What’s on
Christmas
2024
Wine Clinic 20 & 21 December!
Still need some wine
over Christmas?
Not sure what to get or
what goes with what??
Come talk to The
Chairman!
I’ll
be holding a ‘wine clinic’ in the Deli from 2.00 - 3.00 pm on Friday 20th
and Saturday 21st and will be happy to talk you through our
Christmas selection, backed up by some professionally written tasting
notes. Nothing to fear and we might even
taste one or two!
We
have burgundies red and white, a couple of clarets, some sauvignons, a variety
of bubbles, a few sherries and ports, many others and a range of prices. And if I had a fiver for every time I’ve
heard someone say ‘Ooh I like that’ when they try our dessert wine from
Cadillac, I’d have enough to cover a case of our Chablis Premier Cru!
No appointments needed but could make one if you'd prefer.
Stop Press! An extra session just added 11-12.00 on Saturday to coincide with the Christmas Market in the Memorial Hall. And one day I'll learn how to format these things correctly (so thanks to someone for doing it for me)!
AND - a fresh order of the Chateau Mouleyre Cadillac 2022 has just arrived (Weds). It's not only delicious but great value at £15.50 for 50cl where most dessert wines come in at 37.5cl.
Rod Evans ·
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Following the success of last year's Christmas market, the Town Council is holding another one on Saturday 21st December between 9.30 and 12 noon in the Memorial Hall. Come along and buy those last minute gifts and some festive food and drink and just generally enjoy the atmosphere.
Stallholders booked in include:
Food & drink - the ever reliable (and yummy) Styan fruit and veg and Missing Bean bakery (run by our volunteers with profits being donated to local organisations), Evenlode Honey, Yogi Mama's Kitchen, Camtali Pet Bakery & Treats, Last Unicorn Coffee. Fabulous Italian, Emmunoballs, Edible by Aggy.
Crafts & gifts: Emma Hunt cards, Little Clay Pieces, Fox Rhymes Crafts, Prime Wood Studios, Reloved Crafts, Rebecca Thomas Designs, Window Design Interiors and Lizzie Roberts Originals.
As you can see the hall will be full to bursting with produce. Keep an eye on social media #charlburytowncouncil for the latest on the stalls.
Lisa Wilkinson ·
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Bring along your craft, enjoy a chat and laugh, coffee/tea and biscuits, socialise and make new friends. Share ideas and inspiration and swap hints, tips and skills. Everyone welcome. The third Saturday morning of each month 10.30-12.30 at Charlbury Bowls Club. Free parking. £3.50 per session to cover costs.
Louise Cashman ·
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SESI household detergent refills Drop off your clean empty bottles (with your name & contact number) on Saturday morning into the Charlbury Green Hub container near the Styan vegetable stall this week outside memorial Hall where the Christmas market is taking place. Styan are taking a week's break for Christmas and will be back outside the Community Centre on Saturday 4th January. The refills will be ready for
collection the following Wednesday from my house in Crawborough. Payment by cash or bank transfer.
Charlbury Green Hub has been running this local refill service for detergents since 2018. Use your own bottles for refill or buy a new filled SESI bottle for easy refilling.
Email sesi@charlburygreenhub.org.uk if you want to buy a new bottle for subsequent refilling.
