also available at wadscc.co.uk/newsletter. Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Newsletter Published by the Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Centre
“Be part of it”
May 2021
Contents Community Centre Relaunch Sunday 4th July 2pm – 5pm. P 2 Events in the Community st Duncan Rand Update We are all looking forward with great hope to June 21 2021 when all restrictions of Covid will be lifted and we P 3 Craft Show Local elections this May can get back to some normality. To mark this exciting P 4 St Helen’s Church Update event WADSCC are organising an outdoor Summer Fete St Peter’s Church Support Group Sunday July 4th. Many of the regular users are Wootton Parish Council notices participating in this and a lot of you will be helping your P 5 Wootton Parish Council groups, but we need VOLUNTEERS to help with setting What is a Parish Council? P 13 Dear Editor up, refreshments and clearing up etc. So PLEASE if any of you can spare an hour to help in any way we shall be so P 14 Oxfordshire County Council News grateful even if it’s baking a cake. Please let me know if
P15 Oxfordshire Social Prescribing you can help. Strategy Could I please ask too if you are on my list as existing Wootton Cricket update volunteers to confirm that you are still available. After P16 What’s on such a long break would like to update the volunteer list and of course would welcome new people for future To contact the newsletter please events. If you would like to know more or confirm contact e-mail the editor Lucy McCormick at Sue Alder on 07516770481 or email newsletterwoottondrysandfords [email protected]. THANK YOU [email protected]. The If Gov. Guidelines change we may have to re schedule deadline is 15th of the month dates. prior to each edition. Wootton Reading Group Do you love to read? We are a friendly group of readers who meet every six weeks on a Tuesday evening from 7.30 – Pleasant Sunday Afternoon 9pm. We explore a wide Club will resume on Sunday WADS CC SUMMER FETE variety of genres as we July 11th with a buffet lunch Sunday July 4th 2pm to discuss the set book and served at 1pm. 5pm choose a different book to PSA is open to all, no need to Stalls, Entertainment, read and discuss for our next join; just come along and enjoy. meeting. If you would like to Basketball , Football, We are open for lunch at 1pm join us, and add your Martial Arts. and serve drinks and thoughts and ideas to the The Rock Choir, refreshments until 4pm. group, please contact Games and Competitions Booking is essential for lunch, or Rebecca Turner on Afternoon teas, ice creams just drop in during the afternoon [email protected] and refreshments. for tea, coffee, and a selection for more details Free admission. of cakes. Future dates: Aug 8th, Sept 12th, Oct 10th, Nov 14th, Dec 12th Roy’s Quiz Nights @ WADS Welcome back to Craft Community Centre CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER Club ! NOTICE Sandleigh Seniors Events After a 16-month break, Craft Regrettably, all future Club will resume on Thursday meetings and activities are July 8th 2pm to 4pm in F1. Community Coffee cancelled, until further notice. Come and join us for an Mornings We will be in touch with our afternoon of crafting, good Cancelled until further notice Members, once the current company, and refreshments. to keep our community safe situation improves, but in the Future dates: Aug 12th, Sept meantime, we wish everyone 9th, Oct 8th, Nov 11th, and Laugh and learn well. Stay safe!! SSC Dec 9th Ballroom and Latin Committee Everyone welcome ! Dance Classes Cancelled until further notice
Please check with the Get fit the enjoyable way organisers prior to CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR Join our friendly groups at one Sunday December 5th 2pm of the following sessions going to any organised Pickleball Cancelled until club or event in case it until 5pm further notice. has been cancelled For more information, or to book at any of these events please contact me either by phone 01235 532816 or email [email protected]
2 WADS CC CRAFT & PRODUCE SHOW SUN OCT 3RD Open 2pm to 4pm for viewing and refreshments. 1. Painted or decorated stone. 2. Lockdown Rainbows. Any medium. 3. Pom Poms Galore. Any item made of, or decorated with pom poms. 4. Peg doll. 5. Felted Item. 6. Room in a shoe box. 7. 6 Scones. 8. Coffee Cake. 9. 6 fairy cakes. 10. Shortbread. 11. Afternoon Tea for two. 12. Speciality bread or 6 bread rolls. 13. A jar of jam, marmalade, or chutney. 14. 3 Dahlias, 3 Chrysanthemums or 3 Hydrangeas. 15. Autumn in a tea cup. 16. Miniature garden. 17. Harvest hamper of fruit and veg. 18. Veggie Creatures. 19. Largest Marrow or Squash. 20. A decorated pumpkin. Adults and children are welcome to take part in all categories, Adult entry £1.00 Child entry 50p (under 16yrs) The centre will be open to accept entries on Sat Oct 2nd from 6pm to 8pm and on Sunday Oct 3rd 9am to 10.30am. The centre will be closed from 11am for judging. Opening at 2pm to 4pm for viewing and refreshments.
