Oxfordshire County Council has asked the Parish Council to promote Food Waste Action Week which runs until 24th March.
In Oxfordshire, residents throw away 31,320 potatoes every day – that’s enough for everyone in Carterton to have a portion of chips!
Food Waste Action Week is a national campaign designed by WRAP (Waste & Resources Continue reading
Residents who are not already subscribers to South Oxfordshire District Council’s digital newsletter “South News” may like to download the latest edition here.
Did you know that you can enjoy the best of Pendon Museum from the comfort of your home?
The museum has its own YouTube Channel highlighting the trains, vistas and special events within the museum. It contains a great selection of short videos of trains (steaming through the Vale and crossing the dramatic backdrop of Dartmoor) and showcases buildings modelled in the Continue reading
The Parish Council will hold its monthly meeting in the Village Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday 21st March.
All residents are invited to attend. Download the agenda here.
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
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
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
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
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
Residents who are not already subscribers to Oxfordshire County Council’s digital newsletter “Your Oxfordshire” may like to download the latest edition.
