Our links to the Community
Buntingford Classic Car Event:
Every year Buntingford in Sepember normally the second Saturday all day has a Classic Car Event which is a not to be missed occassion as it attracts a wide variety of cars, bikes, tractors. Excellent food stalls with Hog Roasts, BBQ, Real Live Bands in the street,etc... The whole day is fantastic and next year is the 10th Anniversary so will be extra special. This is the best day on the calender as we love the cars and it is great to see our clients socially in the Town. We do our part by helping sponsor the event, help organise part of it and promote it.
Buntingford Late Night Christmas Shopping Event:
The Late Night Christmas Shopping Event is every year normally the first friday evening in December, this event co-incides with the Light of Love Remembrance Ceremony (At the Manor House). This evening is super as we get Fair Ground Rides for the kids, shops stay open late so you can do some browsing and shopping, Hog Roasts, BBQ's, Music in the street, The Towns lovely Christmas Lights are on, Live Bands, this attracts thousands of people which is a real buzz for the Town. Again we do our part in helping organising, sponsoring and advertising the event.
Buntingford Carnival:
The Carnival is every other year, and again draws a huge crowd of thousands into the Town, with Floats, Parades, Brass Bands, Children's Dance groups, Live Music. This livens up the Town and feels fun for the whole day. We do our bit in helping sponsoring and advertising the event.
School Raffle Prizes:
All the local schools have been so very helpful in promoting the NHS eye health checks to their students which lets children know that all children in full time education are entitled to FREE NHS eye examinations as a eye health check. We provide raffle prizes for most events throughout the year.
Buntingford Scout Group:
The Scout Group is extremely helpful on the Late Night Shopping Event in managing the road clossure signs. Again the Scouts and their leaders help in promoting eye health checks for their pack. We provide raffle prizes for most events throughout the year.
Buntingford Children's Football Teams:
We provide raffle prizes for their events.
Buntingford Lawn Bowls:
We sponsor their newsletter which helps with their funds and also allows us to let the bowls team and followers know we are here to look after eye care requirements.
Buntingford Social Club:
We donate prize every year for their Christmas raffle.
Hertfordshire Branch - Children of Chernobyl:
Seven children aged 9 to 14 were hosted in Hertfordshire this year, three of the children were in Buntingford. The children come over to England for four weeks every year for seven years to enable their bodies to detox.
Back row(left to right) Olga, Micha, James, Edel, Lira, Macha and Genadie.
Front row (left to right) Tanya, Vlada and Andrei
Why? The people in the affected areas (most of Belarus) have received the highest lnown prolonged exposure to radionuclides in the history of the atomic age. The Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986 and they are still eating and drinking contaminated produce, living in areas of highest risk to their health because there is no where else for them to go.
Many of the children are true orphans or economic orpans living in large instutions, often cramped and cold conditions.
As a result of the effects of Strontium, (a by-product of the fall out), they all have damaged immune systems and the child morbidity rate is now higher than the birth rate.
Every month they are out of the contamination zone adds approximately two healthy years to their lives as it gives their systems a boost, (the average life span is 32).
As a small charity FOCC Hertfordshire ensure that any funding received is spent on health checks and good quality activities for the children.
We at J. Oliver Radley Opticians are doing our little bit by giving every child an eye examination and provided spectacles for the children that required visual correction. Vlada and chose a shiny purple pair of glasses that made her feel like a princess! Vlada and her friends from Belarus will be having eye examinations with ourselves every year from now onwards.
Where we advertise:
Buntingford Journal
Buntingford, Braughing, Nuthampstead and Read Journal
Hare Street and Hormeads Newsletters
Cottered and Throcking Newletters
Hertfordshire Life Magazine
Royston Crow Newspaper
Mercury Newspaper
BT Phonebook
Thompson Directory
Yellow Pages
Yell.com