🏴‍☠️ Brand New Soft Play Opens Saturday

Good morning, Wycombe!

Something's got the event hosts of this town absolutely on it this June — because this week's edition is packed.

Some highlights:

🎨 The Big Art Show 2026 has arrived
🐴 Women’s wellness day with horses
🍓 It’s time to PYO strawberries!

Plus: the Pride lowdown, a wild feast, big gallery sale, a brand new Pulse columnist, and more.

Editor’s Highlights

🎭 Select Comedy Club — Pride Week Special

📍 Patch | 📅 Tonight, 7:30pm 
Headlined by rising star Russell Arathoon — who won The Comedy Store's King Kong on his first ever gig — this is Wycombe's grassroots comedy night with a Pride twist. Get £3 off with code PULSE.

🏴‍☠️ Pirates Landing opens at Eden 

📍 Eden | 📅 Opens Sat 13th June 
Eden finally gets its own soft play — Pirates Landing opens this Saturday, with sessions for kids up to 12. Tickets from £7.50; adults go free. Book in advance online.

🎪 NapFest 2026 

📍 Naphill Village | 📅 Fri 12th & Sat 13th June
Friday night kicks off with outdoor cinema, followed by a DJ and food trucks. Saturday brings the village fete (11am–4pm), then live bands from 5pm.

🎨Talk and Tea: An Arts and Crafts Country House & Garden 

📍 St Peter & St Paul Church, Great Missenden | 📅 Sat 13th June, 2.30pm 
An illustrated talk on a Liberty-linked Arts and Crafts house and garden hidden in the Chilterns, followed by a full afternoon tea, raffle and home-made preserves.

🔥Wild Feast: Holly Middleton-Joseph 

📍 Oxmoor Farm | 📅 Sat 13th & Sun 14th June
Holly Middleton-Joseph — Head Chef of Peckham's Hausu and a 2026 National Restaurant Awards Rising Star — brings her fire-cooked, heritage-inspired menu to the Chilterns for a four-course outdoor feast.

🎨 The Big Art Show 2026 — Five Days of Art, Music & Creativity in High Wycombe

Wycombe has its own art show — and it's completely free to attend. ✨

Wycombe Arts Centre is filling its doors (and garden) with original artwork, live music, artist demos and family-friendly activities for five days this June. Whether you're a proper art lover or just fancy a creative day out, it's the kind of event that leaves you feeling truly inspired.

📅 Sat 13th / Sun 14th / Wed 17th / Sat 20th / Sun 21st June
🕚 11am – 4pm each day
📍 Wycombe Arts Centre, Desborough Road
🎟️ Free entry
🎨 Original artwork from local and participating artists
🎶 Live music in the garden every Saturday
👨‍👩‍👧 Family-friendly activities and creative demos throughout

A genuinely lovely way to spend a few hours — and a great opportunity to experience art, music and community together in one space.

👉 Follow them on Instagram for all the updates!

🌿 The Wycombe Wellness Day — Sunday 28th June

A whole day, just for you.

Not a crowded expo. Not a hard sell. The Wycombe Wellness Day is a small, intentional gathering of local wellbeing practitioners — designed to help you slow down, explore, and actually enjoy looking after yourself.

📅 Sunday 28th June, 9am–5pm
📍 Hilltop Community Centre
✨ Yoga, Pilates, breathwork & meditation sessions
🌿 Talks, workshops & 1-to-1 time with local practitioners
🍽️ Plant-based lunch + unlimited herbal teas included
💆 Holistic treatment tasters on the day — with full sessions bookable separately
🎟️ £91 per person — only 30 places remaining

Whether you're curious about therapies you've never tried, or you just need a Sunday that's genuinely restorative — this is a lovely way to spend it.

Spaces are going fast.

👉 Book your place here 

Culture Vulture

🎨 Migration, Journeys & New Beginnings 
📍 We Make Wycombe Hub | 📅 Selected dates 13th–27th June, 11am–4pm 
Art from Hope and Kind Creative showcasing work made with residents from different cultural backgrounds exploring migration and new beginnings.

🚶History on our High Street 
📍 Pann Mill to Wycombe Museum | 📅 Wed 17th June, 10–11.30am 
A free guided walking tour uncovering the hidden history of High Wycombe's High Street.

🩰 Still Pointless: BalletBoyz at 25 
📍 Wycombe Swan Theatre | 📅 Sat 13th June, 7:30pm 
Ten world-class dancers celebrate BalletBoyz's 25th anniversary in a stunning retrospective of live dance and film. A co-production with Sadler's Wells.

🎭 As You Like It
📍 Hall Barn, Beaconsfield | 📅 Today–Sat 13th June 
Chiltern Shakespeare Company's 40th anniversary production — open-air theatre in the grounds of a beautiful estate. Plus picnics available to pre-order.

Get Creative

✏️ The Art of Urban Sketching: Figures
 📍 Patch | 📅 Weds 17th June, 6:30pm
Ever wanted to capture a busy street scene or café moment in a sketch? Rory Neary's relaxed, all-abilities workshop focuses on adding figures to your sketches.

🍣 Sushi Making Workshop 
📍 The Front Room | 📅 Sat 13th June, 11am
Learn to make four types of authentic sushi including smoked salmon temari, sweet corn gunkan and a salmon temaki.

🎨 Art for Wellbeing Club
📍 Wycombe Arts Centre | 📅 Sun 14th June 2026, 10am 
A relaxed, no-pressure space to make art, unwind, and take a bit of time for yourself — the opening session is free, with a pay-what-you-can model to follow.

