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ORCC launches a new guide to help you through the process. The role of the village pub as a vibrant social centre at the heart of the community is as important as ever, but the future of the pub in... read more...

The Banbury Rural Neighbourhood Action Group are a group of volunteers made up of members of the rural community and Police who work together to address community needs and solve issues identified by ... read more...

Free learning and support for dementia in communities. read more...

Oxfordshire Rural Community Council are pleased to announce that Oxfordshire County Council has appointed them to provide interim Healthwatch arrangements while the procurement process for a permanent... read more...

SeeSaw charity benefits from the prize donated by winner of draw. read more...

ORCC’s new membership scheme started on 1 April with the launch of the Members’ Area on the website where paid-up members will be able to access the bi-monthly ORCC Bulletin, ORCC's Policy Update, det... read more...

ORCC’s board of trustee member Karen Woolley with the West Oxfordshire Business Award Finalist certificate which she collected at a celebratory event held at Heythrop Park on 8 March. read more...

Do you want to help your community become more dementia-friendly? read more...

West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) and Oxfordshire Community and Voluntary Action (OCVA) are running an early evening Funding Fair on Tuesday 5 March, 5-8 pm, to coincide with the funding window... read more...

An opportunity to network with other people who work in the voluntary and community sector, hear all the news about policy updates from the Council and voluntary sector representatives and learn about... read more...

Please help us by taking part in a short independent customer survey... read more...

The Prime Minister, David Cameron and ORCC’s Emily Lewis recently attended an event in Witney for people to hear what living well with dementia means. read more...

The Oxfordshire Community Woodfuel Programme is a new initiative run by the Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment and several partner organisations including ORCC. It aims to help local communities to ... read more...

For all the news in the community transport world, see the latest newsletter. read more...

ORCC's October 2012 Policy and News Bulletin read more...

OPFA's AGM will take place on Wednesday 17 October at 7.15 pm at Holton Village Hall. read more...

A networking event on Saturday 6 October for OAYP affiliated clubs, new clubs, groups and parish councils who are considering setting up a youth club. read more...

Come and join Lights Up which starts on 9 October in Chipping Norton. read more...

Experience Oxfordshire is seeking to appoint a new chair of its board. Experience Oxfordshire is the county’s cultural and tourism development agency, currently operating under the brands Oxford Inspi... read more...

Are you interested in local food? If so come to a networking event on 13th September from 7pm to 9pm at Horspath Village Hall. read more...

Are you working in rural communities on inclusion? The Rural Inclusion Group has core members from interested organisations in Oxfordshire. read more...

The Localism Act has given communities and neighbourhoods a new set of tools to help them influence the decision that affect the planning of the areas in which they live. read more...

Would you like your community hall to be more energy efficient? Are you worried about energy bills spiralling out of control? The Environmental Information Exchange (EiE), funded by the Trust for Ox... read more...

TOE2’s administrator Fiona Danks carried the Olympic Torch along the Cowley Road, Oxford on the evening of Monday 9th July as part of Oxfordshire Olympic celebrations. read more...

Newly refurbished community centre officially opened by His Grace the Duke of Marlborough on Friday 29th June 2012. read more...

Read ORCC's latest policy and news bulletin read more...

On 19th May, Oxfordshire Playing Fields Association held a skate park workshop in conjunction with Chalgrove Youth Forum, following on from a very successful youth led project in Chalgrove to extend t... read more...

The free community website set to speed up the rural ‘grapevine’ and bring villages closer together read more...

People living in Oxfordshire are being given the chance to attend a unique summer garden party to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Four thousand guests, together with The Queen and The Duke of ... read more...

Keep up to date with government legislation, consultations and local and national news that will have an impact on Oxfordshire's rural communities read more...

The recent publication of the Mary Portas Review on the future for the High Street has drawn attention to how small towns will maintain their vibrancy and coincides with the ending of SEEDA’s Small Ru... read more...

Are you a community that breaks out in a cold sweat or runs for the hills every time the phrase ‘social media’ is thrown around? read more...

ORCC Trading's community bulk oil-buying scheme has proved such a success that it is spreading rapidly across the whole of England. Other Rural Community Councils have been so impressed that they are ... read more...

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

Say 'no' to slippery paths this winter! read more...

The West Oxfordshire Business Awards (WOBA) offer a fantastic way for local businesses in the area to celebrate their success and raise their profile by recognising and rewarding their achievements. read more...

ORCC has published its response to the County Council review of library service provision calling for improved access to the service for everyone in Oxfordshire’s rural areas, not just those in commun... read more...

Support the outreach work in South Buckinghamshire’s and South Oxfordshire’s villages and towns. How we receive our television signal is changing. In the southern areas of Buckinghamshire and Oxfords... read more...

Switchover complete, Freeview viewers must retune. All analogue TV channels in Oxfordshire, parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire were switched off for good on 28 September, signalling the dawn o... read more...

