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The Parish Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30pm on Thursday 26th September 2024, in the Village Hall.
All residents are invited to attend.
Village Autumn Lunch
Don’t miss the return of last year’s popular Autumn Lunch
at St Mary’s Church, Long Wittenham,
from 1pm on Saturday 5th October.
A great opportunity to bring old friends and meet new people
and enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by our expert village cooks,
Live music and a donations bar.
Tickets: £12 adults, £6 under 14s
Booking recommended
Telephone: 01865 407808
There will be a Harvest Morning service on Sunday 6th October at 9:30am at St Mary’s.
Harvest gifts will be donated to Didcot Food Bank.
Everyone is welcome.
There will be a service of Holy Communion on Sunday 13th October at 9:30am at St Mary’s. Everyone is welcome.
Make Long Wittenham a village to be proud of!
Come along to the Village Hall on Saturday 19th October between 10am and noon where you will be provided with Hi-Viz jackets, gloves, rubbish bags and a litter picking tool.
You choose an area of the village that you would like to “litter pick”. The rubbish is returned to the Village Hall and you will be rewarded with tea and cake, plus the pleasure of knowing you have had a part in keeping our village beautiful.
Children are welcome to join in if accompanied by an adult.
More information from Clifford Bosley on 01865 407482 or email cjbcibac@hotmail.com.
There will be a service of Holy Communion on Sunday 20th October at 9:30am at St Mary’s. Everyone is welcome.
Long Wittenham Village Apple Day
at the Sylva Wood Centre
organised by Wittenham Warriors & hosted by Sylva Foundation
Apple Juicing -Turn your home grown apples into delicious juice in six easy steps!
1 Bring along boxes/bags of washed, dry apples that are free from bruising & mould to the Wood Centre from 10am – 12noon. The quality of the fruit determines the quality of the juice.
2 We will weigh your apples & calculate how many bottles of juice they will provide & issue you with a collection ticket. Approximately 2kg apples = one 75cl bottle
3 Your apples will be added to others if necessary to make up a full load to go into the Apple Mill where they will be crushed.
4 The crushed apples are then put into the Apple Press which with the aid of high pressure water will be pressed to produce juice (no water is added to juice). Vitamin C is added to prevent apples browning.
5 The juice is then bottled & capped (bottles are provided) and placed into the pasteuriser where it is heated to at least 70C & held at this temperature for 20 minutes, this kills off any bacteria and gives the juice a shelf life of up to 18 months.
6 Once cooled the bottles of juice are ready for collection & consumption. Collection from 1pm until 3pm.
So that we can cover the cost of bottles/caps/extra pasteuriser/equipment we will need to charge £3 per bottle of juice.
If you would like to show your appreciation for the service there will be a donations box, any monies will go back into future village projects.
If you would like to donate or have more apples than you want to juice please let us have them as we can then sell the bottles of juice to others in the community who don’t have access to apple trees.
If you are unable to get your apples to the Wood Centre then let us know and we will try & arrange collection.
Volunteers needed to help on the day. Weighing, sorting, pulping, juicing, bottling, pasteurising, labelling, feeding the volunteers plus lots more, its really good fun!!
Contact Sally Duff; 01865 407788/07899 097612 richsal2000@yahoo.co.uk
The author of A Town Called Wallingford, Peter Adamson, is coming to St Mary’s Church in May to talk about his book.
The talk will be given at St Mary’s Church on Friday 25th October at 7.30 pm, in aid of he Friends of St. Mary’s.
Entrance will be £7, payable on the door, or beforehand to Dom Jarman on 01865 407416 or email dominic.jarman@btinternet.com.
This year’s village Bonfire Night will be held on Saturday 2nd November at its old home on Ward’s Field (behind Pendon Museum).
Tickets will be on sale from Friday 13th September at ticketebo.co.uk/LWPC/long-wittenhams-bonfire-night-2024.
This is usually a sell out event, and early bird tickets will only be on sale for a few weeks, so don’t delay, get yours as soon as possible.