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2210 (Cowley) SQN AIR CADET NEWS: The start of 2020 has seen cadets and staff from 2210 (Cowley) Sqn involved in a number of exciting activities! They attended Thames Valley Wing’s first Multi-Activity Course: it was accommodated on HMS Bristol, a Type 82 destroyer which saw action in the Falklands, and is berthed in Portsmouth. Cadets could choose from courses in leadership, first aid, radio communications, instructional techniques or weapon handling. Cadets from 2210 (Cowley) Sqn also joined others from across Oxfordshire & Berkshire to practise their marksmanship skills by firing the L144A1 target rifle: they were trained to use the weapon safely, then coached during firing to ensure they could accurately & consistently hit a target 25 metres away. Finally 2210 (Cowley) Sqn undertook a 12 Km walk in the countryside to put into practice map reading and navigation skills learnt on normal parade nights. Cadets took it in turn to lead the group, and decide on the route & direction. If you are aged 12 (& in Yr 8) to 19 and interested in joining as a cadet or as a member of staff, please feel free to attend (Mondays & Wednesdays 7.15-9.30 pm, Sandy Lane West) or contact Fg Off O'Riordan on [email protected]. Fg Off Tim O’Riordan (photos © T O’R: all permissions received)

THE SCHOOL READINESS PROJECT: GROWING MINDS NEWS FROM LITTLEMORE PLAYGROUP This is a partnership between John Henry Newman Academy, Thank you to the Parish Council for the 2nd part of their grant. Peeple www.peeple.org.uk, Home-Start www.home-start.org.uk, & the We’ve used it to buy much-needed resources: these include Imagination Library imaginationlibrary.com/uk). It supports home books, other resources for children with special needs, mats, & learning, & interactions that will prepare children for school in a cover to keep the sandpit clean. In recent weeks the children their 5th year. This year in Littlemore, they will focus on 0-2 year have enjoyed exploring the top garden, finding insects, & olds, to whom they will offer support until they reach school. making homes for the wildlife. Playgroup continues to have a So far two new groups are available & open to all children strong team, we're at full capacity with a waiting list: we're very within the age range. *Growing Minds Peep Group: JHN: for pleased that Hayley Cox, who has worked here for 9 years, is 1s & 2s, Tues 10-11am *Soft Play with Peep: JHN: for 0-3s now our manager. Ann Robinson, Chair Thurs 9-10am. For more, & to book, contact 01865 395 145, or [email protected]. Suzy Donald NEWS ABOUT CLASSES and GROUPS • OXFORD AERIAL ARTS returns to TOA. It offers beginners’, GET DIGGING! intermediate & advanced pole & aerial classes. See overleaf. Thomson Terrace Allotments Association would • MOVE IT DON’T LOSE IT exercise class: Thurs 10-11am has like to show you how enjoyable and rewarding it moved to Blessed Dominic Barberi Church Hall. is to grow your own vegetables, fruit, and flowers. • NEW SINGING GROUP: The People’s Note: sings popular/ We have some small plots available this season, music hall songs at various locations. See listings overleaf. it’s a good time to begin gardening, and the rent For more info contact [email protected]. is low. The field is between the ring road & STOP PRESS AGE UK Oxfordshire EVENTS for the Over-60s: Oxford Rd Recreation Ground: the main gate is in Kempson • suspended until further notice: Colin Cure 07827 235 459. Crescent: there is a gate allowing vehicle access at the end of Thomson Terrace, and pedestrian access from the underpass under Littlemore Roundabout. Plot-holders will be on the field LITTLEMORE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FUN DAY: th to open the gates so you can look round on Saturday & Sunday *Sat 16 May: 12-4pm at the Community Centre. The free mornings. We have social events, & all allottees have a voice in attractions include Big Bouncy Castle : Cool music from DJ the running of the Association. Contact me on 0790 2879 149 Gary Smith : Bezerkaz Circus Show : Littlemore Playgroup Pre- or at [email protected]. Julia Brocklesby School Singers : dance groups including Messy Jam, Oxford Youth Dance & Strawberry Fayre : D-I-Y face-painting : LCA’s BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT own FunDay Charity Prize Raffle : other Stalls inside & out • RH&D ADVICE CENTRE BINGO NIGHT Friday 17th April: 6.15 include Littlemore Bottle Stall : Playgroup Tombola & Toy for 7pm at Rose Hill Community Centre. Buy tickets (£1) at Shop : Scrummy-delicious hot roast food stall : Low/No Sugar Rose Hill & Donnington Advice Centre. Bingo Books (£2.50 + drinks, tea & coffee : plus Big Red Fire Engine + real Police cars £5) etc to be purchased separately on the night. Adèle Wager & great Community Police people, Oxford City Council & other • PARKOUR, ACROBATIC & AERIAL SUMMER CAMP + stunt Agencies offering advice and information. Something for workshops: at TOA: 10.30-3.30 on 10-14th Aug: see everyone! For even more about this event see the online issue www.ukcfacademy.co.uk/summer-camp. Oliver Ward of LITTLEMORE LOCAL. Dorian Hancock

