Exhibition continues in the Deli Cafe until 30th November. Monday to Saturday 8.30 - 4.30
Victoria will be present on Saturday morning 27th November 10 - 1, and looks forward to meeting visitors.
Framed and unframed pictures for sale.
Email veebullje@gmail.com for further details.
CALLING ALL TODDLERS! Come sing with us at 10am this Tuesday in the community centre.
Age: 0-3
Price: £7 drop in rate, £24 for 4 sessions or £40 for 8 sessions
Book your place here: www.jennymahler.co.uk/songbirds
(This class is accessible to everyone. If you cannot afford the fee, get in touch with me confidentially via the contact page to arrange a subsidy.)
Music club is back!
Every Wednesday in the back bar of the Rose & Crown from 8:30pm.
This week we'll be enjoying three of Punk's seminal albums:
Ramones (Ramones)
The Clash (The Clash)
Never Mind The Bollocks... (Sex Pistols)
Come and enjoy the music and some fine ales with a great group of friendly, like-minded music lovers.
Anyone & Everyone welcome.
FREE ENTRY / NO MEMBERSHIP FEE
Suggestions for weekly themes appreciated. Contact Jos at cbymusicclub@gmail.com
Reduce the risk of identity theft. Bring confidential paper waste for secure shredding between 6.30-7pm to the One Village warehouse on the trading estate just over the railway bridge on Forest Road (OX7 3HH). Cost is £5 per bag with 50% going towards local causes. Please phone Christine Elliott on 811057 for more information. Grateful thanks to One Village for letting us use their premises.
Heavy duty polypropylene sacks able to hold 20kg of paper are available FREE from The Cornerstone at The Corner House Mon-Sat 10am-1pm.
No need to remove staples, paperclips or plastic spines, but please DO NOT include plastic sleeves, folders or CDs.
Certificate of destruction provided if required. The paper gets reprocessed into paper products within just a few weeks.
Shredding by Datashredders Ltd
Organised every May and November by Charlbury Green Hub. Since 2009, when this event was first arranged in Charlbury, over 7,400kg of paper have been shredded which is equivalent to 110 trees and over £1,700 has been raised for Charlbury charities.
Charlbury Deli and Cafe
Throughout December
The exhibition includes recent collagraph prints made by upcycling Tetra Pak cartons to form the printing plates.
WHAT'S IN SEASON? Pears, apples, tomatoes, curly kale, cavolo nero, spinach, swiss chard, rainbow chard, purple sprouting broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, calabrese, peppers, kohlrabi, jerusalem artichokes, celeriac, beetroot, leeks, squash, carrots, potatoes, salad leaves! Order deadline midnight Wednesday (actually 7am Thursday if you get up early enough!) for collection the following SATURDAY MORNING 9.30-10.30am. Order your produce from StyanFamilyProduce.co.uk and pay online. In addition to a wide range of fresh fruit and veg from Worcestershire, you can also order Bibury trout (1st & 3rd Saturdays), Stainswick Farm oils and dressings, Charlbury Halcyon honey, preserves, free-range eggs and a range of Smarts single and double Gloucester cheeses. New customers always welcome, there is no minimum spend and no commitment to order every week - just place an order whenever it suits you.
Vegbox collection is now SATURDAY MORNING any time between 9.30am and 10.30am, the boxes will be arranged in alphabetical order alongside the community centre. A notification email will be sent out on Friday morning to everyone who has placed an order. Please maintain social distancing while collecting your box.
Styan Family Produce come to Charlbury Farmers Market every 3 months from near Evesham, but since April 2020 we have been fortunate that they are delivering farmers market produce for collection in Charlbury every Saturday. The early tomatoes are from biomass heated glasshouses. Throughout the summer we have enjoyed cherries, and wonderful plums together with courgettes, broad beans, peas, spinach, chard, salad bags, rocket, spring onions, sweetcorn, beetroot, tomatoes, cucumber, strawberries, etc, etc - all freshly harvested from Worcestershire. The Styan family farm was covered in a BBC1 programme about Farmers Markets on 4 January - Charlbury collections even get a mention!
