Category: News

All services at Duns Tew, unless stated otherwise

Electoral Roll

This year sees the preparation of a new church Electoral Roll. If you are interested in being included on this Electoral Roll then please contact Maria Coonick for further information and an application form by Friday 15 February 2019. Contact details m.coonick@btinternet.com or 07850 991690.

Charities

Thank you to everyone who donated to the following charities during the Christmas period:
Open Doors: £335.29 at Carol Service on 23rd December
Banbury Home Start: £135.97 on Christmas Eve
Children’s Society: £222.50 on Christmas Day

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Women’s World Day of Prayer
To be held on Friday 1st March, at 7pm, in the church. Please join us for this service which has been written by the women of Slovenia, and they invite men, women & children of all ages to “Come – Everything is Ready!”
Their service will encourage us to reflect on the barriers they have faced since the end of the Second World War when their country was a part of Yugoslavia, a Marxist socialist republic. If you would like to do a short reading, please contact Karen Fairfax-Cholmeley karencholmeley@yahoo.co.uk

Church Fete
This year’s Church Fete will be held on Sunday 30th June at the Manor, by kind permission of Mr & Mrs McAlpine. If you would like to help in any way, please contact Clare Burgess 347382, or clarebugress@gmail.com

Charity of the Quarter

For February/March/April, the PCC will be collecting donations via the charity plate in church, to help the work of Medical/Orphan Project (MOP) in Zimbabwe (http://www.tzaba.org).

MOP is supporting 15 children at the Bonda Children’s Home. Please read the 2018 newsletter available in Church for news of Dumisani who is 26 and has almost completed his studies, thanks to funding from MOP. We wait to hear what he plans to do next.

Polly

As always please leave in-date food donations in the basket in church. Thank you. Clare 347382.

starting 14th January

Planning permission was granted in 2015 for an extension in to a new area of land at the existing Duns Tew Sand quarry.

Smiths will start opening up the new area of the quarry this Spring and have been working with the County Council and statutory consultees on satisfying a number of pre-commencement conditions. All of these have been approved with only the road improvements to complete. As part of the negotiations with the Parish Council at the time, it was agreed that Smiths would carry out improvements along both the Duns Tew and Middle Barton Roads. The Council identified 8 sections where the road is to be widened very slightly to help the passage of vehicles.

These locations are spread out along both roads as shown on the this map

The technical details for these works have been agreed with OCC Highways and the legal agreement between OCC and Smiths was completed in December. Smiths have appointed Greenford Ltd as contractors for the project and it is planned to start work week commencing 14 th  January.

The works will cause some inconvenience for road users with traffic management in place and, subject to the weather, the works are likely to take up to 8 weeks to complete.

Please contact the Clerk, Chris Keeping, in the first instance if you have any queries or concerns.

01869 340727
dunstewparishcouncil@aol.com 
Spinney Farm, Duns Tew, OX25 6JT

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Spring Term Programmes are here! Have a look here at the exciting things we have coming up in 2019…

Please note, term programmes will begin on the week commencing 14th January for 10 weeks (with a break for February half term).

If the cost is a barrier to participation, please email admin@oyap.org.uk

Marlborough School in Woodstock runs daytime, evening and Saturday courses for adults during term time, whether you are interested in arts and crafts, exercise and wellbeing, languages, cookery or music. We welcome people of many ages and backgrounds from across Oxfordshire and places are currently available on the following weekly courses:

• Mondays: Yoga with Mandy; Painting for Beginners; Badminton for All; Spring Foraging for Herbs; Yoga with Klara
• Tuesdays: Yoga with Wendy; Tai Chi
• Wednesdays: Anyone Can Sing; Psychology
• Thursdays: Yoga with Klara; Zumba Gold

Our next Saturday workshops are on 26 January, when we are running wet felting, acrylic painting, and drawing for all. Our cookery class will help you prepare a 4-course winter menu, or come along to our sewing course and let Sue Hazell advise you on completing your unfinished projects. We are also offering a chance to try Vinyasa yoga, and supportive sessions for people getting to grips with using an iPad or iPhone, or wanting to manage the menopause positively.

Please check availability on our website or call the office to book a place on any of our courses. We reopen after the Christmas holidays on 8^th January.

This Rural Bulletin is published by the Rural Services Network and brings you a round up of our existing publications in one place! Get the latest rural news, read our current ruralcommentary in the Hinterland, focus in on our weekly Spotlight special feature and check out what we”ve been up to this week at RSN HQ!

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This Rural Bulletin is published by the Rural Services Network and brings you a round up of our existing publications in one place! Get the latest rural news, read our current ruralcommentary in the Hinterland, focus in on our weekly Spotlight special feature and check out what we”ve been up to this week at RSN HQ!

Read it here

This Rural Bulletin is published by the Rural Services Network and brings you a round up of our existing publications in one place! Get the latest rural news, read our current ruralcommentary in the Hinterland, focus in on our weekly Spotlight special feature and check out what we”ve been up to this week at RSN HQ!

Read it here