EDITOR: JUDITH PUBLISHED BY LITTLEMORE PARISH COUNCIL PRINTER: GODSLAND put the title in your search engine to find the longer, electronic issue FINEPRINT WHAT’S ON: CLUBS, SOCIETIES, CLASSES: APRIL / MAY 2020 • Dance (Jive+: Modern Jive) for 16+: all abilities: TOA: Thurs 7.45pm for KEY: LOCATIONS IN LITTLEMORE 8.00–10.40pm (+weekend social events). First session free if you bring ACF Army Cadet Force Building, OX4 6LD LITTLEMORE LOCAL. Coralie Green 07767 360 854, www.jiveplus.com ATC Air Cadet Forces Centre, OX4 6LD • Dance: Street Dance with Body Politic: TOA: Weds: *4:30-5:30pm 11-16yrs BDB Blessed Dominic Barberi Hall, OX4 4JX *5:45-6:45pm 14yrs+ Intermediate. Subsidised spaces for young people EKH Edith Kempson House, OX4 4QB needing support to attend. Contact Emma-Jane Morbey 07719 972 149 HCR Herschel Crescent Recreation Ground, OX4 3TU [email protected], or www.bodypoliticdance.com IBC Indoor Bowls Club, OX4 6NA • Driftway Country Music Club: RBL: Live music+dance: JHN John Henry Newman Academy, OX4 4LS LCC Littlemore Community Centre, OX4 4PL Alt Sundays 7.45-10.45pm: Kevin McCullagh 01235 529 976 LRC Littlemore Rugby Club, OX4 4NH • Gym: FREE Sessions (over 50s): TOA: Sat & Sun 9-11am. To book your LVH Littlemore Village Hall, OX4 4PY induction call OX4 staff: 01865 783 238 (eves & w/e) or email RBL Royal British Legion Hall, OX4 4LZ [email protected] RCF Rose Hill Children+Families Centre, OX4 4UY • Isis Ringcraft: LVH: Show Training for Pedigree Dogs and Handlers: Thurs RHC Rose Hill Community Centre, OX4 4HF evenings: check with Sara Nixon by phone txt for dates & time: 07721 939 800 SHQ Scout HQ, Fairlie Road, OX4 3SW • Karate: JHN: *age 4-6yrs Thursdays 3.30-4pm *age 7-14yrs Thursdays SJF St John Fisher School, OX4 6LD 4-5pm. Chris Wilmott, 07880 636 123 or [email protected] SM+SN St Mary and St Nicholas Church, near OX4 4PB TOA The Oxford Academy, OX4 6JZ • Kendo: TOA: (Japanese samurai 'sword' fighting with bamboo shinai & wood bokken): Saturdays 2:30-4:30pm for boys+girls, men+women age 4yrs to Aerial, Parkour & Acrobatics: UKCF Academy©: TOA: parkour park + tumble • 60+. Rowena Dossett: Oxford City Kendo Club 07711 285 730, track, ropes, trapezes, silks, hoops, handstand canes & more. Sundays: [email protected], or www.oxfordkendo.com *10:30am-6pm: age 7-17 years *6-8pm: 18+ Pre-book only • Kickboxing and Karate: LCC: Tuesdays + Fridays 6.15-7.15pm: for www.ukcfacademy.co.uk, 03302 233 995, Oliver Ward boys+girls, men+women, age 4yrs to 40+, Michaela Clarke, 07487 655 895 • Aerial & Pole Fitness, stretch, conditioning: TOA: *Sunday am: Open Pole • Library: Home Library Service: Manager: Kevin Salway, 01865 810 259: Practice *Sun am: Pole Dance+fitness *Weds eve: Hoop Class *Thurs eves: [email protected] Exotic Flow class. Book at www.oxfordaerialarts.com: to get a first, free class use Library: Littlemore Public Library on TOA campus: open to all. *Open OAA1STFREE Nicola Ghalmi 07909 974 256, [email protected] • Monday: 2-6pm ⎮ Tuesday: 2-4.30pm ⎮ Weds: Closed ⎮ Thurs: • AgeUK events for overs 60s: suspended until further notice 9.30am-12.30pm + 2pm-4.30pm ⎮ Friday: 9.30am-12.30pm ⎮ Saturday: • Air Cadets: ATC: Mon & Weds 7.15-9.30 pm for young people aged 12 (& in 9.30am-1.30pm. See www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/littlemore-library Yr 8) to 20: we also seek to recruit adult volunteers: see www.aircadets.tv/ • Littlemore Local History Society: LCC, except in summer when we take walks: 2210, and/or contact Fg Off Tim O’Riordan: email [email protected] 7 for 7.30pm, 3rd Wednesday of month (except December): talks, summer • Allotments at the following sites are available to all Littlemore residents: walks & occasional special walks. Sue Stewart [email protected] *Thomson Terrace (contact Tom Dyra 07867 931 487, Paul Dyra 07792 333 • Lunch Club for Over 60s: George Pub: Second Friday most months: 12-2pm: 054, [email protected]) *Minchery Farm (see City Council website) Rev Margreet Armitstead 01865 748 003 or [email protected] *Elder Stubbs (see City Council website or Restore website) and *Denny • Men’s Breakfast: EKH: 9-10am: 2nd Sat of month: Andrew Bevan: 01865 514 Gardens (see www.odfaa.com/members/contact) 374 or 07799 532 177 • Army Cadets: ACF: Thursdays 7.15-9.30pm for young people age 12 (& in Yr 8) • Move It - Don’t Lose It: BDB: Thursdays 10-11am: lively exercise for over 60s -18yrs: See www.armycadets.com/county/oxfordshire-acf for more, or contact: including those unable to stand: Jane Read 01865 749 206 SSI N Stanton, [email protected]. • Barberi Club: BDB: Wednesdays 10-12-ish: talks, games, visits, refreshments: • Music: Jubilate Band: plays in the monthly Sunday morning Jubilate Church Service for SM+SN church: Rev Margreet Armitstead 01865 748 003, all ages are welcome: Teresa Prescott 07749 386 218, [email protected] [email protected] • Bingo: RBL: Monday, +every 1st & 3rd Friday (families). Contact Katie Tutty • Music: Jubilee Brass: our local brass band: light & traditional music. Available for fêtes, concerts/carols, etc: full band or small group as required. 01865 778 869 or [email protected] for exact timings New members very welcome. Cliff Sadler: [email protected] • Bootcamp: TOA: Tuesdays 6-7pm & Saturdays 9.30-10.30am. Cardio, strength- • Music: Soundabout Music Group: LVH: for adults with learning disability & based & body weight exercises for all: Abbey Poulter 07496 074 225, their carers: Tues 1-3pm: with Steve Pratley: for more contact peoplefi[email protected] [email protected], 01235 797 474 • Bowls (Indoor): IBC: Summer Indoor bowling open session, great if you just • Nutrition Club: SJF: 5.30-7pm last Weds every month: Steffani Herring-Hall: want a game: Mon/ Wed/Thur 9.30 for 10am start: teams are created on the day: see www.oxbowls.co.uk hblfsteffi.goherbalife.com • Open House: EKH: Thursdays 10-11.30am: free coffee, & chat: each 3rd Thurs • Childcare: Littlemore Playgroup: LCC: 9-12noon M-F: term-times: Hayley Cox an advisor from Rose Hill Advice Centre is present 10.30-11.30: Andrew Bevan: [email protected] or 01865 396 449 when open 01865 514 374 or 07799 532 177 • Childcare: Little Peeple Nursery: TOA: 8am to 5.30pm, 48 weeks a year. • Peep Groups (term-time): *Twos group: Little Peeple Nursery, TOA: Mon Manager: Lindsey Hart: 01865 397 972, [email protected] pm: talk time, singing, book sharing. *Baby group: RCF: Tues pm *Baby • Childcare: The Old Station Nursery: Oxford Science Park: for children aged group: Little Peeple Nursery TOA: Weds am. For more info & to book contact 3months-5years: open all year. Please contact Charlotte Dagg: [email protected], 01865 395 145. *Growing Minds Peep [email protected] or 01865 777 167 Group: JHN: for 1s & 2s, Tues 10-11am: contact JHN reception: 01865 772495 • Coffee & Conversation: SM+SN Church at JHN: 11.15am-12noon every • Pilates: classes & 1:1 sessions in & around Littlemore: Jane Callaway, Sunday Rev Margreet Armitstead 01865 748 003 [email protected], Physiotherapist: [email protected] or www.littlemorechurch.org • Pop-Up Pilates: LVH: Wednesdays at *5.30pm & at *6.30pm: Lauren McLeod • Community Breakfast: EKH: Wed, 9-10am +every weekday during school 07547 920 909, [email protected] or see www.pop-up-pilates.com holidays: contact Revd Hannah Cartwright: 07885 719 780, [email protected] • Reading Group: Public Library at TOA: Thursdays 10.30 to 11.30-ish: currently full: contact Sharon Ingram 01865 714 309 • Community Café: LVH: 10.30-1.30: 1st Saturday of month: coffee, chat, stalls, • Restore Café & Shop: Sandford Road: Open M-F 10-2.30 (café closes at 1.30). light lunches: Claire Drinkwater, 01865 718 580 Mental Health Charitable Organisation. Find us on Facebook or at • Conservation: work parties at local nature reserves: Friendly groups: every www.restore.org.uk. For more about our service contact: Grace Ward 01865 week. Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, 1 Armstrong Rd, Littlemore OX4 4XT. 902 098 or [email protected] Andy Gunn 01865 775 476, [email protected] • Rhythmic Gymnastics: TOA: *Preschoolers Sat 9-9.45am, 9-10am & NEWS FROM LITTLEMORE LIBRARY ON TOA CAMPUS 9.45-10.45am, Tue 5-6pm & 6-7pm, Fri 5-6pm & 6-7pm, *Advanced Tue Don’t forget! Apart from books & magazines we offer: for 5-7pm & Friday 5-7pm: see www.oxfordgymnastics.co.uk or contact Silvia youngsters craft activities every 1st Saturday 10.30-11.30am, Chapple [email protected] Rhymetime, Stay, Play & Learn sessions, & more. For adults: • Rugby Training (Senior): LRC: see below Tues + Thurs: arrive 7pm for help tracing a family tree, or getting to grips with your tablet, 7.15-9pm session: all abilities welcome: see fb: Littlemore RFC-Littlemore and Friendly Friday a chance to do some craft or just have a Rugby Club, contact Carl Wright 07515 120 460, [email protected] or chat, tea & cake. Sharon Ingram, Library Manager Jason Chambers [email protected] 07796 607 740 EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: IT’S BEEN A FULL TERM! • Rugby training (Junior 6-18 yrs, all abilities welcome): LRC: at the Oxford We particularly enjoyed our topic about Mountains: we learnt Academy: please enter via the Northfield Close gate and turn right about gradients & gears and then went for a very muddy walk immediately: Sundays: arrive 9.45am for 10-11:30am session: John Perry up to Wittenham Clumps. We hope to be off to the Cutty Sark 07766 954 922 or [email protected] at the end of term and we plan to explore Oxford over the nd th • Science for 2-5yr olds: Mini Professors: LVH: 2 & 4 Saturday each month: summer term. *Our next 'Stay and Play' is on Weds 6th May *10am 3-5 yrs *11.10am 2-3½ yrs Hands-on Science-based from 9 ’til 11am. Families looking for places in the nursery are activities+singing, Lucy Cooper 0775 4016 612 or see welcome to attend. Alternatively you can book an appointment www.miniprofessors.com/oxford-south to visit through the office: 01865 395 236. Lizzy Nesbitt • Singing group: The People’s Note: sing popular/music hall songs at various locations including Templar’s Square (2pm every 2nd Sun by MuzoAcademy) & SPECIAL RUGBY MATCH IN HONOUR OF KAIRU KAGIA th Littlemore Hospital Restore Café (11am every 2nd Mon): all welcome. For more On Saturday 25 April, at Littlemore Rugby info & dates contact Malcolm Atkins [email protected]. Club: a Memorial Rugby match to honour the • Soft Play with Peep: JHN: for 0-3s Thurs 9-10am, term-time: run by JHN staff, life of our former team member Kairu Kagia, open to the whole community. Make new friends whilst your little one plays: fondly known as KK, who sadly died in 2019. +tea & biscuits. Contact school reception: 01865 772 495 The fixture will see a combined Littlemore/Kenya side (Little Kenya) face an invitational side from • Stay & Play: Little Chuggers: SHQ: Fridays (term times) 9.00-11.30am (set up London, with players from Kew Occasionals & from 9am). For 0-4 year olds and their parents/carers. Minimum contribution: London Japanese (Kew Japan). Kick-off is 2pm with the £2.00. Ruth Lloyd, 07736 831 038, [email protected] clubhouse open from noon. Refreshments will be available Stay & Play: Little Peeple Nursery: TOA: Thurs 9.30-11am (term time), for 0-4 • pitch-side. Post-match there’ll be a BBQ and other hot food at year olds & their parents/carers. Contact: [email protected]. the clubhouse. Everyone is welcome. Tim Stevens • Walk for Health from Sandford Talking Shop: 10-11am Mondays: contact Emma Collins at [email protected] or 07483 007 114 for more. ST MARY & ST NICOLAS CHURCH • Yoga: LCC: Mon 6-7pm: (takes a break during April) Mixed Abilities flow Class: We're continuing our refurbishment! There’ll be a kitchen, a all welcome. Mats available for newcomers, but otherwise please bring your WC, new radiators + underfloor heating, new lighting, a balcony, a complete redecoration, and the old coal hole is own. Contact Elly Tiburcio, 07376 247 432 or [email protected] being turned into a crypt for prayer & reflection. • Youth Ambition: Youth Club: ages 11-19: LCC: Weds 5-7pm Contact James Calling all knitters! We're knitting small 'squares of blessing', Dunsby: [email protected], or 01865 335 406 which we will offer free to anyone in the community. Can you • Youth Groups: Beavers (age 6-8): Cubs (age 8-10½ ): Explorers (age knit? Would you like to learn? Please contact me for more. 14-18): Scouts (age 10½-14): SHQ: various nights. Please see their websites Special services (in JHN Academy) *Sun 5th April: Palm for details. Brownies (girls 7-10 yrs): we no longer have a group in Sunday Service starts at 10.30am with a procession from the Littlemore: interested parents please see www.girlguiding.org.uk/information Village Green with a real donkey. *Fri 10th April, 2pm Good • Zumba: TOA: over 15yrs of age and all abilities welcome: Mon 7-8pm: Steffani Friday Service. *Sun 12th April: Easter Sunday 10am service, Herring-Hall: www.zumba-Steffi.co.uk followed by Easter Egg Hunt in JHN grounds. Timetables will inevitably change over the next few months, but Thank You to everyone Over 60s Lunch Club, organised by the church, held at The th who confirmed these listings and contributed other copy. Other Littlemore groups and George: suggested min donation £2.50 *17 April, Sausage & th activities are available : if you wish your group to be publicised, please give me Mash; *15 May, Beef Stew. Vegetarian option available if permission! Ed [email protected] booked. Book through me, or The George (01865 779 341). If you'd like to come for coffee, cake & conversation on a Sunday morning after our service then please come to JHN at CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (CoViD 19) about 11.15am. Rev Margreet Armitstead 01865 748 003 Over the next months many of us will be ill with the virus: for those strong enough to get over it within the LITTLEMORE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY th week it may be a good thing to develop some Regular meetings: *Weds 15 April: John Foreman will speak immunity. However among us there are those, young & old, about Louis Davis, 'the last Pre-Raphaelite’ who designed the who are specially vulnerable, who will be severely ill and will East window of St Mary & St Nicholas Church. *Weds 20th need time in Intensive Care, perhaps on a ventilator because May: local historian Liz Woolley will talk about the coming of their bodies over-react to the virus. The measures imposed the railway to Oxford. Meetings are at the Community Centre which limit our freedom are intended to protect them, to slow 7pm (refreshments) for 7.30. Special events: on Sat 4th April the inevitable spread of the illness, to protect the workforce, we’ll be at Nostalgia Morning at the Village Hall. Sue Stewart and spread the load carried by the NHS. Please take them LITTLEMORE VILLAGE HALL EVENTS seriously, and please accept that it will be a long haul. We will *Sat 4th April, 10.30-1.30: Nostalgia Saturday: a joint effort need to support our neighbours, not just lie low. For up to between Littlemore Local History Society and Community Café. date advice, listen to the briefings or see www.nhs.uk/ Your chance to find out more about Littlemore’s history, or to conditions/coronavirus-covid-19. To remind yourself about the contribute your memories to our growing local history archive. best way to wash your hands see www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy- There will be displays, local historians to talk to, and of course, body/best-way-to-wash-your-hands and, even if you think coffee, homemade cake & light lunches. *Sat 2nd May, 10-1.30: you’ve had the virus & recovered, please continue to follow this don’t miss our Spring Fayre: our usual mix of stalls, crafts, advice: not only to slow the spread of the infection, but tombola, Grand Prize Draw, and delicious homemade cake and because it’s sound advice for all occasions, not just for now. Ed coffee or lunch. Claire Drinkwater MORE FLEXIBLE HEALTH CARE Non-life threatening accidents or injuries: After an accident or injury, your first thought might be to head off to the JR A&E department, but there are now 2 alternatives: Minor Injuries Units (MIU) and First Aid Units (FAU) manned by highly skilled emergency practitioners and based at Oxford Health’s community hospitals.