Available free of charge, please email info@charlburygreenhub.org uk to request some and bring a very small jam jar of milk to take some grains away.
If you need refills for SESI household detergents then please drop off your clean empty bottles on Saturday morning during the veg box collection outside the Community Centre. These will be refilled during the week and be ready for collection the following Saturday. Any refills dropped off at the Farmers Market can also be collected here.
Collect free sacks for your paper waste from The Cornerstone at The Corner House (open 10-1 Mon-Sat) . The next paper shredding collection will be in early December.
Check our useful summary of local food suppliers
Check CharlburyCAN Instagram for favourite recipes using seasonal food throughout the year and for tips to avoid food waste.
Organised by Charlbury Green Hub in conjunction with Janet Burroughs from Charlbury Farmers Market, Nikki Rycroft from Patients Participation Group, and Tanya Stevenson from the Community Centre.
Dr Janice Kinory earned her DPhil in Archaeology at Oxford in 2011 and now works as an independent archaeologist. She has been a research associate at the HEIR Project, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford since 2014.
Although we don't think about salt much now, until the invention of refrigeration in the 19th century, having enough salt was often a matter of life and death. In this talk you will hear about the development of Britain's salt industry from the Neolithic period through the first two centuries of the Roman occupation, learn a bit about the various ways salt can be made and its chemistry, how this affects what people had to eat in the past, other ways salt may have been used, and its distribution.
This year, CRAG is taking Little Amal as our theme for our Christmas Tree Festival entry, with its celebration of the courage and resilience of refugees, including lone children, as they undergo difficult and dangerous journeys to reach safety or find family members. We would like Charlbury's children to help us decorate the tree, by making Damascus roses (Amal’s favourite flower), and signposts tracing Amal’s journey from Syria to Manchester.
We’re holding a decoration making workshop for children aged 6 and over (younger children can attend but would need parents’ help), on Thursday 2nd December at 3.15pm, at the Methodist Hall, Fisher’s Lane. If you would like your child(ren) to attend please email campaigns@charlburyrefugee.org.uk
Come and have fun, and buy Christmas gifts at a SPARKLE & FIZZ party in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research. 7pm at 32 The Slade. 3rd December.
£15 includes prosecco &nibbles.
Find out how to look special in only 5 minutes with the help of Liz Partington,
Colour Me Beautiful consultant. liz@cotwolds.style
See poster for details
Book here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-cinema-friday-3rd-december-tickets-187571570617
All proceeds go to the Charlbury School Association (CSA) who are fundraising to provide a pavilion/toilet facilities on Wychwood Paddocks.
Every Friday in term time at Charlbury Bowls Club. For parents / carers and under 4s. Craft, songs and refreshments. No charge. 9.30am - 11am.
Apologies, to those who may have been watching for this event, for the delay in posting.
We will be open this year, BUT with some difference in operations to previous years.
We will be open for 2 weekends only:
December 4th and 5th, and Dec 11th and 12th
Time - 9.30am - 4pm
We have plenty of taller trees, 8/9 foot and above. However, although there are plenty of smaller trees coming on, they have not grown as quickly as expected. So we currently have a gap – we simply do not have trees in the 4 foot to 7 foot height range available to cut.
This has presented us with a dilemma- to open or not to open?
We know that a visit to us to get Christmas tree is now part of many families Christmas. We did close for the 2012 season and many loyal customers were not happy and have not forgotten! So we have decided to open – but we can only do this by offering pre-cut trees for those wishing a tree in the 4 foot to 7 foot range. These trees have been sourced from a national supplier with whom we have built up a good relationship over many years.
So we will be open. And you are welcome to come and wander as normal and for children to enjoy chasing and playing hide and seek. But if you wish a tree up to 7 foot in height you will have to choose from our selection of pre-cut trees. If you need a taller tree, 8 foot and above, you can still choose and have one cut.
We hope to see you in December.
