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Friday 8 May 2026Partly cloudy with rain
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Christian Aid Week – Coffee Morning
Barbara Foster writes: Holy Trinity church will be supporting Christian Aid Week, 10 …
Barbara Foster writes: Holy Trinity church will be supporting Christian Aid Week, 10 - 16 May. Envelopes are to be delivered to homes in The Sibfords and Burdrop with collection points at
- The Post Office, Sibford Ferris
- The Surgery, Burdrop
- The Rectory, Sibford Gower 2, Sycamore Close.
To start off the week on Saturday 9th May, 9.30am - 12pm, there will be a COFFEE MORNING in our recently reorganised church with Filtered Coffee, Speciality Teas, cake and toasted teacakes. Please drop in before or after your visit to Carter's Yard, Main Street, Sibford Gower to buy plants from Sue Bannister (a Horti. Fundraiser).
Thank you.
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Local artist Nigel Fletcher's Spring Exhibition runs from 9th to 25th May this year, part …
Local artist Nigel Fletcher's Spring Exhibition runs from 9th to 25th May this year, part of Oxfordshire Artweeks.
Nigel writes: This year I've been experimenting from time to time with abstract or semi - abstract painting, I can't say I'm an expert at it but really enjoy the process, working with saturated colour and in a completely different way than I'm used to has been fun, frustrating and when it goes well - very exciting! and so I'll be framing 22 and looking forward to showing them to you.
And of course there will be plenty of new figurative paintings of local scenery and painting trips to the Norfolk coast etc.
Plant Sale
This is a wonderful opportunity to see the plants growing in situ and to benefit …
This is a wonderful opportunity to see the plants growing in situ and to benefit from the expertise of the garden owner, Sue Bannister, who as well has having grown many of the plants herself, will be happy to answer any horticultural questions.
Contact Sue on sebannister
Artweeks Festival Exhibition
Sibford Village Hall is Venue 255 and you will be welcomed by Ginny Bennett, Sue …
Sibford Village Hall is Venue 255 and you will be welcomed by Ginny Bennett, Sue Levitch, Corina Titman and Judith Waywell. We are all local artists and will be showing a wide variety of painted art.
Opening times 11am to 5pm on Saturday May 9th to Tuesday May 12th.
We will be on hand to chat about our work.
Paintings and cards for sale. Refreshments available.
Oxfordshire Artweeks Festival runs from May 2nd to 25th over the whole of Oxfordshire. More that a thousand artists, makers and designers will exhibit and demonstrate in artist studios, pop-up galleries, glorious gardens, ancient churches, schools and colleges and village halls.
See paintings, ceramics, sculpture, photography, glass, jewellery, woodwork and textiles.
North Oxfordshire Artweeks is from May 9th to 17th and every venue is free to enter.


