BLOOD donor sessions are to be held in the Baptist Church hall, Bellingdon Road, on Thursday at 2pm to 3.55pm also later at 5pm to 6.45pm.

SALVA Malik ,who lives in and works from the White Hill Centre, is part-time race equality officer for the Chiltern Racial Equality Council, a position she has held for the past two years.

Now the council has secured £130,000 funding from the National Lottery to be spread over three years and enabling the organisation to appoint a full time development worker to raise awareness of the minority groups' needs, primarily the Pakistani community in Chesham. Work will also continue with the Polish community in Amersham. Mrs Malik has discovered gaps between various communities.

Chiltern Racial Equality Council was founded in 1989 and relied on small grants from Chesham Town Council and Chiltern District Council.

CHESHAM Town Council have launched a brand new completely revised and redesigned website although the web address stays the same at www.chesham.gov.uk The new site is based around a more simple, user-friendly page design and incorporates improved accessibility alongside easy navigation and quick page loading. The new site also enables the town council to maintain and update information on a regular basis.

The website is split into the following six sections: Home, Council, Services, News & Events, Links and Contacts.

You will now be able to view pictures and full contact details of your town councillors on the site as well as the town council and committee agendas and minutes.

News & Events has been changed so that it is in the form of an online bulletin board. This will be updated regularly and will list all the council news as well as events that will be taking place in and around the town.

VISIT Chesham's first ever museum at the Stables, Bellingdon Road (behind The Gamekeepers Arms). It is open Sunday, Wednesday and Friday from 2pm to 5pm. Chesham is one of the largest towns in Bucks and has a unique history of industry and social reform. The idea of a museum to tell Chesham's story was first put forward by the late local historian Arnold Baines in 1981.

There is an exhibition to celebrate VE Day. Admission is free.

WORK on the new Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden (just down the road from Chesham) is progressing well. Its chocolate doors (with authentic Swiss chocolate aroma) will be open to the public in June with the shadowy figure of the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) on the wall and a crocodile disguised as a bench. The building takes Dahl's characters as a constant theme.

ARE YOU anxious, worried or depressed? Chiltern Counselling is here to help you, for appointments phone 01494 786024. Counselling can be a great relief and source of strength. You can share your difficulties in confidence with a trained, skilled counsellor. With a counsellor you have the time and space to explore different ways of looking at the problem. Counselling enables you to gain insight, and in time a clearer perspective, which may resolve or reduce the difficulties and frustrations.

ARE you interested in volunteering with Chiltern Volunteer Centre? Just contact or drop into their centre at 150 High Street, telephone 01494 793470.