While A&E is for serious, potentially life-threatening cases, ie true emergencies, MIUs and FAUs are often a much better option for sprained ankles, wounds, bites, eye injuries and so on.

MIUs operate at community hospitals in Abingdon, Witney and Henley: they have x-ray facilities.

There are FAUs at Bicester, Wallingford & Chipping Norton hospitals: they offer the same multi-skilled teams but without x- ray facilities, so they’re not equipped to diagnose bony injuries.

Together they have a range of specialists who can treat a range of conditions – from broken bones, severe sprains, deep cuts, eye injuries, minor head injuries, minor burns, and scalds. They reduce the pressures on Oxford A&E and increase your chances of being seen more quickly. You can simply walk in, but by far the best thing to do is to get an appointment via the NHS 111 telephone service. Callers are questioned over the phone and given an appointment at the nearest unit equipped to meet their needs. Having an appointment gives you a much more accurate idea of the anticipated assessment time. Those who have an appointment will be seen first unless there is a clinical need to tackle a more urgent case.

GP appointments: Patients in Oxfordshire can see a doctor at weekends or in the evening if this suits them. If you contact your GP surgery or the NHS 111 service you may be offered an extended hours appointment at your own surgery, or at a nearby practice. You can request one, too, if you work late or have other commitments.

From 13th March until further notice, Please don’t telephone 111 immediately if you have coronavirus symptoms.

Stay at home if you have coronavirus symptoms Stay at home for 7 days if you have either: • a high temperature • a new, continuous cough Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital. You do not need to contact 111 to tell them you're staying at home. Read our advice about staying at home at : https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self- isolation-advice/

Use the NHS 111 coronavirus service if:

Not sure • you feel you cannot cope with your symptoms at home what to do? • your condition gets worse • your symptoms do not get better after 7 days Go straight to Call or go online 111.nhs.uk https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ LOTS (MORE) ABOUT THE COMMUNITY FUN DAY The 2020 Littlemore Community FunDay will be on Saturday 16th May at the Giles Road Centre between 12noon and 4pm on what everyone hopes will be yet another gloriously warm and sunny day. The event will be officially opened by Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds, together with Oxford’s new Lord Mayor. If it’s anything like previous years, the event will see hundreds of people of all ages coming along to make Community FunDay another Littlemore Community Success! Contact: Julia Brocklesby The Community Centre is a one-level disability-friendly [email protected] or 0790 2879 149 building, and the attractions are free. They include Big Bouncy Castle : Cool music by top International star DJ Gary Smith : The fabulous Bezerkaz Circus Show and children’s entertainment : Littlemore Playgroup Pre-School Singers : Great dance groups including Messy Jam, Oxford Youth Dance, and Strawberry Fayre : Fantastic D-I-Y face-painting ….. for really amazing faces! : plus lots of other really good stuff including LCA’s own FunDay Charity Prize Raffle (with prizes varying from Star Prizes from Argos to amazing Bus and Coach tickets from Thomson Terrace Allotments Association would like to meet you, to show you Stagecoach and Oxford Bus, and donations from lots of well- how enjoyable & rewarding it is to grow your own vegetables, fruit & flowers. known Oxford stores! Stalls inside and out include Littlemore We have some small plots available for this season, it is a good time to begin Bottle Stall : Playgroup Tombola and Toy Shop : Scrummy- gardening and the rent is low. We have Seed potatoes on sale, and on Saturday or Sunday mornings there will be plot-holders on the field to open the delicious hot roast food stall : Low/No Sugar drinks plus tea gates so you can look around. We have social events, and all allottees have a and coffee. In addition we’ll see the Big Red Fire Engine, real voice in the running of the Association. Police cars and great Community Police people, and Oxford The field is between the Ring Road and Oxford Road recreation ground. City Council and other Agencies will be there offering advice The main gate is in Kempson Crescent, there is pedestrian access from the and information to help make Littlemore Community FunDay underpass under Littlemore Roundabout, and there is a gate allowing vehicle access at the end of Thomson Terrace near the path to Sainsburys. an entertaining and informative event for everyone! Did you know? • FunDay will also be celebrating the 54th Birthday of the We hope to see you soon Littlemore Playgroup – many of the pre-school children from the early 1960’s are now parents, grandparents, great- grandparents, aunties and uncles of children who now attend this Ofsted-rated pre-school facility at the Community Centre. • Also, Littlemore Community Association (the event organiser) celebrates the 64th Anniversary of its being the Community NGO (non-government organisation) for Littlemore, and it is the 14th Anniversary of the LCA being both the non-political

The Village Hall and non-religiously aligned registered charity for Littlemore, Littlemore and the Centre’s Tenant-Management. (The Community Centre was originally built by Oxfordshire County Council on land which was leased from Oxford City Council: then Oxfordshire County Council was Tenant of the land, and LCA was the Sub-Tenant). Dorian Hancock

LITTLEMORE HALLS FOR HIRE: + CONTACT DETAILS THE OXFORD ACADEMY: Beecroft Theatre, Bistro Hall, Events Rooms, Sports Hall, 3G Full size floodlit pitch, 3G Dome, Astroturf pitches, Grass pitches, Dance Studio, Fitness Suite, Drama studio and Classrooms: at TOA, Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, OX4 6JZ. *Contact OX4 Community Facilities: 01865 783 238, or Football team 1925 [email protected].

