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Harvest Festival

5/9/2025

Church Decoration and Food Bank donations

There will be a traditional St Giles Harvest Festival Service on Sunday 14th September at 10.30 am.

We are looking forward to decorating the church with flowers, fruit and vegetables on Saturday 13th September.

If you have any produce you would like to add to the display please leave inside the church on Friday or Saturday, 12th, 13th September.

All useable fruit and vegetables will be donated to the Pump House Project.

We are also requesting donations of packaged goods, rice, pasta, cereals and tinned food, etc for the Faringdon Food Bank.

These may temporarily be left at the back of the church and will then be suitably displayed.

Thank you for your help and we hope you may be able to come to the Harvest Festival Service too.

You will be very welcome.

Scything at St. Giles

22/7/2025

The Buscot and Coleshill NT volunteer scything team will be scything the wildflower meadows in the Contemplation Garden on Wednesday 30th July from 10am.

You are welcome to come and watch.

We are grateful to the National Trust for volunteering to do this as part of their plan to re-nature the NT Buscot and Coleshill Estate.

For anyone who might like to take part there will be spare rakes available to help clear the spoil.

Rev Maureen Turner. St Giles Church.

Appeal for Flower Arrangers

31/5/2025

St Giles Church – Flowers

Do you like flowers or flower arranging? Would you be able to donate a few flowers or hours a year to keep St Giles church looking welcoming? Maybe you would like to mark an anniversary or remember a special person by providing flowers, or doing a special arrangement?

Flowers in our Church are maintained weekly by a very small group of parishioners and we do thank them for their dedication and hard work in keeping the flower arrangements so varied, beautiful and well managed and for keeping St Giles church clean and tidy and welcoming throughout the year. We currently have a team of only eight volunteers to do this, which will very soon reduce to seven.

If you would like to help in any way, please contact Sylvia

(07923 563662 or 01367 241179)

Sat 7th June Village Barbecue 5 pm in the Vicarage Garden

27/5/2025

Sat 7th June Village Barbecue
5 pm in the Vicarage Garden

Barbecue – Burgers, Sausages, Vegetarian option available
Salads etc
Pud and a glass of wine

If possible, please let us know if you intend to come
so we have an idea for catering

Suggested Donation £10 per person
(For St Giles church funds)
in advance or pay on the night

If you are able to contribute a salad or a pud,
this would be much appreciated
- please let me know on 07923 563662

Pat Cook and Rory Gilmour will both shortly be leaving the village.
This evening will be a good opportunity to wish each of them farewell
Please do come along and give them a happy send off!

Evensong on Sunday

23/5/2025

Evening Service at St Giles on Sunday

Our summer services of Evensong start again this Sunday (25th) at 6pm. The service will be taken by the Revd Chris Etherton, who has visited us several times before.

We hope you will be able to come and enjoy this lovely evening service and welcome Revd Chris to our church again.

Friends of St Giles Church news

9/5/2025

We are in the process of setting up a dedicated website and social media group to keep everyone up to date on our progress with the church roof rebuild work, plus some new amenities. For now though, we will occasionally use this channel for important news.

With the imminent departure of Pat Cook to pastures new (the other end of the British Isles!) we are now in urgent need of a new Treasurer for the charity. The basic structure for the accounts and a dedicated bank account are both in place, so if anyone has an hour or so a week to help us, we would be very grateful. Once the fund-raise starts in earnest, we will be handling significant sums, so someone with relevant experience (and ideally qualifications) would be most welcome. If anyone can help, please contact Colin Hamling at ‘Toban’ (opposite the Vicarage) in the first instance.

Contemplation Garden and St Giles

9/5/2025

The Vicar is delighted to report that an interpretation board has been installed at St Giles. It gives a colourful invitation to enjoy the church and its landscape setting including the wildlife contemplation garden. The artwork was donated by local artist Christine Purdy and the design work by Dale and Sarah of Juicy Designs at Olde Willows. Richard Smith and Dale have installed it.

St Giles and the Contemplation Garden welcomes visitors throughout Art Weeks.

Flowers and Tomatoes

7/5/2025

Help! Jane says her tomatoes (her usual range of different types, cherry, and traditional, red, golden etc) are all ready for sale now - and are growing out of their pots! Annual flowers (cosmos, tobacco plant, African and French marigolds etc) are ready too and need new homes!

Please contact her today if possible (01367 241367) or leave a message to secure your usual order (or to try something different and even more exciting!) - please collect the plants from Foxley (but delivery could be arranged.)

All proceeds for St Giles church. Please give Jane a ring (01367 241367)
(NB There is no plant stall at the church during Art Weeks this year)

Pavlova Quintet - Sunday 27th April, 4pm at St Giles' Church, Great Coxwell

23/4/2025

Just a reminder that we have our next concert on Sunday the 27th of April at St Giles' Church, Great Coxwell.

The Pavlova Wind Quintet, based in Oxford and Abingdon, give concerts throughout Oxfordshire. They have an impressively broad repertoire that includes music in several styles, from arrangements of light-hearted favourite tunes, to the more substantial classics for wind quintet.

The aim of the group has been from the outset to explore the more unusual and exciting areas of the wind quintet repertoire. They delight in mixing the familiar and the unfamiliar, classical and ethnic, serene and virtuosic.

Over the years, the group has become one of the most enterprising and high-profile ensembles in Oxfordshire.

Sunday's concert will be the perfect afternoon with some lighter repertoire, including Cohn's Arkansas Reel, Sherman's A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, Butterworth's Banks of Green Willow, and more.

I am including a poster with more details. Please join us if you can.

St Giles Church - Palm Sunday

10/4/2025

This Sunday is Palm Sunday, a week before Easter Day. This year it is our turn at St Giles to host the service at the usual time of 10.30 when palm crosses will be given out to the congregation. It will start outside (weather permitting) in the Contemplation Garden at 10.25 and will then move into the church.

Please come and join us.

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Flowers and Tomatoes

Pavlova Quintet - Sunday 27th April, 4pm at St Giles' Church, Great Coxwell

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