the summer break has pulled together a genuinely brilliant bill, headed up by a man who's sold out arenas with a live-action video game (yes, really).

🎭 Headliner: John Robertson — the human hurricane behind cult hit The Dark Room, with 12 SOLD OUT Edinburgh Fringes, last year’s best-reviewed UK comic, and a "not to be missed" from The Guardian
🎙️ Matt Rouse: BBC New Comedy Award nominee, as seen on Channel 4's The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
🎤 Hosted by: your lovable local, award-nominated Elliot Wengler — plus more acts to be announced

📍 Patch, the Old Library Building
📅 Thursday 9th July — doors 7:30pm, show 8pm
🎟️ £10 a ticket, or grab the 2-for-£15 earlybird before 4th July
💌 Wycombe Pulse readers get an extra £4 off with code PULSE (that makes it a seriously sweet deal…)

Earlybird tickets are going fast — don't leave this one too late!

👉 Book your tickets on Eventbrite

Editor’s Highlights

🚨 Emergency Services Day 2026

📍 High Street | 🗓️ Sun 5th Jul, 10am–4pm 
Come and meet your local heroes and crews plus emergency vehicle displays, live demonstrations, CPR and safety education. A brilliant free day out for all the family.

🎭 Open Air Theatre: The Tempest

 📍 Wycombe Museum Gardens | 📅 Sun 5th July, 1.30pm 
Unbound Theatre's Buckinghamshire Shakespeare Festival returns with The Tempest — magic, revenge and a reckoning, suitable for ages 7+.

🎶 Ibiza Comes to Wycombe Airpark 

📍 Wycombe Air Park | 📅 Fri 3rd July, 6–11pm
Sunshine, big beats, and good company — Heart and Soul Hub bring the full Ibiza experience to an unexpected local venue.

⛏️ Open Day – Mesolithic Excavation at Slate Meadow 

📍 Wooburn Green | 🗓️ Sat 4th Jul, 10am–3pm
A rare, free, behind-the-scenes look at the largest archaeological dig in Bucks, where significant prehistoric remains have been unearthed. Meet the archaeologists, watch a flintknapping demonstration and explore finds displays.

🧘 Wild Yoga at The Patch

📍 Rosie’s Petal Patch, The Walled Garden | 📅 Sun 5th Jul, 2:30pm 
A peaceful 90-minute outdoor yoga session among the flowers at The Patch, guided by expert instructor Maria.

Wellness Moments

☕ Coffee & Conrods 
📍 The Walled Garden, West Wycombe | 🗓️ Every Wednesday, 9:30–11:30am 
A weekly meet-up for blokes who love machines — cars, motorbikes, you name it. Run by Men with Machines, a CIC tackling social isolation among older men.

🔔 Sound Bath: Deep Summer Rest 
📍 Hughenden Village Hall | 📅 Fri 3rd July, 7.30pm 
A deeply restorative evening of guided breathwork and crystal singing bowl sound healing.

🎭 Infinity Performing Arts | Adult Summer Workshops 💃🎶

Movement 🕺 Vocals 🎤 Drama 🎞️ and more 🎨 — Infinity PA's adult summer workshops are here, and they’re going to be an absolute blast.

Infinity Performing Arts is running a series of Sunday workshops for adults covering performing arts in all its forms — and even a sip and paint too. A proper full day of doing something different, something creative, something joyful.

No performing experience necessary! This is a completely pressure-free space for getting your body and brain moving, and trying something new.

Your guide is Auriol — a working performer with credits including Mamma Mia, Saturday Night Fever and The Full Monty, who knows exactly how to make a room full of people have the best time.

Any level, any gender, any age 18+. All very welcome.

📅 Four Sundays: 19 July • 2 Aug • 16 Aug • 30 Aug
🕙 10am – 4pm
📍 Fitworks Gym, Beaconsfield HP9 1AL
🎟️ £60 per workshop | £200 for all four
✨ Wycombe Pulse readers get 10% off — just mention us when you book!

👉 Contact Auriol to grab your place: 07909 683407 | [email protected]

🪑 Chair Festival Fun

This July, Wycombe Museum's Chair Festival celebrates the trade that built our town. A few highlights this week:

Talk: Chair & Chair Alike 
📍 Wycombe Museum | 📅 Fri 3rd July, 2pm 
Local historian Sally Scagell uncovers the eventful lives of chairmakers buried in High Wycombe Cemetery — from lavish family plots to bankruptcy…

📚Chair Festival Storytime & Craft 
📍 High Wycombe Library | 📅 Sat 4th July, 11am 
Chair-themed stories and a craft activity for children aged 4+. Free.

🏭 William Hands Factory Tour & Talk 
📍 William Hands Factory, Dashwood Avenue | 📅 Wed 8th July, 10am 
A rare behind-the-scenes look at one of Wycombe's last surviving furniture factories.

💃 Creative Dance Workshop: The Chairs Are Alive!
📍 Wycombe Museum | 📅 Wed 8th July, 10am 
What do museum chairs get up to when no one's looking? They dance! A whimsical movement workshop for preschoolers aged 3–5, with Dew Dance.

👉 Read our full guide to the Chair Festival 2026 →

🎉 100 Issues — Win £100 at D'Luna

We’ve hit 100 issues. To say thanks, one lucky reader is winning a £100 gift card to D'Luna, the delicious Brazilian restaurant on Crendon Street.

