Green Defenders Wanted

CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England) Oxfordshire is a charity that is passionate about making the countryside, its villages and market towns better places for everyone to live, work and enjoy.

It is recruiting for Green Defender volunteers.

Green Defenders will help it protect our countryside.  Their tasks may include Continue reading

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OCC Customer Experience Survey

Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) is developing a new customer experience strategy and it would like to hear the views of residents.

The council provides a wide range of services and it wants to give its customers the best possible experience.

Find out more and have your say on the OCC Let’s Talk website. Continue reading

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Pendon Museum Pop-up Café

The pop-up café at Pendon Museum will be open again tomorrow (Wednesday 13th March) from 10am to 12noon.

This is a free drop-in event, with just a small charge for drinks and cake to cover the costs.  All donations from the cakes go to support a local group, so please go along and support it if you can.

The café is friendly to dog walkers, but they will need to have their refreshment outside Continue reading

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Planning Application

The Parish Council has been advised by South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) of a new planning application within the environs of the village.

The application, at Rosehurst Farm, Long Wittenham, is to provide necessary, secure and adequate storage for agricultural machinery, seed, fertilizer etc, and produced crops of hay, haylage and silage. Continue reading

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Didcot Food Bank

David Haylett writes …

Thank you to those who have put goods in the box at the church.

I took a bag full of tins etc down on Friday.  I was told that each time the Food Bank is open (Tuesdays and Fridays 11am to 1pm) the food is distributed to between 40 and 70 people, so it is clearly fulfilling a need. Continue reading

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OCC Newsletter

Residents who are not already subscribers to Oxfordshire County Council’s digital newsletter “Your Oxfordshire” may like to download the latest edition.

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Compost Giveaway

Gardeners in the village will be pleased to hear that South Oxfordshire District Council’s free compost give-away is back.

This year’s event, giving away locally produced compost, is on Sunday 17th March between 9am and 11am at the old South Oxfordshire District Council car park, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8ED. Continue reading

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Pendon Museum News

Get all the news and information in the latest edition of the Pendon Museum Newsletter.

More information on the Pendon website: www.pendonmuseum.com

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Talk on Artist Eric Ravilious

Wittenham WI will be hosting a talk on the artist Eric Ravilious on Saturday 16th March starting at 3pm in the Village Hall, with specialist speaker Lizzy Rowe.

Eric was a painter, designer, illustrator and wood-engraver, but his work nearly fell into obscurity after his mysteriously tragic death whilst serving as a war artist in 1942.

The talk will reveal more about his many talents.  See the flyer below. Continue reading

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Garden Waste Service Changes

South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) has set out plans to change the way its garden waste service is paid for in 2025.

The council has agreed the introduction of a permit scheme from April 2025 which will include subscribers receiving a sticker for their bins to identify them as fully paid-up garden waste customers.

When customers sign up and pay for the scheme in 2025, they will be sent a garden waste Continue reading

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