Date: 16th March 2013
Time: 11am - 5 pm
Location: Barracks Lane Community Garden

Barracks Lane Community Garden & Cowley Time Bank present:
Sat 16th March, 11am-5pm
Garden Opening 2013: It’s Time to Swap Seeds & Stories

Celebrate the Garden’s spring opening!
Bring your surplus seeds to swap or simply come and pick up some new & heritage varieties.
Plus workshops, talks, planting activities for children, storytelling & a seedy cafe!
Bring your stories of swapping, helping, and sharing.
Outdoor & warm space provided.

If you need a free lift to & from the Garden call Hannah in advance on 07594 064092.

If you volunteer for this event, you can earn time credits with Cowley Time Bank.

What is Cowley Time Bank?
Spend an hour of your time helping someone in your local community ~ earn an hour’s time credit to spend when you need help yourself. It’s free!

For more information on Time Banks see www.oxontimebanks.org
Twitter: @OxonTimeBanks Email: oxontime@gmail.com

This event is funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.

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Oxfordshire time banks: helping each other to build happier, healthier communities

Date: 16th March 2013
Time: 3 - 4.30pm, 7.30 - 9pm
Location: Iffley Village Church Hall

LIVING THROUGH SONG

A fundraising concert supporting music therapy for people living with dementia.

See poster for more details.

The following item has been added to the DRARA Community Noticeboard:

Notice from Cecilia
I have an excellent cleaner who is looking for more hours in this area.  If you need any help with cleaning or ironing, please call me on Ox 433975 or 0774 775 4214. Thanks.

Date: 19th May 2013
Time: 2 - 6pm
Location: Regiser at 111 Divinity Road, driveway

Tickets for the Open Garden day will be sold at the front of 111 Divinity Road this year, instead of at Sinnet Court. Every visitor has to register here and collect a map indicating which gardens are open.
Entrance cost: £2 per adult, with children free.

There will be nine gardens opening, with a great variety of attractions, from live music to playing with guinea pigs to drinking pina coladas while walking through the tropical forest behind 151 Divinity Road.

In the beautiful garden at 28 Hilltop (open 3 to 6pm) there will be a local group of singers and a local violin duo performing, plus possibly a street-band. The afternoon is being arranged by the newly formed group Dementia Friendly Neighbourhood group who are now number 8 to 10 people all affected in different ways by dementia. On the 19th May,
there will be willow baskets for sale, and tea and cakes on offer to raise funds for the Guideposts Music Therapy Service for people living with Dementia in Oxford and the county.

Every garden is offering something special for visitors and if the weather is good it will doubtless be our best event yet.

Date: 7th July 2013
Time:
Location: Cowley Road

In 2011 the Carnival was cancelled due to lack of funds, and last year it was not held because of the Olympics.
So we are thrilled to see it will definitely be going ahead this year!

See here for the latest details on the carnival website.

The following item has been added to the DRARA Community Noticeboard:

Volunteers needed to help in your local AgeUK Oxfordshire charity shop based in the Cowley Road.

We require enthusiastic, innovative and motivated people to help our shops organise, manage and promote events and projects to raise the profile of the shops in the city area and increase the amount of donations. We need volunteers who are willing to act as ambassadors for the charity, who have the time, the enthusiasm and the resourcefulness to network in the community and oversee projects and events alongside myself.

This would start on a small scale, learning how our shops operate on a day to day basis, what the shops require to help them grow and thrive and the logistics behind every project and plan. We already have a strong and motivated team within the shops but we desperately need somebody who can manage the long term project development!

If you can share some of your free time with us we would be extremely grateful so, even you even have an inkling of interest, please do not hesitate to email or call me on the details below – or even better pop in and see me!

Jane Probets – Shop Manager

183, Cowley Road

01865 251539

07772163265

janeprobets@ageukoxfordshire.org.uk

Date: 8th February 2013
Time: 7.30pm
Location: St. John the Evangelist, Iffley Road

TD Oxford poster

This concert is on our website as one of the performers is closed related to a Divinity Road resident.

Date: 17th January 2013
Time: 12 noon - 2pm
Location: Old Fire Station

A FREE LUNCH EVENT

You are invited to come and get a FREE tasty veg curry for lunch!

Love Food/hate waste and Oxfordshire Waste Partnership are cooking with fresh vegetables that could have been wasted to highlight how much good food gets thrown away in the UK.

Food will be served from 12pm and not before!  There will be enough for at least 500 people: once it’s gone it’s gone!

Click below to see the poster

Feed500

Date: 19th February 2013
Time: 1 - 7pm
Location: Oxford Town Hall

Refashion poster Feb 2013

After the success of 2012’s Refashion event at Oxford Town Hall (700 visitors, masses of clothes swapped and recycled, excellent press and Green Apple environmental award!) the City Council are making it an annual event and are well under way of organising next year’s event which will be from 1pm-7pm on Tuesday 19^thFebruary in the Main Hall of the Town Hall.

They want to make next year’s event bigger and better than before, with more schools and colleges showcasing their work on the catwalk and more stalls selling upcycled textile crafts and clothes.  If you are interested in having stall and/or running a short upcycling demonstration at the event please contact Jenny Carr - jcarr@oxford.gov.uk.

As in 2012 the event will be non-profit, so there is no charge for stalls, no entry fee, but also we will not be able to offer any payment for people to take part, but ot represents and excellent opportunity for networking and demonstrating your work.