West Oxford Community Centre runs a wide range of classes, courses
and meetings :
Yoga, Pilates, Keep Fit, cultural and educational meetings, youth
and children's groups.
Current events are listed in the
main hall, and on the noticeboard out on the Botley Road.
You can also ring the WOCA office - 01865 245761
(our office is staffed part-time : leave a message and someone will
call you back).
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Publicise your event: and we will put your event details on this page. It's
free!
We can also put your event in our free printed Newsletter -
Hire our rooms: To
find out how to hire our warm modern rooms, at astonishly economic
rates,
Ring the WOCA office - 01865 245761 - for the latest hire rates.
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Tuesday 8 February 2010 and onwards ....
8.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Cafe
West Oxford Academy
West Oxford's all-ability non-selective Academy continues tonight
with the sixth of eight Tuesday sessions :
The Bletchley Park Story
Ray Goff — 8 February
Our language: uses; misuses; abuses — Jonathan
Higgens — 15 February
Thomas Jefferson and religious freedom - in the USA
and the UK.
Iain McLean — 22 February
Oxford disunited: The Cutteslowe walls.
Michael Weatherburn — 1 March
The subversive stitch.
Miranda Miller — 8 March *
Origins of the Spanish Civil War: the Second Spanish
Republic 1931-1936.
Stephen Lynam — 15 March
Tickets £1.50
per session - includes nibbles and a glass of wine (red or white) or soft
drink.
Each session consists of a 15-20 minute talk by a
local resident, followed by questions and informal discussion over a glass
of wine.
A session lasts no more than an hour or so. A wonderful chance to find out
about a wide range of topics and meet new people!
If you are able to give
a ten-minute talk sometime in the future, or know someone who could, please
contact Susan Hutchinson:
or 01865-792358.
Saturday 5 February 2011
9.15 am to 3.15 pm
West Oxford: From Saxons to Superstores
A one day course on the history and development
of West Oxford
organised by the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education
at Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA
This course is open to all - you do not need to
have any connection with Oxford University
From the western gate of the castle
to the modern day city boundary, this area contains some of Oxford’s
most important sites – the monastic houses of Rewley and Osney, the suburb
of St Thomas’s and the site of significant industrial and commercial
activity.
This day school will explore some of the main themes
in the development of this historic area outside the city walls and its relationship
to the city within.
Programme details
9.15 am Registration
9.30 am Saxon and medieval West
Oxford – Tom
Hassall
10.15 am Binsey and West Oxford
in maps and fields – Julian
Munby
( is an expert on the history, buildings and landscape of Oxfordshire
and West Oxford)
11.00 am Coffee/tea
11.30 am Trade and industry in St
Thomas – Liz
Woolley
( is an energetic local history researcher,speaker, and leader of
local historical walks. Her work includes a number of articles on Osney and
St Thomas' Parish.)
12.15 pm Discussion
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Backdoor conquistador :
the coming of the railways – Rob
Kinchin-Smith
2.15 pm West Oxford since 1850
– Malcolm Graham.
(Malcolm is a well-known speaker in and about West Oxford. He is the former
Head of Oxfordshire Studies with Oxfordshire County Council, author of , and has contributed numerous articles on
West Oxford's history to the first series of West
Oxford News.)
3.15 pm Course disperses
The programme fee for the day's tuition is £50.00
(includes Coffee/tea)
(10% discount available to Oxford University alumni)
Optional extras : full lunch: £10.50; baguette
lunch: £2.50
HAVE YOUR SAY
Jericho, Abingdon Road
and West Oxford Neighbourhood Policing Team
The Jericho, Abingdon Road and West Oxford Neighbourhood
Policing Team will be available to discuss any concerns you may have and offer
crime reduction advice and property marking as follows:
Friday 11th February 2011 11am – 12pm West Oxford
Community Centre Café
Saturday 12th February 2011 11am – 11.30am Jericho
Community Centre
Tuesday 15th February 2011 2.45pm – 3.30pm West
Oxford School
Wednesday 16th February 2011 3pm – 4pm Gordon Woodward
Way
Thursday 17th February 2011 8.30am – 9am St. Ebbes
School
Thursday 17th February 2011 3pm – 3.30pm New Hinksey
School
Wednesday 23rd February 2011 6pm – 6.30pm Richmond
Road, near Synagogue
Thursday 24th February 2011 4pm – 5pm Osney Court
SUNDAYS
Allotment site shop open to all on Sunday
mornings
The Osney Allotment Association
shop is open on Sunday mornings 10 am – 12 noon
It sells tools and materials at
very low prices. West Oxford residents are honorary members of the Association,
and you can buy goods from the shop even if you do not have a plot.
If you have unwanted tools to
dispose of, bring them here for recycling.
Are you organising a local event ?
Why not publicise it here ?
We may even be able to give you a special webpage
of your own ...
Tell us in plenty of time !
Please don't wait until the last minute!
It takes a little while to get any new event onto this
website – then people have to visit the site and read about it ... So
tell us soon !
Do you need a grant?
Did you know that WOCA is occasionally able to offer
grants and donations towards various activities?
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