It's back, the ever popular Bingo night at Charlbury Bowls Club.
Great Prizes including a meat hamper and festive hamper.
Lots of raffle prizes too including stocking fillers.
A very enjoyable evening raising funds towards the upkeep of the Bowls Club.
Do come and join us, doors open at 6pm, eyes down at 7pm.
Licensed Bar.
Charlbury Bowls Club
74 Ticknell Piece Road
Charlbury
OX7 3TW
What 3 words: ///ambushes.shifters.intersect
For all who love singing: ages 16+.
Genre? A bit of everything!
What our choir members have to say:
‘Such a fantastic opportunity to make amazing music, new and old, from around the world with voices of all ages!’ - Anne
‘I was new to Charlbury and choir was a lovely way to meet new people and find out lots about the town.’ - Alison
‘I love that we’ll learn a new song in just minutes and then we’re singing together in beautiful harmony moments later.’ - Tony
‘Good music, good people, no egos - plus the occasional delicious brownie!’ - Emily
‘I look forward to it every week. Jenny’s music is so beautiful and it’s a joy to learn and sing with such a lovely bunch of people’ - Liz
Where & when:
Friends Meeting House, Charlbury.
MONDAYS from 7.30-9pm. Price: £8 drop in.
Contact jennymahlermusic@gmail.com to join.
Led by local musician Jenny Mahler. www.jennymahler.co.uk
If you're needing a bit of help or confidence boost with your smart phone, tablet or laptop, come and see Susie for some one-to-one advice. Either send an email, phone or pop into the library to book a half-hour session - see poster for details. You don't have to be a library member but you do need to bring your device and charger with you.
Nine Acres Management Committee – Annual General Meeting
The Nine Acres Management Committee will hold its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 9 December 2025 at 7.30pm in the Sports Pavilion, Nine Acres Recreation Ground.
Everyone is welcome to attend. The AGM is open to the public, and those present are entitled to vote on AGM business. The posts of Secretary and Treasurer will be appointed at the meeting, and these roles may be filled by current committee members or any other suitable persons. (Please note that the Chair is appointed separately by Charlbury Town Council as Trustee.)
Agenda
Review of the Minutes of the AGM held on 14 January 2025
Review of the Minutes of the NAMC meeting held on 27 October 2025
Matters arising
Appointment of Officers:
Treasurer
Secretary
Reports
Chairman’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
Report from the Town Council
Senior Football Report
Junior Football Report
Tennis Club Report
Pavilion
Children’s Play Area
Football & Sports Club
Any Other Business
All members of the public are welcome to attend, and the Committee is grateful for the ongoing support of everyone who helps to maintain and use Nine Acres throughout the year.
CALLING ALL TODDLERS! Come sing with us at 10.15am on Wednesdays in the community centre.
Age: 0-5
Price: £8
(Additional siblings £4 each.)
To secure your place, please book here: www.jennymahler.co.uk/contact (There are approx. 15 spaces available.)
Dance to the music: https://soundcloud.com/songbirdswithjen
(This class is accessible to everyone. If you cannot afford the fee, get in touch with me confidentially via the contact page to arrange a subsidy.)
Desert Island Art
Five castaways will share the three pieces of art that they would choose to inspire and comfort them on their desert island.
This year our castaways include a painter, an architect, a writer, a composer and an art historian.
Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome, non members £5 on the door
We will be turning in the Christmas tree lights at 6pm to mark the start of this annual festival at St Mary’s which runs through to the New Year. Children’s choir and refreshments. Do come and join us…
Come and join in the Christmas spirit and enjoy some late night Christmas shopping in Charlbury this year.
The shops will be open until 8pm on Friday 12th & Friday 19th December.
Hope to see you all there....
As part of Charlbury's Late-Evening Shopping, the Corner House will be hosting a Local Artisans' Sale in the Morris Room from 5.30 - 8.00 pm.
Come and buy hand-made gifts for Christmas and support our local craftspeople!
There will also be a bottle tombola in aid of the Corner House, and Charlbury Delicatessen & Café will be open downstairs.
