Nettlebed Stakeholder Meeting – Weds, 26th February

Do you run a business or community group in Nettlebed? Would you like more people to be involved with what you do? If so, we are holding a meeting for all those that run things for/in the village at The White Hart on Wednesday 26th February from 7pm. Please do join us to create an Action Plan for how we can get more folk involved in our community groups and using our businesses. If you have an idea for something new you would like to run – then also please do join us. Contact our Parish Clerk, if you would like more details. Amanda Foister OBE 07540 411779 ...
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Winter Warmth Website Helps Residents with Home Repairs

Online Version Oxfordshire County Council have implemented a new online service called ‘Winter Warmth’ to help vulnerable residents receive support and access funding for home repairs. The aim is to improve the home environment which will additionally support physical and emotional wellbeing for residents across the county. The easy to use service signposts property owners or private tenants to a website where a postcode is entered to find the most appropriate organization. The services and funds available include grants, loans and energy company schemes that provide home repairs, so residents can stay safe, secure, independent and warm. The funding can be used to fit or fix a new boiler and install loft and cavity wall insulation to keep people affordably warm. There is also general advice available on how to stay safe and well, and home repairs are also available for people with disabilities. In its first month, the website has received over 50 e-mails which have been sent directly to the services who...
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Oxfordshire offers new ways to repair and reuse small electrical items

Oxfordshire County Council is to launch a new trial service to residents with a way to ensure their unwanted small electrical items can be repaired and reused, reducing what the county would otherwise send to waste. There are already many ways to recycle small electrical items that are beyond repair either at the kerbside or a recycling centre. Funded by Valpak, the council is trialling drop off points for unwanted small electrical items that are still in good condition at a number of participating Oxfordshire libraries. The trial will run at Banbury, Bicester, Kidlington, Witney, Carterton, Oxfordshire County Library, Headington, Cowley, Littlemore & Blackbird Leys libraries. Once goods have been dropped off, the items will be collected by Bicester Green or Orinoco – two local charities who help reuse and recycle waste – where they will be tested. Minor repairs will be made by volunteers and the items will then be sold on to benefit the charities. The drop off point is for small...
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Seven recycling centres set to close for Spring clean in March and April

This March and April, seven of Oxfordshire County Council’s Household Waste Recycling Centres will be closing for two days to carry out a deep clean and essential maintenance at the sites. The work forms part of the council’s planned approach to maintenance, and is designed to keep sites safe, looking clean and fresh and helping improve the customer experience when using these important environmental facilities. Only one site will be closed at any one time and all other sites will be open on those days. Residents are asked to plan ahead for these closures, ideally holding on to your waste until the site reopens or if that is not possible visiting one of the neighbouring sites. Site closure dates: Alkerton 3rd & 4th March 2020Redbridge 10th & 11th March 2020Ardley 17th & 18th March 2020Dix Pit 24th & 25th March 2020Oakley Wood 31st March – 1st April 2020Stanford 21st & 22nd April 2020Drayton 28th & 29th April 2020 For those residents with permits, please note that these can be used at any of the sites. Steve Burdis, Principal Officer for the...
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Waste Wizard – Find out how you can repair, reuse or recycle household items and which bin it goes in

Get your waste to the right place! A new and magical hero is in town to kill the confusion around recycling. The Waste Wizard is a new online tool that’s here to provide a magical solution to help Oxfordshire residents in their quest to solve the riddle of household waste and defeat General Waste. Type in your postcode and the name of any item to find out whether it can be reused, repaired, donated, recycled, if it needs to go into a specific bin or can be disposed of at a Household Waste Recycling Centre – oxfordshire.gov.uk/wastewizard ...
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