Next Meetings

Whilst most or our activities are curtailed at the moment, our meetings are still going ahead via Zoom. All welcome to attend.

24 February 2021 | Donkey Lane Community Orchard Meeting | 7:30 pm via Zoom. Please email greeningchinnor@gmail.com if you would like the link to attend.

31 March 2021 | Greening Chinnor AGM | 7:30 pm via Zoom. Please email 

 greeningchinnor@gmail.com if you would like the link to attend.

General Meeting

Our next general meeting will be held on Wednesday 17th February via Zoom. If you would like to attend please email me at greeningchinnor@gmail.com and I will send you the link. The meeting will start at 7:30 pm.

Chinnor Parish Walk Series

We have put together another three Chinnor Parish Circular Walk leaflets for you to enjoy. These have been kindly supported by Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth and paid for by a grant from Chinnor Parish Council.

This now brings the total number of Chinnor Parish Walks to four which include:

No 1: Emmington – existing  
No 2: Henton and Forty Green – new
No 3: Sprigs Alley – new 
No 4: Sydenham and Crowell – new 

Link to full directory

Footpaths & Bridleways

 A few lines to bring you up to date with what is happening with our footpaths and bridleways.

The first thing is that it is absolutely brilliant so many of you are using the lockdown to get your permitted exercise enjoying our footpaths. We all know that it is a bit muddy but please keep to the paths to avoid trampling farmers crops. 

Greening Chinnor, working with Oxfordshire County Council (OCC), Chinnor Parish Council (CPC) and the Chiltern Society (CS), have been regularly checking all of our local network of paths and bridleways with a view to getting essential repairs and improvements done. You may have noticed that decrepit stiles have started to be replaced with nice pedestrian and canine friendly gates and that an extensive programme of improving waymark discs is underway. We have recently been given a generous grant from CPC towards these improvements.

Last year, together with OCC and the Chiltern Society, a major proposal for replacing all broken and unusable stiles around Emmington was put together. We are delighted that the Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment (TOE) approved this proposal and made a significant grant that enabled all of the gates and associated kit to be purchased ready for installation by the South Chilterns Path Maintenance Volunteers who are the group that carry out much of this major work. Unfortunately, due to current restrictions they are unable to get out and get this work done. Moving forward there is another major proposal with TOE for necessary works around Henton.

We’re pleased the list of outstanding issues continues to drop significantly. An example of an issue is a broken stile and a report is an individual member of the public recording the issue on the OCC online database.

A couple of requests: First to dog walkers please carry on cleaning up after your charge and continue to dispose of the bags responsibly and to all cyclists please make sure you do not cycle on footpaths (marked with a yellow waymark). You can use them but please dismount and push your bike until you meet a bridleway. 

Greening Chinnor is 10 years old

 - can you believe that! 

When we began in October 2011, we used the Greening Campaign Phase 1- Engaging the Community to launch our group. Since then we  have moved from a campaigning group to being a more ‘hands-on’ group, developing initiatives benefiting the local community. 

We started small with twice-yearly litter picks and tree planting and now have grown and can include projects like the Donkey Lane Community Orchard and Repair Cafes, to name but a few. Like all organisations, over time, we have evolved. During the pandemic we have taken the time to look back and review our documentation on how the group is run.

The first thing to look at was our Constitution; was it still relevant? The general consensus was that it wasn’t and so we have looked to bring it in line with our evolved aims and objectives as they are today and for going forward.

The new constitution is now ready for member consultation and can be found here. Along with the new consultation is a ‘change’ document that lists changes that have been made so you can compare. If you would like to review the constitution please feel free to do so and if you have any constructive comments, please email  by 15 February.

We would appreciate if you give the reason for the comment rather than just saying "I do not like clause 4.2"; or "I do not agree with the wording of clause 6.3", you should provide alternative words.