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Fri 3 Sep: The Friday Networking & Social Lunch is back! (12pm-2pm)
Following the success of our lunches last June, Charlbury Baptist Church is open once again during September for home-made lunches; Ploughman's, home-made soup and bread.
So, if you work from home in the town and want to meet up, run a business and don't usually take a break or simply fancy popping along for some tasty home-made food, we'd love to see you there.
Every Friday in September.
No charge, but donations are welcome.
Posted by Pippa Nash | Link
Sat 4 Sep: Town Council Surgery
Ever wanted to ask your town councillors a question? Now is your chance! The Town Council will be holding a surgery in the Corner House, from 10am to 12pm in the Morris Room and Watney Room.
Do all come along and meet your councillors.
Posted by Susie Finch | Link
Sat 4 Sep: Garden Society Flower and Produce Show
Vegetables, flowers, fruit, cooking, photography,crafts -- all on show in the Memorial Hall, Saturday 4th Sept, 2-4.30pm. You don't have to be a member to enter; and there are special competitions for children. Details and entry forms from town centre shops and from Show Secretary, Nick Johnson.
Posted by Rob Stepney | Link
Sat 4 Sep: Hailey Village Show & Table Top Sale
Hailey Village Show & Table Top Sale
Saturday 4th September - Hailey Village Hall
2.00 to 4.00 p.m.
Teas, refreshments, ice creams, tombola, book stall
Call 01993 773744 to reserve table space
Posted by Martin Henry | Link
Sun 5 Sep: Cotswolds Hack - sponsored challenge in aid of NSPCC
The Cotswolds HACK will take place on Sunday 5th September and is a 25 mile sponsored challenge walk in aid of the NSPCC’s Child’s Voice Appeal, which will help expand the NSPCC's vital helpline services- Childline the UK's free, confidential 24 hour helpline for children and the NSPCC Helpline for adults concerned about a child.
The scenic route will start and finish in Cornbury Park and will also travel through Blenheim Estate and Ditchley Park.
The registration fee is £15 per person and the walk is for over 18's only. The registration deadline is Monday 23rd. August. For further details, to register online and information on payments log on to www.nspcc.org.uk/hack or contact the NSPCC East appeals office on 01908 328060 or e mail cotswoldshack@nspcc.org.uk
Posted by Susie Finch | Link
Sun 5 Sep: WYCHWOOD FOREST FAIR 2010
Southdown Farm, Crawley Road, Witney, OX29 9TG
Sunday 5th September 2010 11am - 5pm
The Wychwood Forest Fair, of which this will be the eleventh, has become a popular annual event celebrating the diversity and richness of both the natural world and the working and leisure activities of local people living within the bounds of the old Royal Hunting Forest of Wychwood.
This year’s event will include the promotion of the usual stalls for: Local Foods; Rural Crafts; Community Initiative Groups; Conservation Groups; the Wychwood Project; Friends of Wychwood; Tourism; Recycling; Competitions for Children and Adults; Fun Fair; Educational Organisations; Arts and Crafts; Story Tellers; Second-hand Book Stall; Morris Dancers:
The Wychwood Brewery. The Friends of Wychwood Tea Tent, and local Food Suppliers will all be there to provide Refreshments.
Follow the signs to the site. Admission £6 per adult, under 16s free. Parking free
For more information about the Wychwood Project call 01993 814142, or visit www.wychwoodproject.org.
Posted by Alex Westbury | Link
Mon 6 Sep: Special Meeting of Sustainable Charlbury - 6 September, The Bell
It's not just that we’ll be reinvigorated after the summer break – but having done so much to raise awareness this year locally, it’s time to make plans for action!
SusCha has successfully raised awareness about sustainability issues, but has lacked resources to develop projects that would achieve tangible change.
Last year we applied for significant funding to the Dept. of Energy Low Carbon Communities Challenge for local projects. Hook Norton were winners of this funding, but because of government delays in actually making the money available, are running short of time to allocate the grant they were awarded. There may therefore be an opportunity to revive our plans in the SusCha application.