Join us for our annual Cake and Carols event where we all get to choose our favourite carols and tell why they are special to us. A range of cakes to suit all tastes will be available. Find Charlbury Baptist Church at the top of Dyers Hill. This is a free event to which everyone is welcome.
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We will be holding our Christmas Farmers Market on Saturday 13th December, 9am - 1pm, on The Playing Close
There will be a wide range of foods on offer - meat, fish, cheese, bread, cakes and much, much more. So don't miss your opportunity to stock up for Christmas and to buy direct from the producer.
There will also be plants, including decorations for your Christmas table and wreaths for your front door, soap, pottery and more.
So do come and visit us.
Charlbury Christmas Trees will be open weekends up to Christmas starting on Saturday 29th November.
We invite you to visit us to choose a real Christmas tree and have to have it freshly cut while you watch. Despite the unusually hot summer, our trees have put on significant growth and are looking good.
We have the traditional Norway Spruce Christmas tree, and the low needle drop Belgian Spruce and a few Nordmann.
Enjoy wandering among our trees to find your tree and watch it being cut and wrapped ready to take home and decorate.
You can either choose your tree, have it cut and take it home in one visit or you can tag a tree to reserve it and return at a later weekend to have it cut to take away.
So do visit us and enjoy a wander among the trees to find the perfect tree for you.
We are open weekends only 9.30am - 4pm.
The ever popular Wychwood Chorale Choir will be holding their Christmas event in St Mary’s Church here in Charlbury this year! Free entrance and refreshments. Collection in aid of Alzheimer's Research UK.
You are warmly invited to St Teresa's annual Gaudete Sunday Carol service - 3.30pm, 14th December 2025 in St Teresa's Church - ALL VERY WELCOME
(St. Teresa's Church, Corner of Sheep Street and Fisher's Lane)
CALLING ALL TODDLERS! Come sing with us at 10.15am on Wednesdays in the community centre.
Age: 0-5
Price: £8
(Additional siblings £4 each.)
To secure your place, please book here: www.jennymahler.co.uk/contact (There are approx. 15 spaces available.)
Dance to the music: https://soundcloud.com/songbirdswithjen
(This class is accessible to everyone. If you cannot afford the fee, get in touch with me confidentially via the contact page to arrange a subsidy.)
Join us at The Bull on Friday, 19 December for an afternoon and evening of Christmas festivities.
We begin at 1pm with the Christmas Market, followed by kids’ activities from 4pm.
At 6pm the Charlbury Primary School choir will sing carols, and at 7pm Seb De Souza and his merry band will open the evening with a festive tale. Throughout the night you can enjoy live performances, including lively renditions of Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Christmas is All Around.
Mulled wine, cider and hot chocolate will be served from the garden bar, where the market and all activities will take place. Festive BBQ will be provided by The Bushcamp, offering pork baps and hot dogs cooked over open-fire grills. Marshmallow roasting kits will also be available.
All proceeds from ticket sales will support Pub Club, which helps young adults in and around West Oxfordshire by providing comprehensive hospitality training.
Join us for our annual Community Carol Singing at Charlbury Community Centre on Friday 19th December at 7.30pm. There will be Mulled Wine and Mince Pies.
Come and join in the Christmas spirit and enjoy some late night Christmas shopping in Charlbury this year.
The shops will be open until 8pm on Friday 19th December.
Hope to see you all there....
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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. Any enquiries please make contact on charlburywi@oxfordshirewi.co.uk.
Charlbury Christmas Trees will be open for the last time on Saturday December 20th 9.30am to 4pm. Please note that we will not be open Sunday 21 December.
This is your last chance this year to choose a real Christmas tree and have it freshly cut. Choose from the traditional Norway Spruce Christmas tree, the low needle drop Belgian Spruce and the Nordmann, although we only have a few of this tree.
We are pleased to report that despite the unusually hot summer, our trees have put on significant growth and are looking good.
So do visit us if you have yet to get your tree. Enjoy a wander among the trees to find the perfect tree for you.
We are open weekends only 9.30am - 4pm.
Mass of Christmas Night with carols - 8pm, Christmas Eve, at St Teresa's (corner of Sheep Street and Fisher's Lane) - All are very welccome.
