Mental health problems can affect anyone, at any time and one in four people will experience some form of mental distress during their lifetime. This can include depression, anxiety, panic disorders and eating disorders, as well as conditions such as bipolar and schizophrenia. So, for one week each May, an awareness campaign takes place to look at…
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Return of Form 9s to confirm a burial- Update
As you may know, the Oxfordshire Registration Service, in common with all local registration services in England and Wales are registering only deaths currently, and most of this work is being carried out by registrars working at home. Register offices across the county are currently closed to the public, but there is a small staff…
Online Pop up Business School- 15th June
PopUp Business School is a FREE traveling business school that runs intensive courses helping you to get going. Our courses are run in seminar style with cohorts of anywhere between 30 people and 300. You will receive 1-2-1 support on how to be resilient and sustain your business during uncertain times, how to make sales,…
Faringdon Virtual Open Gardens 2020
Spread the joy of gardening, send in photos of your garden so we can compile them to make a virtual tour of Faringdon’s gardens. Small or large garden, a single bloom, window box or allotment we would love to see what you are growing! Get the whole family involved, it would be great to see…
Your Oxfordshire
Recycling centres reopening, celebrating carers, bluebell woodlands and community support May 2020 We’re celebrating the care sector and key workers! Thank you to all those in the care sector and to everyone who goes above and beyond the call of duty to deliver essential and flexible services. From the emergency services and armed services to…
OPA Play & Activity Days 2020 – Postponed
Dear Playday Partners Following much deliberation and based on the most recent advice from the Government we have taken the very difficult decision to Postpone our Play and Activity days for 2020. This is not the decision we wanted to make as these events will be needed more than ever this year to help Communities…
MP-May Newsletter
Welcome to the first edition of my newsletter, which will be one of the ways I update you about my work as your representative. I would like to be writing to you in happier times but I hope that you and your loved ones are all safe and well. It has been a whirlwind since…
Citizens Advice article- How to handle suspicious and spam emails
Use new fast-track reporting for suspicious emails – Citizens Advice Scam emails, one of life’s most tiresome phenomena, are becoming so smooth and sophisticated that even computer experts can be deceived by them, and the rest of us are in constant danger of being taken for a ride. There is no need to feel isolated…