The Friends of Quarry

Headington Liveable Streets is a group which campaigns for community-led liveable streets across Headington, where active travel is made easy, playing out is safe, air quality is improved, neighbourhood connections thrive and rat-running is no longer an option. More information is available on their website.

They are currently running a survey to gather feedback about how people feel about traffic and transport via bike, mobility scooter, wheelchair, foot or car around Headington. If you would like to, you can take part in the survey here.

Looking for things to do this summer?

Headington Action, with the support of Oxford City Council, has created a website which gives details of activities and events in Headington as lockdown eases. The site can be found on the Headington Action website   There are lots of social, cultural and physical things to do and enjoy.

Holy Trinity are not able to hold their annual church fete due to Covid-19. As an alternative, they are inviting everyone to take part in some traditional fete activities for a donation of £10.

£10 Fete Bundle includes:

1) Raffle – days out to enjoy

2) £1 Game (chance to win £15)

3) Fete Cake recipe collection

4) Lockdown garden photo competition (£5 prize)

5) Design your own bunting competition (£5 prize)

Details on prizes and how the competitions work are on the HTHQ website.

A reminder that the Headington Farmers Market is back, in Quarry Hollow Park, on Saturday 4 July from 1000 – 1400. .

There is also an opportunity for you to get involved: This summer, the Market will need extra volunteer stewards helping on one Saturday per month from 0930 to 1430; partial shifts are available. Can you help? More information and sign up is here.

The Oxford Local Plan 2036 has now been formally adopted. It forms part of the statutory development plan, which means that it will have full weight in determining planning applications.

More information, including the adopted plan, can be found on the Oxford City Council website.

Headington Farmers Market is reopening from 1000 to 1400 on 4 July 2020 at Quarry Hollow Park in the Quarry.

More information is available on their website

The coronavirus lockdown created major challenges for people and communities. In response agencies, community groups and people came together to offer help and support. As the pandemic goes on longer there are different problems emerging which communities will face, but there are also opportunities to improve the quality of life in Headington.

The City Council has created a short survey to identify community priorities. By completing this survey you will be helping them to conduct a needs analysis that reflects the issues that will affect you over the next few months.

You may recently have seen information in the press and elsewhere about a number of scam campaigns and phishing attacks that are currently active. Some are familiar, while others are trying to capitalise on people’s concerns about the current situation.

There are too many scams and phishing attacks around for us to keep you up to date on all of them, so we’d like to refer you to several useful sources of information that you can use to find out about current scam campaigns, understand how to identify scams and find links to report them.

• Thames Valley Police have information on scams and other concerns on their advice pages
• Thames Valley Alert provides regular updates on crimes, including cyber crime, applicable to our area. The information is published on their website, where you can also sign up for regular alerts
• The National Cyber Security Centre has information on identifying, reacting to and protecting yourself to cyber threats
• Cyber Aware, published by NCSC, provides specific information on staying safe online during the Coronavirus pandemic
• Get Safe Online also offer information, advice and an alerting service

We hope that this information will help you feel safer online in these difficult times.

Last week, the sewer in Trinity Road was blocked, affecting the Masons Arms and a number of properties nearby. A similar problem happened in August last year.

The Thames Water engineer stated that it was caused by wet wipes and fat that had been washed/flushed down the drains. He had just been involved in clearing a blockage of the main sewer from Risinghurst at the pedestrian lights opposite the Six Bells. That had the same cause and was just one of around 75,000 blockages that Thames Water deal with every year.

Thames Water have very good advice for homeowners and businesses on how to avoid contributing to problems such as this. It is available on their website.

Have your green fingers produced an excess of seedlings or plants?

Would you like to swap a few?

When: Friday, 8th May from 10am till 11am

Where: In front of the Quarry Village Hall

Bring: Seedlings or plants you would like to sway or give away

Take away: Seedlings or plants you like!

Wear: Gloves and bring a bag or box for your seedlings

STAY SAFE: REMEMBER TO KEEP AT LEAST 2 METRES APART

SOCIAL DISTANCING = SAVES LIVES, KEY WORKERS AND OUR NHS