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Download Our New App to Follow the Trail of Fun Around Museum You Can Now Download Our Museum Trails – Oxfordshire App for Iphone Or Ipad on Your Apple Store Your Summer 2014 OxfordBuilding a world-class city for everyone Circulation 62,000 GET READY ...and inside TO PARTY! P3: Spectacular dance Enjoy two amazing days out SUMMER is coming and we 35,000 people are expected to are preparing to celebrate attend this outdoor event. P4: A brighter Oxford with Alice’s Day and Cowley From noon to 6pm, the Road Carnival. Carnival will bring music from These two vibrant events all over the world, an amazing will once again fill the streets procession, exotic food and of Oxford with colourful drink and lots of opportunities to costumes and music from all get into the festival vibe. Artists over the world. will be working with children Join us on Saturday from local schools to provide P6: Get super connected 5 July to celebrate Alice’s colourful artwork and costumes Day and get up close with to make the popular Carnival Alice, the Mad Hatter and Procession more spectacular the White Rabbit. There will and colourful than ever. be something for everyone, Cowley Road Carnival is with lots of fun-filled family the largest community event activities, including arts and in Oxford, and it is funded by crafts, storytelling, dressing partners, including Oxford up as your favourite character, City Council, which provides P9: Electricity for free and even drinking a cup of tea an annual grant of £30,000, at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. supporters and donors. On Sunday 6 July, come Be part of this amazing PLUS along to East Oxford for the multicultural experience, dance P13: Visit St Clement’s Cowley Road Carnival. Around with neighbours and newcomers and help us celebrate the P19: Your Councillors AND THERE’s EVEN amazing diversity of our city! So why not dress up and Recycle it... MORE FUN TO COME join in the fun? Come and grab Your Oxford is printed on AND if all this has put you a piece of the action at our environmentally friendly paper. amazing summer celebrations. Please recycle Your Oxford in your in the mood for fun, check blue wheelie bin when you have out the newest event coming n Get your programme, covering finished reading it. Call the press to our city! OxfordOxford both Alice’s Day and Cowley Road office on 01865 252096 or email will take place on 26-28 Carnival, for £1 at the events. [email protected] if you September (see page 3). n Read more about these two would like to make any comments or to advertise in Your Oxford. Alice’s Day is always a big attraction in Oxford Photo: Marc West amazing events on pages 10-11. Your Oxford Building a world-class city for everyone www.oxford.gov.uk 2 Summer 2014 A message Your guide to... from the Leader of What’s On your Council Dear Friends and Residents, AS WE reach the warmer months of the year, it is very easy to forget the rigours of our cold and wet winters. But the Great events at Council estimates that over 7,000 households in Oxford live through those months in fuel poverty. One commonly used definition of fuel poverty is where a household has to spend more than 10% of their net income to adequately heat their home to between 18 and 21 degrees and have access to hot water. The most vulnerable are those who have to spend a long time in their homes – the the Town Hall elderly, small babies, and people with disabilities or a long OXFORD Town Hall is the perfect venue for weddings, civil and term illness. The health of all these groups can be severely partnership ceremonies, receptions and social events, meetings and affected by cold homes. A year ago, Oxford City Council conferences, concerts and exhibitions. We have some great events for signed up to the End Fuel Poverty campaign’s commitment you this summer: to tackle this growing problem through a wide range of n Saturday 28 June, 7.30pm - The Oxford Harmonic Society presents measures that the Council can use. In the last year, the cost of energy has gone up even further and has probably Mozart Requiem and Solemn Vespers pushed more households into fuel poverty. n Saturday 5 July - Alice’s Day What has the Council been able to do to start tackling the n Saturday 9 August, 7.30pm - National Youth Wind Orchestra of problem? The Affordable Warmth Network has rolled out its Great Britain winter warmth programme to nearly 200 vulnerable elderly n Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September - Oxford Open households, helping them to receive guidance and funding to Doors improve the warmth of their homes. Our Affordable Warmth n Sunday 21 September - Oxford Town Hall Wedding Fair grant funding has been used to attract other external funds n Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October, 10am-5pm - to install external wall insulation and other improvements