Please find the list for donation ideas for the porch in oxford
Mass of Christmas Day - 9.15am, St Teresa's Church (corner of Sheep Street and Fisher's Lane) - ALL WELCOME
Join us on Boxing day morning for our annual under 35's vs over 35's football match ⚽️
All welcome - just turn up for 10am!
Mumming and Morris Dancing will take place on Boxing Day as usual. Come and join us at 12.30 at the back of the Rose and Crown pub on Church Street.
The traditional Mumming Play will start the proceedings and then Charlbury and Finstock Morris and Wychwayz Border Morris will take turns to dance. Do come along to support us and to enjoy the entertainment.
Come and celebrate the New Year with us at Charlbury Town Football & Sports Club!
New Year, restored New You !
Mondays 6.30-7.45pm & Thursdays 11.45am- 1pm
Restorative yoga is a gentle style, focusing inwards to restore and rejuvenate organs and body systems. Learn how to teach your body to function naturally again by releasing deeply rooted tension and improving subtle energy flow
Nikki Jackson has been a yoga therapist and yoga teacher for 35 years. She is the principal of a yoga therapy training school, training yoga teachers and health professionals to become professional yoga therapists both in NHS and privately
All welcome, especially if suffering from chronic health issues
To book contact: nikki@yogafocus.co.uk
A request has been received from Network Plus Services Ltd for a temporary road closure and suspension of the one way restriction to apply to a length of Market Street whilst essential new water supply connection works are carried out.
A temporary Notice is being made by Oxfordshire County Council to implement the temporary restriction and will operate from 7 January 2026 up to and including 9 January 2026, 24 hours per day.
Please note that Notices for urgent works can last up to 5 consecutive days only.
A copy of the drawing showing the extent of the closure and also the alternative routes for traffic is attached.
Net Zero: Food, Farming and Land Use
Professor of innovation for sustainable agriculture at the Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucester, Julie specialises in soil management, digital agriculture and biomass crops in the context of net zero. In this talk she will address what the transition to net zero means for farming and land use in our landscape.
This talk will be held on Zoom, starting at 7.30pm. Free for members, £3 for guests. Links will be sent to members in advance of the talk. Please contact memsec.charlsoc@gmail.com for more information.
A brief notice for anyone planning to use local permissive paths: several routes will be closed for the day on Thursday 8 January 2026 as part of routine practice to ensure they retain their permissive status.
The closures include:
• Paths through Nine Acres Recreation Ground
• The route from the Cemetery extension to the bottom of Pound Hill (part of a Gateway Walk)
• Paths through Wigwell (closed by the Wychwood Forest Trust)
• The permissive path between Hundley Way and Banbury Hill Farm (and the Old Shed)
Residents with gates opening onto Oxpens Allotments, Nine Acres Recreation Ground and Wigwell are also reminded that these do not constitute a Right of Way.
Thank you for your understanding. All routes will reopen as normal the following morning.
The Four Wordsmen of the Apostrophe will entertain us to an evening of poetry in their inimitable style
Charlbury Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome. Non members £5 on the door
On 15th January, at the Memorial Hall, the Garden Society has organised a workshop on home composting, lead by Tim Mitchell from Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden.
Note: This workshop has been postponed from the 20th Nov 2025 for reasons beyond our control.
This will be a chance to improve your home composting skills or simply learn the basics of different composting systems.
We'll be getting out hands dirty and playing a game or two to aid the fun and learning.
Good, home-based or community-based composting is one of the key but often missing links to achieving the growing of healthy, nutritious food. It’s also a great way to make best use of organic waste materials, recycling valuable nutrients while absorbing carbon and minimising our impact on council waste systems and the environment alike.
“Feed the soil, not the plant” has gone from being a maxim of Organic food growing to a keystone of all progressive agricultural practice. Feeding the soil begins with making great compost!
Sometimes our plants need a helping hand, so you will also learn how to make effective and wildlife-friendly plant-based fertilisers, for free!
Event free to members, £3 for non-members.
This event will also be an opportunity for members to renew their subscription for 2026, and for new members to join us!
