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!
Nov 15
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
Nov 11
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 on the Links page of this website.
Nov 02
Wytham Woods Temporary Closure Dates
Wytham Woods Important Update
Temporary closure dates
The Wytham Woods Team would like to inform all permit holders of three upcoming weekends when the Woods will be closed to all visitors:
Friday 5 November 2021 – Monday 8 November 2021 inclusive
Friday 14 January 2022 – Monday 17 January 2022 inclusive
Friday 11 February 2022 – Monday 14 February 2022 inclusive
No access will be possible within these times.
Please note that for each period, the Woods will close on the Thursday evening and reopen on the Tuesday morning.
Thank you for your patience and understanding while we undertake essential woodland management.
If you are still waiting for the arrival of your permit card, we’d like to thank you for your continuing patience as we work our way through a large backlog of applications.
As always we would like to take this opportunity to remind you to respect the rules of your permit card and stick to the paths. Wytham Woods is no ordinary woodland and research projects carried out here have global significance. We have over 100 researchers actively pursuing projects in the Woods and it is vital that their study areas and the flora & fauna which they contain are undisturbed. The map which you receive with your permit card shows the paths which you are permitted to walk. If you have only so far received a temporary e-permit, please click below to download a copy of the map.
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Oct 22
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 of the following:
Lizzy Newton: lizziej.newton@gmail.com
Sally Croft: mail@sallycroft.co.uk
Pam Dale: tawadale@hotmail.com
Oct 17
Wolvercote Musicians Concert 13th November
CLICK HERE for tickets or call Bill Clarke 01865 510109
There is socially distanced seating is available in the North aisle on a first come first served basis
Sep 19
WHS Autumn Show 26th September
The Autumn Show (Sunday 26th September, 2pm at the Village Hall) is our biggest show of the year and includes classes for fruit, vegetables, flowers, preserves, cookery, & photography as well as arts and crafts, so it is possible for everyone to get involved.
Classes
Show Regulations
Entry Form
It would be great to have as many entries as possible and fill our Village Hall with the “fruits” of our community.
(Entries need to be brought to the hall on the morning of the show between 8.30 and 10 am.)
Please take a look at the show programme to see what you might be able to enter. www.wolvercote.org/whs
Children can enter any of the classes although there are classes specifically for younger age groups with prize money
Jun 21
Changes to the Festival schedule
We are very sorry that, because of government restrictions, some events have been changed, postponed or cancelled.
The Poetry Evening Thursday 24th June will now be held in the Village Hall Garden. If the weather is poor, it will be held online – please check here on the day of the event
Children’s Parade Saturday 26th June. This year we can’t hold the usual children’s workshops and parade from Lower Wolvercote to St Peter’s Church Fete in Upper Wolvercote on Saturday 26th June, BUT Wolvercote Morris will be dancing on the Lower Green at 12.30 pm and at St Peter’s at 2 pm as usual and would welcome a socially distanced audience. And if you would like to make ‘hayslings’ (small offerings of flowers etc) there are lots of brilliant ideas you can google – just search for ’tissue paper flowers’ or ’tissue paper butterflies’ or similar. You can visit the haystack on Wolvercote Green with your hayslings and make your wish whenever you like – we just ask you to make sure you only use compostable materials and follow the usual social distancing rules. And have fun!
St Peter’s Fete Saturday 26th June. The fete will run as a Festival Raffle and Plant Sale from 2 – 4 pm. There are some great prizes so please come along to support.
Wolvercote WPC Open Evening Saturday 26th June. This has been postponed until 18th September.
Picnic for Carl and Katy Sunday 27th June. This has been postponed until Sunday 25th July at Goose Green 3-5pm followed by drinks at the White Hart, 5-8pm
Quiz Night Sunday 27th June – Postponed until September, date TBA.
Everything else is going ahead as on the festival summary page