Events

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FRIDAY, JULY 7

Restore, plants, crafts and card shop: Restore, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, open weekdays from 9am-4pm.

Museum exhibition: Val Moone, paintings and drawings, Isobelle Spencer, calligraphy, Juliette Dyer, sculpture. Witney Musem, until Sunday. Tel to confirm before visiting. 01993 775915.

Fun day: Noah's Ark Playgroup, beside Windmill School, Margaret Road, Headington, 2-4pm. Bouncy castle, face painting.

Bridge session: Experienced Acol players only please, Ferry Centre, Summertown, 2pm.

Adderbury Festival opening: barbecue at The Red Lion, 7pm, Irish band Cornucopia at Coach & Horses 8.30pm. On Sunday Egham Brass Band plays on the Green in the afternoon with Adderbury Wind Ensemble concert at St Mary's Church, 7.45pm. Festival continues until Jul 23. Fun day and pig roast on Jul 22. tel 01295 811021 or 810309 for programme details. Greek comedy auditions: for Edinburgh Fringe production, St Margaret's Institute, Polstead Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. 07974 309912.

Charity bingo session: Littlemore Village Hall, 7.30pm.

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SATURDAY, JULY 8

Advice centre: Dr Evan Harris, Oxford West and Abingdon MP, Guildhall, Abingdon, for further information telephone 01865 245584.

Flea market: Crowmarsh Village Hall, near Wallingford, all day.

Flower festival: Churches Together in Kidlington for Christian Aid appeal. St Mary's Church, Kidlington, opening service 9.30am, then open all day; concert at 7pm by North Kidlington Primary School, followed by songs for a summer evening performed by Megan Hooper (soprano) and Maureen Lake (piano). The day will close with Compline (night prayer). Flower festival open Sunday after 10am service, songs by visiting Israeli choir during the afternoon. Festival closes at 8pm with a service of praise and thanksgiving. Light refreshments will be available during the afternoon on both days.

Charity stall: Blewbury Antiques, London Road, Blewbury, 10am-12noon, details, 01235 850366. Proceeds go towards cost of converting a listed building into a meeting house with toilets.

The Little Playgroup jumble sale: At the Merry Bells, Wheatley, 10am. Garden sale: with cake stall and refreshments, 145 The Broadway, Didcot, 10.30am. 01235 511059.

Sulgrave Manor: Tudor Living History, Saturday and July, 10.30am-5pm. 01295 760205.

The Little Playgroup jumble sale: At the Merry Bells, Wheatley, 10am.

Oxford Meads Wildlife Group: meet Wolvercote Village Hall, 11am - 4pm. Wild Wolvercote 2000 Watch Group Day, a celebration of local wildlife habitats! Tel: 01865 377487.

Rose Hill Open Day: The Oval, Rose Hill, 11.30am - 6.00pm. Stalls, entertainment both indoors and outdoors, inflatables, team games. Tel: 01865 774911.

Garden sale: with cake stall and refreshments, 145 The Broadway, Didcot, 10.30am. 01235 511059.

School fete: Sunningwell School, noon.

Hogwarts Express tour train steams into Didcot: with Harry Potter author Joanne Rowling on board. 1.30-2.30pm

Country Fun Day: Fund Raising Event for Riding for the Disabled, City Farm Eynsham. Clay pigeon shoot at 11am. Car boot sale (bookings 01865 881314) and other events start at 3pm, including archery, helicopter rides and quad bikes. Disco and barbecue in the evening, with Dorne Valley Country Band, bonfire.

Fun day: NEACA Comunity Centre, Peachcroft, Abingdon, noon. Barbecue and bar. 01235 555519.

Village fete: Radley fete and flower show with Abbey Brass Junior Band, Strawberry Fayre Majorettes. 1.45pm.

Church fete: for Charney Bassett Church at Charney Manor, 2pm, featuring Wantage Silver Band; evening barbecue and dance. 01235 868788. Church fete: Langlands, Finstock Bottom, in village hall if wet, teas, morris dancing, 2pm.

Vicarage garden party: St Michael's Church, Cumnor, 2pm.

Mini fete and fun day: Plough Inn, Long Wittenham, 2pm. 01865 407478.