🌿 Rare Plant Fair  
📍 Bledlow Manor House Gardens | 📅 Sun 14th June, 11am-6pm 
Browse rare plants in the award-winning 12-acre grounds of Bledlow Manor, with a Japanese water garden, walled kitchen garden and sculpture.

🪵 KraftinWood Closing Down Sale — Still On At Kraft Village

The sale is still running — and there are still bargains to be had.

Robert Bishop has spent over 25 years turning native and exotic woods into one-of-a-kind pieces. Now he's retiring, and everything must go.

Once these pieces are sold, they're gone for good — no two are alike, and none will be made again.

📍 Kraft Village, Grafton Street, HP12 3AJ
🛒 Hundreds of reduced items: bowls, hollow forms, vases, hand-carved leaves, tactile wood-turned apples and pears
🎨 Gallery also includes paintings, raku ceramics, handmade lace, batik cards, photography prints and more
🗓️ Open Mon, Tue, Fri & Sat 9am–5pm | Sun 12–5pm | Closed Wed & Thu
🅿️ Free parking — permits available on arrival
🚗 Follow the brown tourist signs to the Chair Making Museum

This is a proper clearance — everything reduced, nothing held back.

👉 Find out more at kraftinwood.com

🔍 Family Fun Finder

🐺 Wolf Boy – Outdoor Theatre 
📍 The Walled Garden | 📅 Sat 13th Jun, 11am & 2pm
An immersive, interactive open-air theatrical adventure for families.

🧸 Stay and Play 
📍 St Mary and St George Church | 📅 Sat 13th June, 9:30–11:30am 
A free drop-in for 0–4 year olds and their grown-ups, run by SMG Church on the second Saturday of every month (except August). Refreshments provided.

🍓 Pick Your Own Strawberries
📍 Peterley Manor Farm | 🗓️ Open from Sunday 8 June, 9am–4pm (last entry 3pm)
Strawberry season is here! Head to the fields to pick your own sun-ripened berries straight from the plant — free to enter, you just pay for what you pick.

Entertainment

🎵 Micklefields Reggae Fest 
📍 Micklefield Community Centre | 📅 Sat 13th June, 1-10pm 
Free festival with live music, DJ sets spinning reggae and dancehall, authentic Caribbean food and rum cocktails.

🏍️ Annual Solstice Bike Show
📍 The Dashwood Roadhouse | 🗓️ Wed 17 June, 6pm
Rev up your summer with live music from The Lynch Mob and food from the Fusion Kitchen.

💿 90s Day Party 
📍 Labyrinth Bar & Club | 📅 Sat 13th June, 3pm–8pm 
A daytime disco packed with nonstop 90s anthems.

🍺 Brickies Beer, Ale & Cider Fest 2026
📍 The Bricklayers Arms | 🗓️ Today–Sun 14 Jun
Four days of beer, ale and cider action at The Brickies in Downley — with tap takeovers, a quiz night, special food menus, live music and a kids’ pizza party.

🔥 Open Fire Thursdays
📍 Oxmoor Farm | 📅 Every Thursday from tonight
Flame-kissed cooking over the Big Green Egg is back for summer. Expect a changing meat and vegetarian dish each week plus reduced-price wines.

🎱 Prize Bingo
📍 West Wycombe Village Hall | 🗓️ Saturday 13 June, doors 7pm (eyes down 7:30pm)
Community bingo night raising funds for West Wycombe Village Hall improvements.

Sports and Activities

🎾 TENNIS

HW Lawn Tennis Club has away fixtures this weekend.

🏏 CRICKET

View HWCC’s fixtures for this week.

🏃🏻‍♂️ RUNNING

Regular runs: Parkrun (Saturday, Rye Lido, 9am) | Junior Parkrun (Sunday, Pann Mill, 9am) | Risborough Run In The Park (Sunday, Wades Park, 9am).

Community Notes

🗑️ Loudwater Litter Pick
 📍 Loudwater Centre | 📅 Sat 13th Jun, 10am–12pm
The Loudwater Village Residents Association's first community litter pick — all equipment provided, plus cake and refreshments.

🌿 Wilding Women 
📍 Funges Meadow | 📅 Mon 15th June, 10am
A free women-only outdoor session for connection, conservation and nature, led by female Rangers from Chiltern Rangers. No experience needed.

👕 Clothes Bank 
📍 Christ The Servant King Church | 📅 Fri 12th June, 10.30–11.30am 
Free pre-loved kids' clothes (0–14 years) up for grabs, plus hot drinks, cake, and toys to keep little ones busy while you browse.

🗓️ Dates for your Diary

🪢 Macrame Boho Jar Creative Session 
📍 Cornerstone Hall | 📅 Thurs 18th June
Decorate your own boho jar using macrame with Create Your Happy — pick your pattern, work at your own pace, and your ticket includes hot drinks and homemade treats.

🍷 Wine Tasting at The Stables 
📍 The Stables Wine Shop | 📅 Fri 26th June
A curated tasting of 7 wines — hosted by Lloyd's Wines during English Wine Week.

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!

Have a splendiferous weekend — but before you dash…

❤️ Know someone who’d love this? Please forward it.
📬 Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe here so you don’t miss next Thursday’s edition.
👋 We’re chatting all week on Instagram and Facebook — come say hi!
🗓️ Got an event or local story? Just hit reply.

See you next Thursday,
Steph