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

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

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

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

For the first time since the Company started rehearsing for Midsummer Night’s Dream last year, cast members were able to visit Wytham last week, to check out their performance venue for midsummer weekend. Rehearsals are now taking place almost every day, while the technical side is being sorted out, including a light and sound rig to make the most of the magical setting.

Buy your tickets soon at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midsummer-nights-dream-tickets-156143285771. There will be a bus shuttle from Wolvercote to Wytham Car Park for both shows, £3 return.

June 14 – 27 2021

5 Trees in Wytham Woods
The Barn
St John’s College
Oxford OX1 3JP

Since 2016, Blandy has been an Artist in
Residence in Wytham Woods. His studies of a
Beech, Hornbeam, Ash and two Oaks through the
seasons will be exhibited at The Barn on St Giles.

Download Poster

Your mission is to identify the twenty numbered locations of these images of entrances and gateways, all of which are accessible on foot via public rights of way or common land in Wolvercote and Wytham. Please observe the current lockdown rules as you explore.

A map can be found here on which you can mark the numbers of the images in the location you have chosen. All the locations can be found on this map

If you would like a further challenge you may answer a question associated with each image, which you can download here. The questions also appear under the photo when you click or tap the image.

The locations of the images and the answers to the questions or will be posted on the Festival Website later in the summer.

Good luck and enjoy exploring our villages on foot. Many thanks to Amanda Saville for putting this together on behalf of the Festival Committee.

Wolvercote Community Market operates every Sunday between 10am and 12 noon in the car park of the White Hart in Wolvercote.

The ethos of the market, run by volunteers, is to create a space focusing on local produce and sustainability, open to everyone – a community social hub. We’ve managed to keep going safely throughout the complications of the last year and are now trying to raise awareness of the market and encourage more participants to join us.

To that end, I’m writing to see if you might like to have a presence at the market. We’re offering free space up to once a month for community groups to have a table or space for sharing information about what they do, handing out leaflets, fund-raising, offering some training etc. The vision is to provide a friendly meeting place for local people where they can also find out more about what’s going on in their area.

If this might be of interest to you, please email our coordinator, Nina, on wolvercotesundaymarket@gmail.com to arrange a suitable date. We are looking at starting this after the planned opening of restrictions on Jun 21^st.