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A charity golf day will be held at Frilford Heath Golf Club on Thursday 30th April to raise funds for bereaved children and young people across Oxfordshire. The event, organised by SeeSaw, will feature 18 holes on a championship course with a shotgun start. Participants will be provided with coffee and breakfast rolls on arrival, followed by a two-course lunch. Competitions on the day will include nearest the pin and […]
Katharine House Hospice has joined more than 120 hospices across the UK in a national campaign encouraging people to leave a gift in their will to support local hospice care. The ‘This is Hospice Care’ campaign, launched on 16 February and facilitated by Hospice UK, aims to raise awareness of the role hospices play in communities and challenge common misconceptions about end-of-life care. According to Hospice UK, 59% of people […]
An Oxford-based communications agency has launched a book donation campaign to encourage more children to read, as new figures show enjoyment of reading among young people is at its lowest level in 20 years. Fortitude Communications has partnered with Assisted Reading for Children (ARCh) to mark National Storytelling Week, appealing for donations of good-quality paperback books for children aged three to 11. The campaign follows recent national surveys highlighting a […]
Witney and West Oxfordshire Foodbank has teamed up with a local zero-emission business to help manage rising food costs as demand for its services continues to grow. The charity, which supports more than 5,000 people each year, is now working with M&M Zero to collect and transport food purchases from supermarkets to its base at Cottsway House in Witney. The partnership comes as the foodbank increasingly needs to buy food […]
The tenth Banbury Christmas Tractor Run has raised £93,000 for Katharine House Hospice, with organisers appealing for public support to help reach a £100,000 fundraising target. Thousands of spectators lined the streets of Banbury and surrounding villages across north Oxfordshire on Saturday 13 December to watch 100 festively decorated tractors complete a 20-mile route from Spring Hill Farm in Barford St Michael. More than 500 people also followed the event […]
A mental health charity that supports people across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire is celebrating its diamond 60-year anniversary. Response, which began as a small group of volunteers aiming to improve mental health care in Oxford, has grown into the region’s largest independent mental health and housing charity. It now supports people aged 11 and above, including those in later life, with tailored wellbeing programmes and supported accommodation. Chief Executive Nicola […]
Support for young people in Oxfordshire has received a major boost with a £634,347 grant from the government’s Local Youth Transformation Pilot. Oxfordshire County Council is one of a small number of local authorities still investing heavily in youth services, despite not being legally required to do so. The funding will help shape a sustainable model for youth support that could be adopted locally and nationally. Councillor Sean Gaul, Cabinet […]
Healthcare charity Sue Ryder has been awarded a new NHS contract to expand its palliative and end-of-life care services across Reading, Wokingham, Newbury and South Oxfordshire from January 2026. The partnership with the NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (NHS BOB ICB) aims to help more people living with life-limiting conditions access compassionate care to manage symptoms and improve quality of life, often in their own homes. […]
The Oxen sculptures that brought color and charm to Oxfordshire this summer have found new homes, raising over £150,000 for Sobell House Hospice. The "OxTrail" event, organised by Sobell House and Wild in Art, showcased 31 large and over 100 mini painted oxen throughout Oxford during July and August. On Friday, September 13th, an auction led by BBC’s Bargain Hunt star Thomas Forrester saw 47 of these unique sculptures sold […]