We’ve invited Tim Lunel and Charlie Luxton (the architectural designer and broadcaster) from Hook Norton to speak to us about their project so far and talk about opportunities for grant funding.
We want to involve as many people as possible in the lead up to a planned announcement in late October. Time is therefore short for Charlbury to realise its plans to benefit the local community. We really hope to benefit from your input from a many local people as possible.
We’ve booked a bigger room than usual – the Cornbury Room (behind The Bell) – so remember to arrive early.
Check the redesigned Sustainable Charlbury website - sustainablecharlbury.org - for updates and we look forward to seeing you there.
Wed 8 Sep: Charlbury Art Society
"The Bayeux Tapestry - how, why and where was it made and what is its meaning?" an illustrated talk by John Higham.
7.30pm in the Meeting House, Market Street, Charlbury
Members free. Visitors welcome - entrance £3.
Posted by marion coates | Link
Fri 10 Sep: Charlbury Cricket Club Black Tie Summer Ball
Come and join us for Charlbury Cricket Clubs first black tie Summer Ball. Events start just after 7pm with a reception drink outside the large marquee (weather permitting) and then we `retire inside for a fantastic 4 course meal prepared by local Chef Gary Walsh. After dining, the party gets going with a local Swing Band and supplementary Disco before sending everybody home in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Tables are now being reserved at a cost of £500 per table (for 10) with individual tickets available from 1st June 2010. Please note 75% of the original allocation of tables are already reserved by we now releasing a further 8 tables on a first come first served basis. However after this release, there will be no more.
If you need any further info or wish to reserve a table or individual ticket (not before 1st June) the please email Paul Jenkins on pj@mayfieldproperty.co.uk
Posted by Paul Jenkins | Link
Fri 10 Sep: The Friday Networking & Social Lunch (12pm-2pm)
You're invited to lunch at Charlbury Baptist Church (at the top of Dyers Hill) for a Ploughman's, or home-made soup and bread.
So, if you work on your own in the town, run your own business and don't often take a break, or simply fancy joining us for a tasty lunch, we'd love to see you.
We're running them every Friday in September.
No charge, but donations welcome.
Posted by Pippa Nash | Link
Sat 11 Sep: Farmers' Market
On the Playing Close, Saturday morning.
Posted by Richard Fairhurst | Link
Sun 12 Sep: Charlbury Society Walk
Start 10.30am from Spendlove Car Park.
Wigwell - Bobwell Farm - Spelsbury - Dean - Chadlington. Return via Brook End and Oxfordshire way. About 8.5 moiles. Pub lunch available in Chadlington.
All welcome
Sun 12 Sep: ChOC Film: A Single Man (cert 12)
At 7.30pm in the Memorial Hall. Bar open from 6.45. Tickets £4.50 on the door.
A Single Man (2009, Cert 12, 96 mins) is based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long-time partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.
Stars Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode. Directed by Tom Ford.
This is a self-conscious, superbly crafted, deeply felt movie. It's not a gay film but the story of a gay man, a single man in several senses, but also everyman in the way we respond to him. Philip French in The Observer
This film addresses the power of love, the pain of loss, the burden of grief and the joy of life with rare insight and compassion. It may also turn your opinion of Firth for ever. Daily Express
Delicately, and rather brilliantly, Firth suggests how his quiet heroism is mingled with notes of irony and self-deprecation. It is a poignant, deeply compassionate portrait. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian
Colin Firth's strength is his ordinariness and he uses it here to great effect in fashion designer Tom Ford's assured directorial debut. Presenting a façade of dull and unemotional respectability as the eponymous single man, an English academic living in Los Angeles, he's seemingly your average Joe. However, in reality, he's struggling to come to terms with the death of his gay partner (Matthew Goode) at a time (the early 1960s) when attitudes were very different from what they are today. Radio Times
Ford's immaculately focused direction, the haunting score, and Eduard Grau's beautiful cinematography would all be for nothing without Colin Firth's career-defining turn as George. Sky Movies
Tom Ford delivers the surprise of the year with a startlingly beautiful and sorrowful meditation on grief. Daily Mirror
Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link
Fri 17 Sep-Sun 19 Sep: The 56th Annual Charlbury Street Fair
Charlbury Street Fair – Saturday 18th September 2010
The Charlbury Street Fair Team extend a warm invitation to eveyone to join us for this not-to-be-missed annual event – Charlbury’s 56th Street Fair. Join us for some of the old and some of the new:
Funfair, Childrens Fancy Dress, a myriad of stalls, Street Stage performances, Primary School Dancers, Art exhibition, classic cars, golf challenge, static fire engine, entertainment workshop, Morris Men, live music in Church street.
