Didcot Garden Town Newsletter - New Year 2021 Edition

 Happy New Year!
Welcome to the first 2021 edition of the
Didcot Garden Town newsletter
Residents Sounding Board

We held our first-ever Residents Sounding Board on Monday 30 November 2020. 81 people attended who were either local residents or represented community organisations.

Feedback raised at the session will be presented to the the Didcot Garden Town Advisory Board to consider in January. Following this, all feedback recorded will be posted on our websites.
Click here to watch the full meeting

A centre of vaccine excellence in the UK

The Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) facility is currently under construction. The 7,400 sqm state-of-the-art facility will be located at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, which is in Didcot Garden Town. Fast tracked as a priority project during the COVID-19 pandemic, once operational, VMIC will develop novel innovative manufacturing processes and carry out vaccine manufacturing at a variety of scales.

The centre will also serve as the national response capability for the UK government in order to produce vaccines against future pandemics and emerging infectious diseases.

The Centre was established through funding from UK Research and Innovation, as part of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

Didcot Town Council Awards 2020

The annual awards to celebrate achievements in Didcot went ahead virtually in December 2020.

The winners for each award was announced by the town council, click the button below to find out more.
The winners!

Stay up to date with Didcot Garden Town
The Didcot Garden Town Advisory Board will meet on Monday 25 January. If you would like to watch the meeting live, please register here.

To find out more about the Advisory Board and the upcoming meeting agenda, you can visit our websites.

Business community voice for
Didcot Garden Town
 


A new Business Sounding Board is being launched at 4:30pm on 8 February to support the local business community and to influence the Didcot Garden Town project. 

The sounding board is open to all types of organisations, large or small, to set up a new network for businesses based the Didcot Garden Town area.

At the first online session, you will meet with the team behind the Didcot Garden Town project and find out what this means for you as a business.  There’s an opportunity for all businesses to feedback your priorities for the area, within a breakout session. 

Please click here to find out more about the first session and to register.

We please ask that we have no more than one person representing their business, to make sure everyone in the area can join the session.

Science Vale Business Update

Harwell Campus 


Harwell Campus has forged a strong partnership with Santander Bank, to support future expansion and participation in an innovative internship scheme.
Read more here!

Milton Park 


Have you noticed Milton Park's new campaign which has been springing-up around the Park to coincide with the refreshed brand identity?
Read more here!

Culham Science Centre


Funding boost announced at opening of self-driving test facility
Read more here!