The following documents have been added to the website:

County Council Report September 2021

Good afternoon Great Coxwell,

I would just like to say a huge thank you for the messages of support that you have sent to the sorting office. I feel very touched by what I have been reading from the village. I must apologize for what might seem bad manners but I only received these today (07/10/21) so replying asap. I hope you are all keeping well and hope to catch up with you all soon.
 
Take care
 
Paul Kent.
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The Great Coxwell Scarecrow Trail is rapidly approaching - put the date in your diary, Sunday October 24th 11am - 5pm and join in to support the event.

Thanks to all our fantastic scarecrow makers so far, you are brilliant - if anyone out there wants to join and make a scarecrow there is still time, email [email protected].

The Scarecrow Café @ the Reading Room will be serving lunches, cakes and teas to eat in or take away from 11 am.

Get your tickets in advance and get a discount by emailing coxwell-crows@outlook,com, or you can buy them on the day.

If you can display a poster to advertise the event you can either download the poster or email [email protected] and pick up a printed one.

Many thanks,
Worzel Coxwell

The Autumn 2021 newsletter has been added to the Badbury Group of Churches page.

I want to personally thank the villagers who were able to come along to the Vicarage BBQ last Saturday to meet me informally. After lockdown it was a real joy to meet so many people. I am sure that I shall enjoy my time here as vicar in this beautiful part of Oxfordshire. I have three other village churches to look after (Buscot, Eaton Hastings and Coleshill) on a half-time basis, therefore my normal working days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays, but I am a villager 24/7.

If you want to contact me to arrange any special services (baptisms, weddings etc) or need a chat over coffee, then please do get in touch.

Tel: 01367 240875
Email: [email protected]

The following documents have been added to the website:

Parish Council Minutes September 2021
Reading Room Minutes September 2021

Garden Waste Collections Restart from Next Week

Dear Garden Waste Customer

Firstly, please accept our sincere apologies for the disruption to your garden waste service this summer.

We are pleased to share the news that we have agreed a temporary arrangement with Biffa that will enable us to begin collecting garden waste again from 27 September.

The well documented national shortage of HGV drivers is still an issue for Biffa, as well as for other council waste collections and many supermarkets, but the temporary arrangement they can provide requires fewer drivers, which means the service can resume sooner.

The temporary arrangement is that fortnightly collections will change to take place every four weeks, but you will be able to leave twice as much garden waste out as normal.

We appreciate this is still not the service you expect from us so we will be extending your subscription this year by three months to make up for the collections that you have missed while the service has been suspended. We will delay the collection of your next Direct Debit payment by three months – if we have recently informed you that your payment is due to be taken imminently but the payment has not yet come out of your account, the payment will be cancelled, and you will be notified of the revised collection date in due course once your subscription has been amended. If somebody else pays for your garden waste collections, please let them know of this change. If you choose not to continue with the garden waste service when your subscription expires, we’ll continue to empty your brown bin for three months after your subscription was originally due to end.
While we will be reviewing the situation closely on an ongoing basis, we have set an agreed review date with Biffa at the end of October to see if the normal service can resume and we will let you know the outcome of that review.
Your collection day remains the same as before
If your bins are usually emptied on a Monday, for example, your brown bin will still be emptied on a Monday under a new temporary garden waste timetable with your bins emptied once every four weeks, instead of every two weeks. 
You can see the temporary timetable, which shows when your four-weekly collection will take place on our dedicated webpage here southoxon.gov.uk/gardenwastecollectionchanges whitehorsedc.gov.uk/gardenwastecollectionchanges
Remember, when you put your garden waste bin out while this temporary timetable is in place, you can leave an extra bin’s worth of garden waste out next to your brown bin. The extra garden waste can be put out in cardboard boxes, old compost bags or bin bags (not the very large trade waste bags please).
We will still collect your food waste weekly, and your recycling and rubbish every two weeks as normal.
We want to thank you for your patience and understanding and apologise once again that the service has fallen short of the standards you have come to expect. We hope you feel that the temporary arrangement is a good way of getting the garden waste service up and running sooner rather than later, while Biffa continues to look for ways to address its driver shortage.

We are looking to rent a field locally, does anyone have or knows about a field to rent?

Any help would be appreciated.

We would use the field for a pony or two little Shetlands that we have been offered that need caring for.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Danielle Hall
07730921000

For several days there has been an 'abandoned' pink bike lying on the bank by the path leading up to the church porch - it looks practically full size - an Apollo Recall, which has number 84 on the front forks. I have had no responses to a general enquiry and, if no one shows any interest, John Rounce has kindly offered to take it to one of the Faringdon bike shops as they may be able to put it to good use.

Sylvia
​07923 563662

Hello all, I am hoping to do a monthly drop off .If you can spare tins, rice, pasta, biscuits, cereal, uht  milk etc for Oxford Asylum.

​They al

Please bring them to Clayton Villa by 18th of each month.

Thank you,

Sally tipple 244318