Tickets are now live and I have just ordered an awful lot of fizz so send me a message, give me a call and grab a ticket for a wonderful cause. All profits from ticket sales and the bar will go to Helen and Douglas House. Tickets are £18 each and early booking is advised. Dressing up is encouraged - the production has been set in post war 1940s so rollers at the ready ladies! Of course, anything goes and no matter the weather the show will go on.

Ainslie (Danes Cottage)

Greener Great Coxwell plans to encourage and assist with the planting of 70 trees (one for each year of Her Majesty’s reign) in the parish.
 
We have been contacted by the Deputy Lieutenant Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Neil Sutherland.  He told us that The Queen has asked that a very significant initiative is undertaken to mark her 70th (Platinum) Jubilee.  She has requested that the Queen's Green Canopy project be rolled out to mark this occasion.  (See: queensgreencanopy.org).  The emphasis is on planting healthy trees in the correct location so that they will thrive.  All projects are to be logged on the Queen's Green Canopy website. 
 
Ideally trees should have been planted between October 2021 and March 2022, but for various reasons I’ve only recently been able to start investigating potential sites and sources of trees and other assistance.

I've recently contacted the Great Western Area Forest organisers at Swindon Borough Council and they have agreed to consider providing trees and stakes for the village.  Once we have identified suitable locations they will visit the village and provide us with advice about location, recommended stage of growth of the trees and species to be used.  Over the next few weeks we will finalise the potential sites for the trees and with liaise with them about planting this autumn.  At that point we will enter the trees onto the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee tree initiative map as requested.

If you want to get involved and plant trees:

Please let me know your plans and the future location of the trees.  I can then collate a list of trees and sites and respond to the Great Western Forest team with our intentions.

If you’ve already recently planted trees in the parish:

I'm also aware that last autumn a number of trees were planted by various landowners and householders within the parish.  If that applies to you please follow the following instructions  and register the trees.  (I’ve just done it for three trees we planted here and it seems pretty straightforward.  Let me know if you have any difficulties and I’ll try to help.)

1. Take a photo of your tree, or if you have planted a clump, copse, avenue, orchard, hedgerow, etc , then a general view of as many as you can see.   If you would like to, include people, either yourself or others, in the foreground.
2. Go to the following QGC webpage https://queensgreencanopy.org/map-education-hub/qgc-map/#/
3. Select "Add your tree" and follow the instructions.  The photo of your tree or planting site will need to be uploaded, and some basic information completed.
   
4. Your entry will take a couple of days to appear on the digital map as the registration is checked by the QGC team and the location 'randomised' for data privacy reasons.  You should get a confirmatory email within a few days.  The photo and basic details (including your first name only or the name of your organisation) will then appear on the digital map.   

 
Ian Mason, Greener Great Coxwell ([email protected])
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Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the Jubilee Celebration on the 4th June.

Tickets are going fast.

Mandy - Church Lees - 240142
Pam - Rosemary Cottage - 240233
Pauline - Oak House - 243140

Jane is taking orders now for tomatoes, courgettes, climbing beans and bedding plants. Please contact her on 01367 241367 to place your order.

Tomatoes: Gardeners Delight, Alicante, Sungold, Golden Sunrise, red cherry and Italian beefsteak.
French Beans: Climbing and Dwarf
Courgettes: Green, Yellow, Round
Bedding: Petunia (Frenzy Mix)
French Marigolds (Banana Mix)
Verbena (Quartz Mix)
Antirrhinum (Twinny Mix)
Begonia (Non-Stop Mix)
Geranium (Cabaret Mix)

Great Coxwell has a new author!

Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but after 40 years, I have finally written an account of my Troop's experiences in the Falklands War.
 
It's called 'Belonging to 2 Troop, a Falklands Memoir' and its out now, through Riverside Publishing Ltd or direct to me.
 
Back in 1982, I was a young Royal Engineers Captain, serving with 9 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers.  My troop of 52 parachute engineers sailed on the MV Norland with 2 Para, cross-decked to go ashore on D-Day with 3 Para, marched across East Falkland, fought in the Battle for Mount Longdon and cleared minefields around Port Stanley before sailing home.
 
The Troop has stuck together over the years and is due to hold its 40th Anniversary reunion in July.  The book is for them, and I have gifted a copy to each living member and to the widows and families of those no longer with us.
 
The BBC ran with the story last week.  I include an article they published on Thursday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-61161784.amp
 
My aim in selling copies is just to recover my publishing costs. (Paperback £9.99, Hardback £14.99)  I hope you can support me.  Thank you.
 
Robbie Burns
 
07799 337246
 
[email protected]

I will be doing a drop off to Asylum welcome next Tuesday 12th.

If you would like to give, dried, tinned, long life food, toiletries, cereal, biscuits etc.

They are short of nappies size 5&6.

To Clayton Villa.
Thank you
Sally

​We would like to hear from other villagers who have applied to give a home to Ukrainians, or are interested in doing so, or cannot but would like to support any arrivals in other ways.

​Lauren and Peter Gale ([email protected])

I will be going to Asylum Welcome, on Friday morning, if you would like to donate please leave at Clayton Villa Thursday.
Thank you,
Sally
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We are planning to have a village Jubilee Celebration at the Great Barn on Saturday 4th June at lunchtime please save the date and look out for further information.
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We will be doing another drop in March, hopefully  if possible it will be monthly.

Thank you. Sally.

Dear Sally and Nigel
 
I am writing to thank you - again - for another enormously generous donation from Great Coxwell. It is just wonderful to know that communities like yours are thinking of refugees and generously supporting them. As I think you know, we are completely dependent on donations for the operation of our food bank - and as we are still supporting almost 100 people and giving out around 1000 items every week, donations like yours are hugely appreciated - especially at this time of year, when we find that donations tend to tail off a bit after Christmas.
 
Please do pass on our thanks to your generous friends and neighbours!
 
Kindest regards, Janet
 
--
Janet Stewart
Volunteer Food Bank Coordinator
 
Asylum Welcome
Unit 7, Newtec Place
Magdalen Road
Oxford OX4 1RE

01865 722082

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