You can also do this online in advance of the talk, all the details can be found on our Membership page here: http://www.charlburygardensociety.org.uk/membership/
Reduce the risk of identity theft. Bring confidential paper waste for secure shredding Saturday morning between 10.30-11am 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 July 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.
Kris is no stranger to Charlbury, having played countless times at The Rose & Crown to a growing crowd of fans. If you’ve seen him, you’ll be delighted to hear of his return to the town, if you haven’t, you’re in for a real treat!
Kris has an impressive CV, having played in The Godfathers, The Damned, Adam and the Ants and is currently the lead guitarist in Del Amitri. When he’s not busy touring with the latter, he performs his solo, acoustic and instrumental Folky Blues with inspirations from John Lee Hooker to John Fahey.
This show is not to be missed
Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/680677
A service to celebrate our centenary will be held in St Mary’s Church at noon with light refreshment afterwards. All welcome to join us
A Year of Nature Recovery
Friends Meeting House
7.30 - 9.00 pm
This will be a jam packed session as Anne Miller will review the many achievements during our Year of Nature Recovery in 2025 and all the plans going forward.
This is a Charlbury Wildlife Society meeting, but everyone is welcome. Free to members (membership £12.50 annually) and those under 18. A contribution of £5 is invited from anyone else to help fund CWS wildlife initiatives.
A great night of local music at the newly refurbished venue
Great Bear Radio
Oxfordshire based 4-piece. Debut band EP released late 2024. Nightshift magazine describes elegantly sombre quixotic existential interstellar rock referencing Nick Drake forming a band and Jenniferever with synths yawning and stretching like the frozen northern hemisphere just before spring.
Flamingo
Flamingo is the solo project of Italian-born, Charlbury-based Lavinia Siardi, also singer for the Oxford emo band Spring Major. Joined by Joe Saxton on drums, Flamingo will bring a set where longing, melancholia and hope merge into the dreamy atmospheres of their set, exploring tunes from their album Komorebi and new songs still in the making.
Sebastian Reynolds
A startling combination of dense, electronic atmospherics, driving bass and heavy beats that blend influences from trip hop, psychedelic rock and acid techno, with Asian Gamelan style soundscapes thrown into the mix. Musical inspirations include The Eraser by Thom Yorke, artists such as Four Tet and Susumu Yokota in their combining of Asian instruments and electronics and the haunting, alien spaciousness recalling film composers such as Vangelis and Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Doors 7:30
Tickets here: https://wegottickets.com/event/685692
We are delighted to welcome internationally renowned cellist Robert Max, and Zoë Solomon on piano, who will give an hour long recital of works by Debussy, Schumann and Grieg. Robert was cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio for 35 years and principal cellist with the London Chamber Orchestra. He conducts the Oxford Symphony Orchestra. Zoë has performed as soloist, chamber musician and accompanist in Europe and the USA and made live recordings for radio stations including BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
AT The Bus is a charity that offers school-based Art as Therapy to support children and young people's education, health and wellbeing in Oxfordshire. The concert will be followed by complimentary tea and cake. Doors open 2.30pm
Please book directly via
Brunel, GWR and the Cotswold Line with Tim Bryan, Director of The Brunel Institute
Brunel, one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, is known as one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history. In this talk Tim will share the story of how this greatest railway innovator changed our British landscape forever.
This talk will be held on Zoom, starting at 7.30pm. Links will be sent to members in advance of the talk which is free for members, £3 for guests. Please contact memsec.charlsoc@gmail.com for more information.
John Bennett will talk about the way we see art taking inspiration from Gombrich's seminal work Art and Illusion
In Art and Illusion, Gombrich argues for the importance of "schemata" in analysing works of art: he claims that artists can only learn to represent the external world by learning from previous artists, so representation is always done using stereotyped figures and methods.
Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome, non members £5 on the door.
Brian Walker from the British Dragonfly Society will talk about the dragonflies seen in Oxfordshire and how to identify them. He'll also tell us a bit about other species which, with climate change, are moving into these islands.
Venue: Charlbury Friends Meeting House
Time: 19.30-21.00 hrs
Everyone is welcome. Free to members (membership £12.50 annually) and those under 18. A contribution of £5 is invited from anyone else to help fund CWS wildlife initiatives. Charlburywildlifesociety@gmail.com
A request has been received from Thames Water for a temporary road closure to apply to a length of Hundley Way whilst essential fire hydrant works are carried out.
