SNG (formerly Sovereign Housing) are crowdfunding to support the FREE 2024 Play & Activity Days in South Abingdon, Faringdon & Didcot. Please help support these popular events: OPA Play & Activity Days (South & Vale) 2024 – a Community crowdfunding project in Abingdon by Oxfordshire Play Association (crowdfunder.co.uk) https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/opa-play-activity-days-south-vale-2024
Author: Liza Whitney

Sustainability Survey
Fill in this survey to potentially secure funding to help your organisation become more environmentally friendly: www.tinyurl.com/3vs4wxdh

Temporary Footpath Closure at Faringdon, Footpath (Between Coxwell Road and Marlborough Place)
A request has been received from for a temporary footpath closure to apply to a length of footpath 207/26/10, whilst essential laying duct for fibre broadband for Virgin Media works are carried out. A temporary Notice is being made by Oxfordshire County Council to implement the temporary restriction and will operate from 04 March 2024…

Join the fight against festive food waste – put your knowledge to the test and you could win a £100 farm shop voucher!
Residents in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse are being challenged to put their knowledge of food waste to the test and be in with the chance of winning a voucher worth £100 for a local farm shop and a hamper containing items to help reduce their waste! Nationally, too much of our food ends up being…

Keeping warm this winter
As winter arrives and temperatures drop thoughts may be turning tostaying warm and well. There’s a range of support, tips, advice andgrants, available in Oxfordshire. The free, local and independent Better Housing Better Healthservice is there for residents who may be finding it hard to keepthemselves or their family warm and well. For some residents…

Christmas & New Year break for Faringdon Junior Youth Club
Our last Faringdon Junior Youth Club session of 2023 is on Tuesday 12th December. We will return in the New Year on Tuesday 9th January 2024.

Community & Partnerships meeting to be held on Monday 4th December 2023 at 7pm
Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Community & Partnerships committee to be held on Monday 4th December 2023 at 7pm in The Jubilee Room, The Pump House , Faringdon, SN7 7HL. Press and public are invited to attend the meeting in person or online. Please use this link: Click here to join…

Apply for Primary School Place now
Apply online at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/primaryadmissions . Deadline for applications is 15th January 2024.

Delivering the Housing that your Rural Community Needs – two talks on housing needs
Come along to hear about how we can support you and take the opportunity to talk about your own community needs. In Oxfordshire’s rural communities, the market for housing has become divorced from local people and their incomes and serves primarily second and holiday homeowners and retirees, who have far more to spend on housing…

Road closure for central Faringdon: Christmas Light Switch on, 2nd December
Notice is hereby given that Vale of White Horse District Council has made an Orderunder Section 21 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, the effect of which is, on theoccasion of the Christmas Lights On Event on 02 December 2023 between 09:30and 19:00 to close the roads below to all vehicular traffic:• Cornmarket.• Market…