ROYAL BRITISH LEGION LITTLEMORE: Functions rooms, Nostalgia Saturday Games room and Bar: at Lakefield Road, Littlemore, OX4 4LZ: with Littlemore Local History Society see www.littlemorebritishlegion.co.uk. *Contact Katie Tutty at the 01865 778 869 or [email protected]. Village Hall Community Cafe LITTLEMORE VILLAGE HALL: Hall with kitchen, stage & Saturday 4th April garden: at Railway Lane, Littlemore, OX4 4PY. 10.30am - 1.30pm *Contact Maggie Willis, preferably by email: [email protected], (phone 07467 127 009).

• Bring your memories, photos and finds to share OXFORD & DISTRICT INDOOR BOWLS CLUB, Business • Find out more about Old Littlemore meeting rooms / Board Room: catering services available: at • Enjoy a coffee, home-made cake or light lunch Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, OX4 6NA: see www.oxbowls.co.uk. Contact Paula Fontaine 01865 775 891 or [email protected]. NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: CONTACT NUMBERS To report DOG FOULING, NOISE, FLY- TIPPING etc, Contact the Community Response Team, Oxford City Council, St Aldate's Chambers, Oxford, OX1 1DS report by email at [email protected] or telephone 01865 249 811. NEIGHBOURHOOD To report ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR WATCH contact the police or the Anti-Social Spring Behaviour Investigation Team, Oxford City Council, St Aldate's Chambers, St Aldate's, Oxford, OX1 1DS email: [email protected] Phone: 01865 249 811.

Fayre To report NEEDLES AND SHARPS, OFFENSIVE GRAFFITI or graffiti on public buildings, council properties and in parks, cemeteries and bus shelters: report online at https:// Saturday 2nd May www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20095/do_it_online or telephone Direct Services (Streetscene) on 01865 335 400 (they’ll give advice about graffiti on private property, too). 10am - 1.30pm To report ILLEGAL PARKING contact NSL on 03453 371 138 (select 3) or email [email protected]. Littlemore Village Hall NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE Come and enjoy Rose Hill Community Centre, Carole’s Way, Oxford OX4 4HF Stalls - Cakes, Crafts, Ring 101 for non emergency calls, Toys, Toiletries or 999 for emergencies, or mail [email protected]. Grand Prize Draw and Tombola Coffee, cakes and light lunches Follow us on: Twitter – ‘TVP Oxford’ or Facebook – ‘Thames Valley Police’ www.thamesvalleyalaert.co.uk ROSE HILL ADVICE CENTRE… … is an independent charity, grant-aided by Oxford City Council, which serves Rose Hill, Donnington & Littlemore. We offer free advice in confidence to all. Should the need arise, we will represent you in Courts of Law concerning debt, rent arrears, eviction or mortgage repossession. Find us: *in the Community Centre, Carole's Way, off Ashhurst Way, Rose Hill, OX4 4HF. *Tel: 01865 438 634. *online at rhdadvice.org *email: [email protected]. We are open: *Mon 9.30am-12:30pm (drop-in) & 2-4pm (appointments only) *Tues: 9.30am-12.30pm (appointments only) & 2-4pm (drop-in) *Weds 9.30am-12.30pm (drop-in) *Thurs 9.30am-12.30pm (appointments only) & 2-4pm (drop-in). To enable us to reach more people: *we’re at Edith Kempson House; Chapel Lane, Littlemore, OX4 4QB on the 3rd Thursday each month from 10:30-11.30am.

COMMUNITY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK If for any reason you are short of food (for example delay in benefits; loss of hours at work; illness; financial or other emergency) your doctor, midwife, health visitor, minister, social worker, advice worker or other professional in the community will be able to give you a blue form to collect food from *Edith Kempson House, Chapel Lane, OX4 4QB during Open House on Thursday mornings between 10 & 11.30, from *St Francis Church, OX3 7JF on Tuesdays & Fridays between 12 noon & 2pm, or from *Barton Community Church, Underhill Circus, Barton OX3 9LS on Mondays & Wednesdays from12 noon to 2pm. A basic range of food is provided, to cover a few days, the quantity depending on the size of your household. Andrew Bevan, 01865 514 374, or 07799 532 177

COMMUNITY CAFÉ AT THE VILLAGE HALL: 1st Saturday every month except August: 10am-1.30pm THEMES FOR 2020 4th April Nostalgia day 2nd May Spring Fayre 6th June Gardening extravaganza - bedding plants/cuttings swap 4th July Nature Walk & American celebration 1st Aug No café 5th Sept Sustainability & Climate Change 3rd Oct Produce sale: fruit, vegetables, preserves, honey 7th Nov Autumn Fayre 5th Dec Christmas Event

LITTLEMORE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY QUIZ QUESTION: Where was this photograph taken, and when?