Quality jumble sale: in aid of Animal Rescue. New and and nearly new clothes at jumble sale prices. Quarry Hall, Headington, 1pm.

NCT nearly new sale: St Clement's Family Centre, Cross Street, Oxford. 1.00pm. Toys, books, videos, nursery equipment.

Village fete: White Hart gardens, Fyfield, in Manor Farm Barn if wet. Punch and Judy, Uncle Brian's magic show, Appleton Gardening Club plant stall. 2pm. Also barn dance at 8pm, featuring Tumble Down Dick. 01865 390380.

Summer fete: Sacred Heart RC Church, Sawpit Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, 2pm.

Garden party: St Michael's Church vicarage, Cumnor, 2pm, guided church tower tours, games, wood-turning.

Summer fete: St Francis First School, Horspath Road, Cowley, 2pm. Irish dancing, cake stall, face painting.

Kirtlington millennium fete: Village Hall and Sports Field, Kirtlington. 2pm-4pm.

Millennium Pageant and fete: Enstone Playing Field, 2pm to 5pm. 1000 years of rural history. Traditional village celebration.

Village fete: Old Rectory garden, Salford, near Chipping Norton, 2pm. Summer fete: circus theme featuring Jen the Clown, uni-cyclists, jugglers, fire-eater, learn to juggle with Ballz Unlimited, barbecue, teas , Wolvercote First School, First Turn, Wolvercote, noon-3pm.

Village fete: grand opening by Noddy and his Car, teas, evening pig roast (7pm), recreation ground, Merton, near Bicester, fete starts 2pm

Nature and art workshop: make your own flower meadow. Aimed at four to 11-year-olds. Children must be accompanied by an adult. 5-8pm. Leader Peter King. Green Gallery, Elsfield, 01865 351771.

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SUNDAY, JULY 9

Car Boot Sale: West Kidlington Primary School. 9am-12pm. 5 on the gate.

Steam day: signal operating day, Didcot Railway Centre, 10am-5pm, 01235 817200. Also Wednesday.

Fun in the Parks: Cutteslowe Park, Harbord Road, Oxford, noon-4pm.

Guided Walk at Abbey Fishponds Nature Reserve: 2pm Meet at Abbey Fishponds Nature Reserve SU512981. Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust. Morris dancing display: Oxford City Morris Men at Cogges Manor Farm Museum, near Witney, open noon-5pm.

Oxford Fieldpaths Society walk: meet Wallingford car park, 2pm. Six miles circular via Carmel College and Grimms Ditch. 01235 534000.

Blessing service: Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary, Stadhampton, 3pm, gates open 2pm. The Lord Mayor of Oxford Coun Mrs Maureen Christian will attend. Refreshments.01865 559537.

Pre-school fete: barbecue, ends with under 11s disco, car boot sale, 2pm. Bookings for boots tel 01865 736835.

Rounders fun afternoon: Hailey Playing Fields, Hailey, 2pm. Barbecue, bouncy castle, stalls. 01993 704051.

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MONDAY, JULY 10

Learn to open canoe without getting wet! Turn up at Falcon and Monday at 7pm. Donnington Bridge Road, Oxford, adults only. 01865 769142. Part of Oxford Riversports Campus Project.

Strawberry Fayre Majorettes practice night: Parish Hall, Between Towns Road, Cowley, 7-9pm, every Monday. For more details telephone 01865 717781. Berkshire Family History Society: talk by Brian Oldham on the Peninsula to Paschendale: the British Army and its Records, Tomkins Room, Baptist Church, Ock Street, Abingdon, 7.30pm. Monthly meetings, tel 01235 203042.

Cartophilic Society: Chiltern branch meeting, Holford Centre, Stanton St John, 7.30pm.

Bingo session: Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Centre, 7.30pm. For Sunningwell Cricket Club.

Abingdon 18 Plus Group: Meets Mondays at the Flowing Well, Sunningwell, 8.30pm. 01865 765356.

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TUESDAY, JULY 11

Carers coffee morning: Carers Centre, 174a Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 205192. Every Tuesday.

United Nations Association talk: Mozambique, by Kate Horne of Oxfam. 1pm, refreshments from 12.30, John Wesley Room, Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford

Drop-in Centre: regular drop-in centre for people with life-threatening illness, carers and friends; potential volunteers welcome. St Barnabas Community Centre, 33a Canal Street, Jericho, 2-4pm. 01865 316200.

