Whether you want to listen to a jazz concert, run dressed as Father Christmas for charity or unveil your hidden talents at an open mic night, Oxfordshire has something in store.
1. Support your local businesses
Julia Atkinson, who runs Happy Cakes in Oxford, is one of 20 traders taking part in Small Business Saturday this year. Picture: Ryan Cowan
Small Business Saturday, an nationwide initiative celebrating small, independent retailers, is coming to the county this Saturday, December 5.
Twenty shops around Oxford will offer discounts throughout the day and parking will be free at all park and ride sites around the city.
Elsewhere in the county, free parking will be on offer this Saturday in Wantage, Thame, Goring and in North Oxfordshire to attract customers to Banbury and Bicester.
West Oxfordshire, which has free parking year round, has also encouraged shoppers to pay local businesses a visit that day.
For a list of participating shops in Oxford, please click here.
2. Put on your Santa hat and run
Charitable runners - as well as keen joggers and avid walkers - are encouraged to put on their best festive attire and join the Festive 3K Fun Run organised by Florence Nightingale Hospice in Thame Town Centre.
The run will begin at 10am on Sunday, December 6 and every participant will receive a free Santa hat.
Please click here to register online.
3. Warm up with mulled wine near Abingdon
The sweet smell of festive spices will rise in Culham as the parents of European School Culham and Europa School UK are set to host their European Christmas Fair.
Visitors are welcome to stroll around the Christmas Market, stop by the flea market and get creative at a pottery workshop on Saturday.
The fair will begin at 10am and wrap up at 2pm. There will be activites for children, a hamper raffle and a cake stall.
Please click here for more information.
4. Spend time at the bookstore with your little ones
Blackwell’s in Broad Street will have activities for families on Saturday. Picture: OX64476 Jon Lewis
Even those who cannot read yet will be able to enjoy Blackwell's Family Day on Saturday.
The Broad Street bookstore will treat them to face painting, storytime every hour, arts and crafts sessions, competitions and mince pies. The staff will provide bibliotherapy with personal recommendations.
Children and their parents are welcome between 11am and 4pm.
Please click here for more information.
5. Get jazzy
Contemporary jazz masters Pete Oxley and Tim Whitehead will take over St Giles' Church, in Woodstock Road, with their quartet.
Before the 7:30pm concert, an international group of ringers will ring St Giles' bells to join the Church Bells for Peace appeal, an international initiative established by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem to support peace, justice and dignity.
Please click here for more detail.
6. Get festive in the Cotswolds
Ramsden, on the north-east end of the Cotswolds, is home to the self-proclaimed biggest covered Christmas market in all of Oxfordshire.
The Ramsden Christmas Market boasts more than 50 stalls selling organic food and wine and local, clothes, produce and handmade crafts such as jewellery, decorations and gifts.
Visitors can stop by between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday to listen to carol singers, greet Father Christmas and sip on Gluwhein.
Admission is £2 and those under 16 can enter free of charge.
Please click here for more information.
7. Go green
Picture: The Oxford Green Fair in 2013. From left, Oxford Town Crier Anthony Church, Peggy Seeger, Elise Benjamin and Green Father Christmas Bob Cowley at Oxford Town Hall.
The Oxfordshire Green Party will host its annual Green Fair at Oxford Town Hall on Saturday.
There will be 100 stalls in three large halls with unexpected Christmas presents, food, live music and a Green Father Christmas.
People are welcome to stop by, shop and find eco-friendly project ideas between 10:30am and 4:30pm on Saturday.
Tickets are £2 at the door.
Please click here for more information.
8. Go to the hospital
The Roles We Play, an exhibition telling the true stories of people who live in poverty, is hosted at the John Radcliffe Hospital's Link Gallery until February 14, 2016.
The multimedia project, a collaboration between photographer Eva Sajovic and nationwide anti-poverty organisation ATD Fourth World, is a collection of portrait and self-written biographies.
It is meant to highlight the roles played by those affected by poverty within their families, communities and society.
For more information, please see the Link Gallery's website and ATD Fourth World's website.
9. Show off in Wantage
The Beacon, Wantage's Civic Hall and social hub, has successfully hosted its first few open mic nights and is looking to carry on the tradition on the first Sunday of every month.
Brave performers immune to stage fright are welcome to step on stage on Sunday from 6:30pm.
To sign up, please contact openmic@jtstageproductions.co.uk.
See The Beacon's website for more information.
10. Go to a charitable concert
Parkinson's UK, a nationwide charity that supports those affected by Parkinson's and funds research against the disease, will hold its Christmas concert on Sunday.
Pianist Tom Poster, winner of the Scottish International Piano Competition and comedian Andy Hamilton will perform, as well as the Wessex Male Choir.
Tickets are £15.
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