Great Coxwell News and Blog

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

16/10/2015

October 19th - Dan’s Fund for Burns, Open House Jewellery Party
October 24th - Autumn Puds and Quiz
November 8th - Stonevale Concert, and TEAS in the Reading room
November 14th and 15th - Christmas Artweeks Fair 11am - 5pm in the Reading Room
November 21st - St Giles Coffee Morning 10-12.30am at Foxley
November 28th - Churches Together in Faringdon Christmas Crafts and Christmas Lights turned on in Faringdon

CHRISTMAS ARTWEEKS FAIR & GREAT COXWELL ARTISTS

16/10/2015

The Reading Room, Great Coxwell,
Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th November,
11 am - 5 pm

Great Coxwell Artists are coming together in one place for Christmas Artweeks to show and sell their work in the run-up to Christmas. There will, as usual, be a variety of artists including Karen Vogt with her stunning stone carving and ceramics, Uffington Pottery with their gorgeous jugs, mugs and pots, Handmade Books with a stack of notebooks and folders in pretty papers and bright book cloths, Town & Green Jewellery with their exquisite handmade silver & semi-precious stone jewellery, Sam Thulin will be there with her beautiful cards, paintings and prints and John Rounce with his wonderful photography. Joe and Rob who were up at the Great Barn demonstrating have a table full of carved and turned wooden delights. Sarah Lock is coming with her oat oil hand-cream. Christmas decorations as well as Christmas cakes, puddings, jams and jellies made in the village, all delicious, all for sale.

Tasty coffees, lunches and teas plus mulled wine, as well as mince pies, cakes and much more will be available on both days. ALL MONEY RAISED GOES TO THE READING ROOM, VILLAGE PARK AND ST GILES CHURCH. We hope to see you there!

OPEN HOUSE JEWELLERY PARTY

16/10/2015

Monday 19th October
For Dan’s Fund for Burns
13th Anniversary of the Bali Bombing
10.30 – 12.00 and 7.00 – 9.30 pm
Husbands welcome
At Foxley, Great Coxwell
Please join us for coffee in the morning
Children welcome
….better still, join us for a glass of wine in the evening
Jane Holmes and Claire Thomas
Donations and Raffle

AUTUMN PUDS AND QUIZ

16/10/2015

Sat 24th October - fun evening
In the Reading Room - 7 pm, £8 per head including a glass of wine.
For booking, please contact Pam

ST GILES CHURCH COFFEE MORNING

16/10/2015

Sat 21st November 2015
St Giles Church Coffee Morning
Christmas Gifts, Jewellery, Puzzles, Raffle
10 am – 12.30 at Foxley
All Welcome including children

WASTE RECYCLING

16/10/2015

If you have a BROWN BIN you can put out an extra load this Monday.

Please don't put any of the following in the green recycling bin:

Pet food pouches
Foil lined cardboard tubes such as Pringles
Nappies
Plastic coat hangers

If any of these are found in recycling the whole lorry load has to go to landfill.

BIBLE SUNDAY

16/10/2015

Sunday 25th October, 9am. Family service for Bible Sunday at Great Coxwell Church: celebrating the treasures of the Bible

CHURCHES TOGETHER IN FARINGDON

16/10/2015

Once again we hope to offer free Christmas crafts for children on the afternoon of Saturday 28th November, in the Pump Rooms, before the Christmas lights are turned on.

Anyone interested in helping with the crafts is welcome to join us at a planning meeting on Tuesday 13 October, 7.45, at Katie McNicholl's home.

FAST BROADBAND TO RURAL COMMUNITIES

16/10/2015

Gigaclear are a local (Abingdon) company who provide fast broadband to rural communities. The way they work is to get people to register interest and if there is enough interest they will consider installing fibre to the village, this can replace both phone and ADSL. Once you are connected you pay a minimum monthly amount of £38.80 + a connection fee.

www.gigaclear.com/registerme to register your interest.

LOST PROPERTY

12/10/2015

A finger ring has been found in Great Coxwell. If it is yours, please get in touch.

Great Coxwell Parish Council

Great Coxwell Parish Council
Great Coxwell
Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
SN7 7NG

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