Friday 17th September – 6:30 pm till the last splat !
Egg Throwing Championship – Can you oust the Title Holders ? Join us in Church Street – FREE entry and all Eggs provided
Saturday 18th September
Street Fair Main Event opened at 2:00pm by our celebrity guest Mr. Robert Hardy of stage and screen reknown. Events, attractions and live music till LATE !
Sunday 19th September
Street Fair run and walk – 10k and 5k events – registration on the Playing Close from 9:30am
(Entry Fee £6 for 10k / £3 for 5k)
Posted by Steve Ravenscroft | Link
Fri 17 Sep-Sun 19 Sep: Chalbury Street Fair 2010
The Charlbury Street Fair Team extend a warm invitation to everyone to join us for this not-to-be-missed annual event – Charlbury’s 56th Street Fair. Join us for some of the old and some of the new:
Funfair, Childrens Fancy Dress, a myriad of stalls, Street Stage performances, Primary School Dancers, Art exhibition, classic cars, golf challenge, static fire engine, entertainment workshop, Morris Men, live music in Church street.
Friday 17th September – 6:30 pm till the last splat !
Egg Throwing Championship – Can you oust the Title Holders ? Join us in Church Street – FREE entry and all Eggs provided
Saturday 18th September
Street Fair Main Event opened at 2:00pm by our celebrity guest Mr. Robert Hardy of stage and screen renown. Events, attractions and live music till LATE !
Sunday 19th September
Street Fair run and walk – 10k and 5k events – registration on the Playing Close from 9:30am
(Entry Fee £6 for 10k / £3 for 5k)
Posted by Susie Finch | Link
Thu 23 Sep: OPEN MEETING
An open meeting is to take place regarding the next ten year plan for Centenary Wood,
the meeting will be chaired by David Rees, Manager of the Oxford Woodland Project. You ideas as to how this next plan will be formulated will be very welcome.Further info call 01608 810388
The meeting will take place in the Morris Room at The Corner House on 23rd September at 8pm.
Fri 24 Sep: Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Care
This is the day that Coffee Mornings are held throughout the country and we will be having ours at Brice House, Thames Street Charlbury from 10.oam - 12.30pm. There will be a Bring and Buy (gather bargain antiques, produce and more)
Raffle and splendid cakes. Any offers of support gratefully received.
Please come if you can or contact Liz and Bob Tait. elizabethtait@msn.com or ring 01608 810150
Posted by Richard Fairhurst | Link
Fri 24 Sep: SpecialEffect Quiz Night
Please join us at our second annual SpecialEffect Quiz Night, with quizmaster John Grain. Friday 24th September in The Memorial Hall Charlbury. Doors open 7pm, quiz to start 7.45pm. Tickets £10 per head to include supper. Licensed bar. Teams of up to 6
All proceeds to Charlbury Charity SpecialEffect.
