Following the very successful archaeological dig at the Sylva Wood Centre in September last year, the Long Wittenham History Group will be hosting two ‘finds washing’ sessions in the Village Hall on Sunday 6th May and Monday 7th May between 2pm and 5pm on both days.
You are welcome to come and help or just watch. Responsible children are also welcome.
You can read about the dig and what was found here: Continue reading
Don’t forget that this year’s Long Wittenham School Fayre will take place on Saturday 12th May between noon and 3:00pm.
There will be Maypole dancing and the crowning of the May Queen as well as a Grand National race, traditional games & stalls, the church plant sale, beer tent, barbecue and lots more.
The raffle is sponsored by PMS Oxford with fun family prizes. Continue reading
Start stretching those muscles in preparation for the Long Wittenham Fun Run which, this year, will take place on Sunday 10th June starting at 11am.
As usual, the start and finish will be at The Plough where there will also be a barbecue, pub fayre and beer gardens.
All finishers will receive bananas and certificates and there will be awards to category winners. Continue reading
Work on the Community Hub is progressing. The option agreement between the landowner, Mr Weavers and our developer, Thomas Homes, has been signed and confirmed. Now that this is in place, Thomas Homes is working on the detailed designs for the preschool, school and village hall, as well as the houses that will pay for them.
The developer has had to commit to buying more than the minimum land needed for the Continue reading
It’s renewal time for the Village Hall 200 Club – the draw which supports the maintenance and improvement of the village hall. Collectors will be out and about over the next few weeks, but first they will be at the Lunch Club today and at the Swap Shop on Saturday (both in the Village Hall). Please bring your £12 to one of these events if you can – it saves time and shoe leather!
To round off the old year, the results for the March draw were: Continue reading
The Friends of St Mary’s Long Wittenham has been accepted as a beneficiary of the South Oxfordshire Charitable Lottery.
The Friends charity was founded over twenty years ago by a group of Long Wittenham residents who got together to raise funds to provide those little extras for the church that normal church funds can’t. The major project at present is the building of a much needed all-access toilet and kitchen to make the church a friendlier and more useful facility in the village. Continue reading
Do you have items you no longer need that are clean and reusable? Are there items that you would find useful to have? Would you like your village to be a clean and tidier place? Then come along to the Village Spring Swapshop and Litter Pick which will take place next Saturday 21st April at Long Wittenham Village Hall from 10am till noon.
Swapshop: This has been setup to encourage the passing on of unwanted items to a good Continue reading
South Oxfordshire District Council have asked the parish council to inform residents that, unlike other parts of the county, there are no elections in the district on 3rd May 2018 so it won’t be sending out voting cards or postal votes.
The next scheduled elections in the district are in May 2019.
Please make sure you are registered to vote for those elections, and if not please visit Continue reading
The Parish Council will hold its usual monthly meeting this coming Thursday evening (19th April) at 7:30pm in the Village Hall.
Download the agenda here.
More than sixty people packed into Long Wittenham village hall last evening for an extraordinary parish council meeting to discuss plans by West Waddy and Lagan Homes to build twenty nine houses on land next to Bodkin’s sports field. Residents condemned the plans and the parish council backed the objectors by voting unanimously to oppose the development.
Speaker after speaker condemned what was described as a “totally unacceptable Continue reading