Wads CC Scarecrow Festival 2021 Sat Oct 2nd to Sat Oct 30th The theme is “CARNIVAL TIME” All entries must be registered by 6pm on Fri Oct 1st to be included in the judging. For further information contact Karen 01235 532816 or email [email protected]
3 St Helen’s Wootton and District WI Church Wednesday 19th May is the date of Update our meeting which will again be on Zoom at 7pm. The Zoom link will be sent to all members before the day. It Plant Sale – May 22nd, 23rd, 29th, & will be a poetry evening, a chance for 30th you to share a poem that you have Mark the last two weekends in May (Sat & written, to read out your favourite nd rd th th Sun, 22 -23 , 29 -30 May, 10am-1pm) poem, or simply listen and have a chat for the annual St. Helen’s Spring Plant Sale at the end. Please contact us (COVID modified). This year we’ll have beforehand if you would like advice designated locations around Dry Sandford about using Zoom. with plants for sale. Map of locations on I’m sure we are all looking forward to meeting up in person, it may take the website time to get used to mixing so we will (www.sthelensdrysandford.org). Want to aim to meet outside as much as the grow? Want to sell? Let us know (proceeds weather allows! to St. Helen’s Restoration Fund)! Subs were due in April - cheques for [email protected] £34 to be sent to our treasurer please if you haven’t already. Sunday Services have re-started! Best wishes to everyone, Weather dependent, we’ll be holding Cathy French Sunday Services in the Churchyard (11.15am). COVID guidelines apply. We ST PETER’S CHURCH SUPPORT would also draw your attention to the GROUP many online services each We do recognise that this is a very Sunday: particularly St. Peter’s Church, difficult time for many people. If Wootton (www.woottonchurch.co.uk) anyone needs help with anything - and the Diocese of Oxford ‘Church at collecting shopping, medicines, or Home’ (www.oxford.anglican.org/ just would like a chat on the phone if coronavirus-covid-19-2/livestream/ ) you feel lonely, please contact us at
[email protected] or Easyfundraising - Support for St. Helen’s on 01865 735661 and we will arrange FREE donations to St. Helens by doing the appropriate support from known your regular online shopping! Join in and trusted members of our whilst doing your regular online shopping congregation, all of whom are DBS AND raise funds for St. Helen’s at NO checked. extra cost to you: Stay safe and take care. www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ With every blessing. sthelensdrysandford From All at St Peter’s Church
Become a St. Helen’s Guardian Angel With the impact of the closure and added challenge of the pandemic, we cannot St Helen’s Without Parish receive all the gifts that we usually would, Council Meetings 3rd May 2021 by video call (Anyone so we really need your help now! For all wishing to join the meeting should those who make a regular, scheduled obtain the access details from the Clerk monthly online donation (of any amount), by email: [email protected] or they will be acknowledged as one of our 01865 321555) ‘Guardian Angels’. Consider becoming a Sub Committee Meetings 7.00p.m. Guardian Angel by filling out the Parish Council Meeting 7.30p.m. th Generous Giving Form found on our 6 September 2021 at Shippon Church Anna Clarke Hall Parish Clerk St Helen Without PC website: www.sthelensdrysandford.org Sub Committee Meetings 7.00p.m. 01865 321555 Parish Council Meeting 7.30p.m. clerk- Thank you for all your support! There are currently 4 vacancies for Dry shwpc@woo ondrysandfordshippon.co. Marisa Goodenough Sandford Parish Councillors. uk Anna
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11 12 Dear Newsletter Editor I am writing as the Public Relations Officer of Harmony InSpires, an Oxfordshire-based chorus for women of all ages and experience in singing. We hold "Come and Sing" Courses to allow women to try out singing in 4-part harmony, but of course this year is more difficult and we are holding it online. As a chorus we not only sing for pleasure, but also sing at care homes, clubs, weddings, Christmas Fairs, music festivals etc, so if you ever need a 35- strong chorus to sing at an Dear Editor event, please get in touch! The wonders of nature still amaze me as I nurture such small seeds into a plant. Love to Sing Course - June There are many pitfalls if we don't understand and work with nature with