A temporary Notice is being made by Oxfordshire County Council to implement the temporary restriction and will operate from 18 February 2026 up to and including 20 February 2026, 24 hours per day.
Please note that Notices for urgent works can last up to 5 consecutive days only.
A copy of the drawing showing the extent of the closure and also the alternative routes for traffic is attached.
Further information regarding the works may be obtained by contacting Thames Water helpline on 0800 316 98
A request has been received from Cappagh for a temporary road closure to apply to a section of Sheep Street, whilst essential sewer repair works are carried out.
A Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) is being made to implement the temporary closure and will operate from 2 March 2026.
The estimated completion of the works is 20 March 2026, 08:00 to 17:00 each day.
Charlbury welcomes bumblebees with Gill Perkins, CEO, Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Bumblebees are an important and cherished component of our biodiversity. Whilst several species are threatened with national extinction in the UK, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust aims to ensure that populations of these species have a long-term future. In this talk Gill will discuss many of the ways that, together, we can help bumblebees thrive.
This talk will be held in the Memorial Hall. Refreshments from 7.15pm, talk at 7.30pm. Free for members, £3 for guests.
Jody O'Reilly will explore the paintings of John Constable, finding the original locations of his landscapes and showing how it has changed over the years since he painted it.
She will juxtapose the original painting with photographs of their current location.
2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Constable.
Charlbury Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome, non members £5 on the door.
Tuesday 24 March
19.30-21.00 hrs
Friends Meeting House
Charlbury Wildlife Society invites you to
Roger Newman, Butterflies
Butterflies were back in 2025 after a very poor 2024, but we need to know more about the patterns of occurrence over years to understand the health of different species. Roger works with Butterfly Conservation and the Wychwood Forest Trust, facilitating teams of citizen scientists who are key in collecting data.
Everyone is welcome.
Free to members (membership £12.50 annually) and those under 18. A contribution of £5 is invited from anyone else to help fund CWS wildlife initiatives. Charlburywildlifesociety@gmail.com
The Oxfordshire Lieutenancy with Marjorie Glasgow, Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire
As His Majesty The King's representative in Oxfordshire, Marjorie Glasgow leads a team of 40 Deputy Lieutenants to connect across the county and support HM The King’s primary interests of Community, Climate, Culture, and the Commonwealth. Join Marjorie, along with some of her Deputy Lieutenants, for this informative talk on the varied ways they work to broaden community connections across Oxfordshire.
This talk will be in the Memorial Hall. Refreshments from 7.15pm, talk at 7.30. Free for members, £3 for guests.
An exhibition of work by Art Society members in partnership with Charlbury Garden Society
Charlbury Memorial Hall
Tuesday 21 April 2026 19.30-21.00 hrs
David Green, Head of Innovation, Blenheim
Friends Meeting House, Charlbury
David will talk about how, collaborating with Oxford Brookes University, they monitor and understand biodiversity across the estate from the air to deep within the soil, using bioacoustics – digital sensors and remote technology to gather data. Initially focusing on bird and bat recordings they now study the hidden acoustic world of soil, exploring the soundscape of the soil environment and its relationship to ecological processes of soil life - as indicators of soil health and ecosystem dynamics.
This is a Charlbury Wildlife Society meeting, but everyone is welcome. Free to members (membership £12.50 annually) and those under 18. A contribution of £5 is invited from anyone else to help fund CWS wild life initiatives. Charlburywildlifesociety@gmail.com
Oxfordshire on Canvas with Marie-Louise Kerr, local historian and museum curator
The landscape and cityscape of Oxfordshire have inspired artists for centuries. This talk will explore a selection of artwork connected to our local area - from oil paintings and pencil sketches to sculpture and stained glass - by a range of artists.
Join us in the Memorial Hall for refreshments from 7.15pm. The talk will begin at 7.30. Free for members, £3 for guests.
The 2026 Charlbury Beer Festival will take place on Saturday 27 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 £330,000. 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).
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