A suggestion: Christmas trees do NOT like heat, but do like plenty to drink. Perhaps, it’s time for a change in managing your tree. Why not initially put your tree in a stand in a cool location such as outside your front, or back door, and decorate with some battery operated lights? And then, after a few days, welcome it into the warmth in your home a little closer to Christmas and dress it up for Christmas. And enjoy.
Let’s get ready for Christmas together; decorating wooden snowman decorations, singing songs, drinking hot chocolate and watching the magical film of “The Snowman”. A cosy, crafty and fun filled hour to help our little ones get ready for Christmas. Open to all, intended for children ages 2 - 7 years and their adults.
Sessions at 11am, 2pm & 4pm
Buy your £5 tickets here: https://cpssnowman.eventbrite.com
Our first live show since February 2020.
The fabulous VICTROLAS with the Four Wordsmen of the Apostrophe.
Charlbury Memorial Hall, Saturday 4th December, 8:30pm
BOOKING NOW OPEN!
Find full details of how to reserve your place at www.charlbury.info/community/83
Memorial Hall 3 pm (doors 2.30) Sunday 5 December
The third CRAG Sunday Concert features the Cirrus String Quartet comprising Martin Smith and Suzanne Loze (violins), Morgan Goff (viola) and David Burrowes (cello).
They will perform Mozart String Quartet in D major, K.575, and WH Reed String Quartet no. 5 in A minor.
Cirrus was founded in 1992 by cellist David Burrowes. They are all leading solo and chamber music performers, and between them they have worked with most of the top chamber orchestras in Great Britain.
Amongst their recordings are music for strings and wind by Mozart, string quintets by Mozart and Schubert, Tchaikovsky’s sextet ‘Souvenir de Florence’ and, most recently, the two quartets of Leoš Janáček.
In addition to its concert schedule, Cirrus has been recorded by BBC Radio, appeared on ITV, and performed at the Wigmore Hall.
Tickets £12 (£6 under 16s) can be purchased at Cotswold Frames or are bookable in advance by phoning 01608 811558 or email nick.parker@cooptel.net Tickets also available on the door.
We hope to resume refreshments soon but there will be complimentary take-away cake.
The hall will be well ventilated and the audience will be in socially distanced bubbles. Please bring a mask and wrap warmly.
Numbers will be limited so please purchase or book your tickets soon to avoid disappointment.
Visit our webpage here to read our Covid Safety precautions. Ways to donate to CRAG can also be found here.
All proceeds to refugee relief.
Desert Island Art
For our Christmas Gathering a number of members will select the three pieces of art they would take to their desert island and talk about why they are special to them.
Memorial Hall
7.30
Music club is back!
Every Wednesday in the back bar of the Rose & Crown from 8:30pm.
This week we celebrate the near 50-year career of "The Boss", enjoying all his classics and hits from his 20 studio albums of heartland rock.
Come and enjoy the music and some fine ales with a great group of friendly, like-minded music lovers.
Anyone & Everyone welcome.
FREE ENTRY / NO MEMBERSHIP FEE
Suggestions for weekly themes appreciated. Contact Jos at cbymusicclub@gmail.com
We shall be holding the popular Christmas Tree Festival again this year at St Mary's Church starting on Thursday 9 December and continuing through to Monday 27 December. There will be events running in the Church over the first weekend, (more information to follow). The decorated trees will remain lit up each day until just after Christmas. Download your Booking Form here.
Come and hear the Charlbury School Choir sing seasonal songs surrounded by the Christmas trees decorated by Charlbury's youngest people. All welcome. Admission free. St Mary's Church at 2pm.
Charlbury Town Football and Sports Club
Christmas Bingo Friday 10th December
6pm doors open 7pm eyes down
Every Friday in term time at Charlbury Bowls Club. For parents / carers and under 4s. Craft, songs and refreshments. No charge. 9.30am - 11am.
Stay and Play will stop for a Christmas break and start again on Friday 14th January 2022.
Charlbury late night Christmas shopping is back again, why not come down and support your local shops who will be open till 8pm on Friday 10th December and pick up some lovely gifts, everyone welcome.