Find the ANSWER on a later page! LITTLEMORE FAITH GROUPS: MABEL PRICHARD SECONDARY SCHOOL CONTACT DETAILS AND REGULAR MEETINGS Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, OX4 6JZ Telephone 01865 775 100 EMMANUEL CHURCH OXFORD • Email: [email protected] Littlemore Connect Group • • Web: http://www.mabelprichard.org Bible study, prayer, and fellowship. All are welcome. An Oxfordshire Local Authority School on two local sites (in *Contact: Paul Billingham: [email protected] Blackbird Leys and in Littlemore). A day special school for REGULAR MEETINGS children aged 2 to 19 with severe, profound and complex *1st Thursdays: 7:45pm: at Littlemore Community Centre, learning difficulties. Its catchment area is the City of Oxford. Giles Road, OX4 4NL. *Other Thursdays: we meet at various homes in Littlemore. THE OXFORD ACADEMY Please email for information. Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 6JZ Telephone: 01865 774 311 (Jeanette Booth) ST MARY & ST NICHOLAS C of E CHURCH • Email: [email protected] Sandford Road, Littlemore, near OX4 4PB • • Web: http://www.theoxfordacademy.org.uk The church building is closed for renovation until late Autumn 2020. An 11-19 mixed Academy educating children of all faiths and Services continue at JOHN HENRY NEWMAN ACADEMY (JHN) none. Facilities include a theatre, a music technology suite, Please find SM&SN church news, & notices about forthcoming dance studio, rehearsal rooms, a gym & sports halls. church events on another page. *Contact: Rev Margreet Armitstead: 01865 748 003 ST JOHN FISHER CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL or [email protected] Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 6LD or visit our church website www.littlemorechurch.org • Telephone: 01865 779 676 *Building Project website: www.newmanmeetingplace.org.uk • Email: [email protected] REGULAR CHURCH SERVICES & EVENTS • Web: http://www.st-john-fisher.oxon.sch.uk *Sundays at 10am at JHN ACADEMY: Eucharist + Junior St John Fisher is a one-form entry Catholic Primary School. Church, followed by coffee & conversation at 11.15am It is part of the Dominic Barberi Multi Academy which works to *Mon & Wed, 9-10am +every weekday during school holidays enhance provision for Catholic education. Community Breakfast at Edith Kempson House SAE INSTITUTE: A partner institute of Middlesex University. *Weds, fortnightly, 11am: Littlemore Friendship Group: Littlemore Park, Armstrong Road, OX4 4FY please contact the vicar for details • Telephone: 01865 787 150 *Monthly: Embodied Worship: movement & dance: • Email: [email protected] contact Lizzy Spight 07961 485 475, • Web: http://www.sae.edu/gbr/campuses/oxford [email protected] SAE has four UK campuses that offer a range of creative media GOD AND PEOPLE CENTRE courses, from degrees to diplomas. Littlemore Community Centre, Giles Road, OX4 4PL *Contact: Pastor Leo Rose: 07858 833 348 REGULAR MEETINGS PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS: DATES FOR 2020 *Sundays: 11am-1pm: Worship Service *1st Tues: Care Groups Meeting in Homes FULL PARISH COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE PLANNING *2nd Tues: 7.30-9pm: Bible Study MEETING MEETING COMMITTEE MEETING *4th Tues: 7.30-8.30pm: Community Prayer Meeting. Tuesdays: 7-9pm Mondays: 7pm Mondays: 7.45pm LITTLEMORE BAPTIST CHURCH at The Oxford Academy Edith Kempson House Edith Kempson House Edith Kempson House, Chapel Lane, Littlemore, OX4 4QB meetings may be subject to cancellation in response to Government advice *Contact: Rev Jeryl Bayona: 07903 745 807 th th th or [email protected] April 14 April 30 April 30 or visit our church website: www.littlemorebaptist.org.uk May 12th TBC May 28th May 28th BLESSED DOMINIC BARBERI RC CHURCH June 9th June 25th Cowley Road, Littlemore, OX4 4JX th th th *Contact: Fr Zbigniew Zieba (contact details yet to be confirmed) July14 July 30 July 30 Sept 8th Sept 24th Sept 24th LITTLEMORE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Oct 13th Oct 29th EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL Nov 10th Nov 26th Nov 26th Sandford Road, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4PU A registered charity under the number 900505. Dec 8th Dec 17th • Telephone: 01865 395 236 • Email: [email protected] ANNUAL MEETING OF PERSONNEL POLICY COMMITTEE • Web: http://www.ecschool.co.uk PARISH COMMITTEE MEETINGS MEETINGS Emmanuel Christian School offers education from 3 - 11 in a 7pm at The Oxford Thursdays: 7pm at The 6pm at The Oxford beautiful site on Sandford Road in Littlemore. Open Days are Academy Oxford Academy Academy held each term. Please phone for more information. 21st May & Tues 12th May (TBC) next dates yet TBC JOHN HENRY NEWMAN ACADEMY 24th September Grange Road, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4LS PLEASE NOTE: Parish Council meetings are open to the public A two-form entry school for children aged between 3 and 11. to attend, but are not public meetings. Meetings are held for A church school underpinned by its strong Christian ethos, it the Council to conduct its business in an atmosphere conducive embraces the diversity of the community of Littlemore. to working: members of the public are permitted to attend to • Telephone: 01865 772 495 watch and listen to proceedings. Residents are allowed to speak • Email: [email protected] or contribute at the start of the meeting by prior arrangement • Web: http://www.jhnacademy.co.uk/ with the Clerk. LITTLEMORE PARISH COUNCIL

2019-20 Council Chair: Cllr Lynda Comber 2019-20 Council Vice-Chair: Cllr Macer Wicker ELECTED MEMBERS CO-OPTED MEMBERS Cllr Lynda Comber Cllr Kim Wicker Cllr Tiago Corais Cllr Dorian Hancock Cllr Macer Wicker Cllr Lucian Dunlop Cllr Gill Sanders Cllr Maggie Willis Cllr Michael Evans Cllr Sue Stewart 3 Vacancies Cllr Anita Fisher Cllr John Tanner Cllr Margaret Wareing

COMMITTEES Finance Committee Planning Committee Policy Committee Personnel Committee Chair: Dorian Hancock Chair: Cllr Sue Stewart Chair: TBC Chair: Cllr Gill Sanders Members Members Members Members Cllr Lynda Comber Cllr Lynda Comber Cllr Lynda Comber Cllr Lynda Comber Cllr Dorian Hancock Cllr Michael Evans Cllr Michael Evans Cllr Anita Fisher Cllr John Tanner Cllr Gill Sanders Cllr Anita Fisher Cllr Gill Sanders Cllr Maggie Willis Cllr Sue Stewart Cllr John Tanner Cllr Sue Stewart Cllr Lucian Dunlop Cllr Maggie Willis Cllr Maggie Willis Cllr Kim Wicker Cllr Macer Wicker WORKING GROUPS

Amenities Neighbourhood Plan Digital Transport Small Grants Youth Council Cllr Lucian Dunlop Cllr Tiago Corais Cllr Lucian Dunlop Cllr Lynda Comber Cllr Lynda Comber Cllr Lynda Comber (L) Cllr Dorian Hancock Cllr Dorian Hancock Cllr Michael Evans (L) Cllr Tiago Corais (L) Cllr John Tanner Cllr Gill Sanders Cllr John Tanner Cllr John Tanner Cllr Dorian Hancock Cllr Maggie Willis (L) Cllr Macer Wicker (L) Cllr Margaret Wareing Cllr Maggie Willis Cllr Maggie Willis (L) Each Working Group has a lead member (L) who will write reports & provide updates to the Clerk and Council.

CONTACT DETAILS

Clerk: Richard Wilkins: To arrange a meeting please phone him between 4 & 7pm, Monday to Friday on 07377 682 216. You can email the Clerk and the whole Parish Council at [email protected], or write to them at The Oxford Academy, Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Oxford OX4 6JZ. Richard will try to answer all queries within 7 days but please note that those requiring Parish Council discussion, decision and/or approval will always be referred to the next full Parish Council meeting. Cllr Lynda Comber [email protected] Cllr John Tanner [email protected] 01865 251 441 Cllr Tiago Corais [email protected] Cllr Margaret Wareing [email protected] Cllr Lucian Dunlop [email protected] Cllr Kim Wicker [email protected] Cllr Michael Evans [email protected] Cllr Macer Wicker [email protected] Cllr Anita Fisher [email protected] Cllr Maggie Willis [email protected] Cllr Dorian Hancock [email protected] Vacancy Cllr Gill Sanders [email protected] 01865 761 856 Vacancy Cllr Sue Stewart [email protected] Vacancy FULL COUNCIL MEETINGS

Full Council Meetings are held at The Oxford Academy, Sandy Lane West from 7-9pm on the 2nd Tuesday each month except August. The main gate, and the Long Lane and Northfield Close entrances are all open for the duration of the meeting to enable easy public access. Please ask for further directions at main reception. Meetings are for the Council to conduct its business in an atmosphere conducive to working: members of the public are permitted to watch and listen to proceedings. Residents are allowed to speak at the start of the meeting by prior arrangement with the Clerk.