This event was a sell out last year so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Tickets available from Cotswold Frames. Further information from Kate Gerrish 07814 568777/01608 811899
Posted by KATHERINE GERRISH | Link
Sat 25 Sep: ChOC Film: The Last Station (cert 15)
In the Memorial Hall, Charlbury
A film adaptation of a novel about the last year of Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s life and his struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
The Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple (James McAvoy) whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people. (2010, 112mins, cert 15)
Film begins at 7.30 :: Doors and bar open from 6.45 :: Tickets £4.50 on the door
Please note: this is a Saturday screening.
Director: Michael Hoffman. The cast includes Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, Kerry Condon, John Sessions.
Beautifully crafted, and sensationally well acted, it overflows with romance, heart and intelligence. Daily Mail
It is a tribute to this handsome and finely detailed film that it brings to mind many modern parallels while still resonating as the tale of a brilliantly gifted but stubborn, selfish and unworldly man. Financial Times
A comforting, Sunday-night costume drama, with some epic performances. Kevin Maher, The Times
Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link
Fri 31 Sep-Fri 1 Oct: Soundtracks
Come and be part of a new moment in Charlbury's musical and railway history...Voices Unlimited (Charlbury's community choir) won a BBC award in the Spring to commission a new work to celebrate the redoubling of the Cotswold Line. The outcome is about to be revealed and involves songs, instrumental music and poetry and a dance created and performed by Kismet (4 musicians), Joe Butler (a poet), Voices Unlimited, Charlbury School Choir and Charlbury Morris. BOOK NOW!
THURS 31st SEPT and FRI 1st OCT
MEMORIAL HALL, CHARLBURY
7.30pm start
TICKETS: £8 full price, £6 Conc, £4 children (5-16yrs)
BOOKING: 01993 868227 email:annie.hogg@mypostoffice.co.uk
INFO:above no or 01608 811293 kath@songspace.co.uk
Posted by katherine lucas | Link
Sun 3 Oct: Finstock 10k
10km run set in the beautiful grounds of Cornbury Park, by kind permission of Lord and Lady Rotherwick. There is also a 1 mile fun run for children.
For more details, please see:
sites.google.com/site/finstock10k/
Posted by Sally Howard | Link
Fri 8 Oct: Charlbury Society
Child Labour in Eighteenth Century Oxfordshire
Talk to be given by Liz Woolley
Memorial Hall 7.30 pm
All welcome. Non-members £1.50
Posted by Gerald Draper | Link
Sun 10 Oct: ChOC/SusCha film: Dirty Oil (cert U)
At 7.30pm, Memorial Hall, Charlbury. Cert U, 73 mins.
Bar open from 6.45.
This terrifying exposé goes behind the scenes of the largest industrial project on the planet today. It takes us into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and toxic tar sands deposit supplies the U.S. with the majority of its oil.
The filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see the irreversible human and environmental toll that this black gold rush, fuelled by America's addiction to oil, is taking on our planet. We are taken to the formerly beautiful Athabasca River which has been turned into a toxic sewer by companies digging out oil from tar sands. We find out the story from scientists, oil industry officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and the aboriginal citizens who are directly impacted by the catastrophe.
Shown as part of the 10/10 Global Environmental Day of Action.
"Tar sands oil production is an expensive business, producing three times as much greenhouse gases as conventional oil production, and using four times the amount of water and heat per barrel. Developing it will cost over $250billion – if the same figure was invested in setting up a solar farm in the Sahara you’d get vastly more energy without decimating a beautiful environment or pumping poison into the atmosphere." Islington Tribune
"Convincing documentary on the swathes of Alberta devastated to provide oil for North America." The Observer
"A small documentary with big ambitions. The local doctor who spots the cancer outbreak is persecuted for 'causing undue alarm', and his patients’ support is incredibly moving." The Times
This film is being shown as a collaboration between ChOC and Sustainable Charlbury.
Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link
Thu 21 Oct: Charlbury Art Society
Annual General Meeting of the Society followed at 8pm by
"Gauguin - a Noble Savage?". An illustrated talk by Juliet Heslewood.
7.30pm in the Meeting House, Market Street, Charlbury
Members free. Visitors welcome for the talk - entrance £3.
