Spring Community Litter Pick

Reminder that our Spring Community Litter Pick will be held on Sunday 4th March.

Come and join us at White’s Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4RF at 10:00 am. Just bring yourself and some old gloves. Everything else supplied. We will be finished by lunchtime latest. All welcome. Directions to event.

Together we can make a difference and clean up the environment on our doorstep.

Repair Cafe Volunteers Meeting

We are holding our first get together for our Repair Cafe Volunteers at 7:30 pm on Monday 26th February in the Games Room at the Village Centre. This will be an open meeting and if you are interested in coming along and finding out about our plans or to volunteer your skills, please feel free to do so. You will be most welcome.

We hope to hold our very first Repair Cafe on 21st April..

As a reminder, we would like to offer a range of fixes/repairs to try and mend broken household items. However this will be dependent on the skills and confidence of our fixers.

The sort of things we would like to be able to offer are:

• mend small electrical items,
• glue broken toys and china,
• replace missing screws
• offer advice with simple computer problems,
• tool sharpening
• mending clothes/up-cycling/fabric crafts

More about Oxfordshire Repair Cafe Initiative

If you think you could help or want to find out more come along and talk to us on the 26th.

Spring Community Litter Pick

Sunday 4th March 2018

Once again, Greening Chinnor is linking up with Keep Britain Tidy for The Great British Spring Clean, a campaign with a simple aim:

... 'to bring people across the country together to clear up the litter that blights our towns, villages, countryside and beaches'.

We are also combining the clean up with the new Scandi craze of Plogging. Do you want to try it? Well now is your chance to stride out energetically and pick litter whilst getting fit.

Alternatively you can join us to amble around some of our beautiful network of paths and catch up with the latest gossip with your fellow villagers (whilst picking up litter).

Either way come and join us at White’s Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4RF 10:00 Sunday 4th March. Just bring yourself and some old gloves. Everything else supplied. We will be finished by lunchtime latest. All welcome. Directions to event.

Together we can make a difference and clean up the environment on our doorstep.

Repair Cafe

We are hoping to hold our first Repair Cafe in April and are arranging a meeting with all those who have expressed interest in this new exciting project.

We are looking for a range of different 'repair/fixing' skills so we can offer more types of repairs. So if you are an expert on mending small electrical items, gluing broken toys and china, can offer advise with simple computer problems, what about textiles; mending clothes/up-cycling/fabric crafts, why not help. The more diverse our fixers are, the more we can offer to 'fix'. 

The idea is not to provide an anonymous fixing service, but help people learn what needs to be done so that they can gain knowledge from the experts. The items that are fixed will depend entirely on the expertise of our volunteer fixers. There will be some items that will not be fixable as they may be outside our skill set.

We must stress that we are not trying to compete with professional repair shops but help to reduce the amount of small household items that are thrown away.
Contact us if you are interested in helping at the Repair Cafe or want to come along to the meeting.

More about Oxfordshire Repair Cafe Initiative