WHAT TO PUT IN YOUR BLUE BIN WE NEED TO GET BETTER AT THIS, SO THIS IS IN AGAIN!

PLASTICS Yes Please • Bottle tops • Bubble wrap • Cleaning product bottles (separate trigger & bottle) • Cling film (clean) • Drinks bottles URGENT! MIGHT YOU HELP? • Food pots, punnets, trays (including black trays) • Milk bottles The Parish Council urgently needs new people to help • Plastic carrier bags (please do not fill) deliver the print issue of LITTLEMORE LOCAL • Sandwich packaging to every home in Littlemore 6 times a year. • Shampoo bottles It’s an infrequent but predictable task. • Soft plastic plant pots and trays • Yoghurt, margarine and ice cream containers No Thanks If you would like to join an emergency list to provide • Black bin liners cover for illness over the next few months, • Crisp packets that’s an option, too. • Coffee machine pods • Hard plastic (e.g. storage boxes) • Plastic toys/gadgets • Polystyrene foam Please contact Cllr Sue Stewart on 01865 711 332 • Sweet/chocolate wrappers [email protected].

GLASS Yes Please LITTLEMORE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY QUIZ • Glass bottles and Glass jars No Thanks QUESTION: Where was this photograph taken, and when? • Glass cookware • Window panes and mirrors

METAL CANS AND TINS Yes Please • Aerosols (empty) • Biscuit/sweet tins • Drinks cans • Kitchen foil (clean) • Metal food tins • Metal lids and bottle tops No Thanks • Food-soiled items • Large metal items (e.g. filing cabinet) • Pots and pans

