​As many of you know, I will be retiring as Vicar of Great Coxwell, with Buscot, Coleshill and Eaton Hastings, after eight very happy years, serving these four parishes in the Badbury Group of Churches. My last service at Great Coxwell will be our Communion service for Feast of Dedication to St. Giles on Sunday September 8th at 10.30am (with refreshments in the vicarage afterwards); and my last service will in the benefice will be the Communion service for the Feast of Dedication to St. Michael and All Angels (and Harvest Festival) at Eaton Hastings on Sunday September at 10.30am. I will be moving back to my home in Surrey in November.
 
Each year I have held a summer Garden Party, which a number of you have attended. Happily the sun has shone each year, and may it do so again this year! For the first few years the Garden Party took place in the vicarage garden here in Great Coxwell. Then in 2017 it was held in Coleshill, and in 2018 in Eaton Hastings. This will be my final Garden Party before I retire, and in order to celebrate my eight years here in a special way, it will take place in Buscot Park (in the tea room conservatory and the walled garden) on Saturday July 20th, from 2.30 to 5.00pm; and I am grateful to Lord Faringdon for hosting the occasion on one of the Saturdays when Buscot Park is not open to the public.
 
This year there will be not only cakes, savouries, tea, coffee, and fruit juice, but also special celebratory drinks and a band to accompany the afternoon. Everyone who lives in any of the four parishes is most welcome to come, but please let me know if you are planning to be there, as this will be helpful for planning purposes (tel: 01367 240665; e-mail: [email protected]). This is intended to be an event for the whole community.

I hope you can come to the Garden Party, and  one of my final services.
 
With all good wishes,
 
David, your parish priest

Please see details of this new scam - here.

From June 28th 2019 the way the newsletter is sent is changing, you will receive the same news and information but it will come from this website, sent from [email protected].

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All copy I receive by the end of Thursday should make the newsletter which will got out at 4PM on a Friday.

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Don’t forget the Village fete is this Saturday 29th at 12.00. There will be a BBQ, beer and Pimms, WI teas, lots of stalls and tons of games for children and adults.

We are still in need of bottles for the bottle stall. Mandy Burns is happy to collect them on Thursday afternoon so please if you have anything leave out for her and she will collect them.

Also please return raffle ticket stubs and unsold tickets to us before Saturday.

Hope to see you all on Saturday - weather is looking great!

Does anyone have a paddock in the Great Coxwell area for Yogi to live. Yogi is a retired eventing horse and currently lives by the church. He makes a great companion for other horses and is very well behaved.  So if anyone needs a companion for their own horse or pony please let me know.
Contact Mandy on 07968439408 or [email protected]
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Farewell party for Annabelle and Leo at Oldwalls, Great Coxwell (the house at the T junction)

Saturday 13th July 4-8 pm.   More details to follow soon.

Please save this date in your diary for a village send off for Annabelle and Leo Zinovieff, who are to spend a year on a Scottish island, Annabelle will cook for the local school from the end of July.  
 
Annabelle  is a one woman tour de force in Great Coxwell.   She is editor of the village newsletter, chair of our parish council, organiser of the village teas which funds the park and is a founding member of the village Artweeks team.  She also organises the children’s Artweeks workshop every year, helping to make the Reading Room look lovely for visitors.  
 
All welcome, especially children.  Do come along to say goodbye and wish her well.

The OVO Women's tour went through Faringdon yesterday, there is some good coverage in this video, a great display by the Faringdon community.

https://www.womenstour.co.uk/video/flavour-of-the-day-oxfordshire/

We really look forward to seeing you on the day! There will be a variety of stalls, lots of children’s games, BBQ, beer and W.I. Teas
 
If you can help:
Stalls - requiring prizes / donations
Bottle Stall - bottles to Mandy Burns, Church Lees
Children's Tombola Prizes - to Ginni Green, Jenners House

Volunteers are still needed:
For some stalls;
To organise races / children's games;
Car Park marshals;

Please ring Mike / Pauline 01367 243140, or Laurence Tipping 01367 240410 if you think you could help.

We look forward to seeing you for a fun packed afternoon.

The parish council are needing both another councillor and also a Responsible Financial Officer. As a leaving councillor I have found it a great privilege to work with the council. They are a good team, helping the village with lots of different practical things in the village such as planning, mowing verges, looking out for the Park and the reading room. They have a public meeting every other month and in between times business is mainly done through email. If you are in any way interested please contact Jo King at the Old Post Office on [email protected]

Annabelle Zinovieff
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