24 Feb 2026


Artweeks
Come and visit a beautiful eco studio located in a pretty, village garden which houses …
Come and visit a beautiful eco studio located in a pretty, village garden which houses a jeweller, potter, a mixed media artist and a blacksmith who forges metal garden sculptures. Here you will see a huge variety of professionally made items covering all price points. This venue is part of the NGS (National Garden Scheme) so definitely worth coming to see.
Exhibiting artists: Nicola Durrant, Elly Dunford Wood, David Turner, Maya Callen-Franklin
…and after that
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Christian Aid Week – Coffee Morning
Barbara Foster writes: Holy Trinity church will be supporting Christian Aid Week, 10 …read more
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Local artist Nigel Fletcher's Spring Exhibition runs from 9th to 25th May this year, part …read more
Plant Sale
This is a wonderful opportunity to see the plants growing in situ and to benefit …read more
Artweeks Festival Exhibition
Sibford Village Hall is Venue 255 and you will be welcomed by Ginny Bennett, Sue …read more
Artweeks
Come and visit a beautiful eco studio located in a pretty, village garden which houses …read more
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Artweeks Festival Exhibition
Artweeks
Artweeks – Nigel Fletcher
Artweeks Festival Exhibition
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News & Notices
Quaker FHS Spring Meeting
A History Day in Oxfordshire - Quaker Family History Society Spring Meeting 2020
Join us for history talks and discussion at our family history meeting in the beautiful and picturesque …read more
Sean Woodcock MP April Update
Please see below a summary from Sean Woodcock MP on his work through April 2026.
Cerys Upstone
Policy and Communications Officer for Sean Woodcock MP
Email: cerys.upstone
Between the end …read more
Horti Spring Show – Schedule
Here is the Schedule for the Horti Spring Show, with all you need to know to enter your produce, photos, handicrafts, cakes, etc. Entry night is Wednesday 13th May.…read more
The Great Wall of China Trek
This is a fund raising challenge for Katharine House Hospice - a week in China, walking sections of the wall.
I worked at Katharine House for about 8 years and …read more
International Space Station
ISS over Sibford tonight - rising in the SW at 11:04pm, up to 46º at 11:07pm.
Weather forecast is "overcast clouds", cloud cover 100%.
Notes:
- The "up to" figure is …read more
The Sibfords Newsletters
Our daily newsletters provide the local weather forecast and list upcoming village events, new planning applications, etc. Subscribe here!
The Town Estate Charity
A Helping Hand for Sibford Gower and Burdrop Residents
The Town Estate Charity (Sibford Gower and Burdrop) has been part of our community since around 1560. It was set up …read more
Walks near Sibford
We are blessed with great walking country around the Sibfords. Visit the Sibford Walkers webpage for maps of over 50 circular walks. Each map page includes a link to download …read more
Fix My Street
The most reliable way to report problems with roads and local amenities, such as
- Abandoned vehicles
- Dog Fouling
- Drainage
- Flyposting or graffiti
- Flytipping or litter
- Pavements
- Streetcleaning
- Unlit lampposts
- Potholes…read more
Nextdoor social network
Nextdoor is a social network designed specifically for local communities. Locally it runs with the Ferris and the Gower as separate neighbourhoods, but it does share information between them. It …read more
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Voices from the past
22 years ago
the Sibford Scene in May 2004
A page from the past: An earnest appeal to the Labourers of the Banbury and Oxford Districts of the N.A.L.U. Brethren - For the last …
A page from the past
An earnest appeal
to the
Labourers of the Banbury and Oxford Districts
of the N.A.L.U.
Brethren – For the last nine years I have been a member of the N.A.L.U. and in some few instances I have taken upon me to write in defence and support of this Society, and at all times I have studied to serve both the people and the Society to which I belonged. But being occupied during the whole of this time in the cultivation of the soil, my opportunity for doing this was rare and my efforts in this direction somewhat crippled. But being lately appointed by the Executive Committee of the above Society to serve as a Delegate for the above named districts has invested me with greater opportunities. and opened up to me a more extensive field for my labours. I shall therefore, all being well, commence to hold meetings in the above districts during the Winter months of the present year. Will you aid in my efforts by attending these Meetings in good numbers, if so I am satisfied as to the result.
Remember. I am one of yourselves, having been a tiller of the soil from my boyhood. l therefore understand the subject on all points, having worked for one gentleman nearly twenty years and if I can by any means he of service to my fellow Labourers, by seeking to infuse into their minds, habits of sobriety, thrift, and Unionism, I am desirous of doing it. Let every man aid me by coming to listen to what I have to say, and also by any other means he may suggest. Rich and poor are both respectfully invited. Let those who wish to join the Movement, come. Let those who will not or cannot join, come. Their presence will cheer me on. Will you Let the answer be both loud and decisive — WE WILL.
Yours faithfully, W. H. GOLDER
Union song
[TUNE: “Onward Christian Soldiers.”]Forward! honest toilers. Let us not delay.
Marching on to victory.
Through life’s chequered way.
Let us then with vigour, duties paths pursue;
Never weary, till we. Grasp the prize in view.Forward! honest toiler, marching to the fight;
Every foe we’ll vanquish if we all unite.
For our cause is righteous
And will bear us through,
If with honest effort, we our path pursue.Forward! honest toiler. Sin’s stronghold assail;
If your courage fail not, truth will soon prevail.
Gird you on your armour, freedoms cause defend;
Pause not in the conflict
Which shall in victory end.Forward! honest toiler,
Wave your banners high.
Led by Arch your Captain,
Heed his warning cry.
Soon shall vile oppression
Vanish from your site.
Each defeated tyrant
Shall confess your might.Forward! honest toiler.
Soon the strife shall end.
Be your watchword ever.
God will the right defend.
Soon each fertile valley jubilant shall be
With the gladsome tidings England sons are free.
Sibford Ferris,
W.H. Golder, 1881
153 years ago
Reverend Stevens's diary for Wednesday 9 April 1873
Hutton, Chamberlin and de Trafford went down for Easter.
Hutton, Chamberlin and de Trafford went down for Easter.
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Frank Lascelles in Canada with the Prince of Wales

Frank Lascelles in Canada with the Prince of Wales