Free healing: Oxford Spiritual Healing Centre, 43 St Giles, Oxford, 6.30pm. 01865 716371. Service of thanksgiving and blessing: Dorchester Abbey, 7pm. For the restoration of the medieval tombs in the shrine chapel. Preacher: The Rt Rev Anthony Russell, Lord Bishop of Ely. Organised by The council of Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust. Followed by reception in the nave.

Cajun dancing session: South Oxford Community Centre, Lake Street, Oxford, 7.30pm. Every Tuesday. 01865 510066.

Bingo session: Oxsrad Sports Centre, Marsh Lane, Marston, 7.30pm.

Oxford Speakers Club: The Boardroom, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 7.30pm (01865 224299, 01608 811338). Meetings second and fourth Tuesdays in the month.

Oxford 18 Plus Group: Meets every Tuesday from 8.45pm. Tel 01235 810361 for further details.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12

The Pathway Workshop: Handmade garden furniture and other items. Made by disabled people at Dunnock Way, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, open daily 9am-4pm.

Dialability Mobile Information Unit: Market Square, Witney, 10.30am-3.30pm. Refreshments on sale: Church Centre, St Michael at the Northgate Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, 12-2pm.

Dyslexia Drop-In Centre: Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford, noon-2pm. Every Wednesday.

Cherwell U3A Oxford meeting: talk by Dorothy Calcutt on The Salt of the Earth, the diary of a poor Woodstock family in the 1900s. St Columba's Church Hall, Alfred Street, off High Street, Oxford, 2pm. Weekly meetings, tel 01865 242885 for details.

Oxfordshire Pensioners Action Group meeting: Speaker: Councillor Sushila Dhall of the Green Party on Pedestrians' Problems. Oxford Town Hall, 2pm.

Wildlife course: Bee and Butterfly Gardens. Milham Ford School, Harberton Mead, Marston Road, Oxford, with Dr Chris O'Toole. 2-4pm. 01865 243468.

Open evening: Oxford Brookes University Business School, Wheatley campus, 6-8.30pm. Telephone 01865 485908.

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THURSDAY, JULY 13 Coffee and tea shop: With home-made cakes, WI Hall, Brize Norton Road, Carterton, 9.30am-12.30pm. Every Thursday.

Dialability Mobile Information Unit: Over 60s Club, Grays Road car park, Henley, 10.30am-3.30pm.

Meet the Curator talks: Timothy Wilson. European Decorative Arts. Room 53, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, 6 and 7pm. Also Egyptian Jewels and Amulets, a guided tour at 6.30pm. Admission free, no booking is required. Museum is open until 8pm.

Taster sessions: kayak racing at Falcon Club, Donnington Bridge Road, Oxford, 6pm. Turn up any Thursday. 5 per session per person. Aulds only. 01865 727388. Part of the Riversports Campus Project.

Adult Dyslexia Support Group talk: Poetry and Dyslexia with Philip Trivett. 7.30pm. Meetings on second Thursday of the month. 01865 767245.

Morris dancing: Cry Havoc at Killingworth Castle, Wootton, Woodstock, 8pm. With Aynho Apricots.

Line dance classes: Regal Centre, Wallingford, beginners 7.30pm, advanced, 8.30pm. Call 01491 825910.

St John Ambulance Adults: Meet every Thursday 7.30-9.30pm, for first aid and fun, open to 18-65 year-olds. Naldertown, Wantage. Contact Ann Collier tel 0701 0708999.

St Edburg's Church, Bicester: Early music played by The Longslade Consort. 7.30 pm. Tickets are priced at 5 and include a glass of wine and refreshments.

Dancing session: Modern Sequence Dancing, Village Hall, Stonesfield, 8pm. Didcot 18 Plus Group: Meets every Thursday from 8.15pm. Telephone 01235 810361.

Round dancing: Beginners class (featured rhythm Cha Cha), Kennington Methodist Church, Upper Road, Kennington. 8.15pm. Organised by Scarlet Ribbons Round Dance Club. For further information please tel 01865 453744. Alternate Thursdays. Please telephone to confirm dates.