Members: Please note that this is on the third Thursday of the month and NOT on our usual second Wednesday.
Posted by marion coates | Link
Sat 23 Oct: Toy Story 3: ChOC's Half-Term Blockbuster
Toy Story 3 is ChOC's half-term blockbuster movie for children and adults alike. The film has U certification and runs for 1hr 48 mins. Tickets are £4.50 for adults, £3 for under-15s.
It's showing in the Memorial Hall on Saturday October 23 at 6pm, with a bar for children and grown-ups from 5.15.
The Toy Story movies have always been impossible not to love thanks to their mixture of heart, humour and action, but this last goodbye is the best yet.
Toy Story 3 is a film to enrapture children, and make adults weep. This whole three-part, 15-year Toy Story epic about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love.
"It's an effortlessly superior family movie. We grown-ups, however, may have to gulp back our tears and somehow keep it together in front of the kids: just like the toys who revert to blank grins when their owners come back into the bedroom." (Read Peter Bradshaw's review in full here.)
For the latest information on ChOC's film programme, go to www.chocfilms.info
Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link
Sat 30 Oct: Coffee morning & Cake sale at the Corner House
9am to 12.30pm, Saturday 30th October at the Corner House.
A coffee morning and sale of delicious, fresh, homemade cakes and biscuits.
Come and have a piece of cake and a coffee, or take cakes away to eat at home or freeze. Some cakes will have a halloween theme! There will also be a raffle.
All proceeds to Friends of Enstone Primary School.
Posted by Helen Holwill | Link
Wed 10 Nov: Charlbury Art Society
"An Introduction to Islamic Art" An illustrated talk by Ashmolean guide and NADFAS lecturer Denise Derbyshire.
7.30pm in the Meeting House, Market Street, Charlbury
Members free. Visitors welcome - entrance £3.
Posted by marion coates | Link
Sun 14 Nov: ChOC film: "Letters to Juliet" (PG)
Letters to Juliet (2010) PG, 105mins
Showing at 7.30pm in the Memorial Hall
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered 'letter to Juliet', one of thouands of letters left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard. She goes on a quest to find the lovers mentioned in the letter. Vanessa Redgrave leads this enchanting love story through the Tuscan hills.
The cast also includes Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan and Gael Garcia Bernal
"This cheerfully ridiculous Tuscan-set romcom is notable for a likably, if not quite intentionally mad performance from our own Vanessa Redgrave." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"If you're female or -- like me -- a man with a taste for romance and a fairer deal for our senior citizens, this is one of the year's guiltiest pleasures." Daily Mail
"You can guess the whole film but the picture postcard locations are easy on the eye and the wonderful Redgrave steals the show. Her heartfelt conviction and natural warmth slice through all the schmaltz to make the silly storyline feel real and touching." Daily Express
Tickets are £4.50 on the door (there's no need to book) and the wine and beer bar opens at 6.45, so join your friends for a drink and a chat before the film.
Posted by Jon Carpenter | Link
Sat 4 Dec: Secure Paper Shredding by AllShred Ltd at the Spendlove (Post Office has more bags now)
Reduce the risk of identity theft, bring confidential paper waste for secure shredding by AllShred Ltd. The lorry will be at the Spendlove on Saturday 4 December from 10am until 12noon.
Heavy duty polypropylene sacks able to hold 20kg of paper are available free at Charlbury Post Office
Shredding fee per sack is £5.00 incl VAT
£2.00 of this goes to the Community Centre Appeal
No need to remove staples, paperclips or plastic spines
BUT PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE:plastic sleeves, folders or CDs
Shredding by AllShred Ltd (contact Ian MacKay 0800 389 5155)
Organised by Charlbury Area Waste Action Group
Posted by Christine Elliott | Link
Sat 11 Dec: Farmers' Market
On the Playing Close, Saturday morning.
Posted by Richard Fairhurst | Link