Interested in helping save perfectly good food from ending up in the skip, taking pressure off the environment and cutting food bills into the bargain ? If so, the new Faringdon Community Larder could be a great place to start.
 
It is estimated that we waste around 30% of all food produced for human consumption. This wasted food has taken a tsunami of fresh water, land and labour to produce, not to mention pointlessly wasted energy, emissions and fertilisers / polluted runoff. Friends of the Earth say - if it were a country, food waste would be the third highest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world.
 
SOFEA ( https://www.sofea.uk.com/ ) is an Oxfordshire-based organisation aiming to give local, excluded young people a fresh start and in the process provide a range of services including around 20 Community Larders in Oxfordshire (working with fareshare.org.uk). For a small fee ANYONE interested in preventing food waste or saving money on food bills can join the project. There are no conditions for membership. This food comes direct from the warehouses of the big Supermarkets to the SOFEA warehouse in Didcot. It was destined for the skip without ever seeing a retail shop! This food is different from the food banks or community fridges/Pump House project; they run in parallel. The Larder in Wantage re-distributed 1.7 TONS of food in November alone. 
 
Over the last few weeks, Faringdon Council has started running a Community Larder in the Corn Hall every Tuesday Afternoon. Costs are a one off £10 fee to join SOFEA and a £3.50 weekly subscription for the larder paid by direct debit. Get more details from SOFEA's website and sign-up on line at https://www.sofea.uk.com/purpose-projects/community-larder/. Come along to the Corn Hall between 2:30 and 4:00 any Tuesday to have a free tea and a look around or drop us a mail for more details.  
 
Thanks,
Ken Hirons  
Mob: +44 (0)7771 504211

web: www.greenergreatcoxwell.com
mail: [email protected]

For further information please contact:

Malcolm Gee
Member – 1st Faringdon Scouts
Executive Committee
Pampas
SN7 7NG
 
07796 572752

​A thank you from Jane to the many participants and helpers, including those who brought contributions to the door, donated raffle prizes and those who generously contributed in other ways last Saturday. It was a successful event making more than £500. Thank you.

December 8th,I am doing last delivery to Welcome Asylum,Oxford, I will start again in January.

If anyone would like to leave tins, dried food, sanitary products, nappies etc. at Clayton Villa before the 8th, they would be most welcome, also cereal, biscuits, coffee, tea, sugar, uht milk.

Maybe mince pies etc.

Thank you.
Sally
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​Welcome to Bulletin 5 from the Energy Project team.

It covers
1: an update on the energy network and
2: an invitation to COSY HOMES zoom talk

1: Over the last weeks Greener Great Coxwell Heating Project have:

• Finally submitted our application to the Greater South West Energy Hub - for Rural Community Energy Fund (RCEF) grants for the feasibility study. We currently have 75 households expressing an interest. Anyone else is always welcome. If you are interested - with no obligation - please go to :  www.greenergreatcoxwell.com. We don’t expect to hear any definite news until into the new year.
• Locogen (https://locogen.com),have been appointed to act as our consultants should we be successful in the grant application.
• The team working on a similar proposal for the island of Iona said the following about Locogen: 

"The Locogen staff are technically extremely impressive - they immediately command confidence of all parties and stakeholders. They are flexible, responsive and committed. They are excellent communicators and excellent at dealing with the community and other stakeholders. "  

• Submitted our application to the Financial Conduct Authority  to form a Community Benefit Company. This will give us the legal framework we need to carry out the first part of the project and manage the finances should we be successful in winning the grant.
• Finalized our application for a bank account with the Co-Operative Bank.
• Linked with the Clanfield Sustainability group 'One Planet Clanfield'. They have started several projects in the last six months; a Community Allotment and Sharing Shelves, Green Team at the school, TerraCycling schemes, regular meetings and village wide events. They were interested in our experience working on the energy project and are looking for land for a community orchard and to run a regular Repair Café.
• Participated in the Oxfordshire Cosy Homes Insulation Project Advocates AGM. Greener Great Cowell have organised a Zoom later this week for anyone interested. You might find it informative to try Cosy Home's free 'Plan Builder' to 'Create a refurbishment plan to make your home warmer, reduce your CO₂ emissions and cut your energy bills'. See the link on Cosy Homes home page : https://cosyhomesoxfordshire.org/.

2 : Cosy Homes presentation for Greener Gt Coxwell    Thursday, 18 November⋅7:30 – 9:00pm

One of the quickest and most cost-effective means of reducing our energy use and thereby saving money and emissions, is by improving home insulation. The Oxford Low Carbon Hub home insulation project called Cost Homes (https://cosyhomesoxfordshire.org/) provides a single source of help and advice for anyone considering retrofitting home insulation. Cosy Homes offers a consultancy service to assess your current insulation and provide a costed plan of how it could be improved. They can even recommend approved contractors  and if you wish they could manage the whole project. 

Greener Great Coxwell have arranged a Zoom meeting on 18th November from 7:30 to 9:00, when the Cosy Homes Manager, Geordie Stewart, will give a Presentation of the program and be available to answer questions. Details are: 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86346161016?pwd=Q2ZPWVI2M25nVFVremt6YlZyNkNjZz09
Meeting ID: 863 4616 1016
Passcode: 569786
 
If you would like to express an interest in the energy project, please contact us - with no obligation or commitment - either : 

e-mail:  [email protected]
visit :     https://greenergreatcoxwell.com/contact-page/   

To find out more or to send us specific queries visit www.greenergreatcoxwell.com or e-mail [email protected].

For general information from Greener Great Coxwell please mail : [email protected].
You can find these Bulletins on the website at : https://greenergreatcoxwell.com/great-coxwell-community-energy-bulletins/

Thank you, 
Annabelle Zinovieff, Ken Hirons, Ian Mason, Karen Mason, Margaret O’Donohoe, Richard Benwell, Sophie Stainer, Jacqui Russell

I lost my watch today, Sunday 14th November, could have been on a dog walk. It’s a white Swatch. 

If anyone finds it please let me know and I’ll come and get it.

Thank you. 
Mary Parfitt.

Dear all,
 
Here are the details for our next concert here at Stonevale.  We had a wonderful audience for the last concert, and many of you said you could not wait for this coming one.   Looking forward to seeing you all again soon.
 
Best wishes,
Lynette

​Remembrance Sunday - Act of Remembrance

Just a reminder that our Act of Remembrance takes place at the War Memorial on Sunday at 12 noon.  

This year we are able once again to accompany the laying of the wreaths with our usual short service and Act of Remembrance.

Just a reminder about Jane's Christmas Bazaar this Saturday for St Giles Church. Hope you can come.

Free entry, coffee and cake, 10am - 12.30 and 2 - 4 pm, or give Jane a ring for some raffle tickets (241367).
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