Date: 21st April 2012
Time: 10 - 12 noon
Location: TBA

Guerilla gardening, to tidy up and plant the beds round the trees in the chicanes, will take place this spring on Saturday 21st April. Compost and plants will be provided – come along with your gardening gloves and any suitable plants you have to spare.

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

Oxford Blue
32 Marston Street
Tel. 460215

wants to create a venue that welcomes you for just a drink with no pressure to have a meal However a new chef runs it and is mostly sourcing locally produced food, a fair amount of which is organic. Friends have recommended it, but take a look for yourself here

Start: 9th July 2012
End: 10th July 2012
Time: TBC
Location: TBC

The Olympic Torch Relay will be a 70-day celebration, starting in the UK on 19 May 2012 and involving 800 torch bearers, travelling thousands of miles and bringing the London 2012 Games to hundreds of communities across the UK. In 2012, the Relay is scheduled to visit Oxford on 9 July 2012. 95% of the UK population will be within a one-hour journey of the Flame and 8,000 people will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to carry the Flame, and with it a message of peace, hope, respect and friendship.

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

Researchers from the University of Oxford at the John Radcliffe Hospital are recruiting for a research study into breathing perception.

The aim of the work, which has full ethical approval, is to understand how the brain processes breathlessness in patients with chronic lung disease. However we need a “control” group of healthy volunteers so that we know our comparisons are correct.

Click the following for more details:
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The neighbour who has asked us to post this is -
Dr Kyle Pattinson, BM DPhil FRCA

MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow & University Research Lecturer
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, OX3 9DU

Consultant Anaesthetist
Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU

TEL +44 1865 231509
FAX +44 1865 234072

http://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk

http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~kylep/index2.html

Date: 6th December 2011
Time: 7.45pm
Location: Cape of Good Hope, The Plain

Feeaturing:

Oxford Stanza 2
Horns of Plenty and
Mark Bosley

Tickets £5
(includes a glass of wine and nibbles)
Tickets available from: 01865 248380 – TICKETS NOW SOLD OUT
or bill_jenkinson@btinternet.com

In support of Freedom from Torture,
Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

Start: 2nd March 2012
End: 3rd March 2012
Time: 10 - 12.30 Saturday
Location: DRARA neighbourhood

Oxclean has been organised for Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd March next year. The meeting point will be announced nearer the time. If you have a bugbear about a particular part of our neighbourhood that needs attention, come and help sort it out! A good number of Brookes students always take part.

Date: 17th October 2011
Time: 6.30pm
Location: East Oxford Primary School

East Area Forum

Monday Oct 17th 2011

EAST OXFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL

(behind the Tesco Car park)

6:00pm: councillors’ surgeries

6:30 Has the joint bus ticketing brought down East Oxford pollution? Is it too early to tell?

Led by Roger Pitman, City Environmental Health Officer

7 Ongoing discussion of the Cowley Road Carnival 2012

7.30 What are the threats to our Green Spaces?

Led by Sietske Boeles of CPRE

8 What moneys and grants are available to this area from the County budget & how can we use them?

Led by our County Councillor, Larry Sanders

Suggestions from residents for future Forums.

All times are approximate.

For more information, contact Nuala Young on Oxford 749459

Date: 13th October 2011
Time: 1 - 2pm
Location: Worcester College

ResJucTalk about Community Conferences by Chris Stevens at Worcester College on Thursday 13th October 2011doc

Oxfordshire Restorative Justice Network
Presents
WORCESTER COLLEGE LUNCH-TIME TALKS
““Community conferences –– a flagship of
collective conflict resolution and localism””
a talk by Chris Stevens Divisional Manager, Surrey Youth Justice Service
from 1pm to 2pm on Thursday 13th October 2011 at Worcester College, Walton St., Oxford. Lunch provided (donations welcome!)
““All Welcome!””
For further information on Oxfordshire Restorative Justice Network or the other talks in the series, contact Pete Wallis, at peter.wallis@oxfordshire.gov.uk or 01865 202218
Surrey Youth Justice Service is pioneering a model of community conferencing in response to youth anti-social behaviour and nuisance. There is genuine excitement and enthusiasm in the county as they discover that Community Conferences, skilfully co-facilitated, can deliver significant and sustainable benefits to local communities by reducing levels of anti-social behaviour, reducing reliance on policing and associated criminalisation and most importantly, in building community cohesion and public confidence.
In essence, Community Conferencing is all about working WITH communities and co-producing strategies and actions plans together. The model encourages ownership of the issues of concern that directly affect those involved. It has the potential to deliver social harmony where there has been unrest, and in the aftermath of the recent riots this approach can potentially play a really significant part in our effort to restore lost confidence in youth, our safety and well being and our ability as communities to enjoy public order and peace.
Community conferencing is a model of dispute resolution that draws upon best practice in the areas of community mediation, restorative conferencing and schools based conflict resolution. A non- blaming and non-judgmental approach by the facilitators is encouraged in the parties and there are opportunities for all parties to express openly and honestly their views, concerns, needs and hopes for the future. A clear outcome defined by the parties is checked for consistency, clarity and reality by the facilitators. Surrey has used this approach with anti-social behaviour disorder and nuisance by groups of individuals in a particular area , harassment of individuals and groups on the grounds of race, religion, sexuality and local status,inter neighbour disputes and conflicts,whole street conflicts and conflicts involving multiple victims/offenders .
Chris Stevens, Divisional Manager of Surrey Youth Justice Service and powerful advocate of restorative justice will share stories of how community conferences organised in Surrey have provided a safe space to empower participants to begin a respectful dialogue, and a process of building consensus around a shared set of possible solutions. Participants report a significant and sustained decrease in anti-social behaviour in the area, supported by strong empirical evidence provided by the police.

Date: 9th October 2011
Time: 5pm
Location: The Regal, Cowley Road

RegalProm 10’11

PROM AT THE REGAL
East Oxford Orchestra
Sunday 9th October 2011 5 pm
Programme includes;
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 Marcello Trumpet Concerto soloist Tom Allen
The Tempest by Thomas Linley (junior) Finale;
Music from The Pirates of the Carribbean
Guest appearances by;
Cheney School Orchestra SS Mary & John School String Ensemble East Oxford Youth Choir
Tickets; £7/£5 available from www.wegottickets.com The Regal (tel 01865 241261) or on the door
In aid of Free Cakes Oxford – a community service to families who find it difficult to provide a birthday cake for their child.