PAPER / CARD / CARDBOARD Yes Please ANSWER! • Art paper (if not glued) • Books, Brochures and catalogues It’s a photo of Oxford Road, looking north taken in @ 1915. The • Cardboard (clean) photographer is standing where the mini roundabout near St • Directories (including Yellow Pages) Mary & St Nicholas Church is now. To the left is the tree which • Egg boxes still stands outside Kings Lea House. To the right is The • Envelopes (including windows) Marlborough Head, a Coaching Inn on what was then the road • Greetings cards (non-glittery) between Oxford and Reading. The building was demolished in • Inner tubes from toilet and kitchen paper the 1920s to make space for a larger Inn. In 1985 the owners • Junk mail applied for planning permission to make it into a night club: this • Newspapers and magazines was denied, and instead it was enlarged and made into 16 flats, • Shredded paper (can also go in brown bin) now called Blewitt Court after Local Councillor and Oxford • White and coloured paper • Wrapping paper (non-glittery and non-metallic) Mayor Joe Blewitt. Next to the Marlborough Head is Sheldon’s No Thanks the Coach-Builder. Coachwork is the body of an automobile, • Glued or painted paper bus, horse-drawn carriage, or railway carriage. By 1915 custom • Jiffy bags (try re-using them) or bespoke coachbuilt bodies were made & fitted to another • Kitchen and tissue paper manufacturer's rolling chassis by the craftsmen who had previously built bodies for horse-drawn carriages & coaches. CARTONS Separate coachbuilt bodies became obsolete by the mid 20th C. Yes Please The word "coach" was derived from the Hungarian town of • Food and drink cartons (rinsed) Kocs, where, in the 15th century, the wheelwrights began to • Juice cartons (rinsed) build horse-drawn vehicles with steel-spring suspension. • Longlife milk cartons (rinsed) SUPPORT SERVICES AND HELPLINES HIV/AIDS Details accurate as of MARCH 2020 *Terrence Higgins Trust: Information, advice and support: 0808 802 1221: www.tht.org.uk SEEKING HELP IN OXFORD? Learning disabilities Oxford County Council's Health and Social Care webpages *Mencap: Charity working with people with a learning disability, are particularly useful if you are looking for a support their families and carers: 0808 808 1111 (M-F 9am-3pm): organisation locally: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/ www.mencap.org.uk social-and-health-care Men’s health Oxford’s What’s On: Daily Info at www.dailyinfo.co.uk/ *Men's Health Forum: 24/7 stress support for men by text, chat oxford/help-organisations carries contact details for local and email: www.menshealthforum.org.uk resources covering many areas of need. Mental health *Bipolar UK: A charity helping people living with manic NATIONAL HELPLINES depression or bipolar disorder: peer support line: 03333 233 880 (local rate): www.bipolaruk.org.uk These can also often direct you to local services: *CALM: Campaign Against Living Miserably, for men aged Abuse (of children) 15-35: 0800 58 58 58 (5pm-midnight): www.thecalmzone.net *NSPCC: www.nspcc.org.uk Children’s charity dedicated to *Mind: Promotes the views and needs of people with mental ending child abuse and child cruelty: helpline for adults health problems: 2 helplines: @illness and help 03001 233 393 concerned about a child: 08088 005 000. (Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm): @mental health law 03004 666 463 (9-6, *CHILDLINE: 24-hour free helpline for children: 0800 1111. M-F): www.mind.org.uk *No Panic: charity offering support for sufferers of panic attacks Abuse (domestic violence) and OCD. Offers a course to help overcome your phobia/ *Do you feel you might be an abuser? There is help and OCD. Includes helplines: for adults 08449 674 848 (10am-10pm advice available from Respect: 0800 802 4040. daily): & for 13-20-year olds 03306 061 174 (10am-10pm): *Reducing the risk: 0800 731 0055 (M-F 10-7): Oxfordshire www.nopanic.org.uk charity ensuring the safety of women, men & children at risk of *OCD Action: for people with obsessive compulsive disorder. abuse: www.reducingtherisk.org.uk Includes information on treatment and online resources: 0845 *Refuge: 0808 2000 247 (24hrs): www.refuge.org.uk 390 6232 (Mon-Fri, 9am-8.30pm): www.ocdaction.org.uk *Action On Elder Abuse: 0808 80 88 141. *OCD UK: charity run by people with OCD, for people with *Men’s Advice Line: (M-F, 9-5) for men suffering domestic OCD. Includes facts, news and treatments: 03332 127 890 abuse: 0808 80 10 327 (times vary): www.ocduk.org *SANE: Emotional support, information and guidance for Addiction (drugs, alcohol, gambling) people affected by mental illness, their families and carers: *Alcoholics Anonymous: 24-hour helpline 08009 177 650: 03003 047 000 (daily, 4.30-10.30pm): www.sane.org.uk/ www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk support *Gamblers Anonymous: information line 0330 094 0322 *YoungMinds: For Information on child and adolescent mental www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk health services for parents and professionals. Young persons’ *Narcotics Anonymous: 0300 999 1212 (daily 10am-midnight): Crisis line: text YM to 85258. Parents' helpline 08088 025 544 www.ukna.org (Mon-Fri, 9.30am-4pm): www.youngminds.org.uk Alzheimer's Parenting *Alzheimer's Society: provides information on dementia, *Family Lives: Advice on all aspects of parenting including including factsheets and helplines: 0300 222 1122: dealing with bullying: 0808 800 2222 (Mon-Fri, 9am-9pm. Sat- www.alzheimers.org.uk Sun, 10am-3pm): www.familylives.org.uk Bereavement services for adults and children Pregnancy *Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 (Mon-Fri, *Life-Pregancy Matters: Emotional and practical support for 9.30am-5pm- ’til 8pm Tue,Wed, Thur): pregnancy-related and baby-loss matters: 0808 802 5433: www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk Text-to-Talk: 07860 077 339: www.lifecharity.org.uk *Winston’s Wish: 08088 020 021 (M-F 9-5): call us if a young Relationships person you know is finding it hard to cope with grief. *Relate: see website for information on their services: Crime victims www.relate.org.uk *Rape Crisis: 08088 029 999 (daily, 12-2.30pm, Suicide: thoughts of suicide, or bereaved by suicide 7-9.30pm): www.rapecrisis.org.uk *PAPYRUS: Young suicide prevention society: 08000 684 141 or *Victim Support: 08081 689 111 (24/7): www.victimsupport.org Text: 07860 039 967 (10am-10pm Weekdays, 2pm-10pm Deafness + Visual Loss weekends & Bank Hols): www.papyrus-uk.org *Deaf Direct: 01905 746 301 www.deafdirect.org.uk *Samaritans: email [email protected] or freephone 116 123 from anywhere in UK, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You *Royal National Institute for the Blind: RNIB: 0303 123 9999. don't have to be suicidal to call us. Open 8am-8pm weekdays and 9am-1pm on Saturdays. *Survivors of Bereavement by suicide: 03001 115 065 (M-F 9-9) Eating disorders for over 18s. Younger people may contact PAPYRUS, Cruse, *Beat: 0808 801 0677 (adults), 0808 801 0711 (U 18s): CALM, Winston’s Wish, Childline, Samaritans (all listed above). www.b-eat.co.uk BEWARE: RECENT COUNCIL TAX SCAMS If you are contacted on WhatsApp about your council tax, or if someone phones claiming to be from HMRC and is requesting council tax payment it’s a scam. The City Council (not HMRC) is responsible for collecting council tax: they do ask for information from residents, but if you’re not sure that a call, text or email is genuine, please check before giving out personal information or making payment. Check at 01865 249 811 or email [email protected]. If you have been scammed, report it to the Citizens Advice Consumer helpline or to Action Fraud. The Citizens Advice Consumer helpline is 0808 223 1133. It’s open 9am-5pm weekdays: calls are free. To advertise your local small business or services Textphone users dial 18001 0808 223 1133. The Action Fraud please email helpline is 0300 123 2040: it’s open 8am -8pm weekdays. editor@ Textphone users dial 0300 123 2050. Find more about littlemoreparishcouncil.gov.uk common scams on the GOV.UK website www.gov.uk/ To be sure of getting in the guidance/council-tax-and-business-rates-scams. issue of your choice, please GET YOUR WASTE TO THE RIGHT PLACE make your request early. The Waste Wizard at oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard is here to help you find out whether things you no longer need can more opportunities to get involved…. be reused, repaired, donated, or recycled, or whether they need to go into a specific bin, or can be disposed of at a • TAKE PART IN THE PUBLIC CONSULTATION: about limiting Household Waste Recycling Centre. Type in your postcode driving through the city centre and the type of item. Rachel Burns, Waste Strategy Manager You can comment until midnight on Weds 15th April on the proposal to charge petrol- & diesel-powered vehicles to enter the THANK YOU FROM LITTLE CHUGGERS city centre. Zero emission vehicles would be able to drive free of Thank you to all who joined us on 13th March to help celebrate charge in the ‘Red Central Zone’ but from 7am to 7pm other our 5th birthday and raise funds for new equipment. Thank vehicles would have to pay £10 per day from February 2021 (rising you also to those who donated toys to our group, and prizes to £20 from August 2025). There would be discounts and for our raffle. Ruth Lloyd exemptions for some road users, including residents & businesses in the zone. Blue badge holder discounts will be in place until OPPORTUNITIES TO GET INVOLVED December 2024. • BECOME A PARISH COUNCILLOR The plan is for the whole city to be a zero emission zone by There are vacancies on the Parish Council: there were to have 2035: the next round of consultations (2021/2) will be about a been elections in May for which the closing date was in early Green Zone which will affect more of us, because many drive April: however the elections have been postponed: please through the city, and we will see the ring road and some contact the Clerk for up to date advice. residential roads burdened by new traffic: it could involve: *daily charges for high emission vehicles *a discounted daily charge for DO YOU ENJOY COOKING AND HELPING OTHERS? • low emission vehicles *no charge for zero emission vehicles *a Could you help others develop their skills & build confidence? period of time when discounts are available for residents’ cars, Restore is looking for volunteers to help in their Littlemore vans or motorcycles, providing a reasonable window to replace Café & Shop. Our volunteers, who must be over 18, make a non-compliant vehicles. Find more on the website (below), at real difference to people’s lives. We provide training. Contact County Hall or Oxford City Council offices and the central library. [email protected], 01865 455 822. Louise Hodges Have your say: By Post: Zero Emission Zone, Oxfordshire County • CAN YOU HELP 28th OXFORD SCOUT GROUP… Council, County Hall, Oxford, or Online: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ …by donating plants or local produce to raise funds for the zeroemissionzone. group at our Summer Fayre on Sat 27th June? Contact me on 07836 831 038, [email protected]. Ruth Lloyd • THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN: WORKSHOP What positive features does our neighbourhood have? Are there negatives? What changes could enhance Littlemore? We need your input so we’re holding an Open Workshop on Tues April 21st at 7pm at the Village Hall in Railway Lane. Please come, bring your ideas, participate in discussions. You will hear findings from both the most recent Questionnaire, and the vision & aims derived from community feedback. You will be able to help shape policies to be used as a basis for decisions relating to future planning applications. Maggie Willis Lead Parish Councillor, Littlemore N’hood Plan • JOIN LITTLEMORE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP The next meeting is Monday 27th April at 10am in JHN Academy: for more detail about this group, please see the back page of the last issue of LITTLEMORE LOCAL (431).

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