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November 1, 2021

South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils are supporting local businesses by offering a discount to join a new online networking group. Networking in…, which is already well-established in Berkshire, has been working with the district councils’ South and Vale Business Support team to launch online sessions to help organisations recover from the […]

October 18, 2021

Cllr Jo Robb, Chair of South Oxfordshire District Council, joined up with Earth Trust, as one of her chosen charities for this year, and began her fundraising by helping to launch a sponsored Autumnal Walks that celebrates the beautiful wildlife in our district. Earth Trust has identified a 10-kilometre and 5-kilometre walk to help residents […]

October 15, 2021

This month South Oxfordshire District Council is opening a new round of vital funding for the district’s voluntary sector through the Revenue Grant scheme to help cover their operational costs and future-proof their work. Organisations within the voluntary sector, who are helping to deliver key services for residents and maintain our natural environment for future […]

October 14, 2021

We’ve launched a reuse competition for children and adults to help make Halloween more environmentally-friendly

October 8, 2021

Following positive talks at last week’s cabinet meeting, we now have a tree planting strategy for district council owned land, a Procurement Strategy and now that that the strategic property review has come to fruition we have a sensible way forward mapped out for selling, buying, maintaining and generally making better use of our property […]

September 30, 2021

It has been a decade since the first enterprise zone was created in Oxfordshire, and during that time the zones have helped scores of businesses to grow, created thousands of jobs and invested millions of pounds across southern Oxfordshire. Enterprise zones are a government initiative that allow local enterprise partnerships to keep business rates and, […]

September 21, 2021

Homes and infrastructure in an area of Chalgrove are set to be better protected from potential flooding, thanks to work being carried out by South Oxfordshire District Council. The district council is carrying out work to create a new flood relief channel designed to help homes along Mill Lane which have suffered from flooding on […]

August 25, 2021

Didcot will have a smarter first impression when work begins to prepare the Didcot Gateway site for its highly anticipated regeneration work. Three empty buildings on the land opposite Didcot Parkway station are due to be demolished later this month.     Homes England, which owns a large area of the Gateway site, has arranged to […]

August 23, 2021

As the government is no longer advising vulnerable people to shield following the easing of lockdown restrictions, Oxfordshire’s county, city and district councils are working together to contact clinically extremely vulnerable residents to let them know that help is still available and to ask them what future support they may need. Residents who had been […]

August 13, 2021

Members of the Didcot Garden Town Advisory Board heard the latest progress on projects and developments in and around the garden town during their recent meeting.  At the start of the meeting, Cllr Duncan Enright was welcomed as temporary Chair, on behalf of Cllr Liz Leffman, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council.  Cllr Leffman is set […]