its 2021 changing weather patterns - one day hot, the next cold making the conditions Do you love to sing? Would you challenging. like to try something new this year? Harmony InSpires, the all- Aftercare is as important as germination itself. Early stage seedlings are vulnerable, female a Cappella chorus based left in a propagator too long they grow too tall and become fragile. The production in Marcham, (near Abingdon, of the first pair of true leaves is when they can be moved for hardening off. Always Oxfordshire) invites women of all water with care, too little and they wither and die, too much can result in rotting, ages and all levels of experience stagnant roots. Waiting for the frost to pass, plants can fast outgrow their trays, or to join a FREE online 'Love to pots become starved of nutrients, their leaves starting to yellow - so plant them Sing' course over three evenings into bigger pots keeping them in a cold frame. I sometimes use clear plastic on 2nd, 9th and 16th June. No buckets or jars to cover them. need to read music as we provide teach tracks to help you I grow vegetables and bedding flowers to sell in aid of Cancer Research UK, so for learn as you sing along For those with no greenhouse or heated germination facilities I am available to take more details email orders. [email protected] or visit In the vegetable garden we can now sow brussel sprouts, red cabbage, summer www.harmonyinspires.org cabbage, leeks, salad onions, summer cauliflower, beetroot, spinach, lettuce, carrots and onion sets.
The flowers for Cancer Research UK have germinated nicely and are available for sale now…. Osteospermum Jucundum - (a clump forming perennial producing an abundance of pink flowers. I find it good for tumbling over walls. Colchicum - Autumn flowering corm in pots ready for planting out to name just two as well as some pots of parsley, rosemary, marjoram.
Orders for bedding plants can now be taken by calling 01865 373441 or e-mailing ([email protected]) and to order hanging baskets please call Steve Mobley on 07983 428871 ([email protected]) to be ready from the second week of May. All proceeds will go towards the vital work carried out by Cancer Research UK.
Philip Siret - age 90 - avid gardener and twice survivor of cancer
13 14 Oxfordshire Social Prescribing Strategy Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG) is developing a Social Prescribing Strategy for Oxfordshire. We are seeking views and feedback from a variety of stakeholders; providers; voluntary sector organisations; GP Practice staff; Link Workers; Healthwatch Oxfordshire; patients and patient groups to help shape the strategy.
What is Social Prescribing? Social prescribing is a means of enabling health professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services. The referrals generally, but not exclusively, come from professionals working in primary care settings, for example, GPs or Practice Nurses. Other agencies can also refer or people can self-refer.
Social prescribing is designed to support people with a wide range of social, emotional or practical needs with those who could benefit including people with mild or long-term mental health problems; people with complex needs; people who are socially isolated and those with long-term conditions who frequently attend health care services.
The key aspect of social prescribing is that people are referred to a Link Worker, who will discuss with the person what is important to them or what their aim is to address. The Link Worker can then inform the person what options are available and refer them to an organisation or activity to meet their need. Link Workers may also be known by other names such as a Community Navigator, but they perform the same role.
These activities are typically provided by voluntary and community sector organisations. Some examples include volunteering, arts activities, gardening, befriending, cookery, lunch clubs and a range of physical activities.
We are seeking your help to develop the strategy Oxfordshire has a diverse range of social prescribing approaches which reflect local needs. The aim of the strategy is not only to describe the current picture and to highlight best practice, but to identify issues and gaps and what could be improved and how. It is also to set out a five year vision of what social prescribing should look like in order to maximise the funding and resources.
