The District Council has taken the difficult decision to suspend our garden waste collections.

Full details and explanation here.

The Council’s contractors, BGG, will be in Great Coxwell next Wednesday 4th August for this year’s second cutting of the village verges and footpaths.  If anyone has any specific requests on how they would like the verges outside of their property cut, please send those to me at [email protected] by next Monday and I’ll pass them along to BGG. Alternatively, you can speak with them when they arrive on Wednesday. BGG has expressed a strong willingness to be as flexible as possible to meet specific requirements, please try to make your requests as concise and easy for them to follow as possible.

Thank you,
Mike Harris (Holloway House)
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A couple of press releases from the council:

​Councils expand their free activity trails for children for the school summer holidays

First tickets for the White Horse Community lottery go on sale

The following documents have been added to the website:

Reading Room Meeting Minutes - July 12th 2021

VACANCY FOR A PARISH COUNCILLOR
The Parish Council are looking to co-opt a new member
It is your chance to make a difference by having a say about local issues, representing the views of Parishioners and getting involved for the benefit of the community.

If you would like to be considered, please send CV/Letter of interest to the Clerk.
Deadline for applications: 1st September 2021

 For further information, please contact the Clerk or Chair Jacqui Russell.
[email protected]
[email protected]
https://www.greatcoxwell.com/parish-council.html

Full details can be found here

The following documents have been added to the website:

Parish Council Meeting Minutes - July 5th 2021
District Councillor Report - July 2021
Schedule of Special Appointments
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​The following documents have been added to the website:

Parish Council Meeting Agenda - July 5th 2021
District Councillor Report - June 2021
County Councillor Report - June 2021

A few recent press releases that may be of interest:

The White Horse Community Lottery is ready to help good causes - link
Abbey Meadow outdoor pool ready to reopen - link

Dear town and parish council colleagues
 
We’ve now had notification that from Saturday 26 June at 12.30pm, Oxfordshire’s four symptom-free community testing sites will be closing – this includes the testing centre at The Beacon in Wantage.
 
The symptom-free testing sites were opened to respond to a need to encourage as many symptom-free people as possible to get tested using rapid lateral flow devices (LFDs) to help stop the spread of the virus at the height of the pandemic.
 
Over time, a number of alternative options for accessing LFD tests have been developed and made available to the public. These include:
workplace testing, secondary school and college testing, collecting home test kits from pharmacies or our symptomatic testing sites or jumping online to request a home delivery.

This has made it much easier for people to choose how and when they get tested.
 
Very few people are now visiting the symptom-free sites for in-person testing and are opting to use the wider range of alternative options to do their bit. With one in three people with COVID-19 not having any symptoms – twice-weekly testing will remain crucial to help us find these cases and prevent the spread of infection. This applies even if people have been vaccinated. All the symptom-free testing information is available on the county council’s website.
 
We’re aiming to re-open The Beacon to the public on 6 September, and we’ll be sharing this news with the public on Monday.

The following documents have been added to the website:

Parish Council Meeting Minutes - May 24th 2021
District Councillor Report - May 2021
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