Refill price per litre (from April 2024)
£2.70/litre Washing-up liquid (unfragranced) (New 500ml bottle £1.85)
£2.80/litre Washing-up liquid (spiced ginger) (New 500ml bottle £1.90)
£3.40/litre Non-bio laundry liquid (unfragranced) (New 1 litre bottle £3.90)
£4.80/litre Biological laundry liquid (fragranced) (New 1 litre bottle £5.30)
£2.40/litre Fabric conditioner (cologne) (New 1 litre bottle £2.90)
£7.50/litre Delicate & hand laundry liquid (unfragranced) (New 500ml bottle £4.25)
£2.80/litre All purpose cleaner (lavender & rosemary) (New 500ml bottle £1.90)
£3.90/litre Cream cleanser (fragranced) (New 500ml bottle £2.45) Unavailable for now
£1.80/litre Spirit vinegar for cleaning (New 1 litre bottle £2.30)
£2.10/litre Window and glass cleaner (sea grass) (New 500ml spray bottle £1.80)
£2.60/litre Toilet cleaner (lotus & sea salt) (New 1 litre bottle £3.10)
£5.40/litre Hard water rinse aid for dishwashers (New 500ml bottle 3.20)
£5.00/litre Hand soap (Fig) (New 500ml pump dispenser £3.25)
£5.00/litre Hand soap (English Rose) (New 500ml pump dispenser £3.25)
Christine Elliott ·
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Charlbury Christmas Trees will be open and this will be the last chance to choose and buy a freshly cut tree.
We have the traditional Norway Spruce, and low needle drop Belgian Spruce and some Nordman.
So if you have yet to buy a tree do visit us to get a tree that completes your Christmas.
Janet Burroughs ·
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Come and have a chat with a couple of Town Councillors. Ask questions and raise concerns at the Memorial Hall between 10am and 11am on Saturday 21st December. If the Town Council can't help, we can point you in the right direction
Lisa Wilkinson ·
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Santa Claus is coming to Charlbury Town Football & Sports Club!
Free entry & free gift from Santa Claus
Christmas Colouring
Hot chocolate
Sunday 22nd December 1pm-5pm
Charlbury Town Football and Sports Club ·
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2024 Reverse Advent Calendar
A way of bringing Christmas hope to homeless people in Oxford. Wrap a box in Christmas paper and every day of Advent place an item into the box. A list of useful items to include is available from St Marys Church and Cornerstone and is on the Charlbury website. Organised by Churches Together in Charlbury in aid of The Porch, Oxford.
Bring your filled box to St Mary’s Church or the Cornerstone at the Corner House between Christmas Eve and the middle of January.
St Marys and All Saints ·
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Mass of Christmas Night (with extra carols) - 8pm, 24th December
Mass of Christmas Day - 9.15am, 25th December
St Teresa's RC Church (corner of Sheep St and Fisher's Lane)
All Welcome
Alison O ·
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Charlbury & Finstock Morris along with Wychwayz Border Morris present the traditional Boxing Day show back at The Bell Hotel (rear terrace) this year. Charlbury Mummers Play at 12:30 (yes, a real Mummers' Play) followed by Morris dancing from about 1:00. Come and join us for some old fashioned family fun.
Richard Broughton ·
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The annual Boxing day Over 30's vs Under 30's football match kicks off at 10:30am. Meet at Nine Acres playing field for 10am. All welcome to join!
Join the teams for a festive drink in Charlbury Town Football & Sports Club from 12pm followed by the Boxing day raffle!
Charlbury Town Football and Sports Club ·
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We meet up again with Juliet to discover overlooked Madonnas and to marvel at the often strange distortions that followed Michelangelo's achievements. Newcomers welcome to this relaxed class on Mondays repeated on Thursdays at the Community Hall from 3.00 - 4.30 each time. £10 at the door. The journey through the History of Art continues - we still have a long way to go!
Juliet Heslewood ·
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A request has been received from Thames Water for a temporary road closure to apply to a length of Browns Lane, whilst essential service pipe relay repair works are carried out.
A temporary Notice is being made by Oxfordshire County Council to implement the temporary restriction and will operate from 6 January 2025 up to and including 8 January 2025, 24 hours per day.
Lisa Wilkinson ·
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PETER GREGORY
A talk by Charlbury author Valerie Holman who will introduce us to the creative world of Peter Gregory.
The enigmatic publisher and patron at the heart of the avant-garde British art world in the middle of the 20th century.
Peter Gregory developed close friendships with Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Herbert Read, Kenneth Clark and many others.
