The council is offering free cloth nappy loan kits to parents, so they can ‘try before they buy’. The aim is to reduce the thousands of tonnes of nappies that are binned, costing the council around £1m a year to dispose of.
If you live in Oxfordshire and would like to give real nappies a try, you can borrow a trial kit with no obligation to buy.
Each kit contains a good range of styles and brands of nappies, with all the necessary accessories. They are held by local nappy suppliers and community groups, who will explain how the nappies work before you get started.
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Residents across southern Oxfordshire who are signed up for brown bin collections can put out twice as much garden waste during extra garden waste weeks this month.
Crews will collect the equivalent of one extra bin’s worth of garden waste (around three large bin bags) during the following week:
week commencing 18 November - South Oxfordshire
Residents should leave their extra garden waste out in bin liners or sacks beside their brown bins on their usual collection day during these weeks. Trade waste bags cannot be accepted.
Residents can sign up to the garden waste collections, which is a paid-for service by calling 01749 341247 or email garden-waste@capita.co.uk
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South Oxfordshire District Council has written to thousands of residents of our district who are EU nationals from countries outside of the UK. The letter explains what affected residents need to do to remain in the UK after Brexit and signposts them to further information.
For
data protection reasons, we were not able to send this letter to all our
affected residents, and so we would like your support to help us reach as many
more as possible.
Click here to read the letter and we would be very grateful if you were able to use any of your communications channels as appropriate to spread the word, and to help us get it out to any hard-to- reach communities in your area.
Andy RobertsCommunications Team Leader, Corporate Services South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils01235 422128 / 07717 274693
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Sunday 10th November Remembrance SundayThe village are invited to join Nettlebed Royal British Legion and walk from the Bus Shelter to St Bartholomew’s Church.
10.30 am - Assemble at the Bus Shelter
10.40 am - Parade down the High Street. You are welcome to join the parade at any point along the route.
10.50 am - Act of Remembrance, The Church Lytch Gate.
11.00 am - Church Service
Monday 11th November Armistice Day10.50 am - A short remembrance service at the Lytch Gate
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Oxfordshire Youth
Opportunity Fund… your community’s chance to bid for funding
Voluntary and
community organisations are being invited to bid for portions of
Oxfordshire County Council’s new £1m two-year grant fund: Youth
Opportunity Fund.
Feedback from
Oxfordshire residents points to strong support for improving community-run youth
services. This new fund is available to help existing projects expand and new
ones get started. Grants of up to £70,000 are available.
By offering
start-up funding in previous years, the council has already helped many
community-run groups provide support for young children and families. Now we
aim to do the same for youth services.
Community-run
youth schemes complement the work of the county council’s children’s services
department, which targets resources at young people at risk of abuse and
neglect.
People in
neighbourhoods, towns and villages know best what is good for their community
and where they would like to see improvements. Now they have the chance to
start or grow existing opportunities for young people in their communities.
For further information
on how to submit a bid to the Youth Opportunity Fund:
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PLACES NOW AVAILABLE
Brownies offer a varied and fun programme of activities for girls aged between 7 and 10. Meetings take place in the village on Thursdays during Term time from 6pm to 7.30pm. There are currently a few places available, if your daughter is interested in joining Brownies please register online with the Girl Guiding UK website https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-parents/register-your-daughter/
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