How to enter: Reply to this email with your full name. I’ll pick a winner at random.

If you win, I'll ask for your address to send the physical gift card.

The small print:
Open to Wycombe Pulse subscribers aged 18+. Entries close Wednesday 8 July, 11:59pm. Winner notified Thursday 9 July. Accept by Sunday 12 July or I'll redraw. Redeemable at D'Luna, High Wycombe — no cash alternative.

🔍 Family Fun Finder

🎭 Folk Tales for Curious Minds
📍 Theatre on the Farm, Thame | 🗓️ Sun 5 July, 12pm & 4:30pm
Puppetry, music and audience participation bring traditional British folk tales to life.

🎪 Booker Common Summer Fair 
📍 Booker Common | 📅 Sat 4th Jul, 12–6pm
A free community summer fair — live music, fairground rides, dog show, bar & BBQ, stalls, face painting, classic cars, army vehicles and more.

🎂 Woodrow's 80th Birthday Bash
📍 Woodrow High House | 🗓️ Sat 4 Jul, 12pm–5pm
Woodrow is turning 80 with a free family day out — high ropes, archery, bushcraft, live music, food stalls, face painting and a raffle.

🌈 Bucks Rainbow Families Meet-Up
📍 Odds Farm | 🗓️ Sun 5th Jul, 10:30am 
The first Bucks Rainbow Families event — an open invitation to LGBTQ+ families to connect over a fun day out.

🪵 KraftinWood Closing Down Sale — Final Pieces At Kraft Village

Last chance to own something genuinely one-of-a-kind.

After 25+ years turning native and exotic woods into one-of-a-kind pieces, Robert Bishop is retiring — and the whole gallery is clearing out. Once a piece sells, it’s gone for good.

🛒 Hundreds of reduced items — bowls, hollow forms, vases, hand-carved leaves, wood-turned fruit
🎨 Plus paintings, raku ceramics, handmade lace, batik cards, photography prints and more
📍 Kraft Village, Grafton Street, HP12 3AJ
🗓️ Mon, Tue, Fri & Sat 9am–5pm | Sun 12–5pm (closed Wed & Thu)
🅿️ Free parking — follow the brown tourist signs to the Chair Making Museum

👉 Find out more at kraftinwood.com

Entertainment

• 🎵 Live Music Bingo |📍 B'Hive | 🗓️ Sat 4th July, 8:30pm

• 🍺 Hawksmore Brewery Tasting |📍 The Crown, Penn | 🗓️ Tonight, 4–7pm

• ☀️ Summer Terrace Party |📍 Magnolia Park | 📅 Sat 4th July, 3pm–11pm

• 💃🏻 Fanny Burns | 📍O’Neill’s | 📅 Fri 3rd July, 9pm

• 🎵 Thames Valley Soul Club – Northern Soul Night |📍 The Riverside Club | 🗓️ Fri 3 July, 7:30pm–midnight

Quiz Nights

• Belle Vue | Tonight | 8pm

• Hazlemere C of E School | Fri 3 July | 7.45pm

• The Crown Penn | Tonight | 7.30pm

Sports and Activities

🌿 Tai Chi Qigong with Vitality Qigong
📍 Downley Common | 📅 Weds, 6–7pm
Beginners welcome. £10 per session; email [email protected] to arrange an induction.

🧘 Mat Pilates Intro Class
📍 Wycombe Museum | 🗓️ Sun 5th Jul, 10am 
A brand new Pilates class — and the first session just £7.50 (half price intro gift!). Open to all levels.

🧘 Headstand & Arm Balance Yoga Workshop
📍 B'Hive Cafe & Bar | 🗓️ Sat 4th Jul, 2pm
A 2-hour Hatha workshop covering warmup, drills and step-by-step progressions using props. All levels welcome.

🥾 Adventure Women UK: Chilterns Circular Walk
📍 Meet Saunderton Station | 🗓️ Sat 4 July, 9am
An 18km circular walk through the Chilterns via West Wycombe, Hughenden Manor and Naphill — rolling hills, ancient woodland and sweeping views.

🗓️ Dates for your Diary

Shakespeare, SIX & sound baths: what's on this July

36 things to do in Wycombe this July 👉 read the post

Community Notes

🛍️ The Sunday Market — The 999 Edition 
📍 High Street | 📅 Sun 5th July, 11am–4pm 
This edition runs alongside Emergency Services Day 2026, so expect stalls and good vibes.

🎓 Clearing Made Clear – BNU 
📍 BNU | 🗓️ Wed 8th Jul, 5–7pm 
Experts from Admissions, Student Support and the Students' Union explain how Clearing works and how to support your young person’s choice.

Business News

📣 Buckinghamshire Marketing Meetup Relaunch 
📍 Patch | 🗓️ Wed 8th Jul, 6pm 
Marketers, founders and business leaders come together for an evening of ideas, inspiration and connection.

What you missed on socials this week…

• Bucks Council wants your say on filling empty High St shops 🏬

• Wycombe's old photo archive SWOP just got a glow-up 📸

• The Food Warehouse opens its doors on 14 July 🛒

• BNU wants 40 local pros to mentor its students 🎓

The Wycombe Wordle

Six guesses. Five letters. One Wycombe connection. Let me know if you get it!

🟩 Right letter, right spot
🟨 Right letter, wrong spot
⬜ Not in the word

👉 [Play here]

That’s a wrap for this week’s Pulse!

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Steph