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The Woodland Trust has 4000 free tree packs to give away to school, community and youth groups this autumn. read more...

22 delegates joined the latest Community Led Planning workshop in March at Kirtlington for a lively debate on community expectation as part of the CLP process. read more...

Does this sound like you? ”Stronger communities - with more active citizens working together to tackle their problems.” read more...

Planning a tidy up or litter pick in your community or want to know more about keeping your community clean? read more...

Would you like help to involve your community in greening or cleaning up your local area? read more...

Topic sheets from Emergency Planning guidance to Community Food Growing are available from ACRE (Action for Communities in Rural England). read more...

Help is on hand from Volunteer Link Up for those who want to know more about Good Neighbour Schemes. read more...

ORCC is running a free evening workshop on how to involve your village in a Community Led Plan on Tuesday 19th March 2013 at Kirtlington Village Hall. read more...

It is no accident that the recently published Sibfords Plan is an interesting and informative Community Led Plan. For instance… did you know… there are over 100 businesses in the Sibfords with hal... read more...

One evening, 300 ideas, 33 volunteers and Freeland is ready to start a Community Led Plan. read more...

The new toolkit for Community Led Planning provides step-by-step guidance for communities who want to take action and produce a holistic plan that will guarantee the sustainability and wellbeing of th... read more...

Kirtlington start the new year with a Published Community Led Plan setting out their resolutions for future years to come. read more...

On Sunday 11 December Great Haseley held their special Christmas edition of their farmers market. Held every second Sunday of the month, the farmers market gives local producers the opportunity to sh... read more...

Keep up to date with government policy and local and national developments of direct relevance to rural communities. read more...

Over 100 people gathered together for wine and nibbles at a lively open evening in Stonesfield Village Hall back in October. read more...

This summer ORCC has been very busy helping six communities to launch their community led plans. Nuneham Courtenay, Tiddington, Sandford on Thames, Marcham, Islip and North Aston all held successful... read more...

Duns Tew have recently completed their Parish Plan refresh. Charles McBean, the Chair of the Parish Council tells us about it…. read more...

ORCC will be keeping a close eye on the development of Neighbourhood Planning, so that we can be in a prime position to understand the implications for Oxfordshire communities and to support those who... read more...

Closely following the 9 step process, the two villages of Sibford Ferris and Sibford Gower are working together to create a vision of how they want both villages to be in the future. Well over 100 peo... read more...

Representatives from the parishes of Sibford Gower and Sibford Ferris and ORCC came together to host a Community Led Planning Launch event to gather support and interest to undertake the process in De... read more...

The Parish of Great Haseley, with its three villages including Little Haseley and Milton Common, had a fantastic start for their community led plan (CLP) at an evening event supported by ORCC. With ov... read more...

Wallingford Greening Campaign, part of the Sustainable Wallingford group, has taken first prize of £1000 in The Oxfordshire Community Empowerment Awards 2010. Overall the judges were very impressed wi... read more...

Jo Ord and Catharine Arakelian have joined the ORCC team. read more...

Radley Community Led Plan Team have been tireless in their dedication to reach out to everyone in the village over the past year. An amazing amount of effort has gone into raising awareness about the ... read more...

Hailey PACT (Parish Action Consultation Team) came a close second in the Community Empowerment Awards competition. The group used the Community Led Planning process to successfully involve their villa... read more...

Steeple Aston are already seeing the results from their Parish Plan published earlier this year. read more...

Following discussions as part of their Parish Plan, residents from Kirtlington have come together to form a Youth Club Management Committee and to help set up a new Youth Club in the village hall read more...

We are seeking someone with relevant skills and experience to pick up and progress work tasks whilst one of our Community Development Workers is on maternity leave from September 2010 to April 2011. read more...

Anton has worked with other South East Rural Community Councils on a new website to bring the amazing work created by Community Led Plans into your home and the offices of your local council by mappi... read more...

Chalgrove have completed their village plan with a series of celebratory feedback meetings. These highlighted their findings while identifying 16 possible future village projects. Throughout each of t... read more...

On a sunny Saturday in April, villagers in Drayton St Leonard came together to celebrate the opening of their newly refurbished village hall. The event combined a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony with fe... read more...

Anton and Aimée are finding themselves in the middle of a sudden upsurge of interest in community led planning. Their ground work with communities is vital in generating local interest. read more...