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BIG Festival Raffle

We have some amazing prizes to be won with our festival raffle. Tickets are £1 each and are available from the White Hart, Wolvercote and at the Community Market from 29th May. The raffle will be drawn in the order below on Friday 24th June in the interval of Music Night. Prize winners will be …

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2022 Festival Treasure Hunt

Your mission is to identify the eighteen numbered locations of these images of inscriptions and memorials, all of which are accessible on foot via public rights of way or common land in Wolvercote and Wytham. A map can be found here on which you can mark the numbers of the images in the location you have chosen. …

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Festival Fanciful Footprints Trail

JOIN OUR FOOTPRINT TRAIL This year the Wolvercote and Wytham Midsummer Festival will be running another village trail of house displays to be discovered during the festival week and we would love you all to join in.  The theme this year is Footprints and we invite you to decorate your front window, garden or gate …

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Festival Pop-up Choir 2022

We are looking forward to starting rehearsals with Kate Binnie and Jacqui Ibbotson for the Pop Up Choir on Mondays in the Baptist Church Hall in Lower Wolvercote 7.30 – 9.00 pm starting on 9th May, with a view to performing at the Wolvercote and Wytham Midsummer Festival at All Saints Church, Wytham on Tuesday 21st …

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A Call for Festival Poets

We are thinking forward to the summer and the 2022 Wolvercote and Wytham Midsummer Festival, to be held 18–25 June, with the Festival theme being Footprints. One of the popular Festival events is the Poetry & Music Evening.  We are looking for local poets. Would you like to contribute one or two poems and join us for a convivial evening of readings, …

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Midsummer Festival 2022

Dates for the diary! This year’s Midsummer Festival will be from 17th to 26th June. The theme this year is ‘Footprints’. Planning is now in full swing with a welcome return to ‘Fun on the Green’ on Saturday 18th June. Keep the dates free!

2022 Tree Group Calendar on sale

Look no further for your perfect Christmas gift with this Wolvercote Tree Group 2022 Calendar. Pictures and poems by local people for only £5.50. Available from the Sunday Market at the White Hart (10am-12noon) or by email from wolvercotetreegroup@gmail.com

Number 6 Bus Returns

From November 7th 2021 the No. 6 bus resumes service from Wolvercote to the city centre and back. This replaces the 35 service which experienced delays recently, so we are hoping for a better service. The 35 now runs from the centre to Abingdon as it did before. The timetable can be found here and …

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Wolvercote & Wytham Festival AGM – 4th November

Orchard Recipe Book

Just in time for Christmas! The creation of the recipe book is a collaboration of local people to celebrate the produce of The Wolvercote Community Orchard. There are recipes for apples, pears, quinces, medlars, rhubarb, elderflower, plums and gooseberries. It costs £5 and can be bought from The Wolvercote Farmer’s Market or by contacting one …

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