Charlbury Town Football and Sports Club
Are holding a Xmas bingo on Friday 10th December
At the memorial hall Doors open At 6pm eyes down at 7.pm
An entertainment for all the family featuring talent young and old from across Charlbury and district. Whether you enjoy music from the shows, folk music, or comedy, you will find something to enjoy. 7pm in St Mary's Church
Tickets £15 includes a glass of wine ,children free, are now available from Charlbury Deli (cash only) and Charlbury Cornerstone ( also takes cards).
Charlbury Memorial Hall, 2-5 pm
Join artists Flora Gregory and Natalie Koffman on a journey and consider together some questions and imagine a future where Nature has rights.
To book a place email: gregoryandkoffman@gmail.com
We will be holding our Christmas Farmers Market on Saturday 11th December on The Playing Close.
Please do come and browse the stalls and see what is on offer from our traders. You can stock up for Christmas on food and drink. You can buy Christmas wreaths and flower decorations. Perhaps find something different to buy for that hard to please family member or friend?
Apologies, to those who may have been watching for this event, for the delay in posting.
We will be open this year, BUT with some difference in operations to previous years.
We will be open for 2 weekends only:
December 4th and 5th, and
Dec 11th and 12th
Time - 9.30am - 4pm
We have plenty of taller 8/9 foot and above. However, although there are plenty of smaller trees coming on, they have not grown as quickly as we expected. So we currently have a gap – we simply do not have trees in the 4 to 7 foot height range available to cut.
This has presented us with a dilemma- to open or not to open?
We know that a visit to us to get Christmas tree is now part of many families Christmas. When we did close one year previously, in 2012, many loyal customers were not happy and have not forgotten!
So we have decided to open – but we can only do this by offering pre-cut trees for those wishing a tree in the 4 foot to 7 foot range. These trees have been sourced from a national supplier with whom we have built up a good relationship over many years.
So we will be open. And you are welcome to come and wander as normal and for children to enjoy chasing and playing hide and seek. But if you wish a tree up to 7 foot in height you will have to choose from our selection of pre-cut trees. If you need a taller tree, 8 foot and above, you can still choose and have one cut.
We hope to see you in December.
A suggestion: Christmas trees do NOT like heat, but do like plenty to drink. Perhaps, it’s time for a change in managing your tree. Why not initially put your tree in a stand in a cool location such as outside your front, or back door, and decorate with some battery operated lights? And then, after a few days, welcome it into the warmth in your home and dress it up for Christmas. And enjoy.
A celebration of the joy of creation within the Christmas landscape through poems, prose and songs for everyone to sing. 7pm in St Mary's Church. All ages welcome.
Admission Free. Retiring collection in aid of St Mary’s Church
Date & time: Monday 13 December, 11am - 1pm
Venue: Thomas Gifford Room, Charlbury Community Centre
Reducing the Risk is running a domestic abuse awareness workshop in Charlbury in collaboration with WODC, and supported by Charlbury Town Council.
A 2019 study discovered that domestic abuse in rural areas is under-reported by 50% compared to urban areas, and victims suffer for 25% longer than urban survivors. The lockdown and other social pressures during the COVID pandemic made the situation even more difficult. While many of us want to be able to do more about this critical issue, we may not see or recognise the signs of abuse or, having noticed something untoward, we are not confident what action to take.
If you want to help reduce the risk of rural domestic abuse, please book a place. Contact Stewart at: contact@reducingtherisk.org.uk
We encourage representatives from local service-providers, businesses, clubs and groups to attend.
Saturday 18th December & Sunday 19th December 2021 - 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM.
New for 2021!
Please book your preferred arrival time slot, to encourage a steady flow of traffic.
This holiday season, we would like you to share and spread the Christmas spirit with us. Allow the lights to lead you through the woods and watch as youthful eyes shine with delight! Before stumbling across an abundance of children's activities to participate in, while the parents browse the stalls of local businesses. Stop by the firepit for some warmth and to toast a marshmallow whilst enjoying some quality time with your friends and family this Christmas. The perfect opportunity for taking festive family photos and making memories that will last a lifetime. The Old Shed will be your final destination, where you'll find lots of Christmas food and beverages, as well as fantastic live music from local artists.