We welcome feedback and input to shape the strategy. Some potential points to consider: Is there a social prescribing service provided by your local Primary Care Network (Either ‘in-house’ or provided by a voluntary sector organisation)? If so, do you know who the Link Worker is? Do they work with patients in your GP Practice? Have they linked with the Patients Participation Group? Have you heard any feedback from patients? If there isn’t a social prescribing service, do you feel that this is a gap and a need that should be fulfilled? Have you or a relative or friend had experience of being supported through social prescribing? If so, was their experience positive or not? How would you like social prescribing to develop in the future?
These are just some examples. We would like to hear any other ideas/ suggestions and feedback. Please contact Maggie James, Equality & Access Manager at OCCG via email at: [email protected] or via telephone on 07769 307054 Thank you. Chris Sugden
PLAY CRICKET IN WOOTTON THIS SEASON 2021 The Cherwell League begins on Saturday 8th May with Wootton and Boars Hill Cricket Club (WBHCC) playing in Division 5c (!st team) and Division 8a (2nd team). May fixtures are as follows: 8th May ...... 1st team v Challow and Childrey (Home). 15th May ..... 2nd team v Didcot llll (Home) 22nd May ..... 1st team v Faringdon (Home) 29th May ...... 1st team v Easte and West Hendred (Home) All games begin at 12:30. Looking further into the future: Saturday 1st May ...... Club Day Cricket Match - hopefully everyone will turn up for a match of two mixed sides (no limit to numbers!) from all club members. For our guests, hopefully, the weather will be fine as the bar will be open for the duration and into the evening. START TIME: 13:00 Sunday 25th July ...... Club Charity Day - cricket match, bar and hopefully we will be allowed refreshments (more details will follow). Money raised will be split between the club and Sobell House Hospice. Saturday 11th September ...... President's Day Cricket Match - teams selected by the President and Chair. Bar all day and refreshments. Please come and support your village side and enjoy the hospitality on offer (bar, coffee and tea always available for the duration of the match and into the evening).
15 CC : Community Centre WHAT’S ON CCC : Cumnor Cricket Club EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY CVH : Cumnor Village Hall Monday CrP : Cricket Pavillion Pre-School CC 9.15am DB : Dalton Barracks Bridge CC 2.00pm DBCC : Dalton Barracks Pickleball The CC 2.00 pm Community Centre Beaver scoutsCommunity (6-8 yrs) SHQ 5.45pm Cub Scouts (8-10.5 yrs) SHQ 7.00pm DSC : Dry Sandford Church Centre is DSS : Dry Sandford School Circuit Training CC 6.30pm Bingo pm SHQ : Scout HQ closed dueCC 7.30 Wootton Players CC 7.30pm StH : St Helen’s, Dry (October to February)to the Sandford Scouts (10.5-14pandemic yrs) SHQ 7.00pm Sunday 4 July - Summer Fete CC StP : St Peter’s, Woo on Tuesday Thursday 8 July - Craft Club CC WS : Woo on School Pre-School except forCC 9.15am SVH : Sunningwell Village Chair Aerobicspre-school CC 10.30 am Sunday 11 July - PSA CC Hall Table tennis CC 11.00am Sunday 3 October - Craft Show CC BP : Bystander Pub Zumba and blood CC 6.30pm Wootton Warblers StP 7.00pm Sat 2 - Sat 30 October - Scarecrow (I) : Intermediate donors. All (A) : All standards Badminton CC 8.00pm theWednesday usual Festival (Sh) : Shippon Pre-School CC 9.15am StHCC: St. Helens Church activities Sunday 5 Dec - Christmas Craft Fair CC Keep Young Stay Fit CC 10.30am Centre Wootton Players are CC 7.30pm SCH : Shippon Church Hall (October to February) cancelled Bowls Group CC 7.45pm untilThursday the Please check with the Pre-School governmentCC 9.15am Community Coffee Please note - the organisers prior to allow theCC 9.30 am Table Tennis CC 11.30 am postcode of the going to any Mums Tots Songscentre WSto 2.10pm Community Friday Centre is organised club or Advanced Table Tennisreopen. CC 8.00 pm OX13 6DA event in case it has Saturday Pilates CC 9.30am been cancelled Zumba Toning CC 9.30am Zumba CC 10.30am
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