As part of this year’s Oxfordshire Artweeks the Sylva Wood School and Wood Centre will be hosting an Open Weekend on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May 2026 between 10am and 5pm.
Discover craft excellence rooted in home-grown timber. Tour workshops, learn about the Sylva Wood School, explore the Future Forest and the UK’s heritage of working with wood. Continue reading
Residents who have purchased a permit for the district council’s brown bin garden waste collection service in South Oxfordshire can have extra garden waste collected for free on their normal scheduled collection day 1st May.
Permit holders can put out a maximum of up to four additional sacks of garden waste, per brown bin subscription, next to their brown bin. Continue reading
The Wittenham Singers will be celebrating May Morning with songs and poems at the Manor Estate in Little Wittenham on Friday 1st May from 6:30 am.
Tea, coffee and bacon rolls will be available afterwards. All welcome.
See the flyer below. For more information email wittenham.singers@gmail.com or call Continue reading
Residents who are not already subscribers may want to read the latest edition of the Didcot Garden Town Newsletter.
See the South Oxfordshire District Council website for more information about the Didcot Garden Town project.
Residents who are not already subscribers to Oxfordshire County Council’s digital newsletter “Your Oxfordshire” may like to download the latest edition.
Residents who are not already subscribers to South Oxfordshire District Council’s digital newsletter “South News” may like to download the latest edition.
Details of this year’s Village Fun Run have been announced. It will take place on Sunday 14th June starting at 11am at The Plough Inn.
To enter go to:
https://www.evententry.co.uk/long-wittenham-5km-family-fun-run-walk-2026 Continue reading
The Parish Council will hold its monthly meeting in the Village Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday 16th April.
All residents are invited to attend. Download the agenda here.
On Saturday 9th May, resident Yiannis Michellis will be running 145km to raise funds for the village pre-school.
If you would like to support Yiannis, go to his fund raising page on the gofund.me website, or scan the QR code on the flyer below. Continue reading
The tradition of Maypole Dancing in the village on May Day is being revived this year. Diana Wright, who lives in Westfield Road, shares her memories of her time with the Girls Friendly Society (GFS) and Maypole Dancing …
My husband John and I moved in to 14 Westfield Road on 31st August 1975. Jennifer, our ten year old daughter, joined the GFS which Mrs Marjorie Continue reading