FREE hot chocolate or mulled wine included in every ticket as well as FREE parking!
Unfortunately, on this occasion please leave your four legged friends at home as this is a pet free event.
Limited availability, book now to avoid disappointment!
https://theoldshed-christmasevent.eventbrite.co.uk
We look forward to welcoming you for some pure festive magic at Banbury Hill Farm, Charlbury, OX7 3JH.
It's finally time to party and CBY Music Club brings you a Christmas party not to be missed, presenting:
Danceology - All Request Christmas Party
in the back bar of the Rose & Crown, 8pm 'til late.
After two years away, we're back! It's time to get your party freak on, get those glad rags (and handbags if you so wish) and best party frocks out and come and enjoy a night of Christmas hits, party classics and dance floor anthems.
Minimum £1 per request, all donated to charity.
FREE ENTRY
We hope that you can join us for Christmas carols outside the Community Centre at 7pm.
Refreshments provided.
Please bring a face covering for use whilst singing or when inside the Community Centre.
St Mary's Church and the Community Centre
Music club is back!
Every Wednesday in the back bar of the Rose & Crown from 8:30pm.
This week we enjoy 3 classic albums from great female singer-songwriters of the 1970s:
Blue (Joni Mitchell)
Tapestry (Carole King)
Horses (Patti Smith)
Come and enjoy the music and some fine ales with a great group of friendly, like-minded music lovers.
Anyone & Everyone welcome.
FREE ENTRY / NO MEMBERSHIP FEE
Suggestions for weekly themes appreciated. Contact Jos at cbymusicclub@gmail.com
Music club is back!
Every Wednesday in the back bar of the Rose & Crown from 8:30pm.
This week we celebrate the career of a massively influential songwriter and guitarist, who helped shaped nearly fifty years of rock music - Lou Reed.
Come and enjoy the music and some fine ales with a great group of friendly, like-minded music lovers.
Anyone & Everyone welcome.
FREE ENTRY / NO MEMBERSHIP FEE
Suggestions for weekly themes appreciated. Contact Jos at cbymusicclub@gmail.com
7.30 Memorial Hall
Non members welcome £5 on the door
Juliet Heslewood
The Art of Friendship
Saturday 15th January marks the return of Kent Duchaine to The Rose & Crown with his trusty 1934 National steel guitar, Leadbessie.
Kent has been playing in Charlbury for more than twenty five years, and with good reason! His repertoire of blues classics, coupled with his own songs, together with his stories about his time on the road with the great Johnny Shines, make for a perfect evening!
So even if you think you don’t like blues, or if you’ve never seen Kent Duchaine live, or if you're one of his devoted fans, or if you're just plain curious, get down to The Rose & Crown on this evening at around 9pm. You won’t be disappointed ...
... and maybe you too could be persuaded by Kent to "bark like a dog and howl like a hound"!
A bi-monthly (every other month) hour of worship at St Mary's led by John Partington. All are welcome.
7.30 pm Eynsham's Nature Recovery Network
Catriona Bass and Kevan Martin talk about Eynsham's community-led nature recovery movement highlighting some of its successes in creating a better local environment while addressing the ecological and climate crises.
Contact CharlburyWildlifeSociety@gmail.com for membership and attendance.
7.30 pm The Evenlode Catchment Partnership
A welcome opportunity to hear all about about the vision for an Evenlode with improved water quality, enhanced flood management, enriched biodiversity, and greater community engagement.
Contact CharlburyWildlifeSociety@gmail.com for membership and attendance.
Charlbury Festival 2022
Art, Theatre, Literature, Music, Workshops and Talks.
After our colourful Virtual Open Gardens in 2020, and sadly the cancellation of the event in 2021, we are planning a
bumper event on the 19th June 2022, in conjunction with the Arts
Society, on the 2nd Sunday of the Charlbury Festival (10th to 19th June
2022).
More information nearer the date!
To know more about the Charlbury Garden Society and how to become a member, see our website: http://www.charlburygardensociety.org.uk/
Please note that many of these events are suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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