Memorial Hall 7.30
Non members welcome, £5 on the door
Tony Lloyd ·
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Sharon Bennett Connelly , author and historian, will talk to us about the women who controlled the politics of England during the turbulent twelfth century, a time of conflict and lawlessness. She will particularly discuss the relationship between Empress Matilda and her cousin, Queen Matilda of Boulogne, who based her campaign in Oxford.
Join us BY ZOOM just before 7.30. The link will be sent to members a couple of days before the 9th January . Please note this is the 2nd Thursday of the month.
To join as a guest (£3) or to join /rejoin the Society for £10, please contact mem.charlsoc@gmail.com a week or so before the talk, so that we can ensure you receive the link.
We are unable to help you with connection issues on the evening of the talk.
www.charlburysociety.org.uk
Nikki Rycroft ·
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It's the new year, Saturday afternoon: what shall we do...?
Come to Charlbury Memorial Hall at 2pm to be inspired and to explore how we can come together as a whole community to create opportunities for nature restoration across our lovely, vibrant town, all through 2025, and beyond.
Bringing together families and different interest groups of all ages to create a nature-friendly place, while also having fun- and cake!
Everyone from Charlbury, Fawler and Finstock is welcome
Anne Miller ·
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CRAG's January Bring and Buy fundraiser will take place at the Friends Meeting House.
10-12:30 to buy, with doors open at 9am for donations.
To donate in advance please call Laura on 01608 811175
ALL PROCEEDS TO REFUGEE RELIEF
https://www.charlburyrefugee.org.uk/
Vicky Buser ·
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Double Bill of two short new plays, 7.30pm The Memorial Hall
Following on from the sellout of this production at the Burton Taylor Studio in Oxford, Tall Story are delighted to bring this production back home to Charlbury for its premiere!
An Innocuous Prick by Ian Cox
This play has contemporary resonance focusing on local rows, riots and politics as compulsory smallpox inoculations are introduced in the late C19 and the impact on the small Oxfordshire town of Charlbury.
Paddy Hitler by Kieran Cooke
This intriguing soliloquy on power and politics looks at the often tortured life of Paddy Hitler, son of Hitler’s elder half-brother and Irish mother: as WWII approaches Britain is desperate to win Paddy over to its side.
This event is a fundraiser for Crisis, the charity for people experiencing homelessness. Tickets are £10 and can be reserved by contacting Tim Crisp at tjcrisp@icloud.com
Tim Crisp ·
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Silk Screen Printing Workshop - Saturday 18th of January - 10am – 4pm
Venue : The Shed, 9 Acres Lane, Charlbury, Oxfordshire. - not too far from the train station if
you are arriving by train.
No experience necessary.
Age – this workshop would suit anyone from around 14 years old and upwards.
£85 per person – spaces are limited.
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
Come and learn how to silk screen print! In this one-day workshop you will learn how to
make a paper cut stencil for screen printing. There will be opportunity to work with some
existing designs before progressing on to making a two or even three colour print.
In the morning you will be making some screen prints on paper using existing designs to cut
as stencils. Once you have built up a bit of confidence, we will then start moving on to 2 and
3 colour prints. In the afternoon I will help you develop your own ideas for a print – source
materials to develop your design will be provided but feel free to bring your own images to
work from. The majority of prints will be printed on paper; however, you will also be able to
print your design onto a tea towel or a fabric tote bag towards the end of the day.
We will be using water based acrylic printing ink as well as craft knives to cut the stencils.
There will be a number of silk screens with different colours to work on through the day.
Wearing old clothes is advisable or bring an apron.
We will have a short break for lunch of around about 30 mins – please bring a packed lunch
with you.
About me : I am a Charlbury based artist and silk screen printer, a lot of my work is within
the music industry. Clients have included The Lumineers, Wilderness Festival, Rob MacFarlane , Johnny Flynn and even Simon Armitage among others.
