The Best of Brill : The Bernwode News

Bernwode News in a print-only parish magazine distributed to all eleven parishes in the Bernwode Benefice. It’s a powerhouse of small ads, local news and notices, and features on all aspects of village life. Every Brill household should subscribe!

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A parish magazine - on steroids

Eleven parishes (five St Mary’s, two All Saints and a sprinkling of saintly Others); pastoral messages, church services, flowers, fetes and festivals - the stuff of village life for hundreds of years - but much, much more: useful numbers, weather analysis, sports reports, bite-sized history, gardening notes, Green notes, reality checks from the farm gate, household tips, diary dates - and 24 packed pages of advertisements, from accountants to yoga teachers.

Forget fussing around on Facebook or scurrying down the rabbit hole of Google; just look in Bernwode News for genuinely local businesses and quality services happy to commit to a year’s advertising (or a decade, in many cases).

Managed and edited by volunteers, distributed free to over 1100 subscribers (205 in Brill), Bernwode News is a community success story of nearly 50 years standing. Perhaps the founders back in 1980 had an inkling of this success when they initiated the depositing of copies in two important archives: the Buckinghamshire Archives (website opens in new tab) and the internationally renowned Bodleian Archives in Oxford (website opens in new tab).

It’s rather lovely to think of historians a 100 years hence in thrall to our flower shows, fetes, and endless dog dirt complaints…

Bernwode News needs YOU!

Time goes by and Bernwode News volunteers come and go, so new input and ideas are always welcome. Most needed right now; energetic people to -

  • set-up and manage a Facebook page

  • attract new advertisers wanting to reach a vital customer base of people who don’t do online but do subscribe to Bernwode News and (most importantly) keep a copy handy throughout the year for those household emergencies

  • organise distribution in Brill and drum up new subscribers

To get involved, email chairman (and Brill Editor) David Chetham or phone him on 01844 239197.

To advertise in Bernwode News, email Allan Wiggleswoth or phone him on 07970 713435.

To subscribe for a whole year and arrange FREE delivery in Brill for just £15, email Andy Fisher or call him on 01844 238405.

For a postal subscription (£48/year) email Dot Wheatley or call her on 07712 044648. What a lovely gift for a Brillite in exile!