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The Club held a Santa Float collections Cheque Presentation Evening with the representatives from the Charities and Good Causes who provided support and collectors on the Santa Float Rounds in December 2024. The representatives were from The PACE centre for children with motor disorders, Emmett’s Genies, Florence Nightingale Hospice, The Aylesbury Society,
Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research, and Community Christmas Lunch.

On Thursday 16 January 2025, we held our first full Youth Speaks: A Debate, competition since the pandemic. We were kindly hosted by Church of theHoly Spirit, Bedgrove, to whom we extend many thanks. We had seven teams from Aylesbury High School, The Grange School and St. Michael’s Roman Catholic School.

Laike Twiss, Bard of Aylesbury, chaired the judging panel, supported by our host, Rev. Martin Kuhrt and Mr Andrew Bell, Independent Celebrant. Topics under discussion included Should punishment be the main purpose ofprison?, Do boarding schools do more harm than good? and Video games should be banned for children under 16.

Our winning entry in the Intermediate stage (age 11-13) came from Aylesbury High School, with Do boarding schools cause more harm than good? Runners up were The Grange School.

Winners of the Senior Stage (age 14-17) were St Michael’s RC School, with This house would ban internet access for under 11’s. Runners up were also from St Michael’s.
The winners progressed to the District Finals which were hosted by our Club
at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Bedgrove on 6 and 7 February.

The winners
of the Intermediate stage were Aldwickbury School, Wheathampstead, and the Senior stage winners were Redbourne Upper School, Bedford.

The 2025 Technology Tournament was held on Monday 10th February, hosted by The Grange School, Aylesbury. There were a large number of entries from schools in the Aylesbury Vale area, and there was a very interesting challenge set for the schools and teachers this year.

They had to use their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) knowledge, alongside their team work skills to tackle the challenging brief that had been set.

There were awards for the winners at Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced levels, and for the Portfolio.

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The Foundation winners were from Cottesloe School, and the
Intermediate and Advanced winners were from Aylesbury High School.

Presentations of the awards were made by the Mayor of Aylesbury, Cllr Alan Sherwell, accompanied by Aylesbury Hundreds Club President, Ann Routledge

On Saturday 18 January 2025 we held our Annual Young Chef
competition. We were hosted for the second time by The Kingsbrook School.

Amazing work was done by the students, as it always is at this event. There were dishes here you would happily have paid good money for in a Michelin-starred restaurant.

Our winner, from Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, prepared seared duck breast with green beans, roasted carrots and a sweet cherry compôte. This was followed by a desert of passion-fruit soufflé.

Our second placed chef, from Waddesdon Church of England School,
prepared fish and chips, with a desert of lemon tart and mixed berries.

In third place was The Kingsbrook School, where our young chef prepared pan roasted salmon with passion-fruit sauce, steamed garlic green vegetables and new potatoes; a desert of honey and cinnamon pear upside down pastry served with cream followed.

Excellent meals were also prepared by students from The Grange School and Aylesbury High School.

Our chief judge was once again Daniel Richardson, Head Chef at Hartwell House. Daniel has been an enthusiastic supporter of this event and of local young chefs for many years and has our continued appreciation. Our winner takes a meal for four there. Our runner up has £100 towards a meal at The Woolpack in Stoke Mandeville. We are indebted to both locations for their generosity.

Our winner, coached by Daniel Richardson, then went onto the District Finals which were held in Bedfordshire on the 8th February. She won the District Final.

The winner of Beds, Bucks and Herts District Young Chef Final, who is from the Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, with her meal and the District Chef Judge.

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