Jon Mackay ·
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Reduce the risk of identity theft. Bring confidential paper waste for secure shredding between 6.30-7pm to the One Village warehouse on the trading estate just over the railway bridge on Forest Road (OX7 3HH). Cost is £5 per bag with 50% going towards local causes. Please phone Christine Elliott on 811057 for more information. Grateful thanks to One Village for letting us use their premises.
Heavy duty polypropylene sacks able to hold 20kg of paper are available FREE from The Cornerstone at The Corner House Mon-Sat 10am-1pm.
No need to remove staples, paperclips or plastic spines, but please DO NOT include plastic sleeves, folders or CDs.
Certificate of destruction provided if required. The paper gets reprocessed into paper products within just a few weeks.
Shredding by Datashredders Ltd
Organised every June and January by Charlbury Green Hub. Since 2009, when this event was first arranged in Charlbury, over 8,000kg of paper have been shredded for recycling and over £2,000 has been raised for Charlbury charities.
Christine Elliott ·
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We are delighted to have the honour to present this iconic British ‘A Capella’ group here in the Memorial Hall. They will be offering a specially-curated programme entitled "Close Harmony".
Such has been the demand that ALL AVAILABLE TICKETS HAVE NOW BEEN SOLD- apart, that is from the very last pair of central front-row seats, which will be auctioned by CRAG by means of sealed bids for the pair, e-mailed to: nick.parker@cooptel.net
Should you wish to bid for these TWO TICKETS, please send detail of your maximum bid for the pair by 1800 hrs on January 23rd at the latest. The winning bidder will be notified by email on the morning of Saturday, the 24th.
https://www.charlburyrefugee.org.uk/events/special-gala-concert-the-kings-singers/
The price includes CRAG’s delicious complimentary refreshments.
Doors open at 1800 hrs; Concert starts at 1830 hrs.
NB. This concert in NOT included in the 2024/25 season ticket.
Nick Parker ·
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Come and have a chat with a couple of Town Councillors. Ask questions and raise concerns at the Community Centre café between 10am and 11am on Saturday 25th January. If the Town Council can't help, we can point you in the right direction
Lisa Wilkinson ·
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This is a new workshop I've organised for February the 8th as I was pleasantly surprised by the interest in my silk screen printing workshop I've organised in January!
Silk Screen Printing Workshop - Saturday 8th of February - 10am – 4pm
Venue : The Shed, 9 Acres Lane, Charlbury, Oxfordshire. - not too far from the train station if
you are arriving by train.
No experience necessary.
Age – this workshop would suit anyone from around 14 years old and upwards.
£85 per person – spaces are limited.
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
Come and learn how to silk screen print! In this one-day workshop you will learn how to
make a paper cut stencil for screen printing. There will be opportunity to work with some
existing designs before progressing on to making a two or even three colour print.
In the morning you will be making some screen prints on paper using existing designs to cut
as stencils. Once you have built up a bit of confidence, we will then start moving on to 2 and
3 colour prints. In the afternoon I will help you develop your own ideas for a print – source
materials to develop your design will be provided but feel free to bring your own images to
work from. The majority of prints will be printed on paper; however, you will also be able to
print your design onto a tea towel or a fabric tote bag towards the end of the day.
We will be using water based acrylic printing ink as well as craft knives to cut the stencils.
There will be a number of silk screens with different colours to work on through the day.
Wearing old clothes is advisable or bring an apron.
We will have a short break for lunch of around about 30 mins – please bring a packed lunch
with you.
About me : I am a Charlbury based artist and silk screen printer, a lot of my work is within
the music industry. Clients have included The Lumineers, Wilderness Festival, Rob MacFarlane , Johnny Flynn and even Simon Armitage among others.
