Interested in helping save perfectly good food from ending up in the skip, taking pressure off the environment and cutting food bills into the bargain ? If so, the new Faringdon Community Larder could be a great place to start.
 
It is estimated that we waste around 30% of all food produced for human consumption. This wasted food has taken a tsunami of fresh water, land and labour to produce, not to mention pointlessly wasted energy, emissions and fertilisers / polluted runoff. Friends of the Earth say - if it were a country, food waste would be the third highest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world.
 
SOFEA ( https://www.sofea.uk.com/ ) is an Oxfordshire-based organisation aiming to give local, excluded young people a fresh start and in the process provide a range of services including around 20 Community Larders in Oxfordshire (working with fareshare.org.uk). For a small fee ANYONE interested in preventing food waste or saving money on food bills can join the project. There are no conditions for membership. This food comes direct from the warehouses of the big Supermarkets to the SOFEA warehouse in Didcot. It was destined for the skip without ever seeing a retail shop! This food is different from the food banks or community fridges/Pump House project; they run in parallel. The Larder in Wantage re-distributed 1.7 TONS of food in November alone. 
 
Over the last few weeks, Faringdon Council has started running a Community Larder in the Corn Hall every Tuesday Afternoon. Costs are a one off £10 fee to join SOFEA and a £3.50 weekly subscription for the larder paid by direct debit. Get more details from SOFEA's website and sign-up on line at https://www.sofea.uk.com/purpose-projects/community-larder/. Come along to the Corn Hall between 2:30 and 4:00 any Tuesday to have a free tea and a look around or drop us a mail for more details.  
 
Thanks,
Ken Hirons  
Mob: +44 (0)7771 504211

web: www.greenergreatcoxwell.com
mail: [email protected]

For further information please contact:

Malcolm Gee
Member – 1st Faringdon Scouts
Executive Committee
Pampas
SN7 7NG
 
07796 572752

​A thank you from Jane to the many participants and helpers, including those who brought contributions to the door, donated raffle prizes and those who generously contributed in other ways last Saturday. It was a successful event making more than £500. Thank you.

December 8th,I am doing last delivery to Welcome Asylum,Oxford, I will start again in January.

If anyone would like to leave tins, dried food, sanitary products, nappies etc. at Clayton Villa before the 8th, they would be most welcome, also cereal, biscuits, coffee, tea, sugar, uht milk.

Maybe mince pies etc.

Thank you.
Sally
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I lost my watch today, Sunday 14th November, could have been on a dog walk. It’s a white Swatch. 

If anyone finds it please let me know and I’ll come and get it.

Thank you. 
Mary Parfitt.

Just a reminder about Jane's Christmas Bazaar this Saturday for St Giles Church. Hope you can come.

Free entry, coffee and cake, 10am - 12.30 and 2 - 4 pm, or give Jane a ring for some raffle tickets (241367).
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Dear Everyone,
 
As I have been your County Councillor for  24 years with effect from 1997 and prior to this a Town Councillor in Faringdon and District Councillor at the VWHDC , I thought that the village might like to know of the news below?
 
Today has been a rather special day for me and it has been a little bit of a "roller coaster" as I have been made an Honorary Alderman at a full Oxfordshire Council meeting . Mike was able to attend and we enjoyed a lunch at the "top table"..............!
 
If I give you a "wee" outline of what this means, just for info:
 
Section 249(1) of the local Government Act 1972 allows a Council to confer the title of Honorary Alderman on former Councillors who have, in the opinion of the Council, rendered eminent service to the Council as past member of that Council. This requires a resolution passed by not less than two thirds of the members voting on it at a meeting of the Council, specially convened for the purpose. (I received a unanimous agreement for the vote). Both Eddie Reeves and Yvonne Constance proposed
and seconded my appointment and spoke on what I had done during 24 years at OCC!
 
The criteria for appointment are:-
 
a) Has made a significant contribution in public life.
b) Has given a notable service on behalf of the Council, which has enhanced the reputation of Councillors and the Council itself.
c) Has rendered a minimum of 12 years service as a Member, and, is no longer politically active.
 
The role has certain privileges and duties:
 
Use the title of "Honorary Alderman of the County Council, wear the badge of Honorary Alderman at civic events, attend the Aldermanic Council Mtg every 4 years and to use council facilities including the
Members' Resource Centre, lounge, headed notepaper, parking etc. To attend functions for which the Chair and Vice-Chair and past Chairs still serving as councillors are unavailable, where they are representing the County Council. To assist in promoting Oxfordshire by undertaking appropriate visits within the County on behalf of the Chair if requested to do so.
 
I now have a lovely badge of office which features an inscribed bar and crest of OCC affixed to a decorative ribbon and a certificate of appointment with the Common Seal of the Council Council. The order of precedence for attending civic events will be Chair, Vice Chair, and then Aldermen!
 
Best wishes, Judy
Judy Heathcoat - Honorary Alderman

Good afternoon everyone
 
I would like to say a huge thank you for the wonderful gesture that you as a village presented to me on Sunday.

I feel thoroughly touched by your generosity and I was amazed that I am held in such high regard by so many of you.

It was so nice to see all of the familiar faces in the reading room and to be able to chat and catch up. I will do my upmost to keep in touch with you all. If I didn't get the chance to speak to you I can only apologize and that we can catch up again soon.

I also want to thank Pauline and the team for their hard work during the teas and for the delicious cake that was supplied ( and more sent home with me, of which I may have had more than my daily ration). 

So again a huge thank you for your generosity and friendship
 
Take care 
Paul x

Would anyone like these two largish pieces of wood?  They’re 4.8m x 15 cm x 9.5 cm (or 15 foot x 6 inches x 4 inches) approximately.  
 
Contact Ian Mason 07973 793089 or [email protected]
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