to Oriental Carpet Sale the generation and retention of warmth in the home. n Saturday 11 October, noon - Vintage Fair Vulnerable Council tenants have been identified for solar n Sunday 12 October, doors open at 7pm - panel installation that will deliver free electricity, and the Seth Lakeman in concert planned refurbishment of the Council’s tower blocks will n Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 October - involve new heating, cladding and insulation that will provide CAMRA Oxford Beer Festival high levels of sustainability and reduce tenants’ energy bills. n Sunday 26 October - FUNomusica Over a quarter of Oxford residents now live in privately rented concert accommodation, and the Council has commissioned the Cards for Good Causes Christmas Building Research Establishment to improve the information card shop willl be open from that we have about the conditions in those homes. Available 23 October to mid-December. evidence indicates that at least 1,500 private homes have l Find out more about our regular the lowest (F and G) fuel efficiency ratings. events and classes on The Council is aiming to get as much information and www.oxfordtownhall.co.uk or phone help as possible to owners and tenants about government 01865 252195. funding schemes and other ways to improve fuel efficiency. We can offer good practical advice on energy efficiency and improved budgeting to households in all tenures. Our LOVE TO PARTY? Housing staff are receiving training on energy policies and TICKETS are now on sale for the a full information campaign is planned to take place across Town Hall's annual Christmas the city before next winter. Flexible Home Loans and a parties, 12-20 December. Small Repairs Service are available from the Council’s Home Price includes a fully themed Improvement Agency and means tested grants up to £5,000 Dickensian experience with are also available for houseowners who need essential repairs. complimentary arrival drink, We also provide Disabled Facility Grants for those in need. three course meal, vintage With the predicted future increases in energy costs, an photo booth and DJ and disco ageing population, and the generally poor past record of entertainment. British housebuilders in providing fuel efficient homes, there is a big challenge ahead of us as a city and more generally as a nation. But tackling fuel poverty is a central long term commitment by Oxford City Council and the plan is to extend the schemes and the support for residents as Historical fun at the museum we move forward. Anyone who feels unable to pay to keep their home warm should contact our Affordable Warmth COME along to the Museum detective skills War Oxford Family Day helpline on 0800 107 0044. of Oxford for some summer n Tudor Tunes – Thursday – Thursday 30 October, fun! Enjoy our family events 21 August, 10.30am- 10.30am-3.30pm. Discover Councillor Bob Price and gallery trails: 3.30pm. Find out more more about Oxford in the Leader of Oxford City Council n Amazing Archaeology – about how the Tudors First World War and handle Saturday 26 July, 10.30am- entertained themselves with real wartime objects. Make Translations: ‘Language Line’ – a telephone translation service to help people 3.30pm. Become an this fun family workshop. your own medals and learn with information about Council services – is available at all Council offices. archaeologist for the day! Handle Tudor toys, dress in more about the people of Produced by the Communications Team, Oxford City Council, Town Hall, St Aldate’s, Take part in a mini indoor Elizabethan costume and WW1 and their stories. You Oxford OX1 1BX, email: [email protected] dig, look at objects from take part in a craft activity might even meet a visiting Design by Ruxley Communications (01932 243400, email: [email protected]) the past and use your n Living in First World wartime character! Your Oxford Building a world-class city for everyone www.oxford.gov.uk 3 Summer 2014 Your guide to... Summer of spectacular dance DANCin’ Oxford WIN! WIN! WIN! 2014 will be offering you the opportunity to experience the very best in dance What’s On Enter our three fantastic with an exciting programme line-up until November. summer competitions Don’t miss our free outdoor performances for Magical entertainment Family Dance Week Great events at JOIN a journey through the seasons with and more! Visit Charlie and Lola! www.dancinoxford.co.uk What happens when Lola and her best friend Lotta say they will honestly and promisedly look after Sizzles? And follow Charlie and his best friend Marv on a Pirate Squidbones adventure! Just Meshing about! Playful, funny and full of surprises, this play OXFORD’S International Youth The festival, produced by Pegasus the Town Hall about friendship and adventures is a treat for Arts Festival is back this Theatre and the North Wall Arts everyone.
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