Jon Mackay ·
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Charlie Luxton
The art of balanced design; beauty, function and sustainability within buildings
Memorial Hall 7.30
Non members welcome, £5 on the door
Tony Lloyd ·
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Come and have a chat with a couple of Town Councillors. Ask questions and raise concerns at the Community Centre café between 10am and 11am on Saturday 22nd February. If the Town Council can't help, we can point you in the right direction
Lisa Wilkinson ·
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7.30-9.00 pm Memorial Hall
The Charlbury Garden Society and the Charlbury Wildlife Society invite you to join them for a Forum of Sharing and Advice, 'Gardening For Nature Recovery'.
Come and share favourite wildlife gardening books; How do ponds, planting and nesting boxes encourage birds and other wildlife ?; Make Friends With Molluscs; Update on Charlbury hedgehogs; include A4 photos of wildlife in your garden in our Charlbury Wildlife Gallery.
Everyone is welcome.
A4 wildlife photos to Flora by Fri 14 Feb and for more information contact: charlburywildlifesociety@gmail.com
Flora Gregory ·
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Arne Richards: Music in the Community
Memorial Hall 7.30
Non members welcome, £5 on the door
Tony Lloyd ·
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Come and have a chat with a couple of Town Councillors. Ask questions and raise concerns at the Community Centre café between 10am and 11am on Saturday 22nd March. If the Town Council can't help, we can point you in the right direction
Lisa Wilkinson ·
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The Oxford Concert Party are mounting a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde in St. Mary’s Church.
Conducted by Ben Goodall, who conducts the Chipping Norton Choral Society, and directed by Pat Winslow.
Noye’s Fludde is a wonderful community opera based on a Chester Miracle play and the story of Noah’s Ark.
With a chorus of animals, four teenage girls who are Mrs Noye’s Gossips, Noye’s sons and their wives, Noye and Mrs Noye, a string orchestra, a group of recorder players, bugles and handbells players this amazing spectacle will fill the church .
Matinee 3.00
Evening 7.00
Tony Lloyd ·
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Sunday 6th Apr 2025: Noye's Fludde, St Mary's Church
The Oxford Concert Party are mounting a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde in St. Mary’s Church.
Conducted by Ben Goodall, who conducts the Chipping Norton Choral Society, and directed by Pat Winslow.
Noye’s Fludde is a wonderful community opera based on a Chester Miracle play and the story of Noah’s Ark.
With a chorus of animals, four teenage girls who are Mrs Noye’s Gossips, Noye’s sons and their wives, Noye and Mrs Noye, a string orchestra, a group of recorder players, bugles and handbells players this amazing spectacle will fill the church .
Matinee 3.00
Tony Lloyd ·
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Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome, non members £5 on the door
Tony Lloyd ·
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Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome, non members £5 on the door
Tony Lloyd ·
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The 2025 Charlbury Beer Festival will take place on Saturday 28 June at Charlbury Cricket Club, from noon till late. There will be around 60 real ales, a variety of craft beers, a range of ciders and perries, wine, gin, and Pimm’s; a great selection of food (including vegan options); tea, cake and soft drinks; live music throughout; the Culture Club tent with its varied programme of performances and talks; children’s entertainment and activities; and high-octane sport with the World Aunt Sally Singles Championships.
All money raised by the Beer Festival is given out to community projects, both in the Charlbury area and overseas. We have now taken our total of funds raised for good causes to around £300,000. There have been donations to over fifty local organisations, ranging from Charlbury Primary School and the town’s Pre-School, to local sports clubs, Charlbury’s Day Centre and Community Centre, and overseas projects in Africa, India, South America and elsewhere.
We must thank those generous sponsors who finance the beers and the entertainment tents, and of course, the beers themselves, plus the many hours that committee members and other volunteers put in. Cheers all round!
Charlbury Cricket Club provides a glorious setting, just across the road from Charlbury Station. There are excellent all-day (including late night) bus and train services to and from Charlbury to Oxford, Chipping Norton, Reading, Witney, Worcester and London, so you don’t even need to drive if you want to have a drink.
To keep up to date with the festival, please visit our website and follow our social media pages (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)
Edward Fenton ·
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