For Your Diary

Some web links with ideas for holiday activities for children and families (in alphabetical order).

Let me know if you know of any more or if any have stopped - please use the 'Feedback' tab on the left to get in-touch.

• 2Wild (click)
• Ashmolean Museum (click)
• BBC Terrific Scientific (click)
• BBC Things to Do Nearby in the Next 7 days (click)
• Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust (click)
• Blenheim Palace (click)
• Bright Sparks Science (click)
• Buscot Park (click)
• Chewits Sports Courses (Faringdon) (click)
• Cholsey and Wallingford Railway (click)
• Cliveden (click)
• Cogges Manor Farm (click)
• Cornerstone Arts Centre (click)
• Cotswold Country Park and Beach (click)
• Cotswold Forest School (click)
• Cotswold Water Park (click)
• Cotswold Wildlife Park (click)
• Crocodiles of the World (click)
• Didcot Railway Centre (click)
• Earth Trust Centre (click)
• Family Days Out (click)
• Farmer Gows activity farm (click)
• Get Out With the Kids (click)
• Jungle Parc adventure course (click)
• Kelmscott Manor (click)
• Living Rainforest (click)
• NetMums (click)
• Oxford Castle (click)
• Oxford Family Events Guide (click)
• Oxford's museums, libraries & gardens (click)
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History (click)
• Oxfordshire County Council family events landing page (click)
• Oxfordshire Museum (click)
• Pitt Rivers Museum (click)
• The Race Hut Oxford (click)
• Roves Farm (click)
• Science Oxford (click)
• Serious4Sport (Wantage) (click)
• South Cerney Outdoor (click)
• Sports England sport & fitness finder (click)
• Steam - Museum of the Great Western Railway (click)
• The Story Museum (click)
• Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre (click)
• Vale & Downland Museum Wantage (click)
• Visit Oxfordshire (click)
• Wantage Leisure Centre (click)
• Wild Edge Archery & Adventures (click)
• Witney Pony Partners (click)

The next meeting of the book club will be on Monday, 29th July at 8pm.

The book this month is "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, available from Amazon (click link to visit Amazon).

Contact Barbara W for further information:-

Submitted by Barbara W.

The next Didcot Cornerstone Film Club film is "Le Chant du Loup" (France 2019) - Wednesday, 31st July at 8pm.

Trailer:-

The Didcot Cornerstone Film Club meets monthly, usually on the last Wednesday of the month at 8pm (plus some Saturday Matinees). Films are shown on a large screen in the main hall and there's a bar afterwards.

Annual membership costs £5 and is available from Cornerstone or Didcot Civic Hall. Please fill in & bring a membership form with you if you're not already a member (click <here> for the form).
 
Tickets for members and their guest are now £6 and members can buy up to 2 tickets for each film (so no need for couples to both join). Tickets for non-members are £8. Tickets are available through the normal Cornerstone booking procedures: on-line, by phone or in person at the box office.

• Admission is £6-8 per person
• 8pm start (Each film follows a short introduction)
• Unreserved seating

Forthcoming screenings:-

• Wednesday 4 September - ​Can you ever forgive me (2018)
• Wednesday 25 September - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

The Cornerstone Film Club shows the sort of films you probably won't see in mainstream cinemas:-

• Hollywood Classics
• Foreign Language
• New British Independents

For further information, see the Didcot Cornerstone Film Club's own page in 'Groups':-

• www.sparsholtandwestcot.org/content/film-club-didcot-cornerstone (click)

Join us at The Greyhound, Letcombe, for our very popular and challenging monthly quiz.

Entry is £2.00 with half going into the Jackpot Prize round and half to our nominated charity for this month: tbc.

There are prizes every round and teams of any size are allowed.

A special pre-quiz menu is served from 6:00-7:30pm, with £1 for each main course sold donated to the chosen charity. Booking is essential as places are always limited!

Save the date: the next quiz will be on Sunday (tbc).

The Greyhound, Letcombe Regis (click)

Childrey & Sparsholt WI meet every third Tuesday in The Childrey Village Hall at 7.30. 

The WI is about friendship; community and having fun. We are always planning exciting events & workshops and would love your input. 

New members and visitors are always welcome to join.

For further information, click <here>.

For further information, please click the following link to to VoWHDC website:-

• www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/your-recycling-and-waste-collections/collection-da-0

Childrey & District Tuesday Club is a club for the over 60s, meeting on the first Tuesday of each month in Childrey Village Hall.

The club is very popular due to the friendliness of its members who live not only in Childrey, but in all the local villages, the Challows, the Letcombes, Kingston Lisle, Sparsholt, Wantage, Charlton and Grove and a warm welcome awaits all prospective members.

• Aug 6th - No meeting
• Sept 3rd - Coach trip tba
• Oct 1st - Hazel Townesend Travels in Gambia
• Nov 5th - Roger Humphries Tales of Old Wantage (tba)
• Dec 10th (nb 2nd Tuesday) Christmas lunch at The Bear Hotel, Wantage (members only)
• Jan 7th 2020 (nb 2nd Tuesday)  New year quiz

For further information, please click <here>.