ORCC's annual general meeting will take place on Monday 3 October at Chalgrove Village Hall at 8.30 pm. read more...

Oxfordshire organisations and communities have an early call on a new grants scheme aimed at strengthening ties or mutual understanding between members of the Armed Forces Community and the wider comm... read more...

Oxfordshire, parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire will begin switching to digital-only TV on 14 September 2011. The two-stage process will complete two weeks later on 28 September. This means the ... read more...

The County Council is taking a revised approach to providing library services across the county and communities are invited to give their views by 30 September. 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...

Your views are wanted on what kind of support services are needed to encourage voluntary and community activity and self-help. There is a County Council public consultation process now underway via ... read more...

Are you concerned about rural access to broadband and mobile phone coverage, especially high speed coverage? read more...

Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (ORCC), Gloucestershire Rural Community Council (GRCC) and Community Impact Bucks (CIB) have joined forces to mobilise an army of charities and volunteers to help r... read more...

Television across the UK is going Digital. This means the existing analogue TV signal will be switched off and replaced with a new, stronger digital TV signal. The Central TV region served by the Ox... read more...

The Oxfordshire Rural Community Council is celebrating the 50 year lifespan of its pioneering Best Kept Village Competition by publishing a history compiled from fascinating old records. read more...

This September, the analogue television signal will be switched off forever and replaced with a digital signal. Your TV equipment will need to be digital-compatible, otherwise you will not be able to... read more...

TOE2 is an exciting new venture developed by the Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (ORCC) to drive the strategic direction of community environmental initiatives in Oxfordshire. TOE2 provides funde... read more...

Evidence shows that all of us live happier and enjoy more fulfilled lives when we are valued and welcomed as part of a community. Oxfordshire County Council has been working with the ORCC and other vo... read more...

ORCC wants to help communities across the county to respond to County Council proposals to re-design the library service and has produced a second briefing paper providing up-dated information. read more...

Spring Online with Silver Surfers’ Day (16-20 May 2011) is a national campaign delivered by Digital Unite that aims to get older people using computers and the internet at thousands of events across t... read more...

ORCC is delighted to announce the launch of a new Bulk Oil Buying venture that we hope will be good for you, good for the environment, good for the new 'TOE' and good for ORCC. read more...

ORCC wants to support communities likely to be affected by the current County Council proposals to re-structure the library service and has produced a briefing paper. read more...

At our 90th AGM last October, we asked people to tell us what questions they would like to put, and to whom, on the theme of rural sustainability. We promised we would follow up the questions, pass t... 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...

Oxfordshire County Council have embarked on a project to make sure everyone in Oxfordshire has broadband and mobile coverage. About one third of the county has very poor or no coverage at all. These a... read more...

Regular users of central heating oil will know that over the last couple of weeks the industry has reached the point of crisis and suppliers are unable to provide oil for customers, in spite of the se... read more...

Since ORCC Trading Ltd launched the new county-wide bulk oil-buying scheme, the weather has done its worst and people have suddenly lurched from being worried about the rocketing prices, to worrying a... read more...

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

My Life My Choice is a self-advocacy organisation run by and for people with learning disabilities. Based in Oxford, they have over 450 members. As well as promoting choice, empowerment and participat... read more...

ORCC celebrated its 90th birthday in style on Friday 8th October 2010 – 90 years to the day (and almost to the hour!) since the organisation was first set up by a group of Oxford University academics ... read more...

Is your business based at home? Want to meet people in your area who are doing what you’re doing and facing similar challenges? Perhaps you miss the social chat with other workers? Or do you just wan... read more...

Oxfordshire Rural Community Council is pleased to be celebrating the achievement of an internationally recognised quality kite mark, 'ISO 9001'. read more...

Would you like to be an ORCC trustee? ORCC has a very capable and committed board of trustees, who are all up for election at the AGM on 8 October. We are likely to have three vacancies to fill and ... read more...

Over 100 people from rural communities across Oxfordshire got together on 3 July to celebrate the 90th birthday of Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (ORCC) and the wealth of ideas, enterprise and ef... read more...

30 September 2010 from 10.00-4.00pm read more...

Are you passionate about making a positive change in society? Do you deserve recognition for your work? Do you know someone else who does? If yes, then you could be nominated for a Social Change Award... read more...

ladder4learning provides a regional workforce development resource for the Community and Voluntary sectors and social enterprises across the South West and South East. read more...

Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment has a new email address - please update your records and discontinue using toe@ruralnet.org.uk read more...

The Big Lottery Fund Community Wildlife programme will offer grants of between £300 and £10,000 to projects that bring communities together to improve or protect the natural environment by raising awa... read more...

Oxfordshire LINk are about to start a research project to understand individuals' experience of the social care system and are keen to listen to those who are already in receipt of home care or respit... read more...

An exciting change is about to take place in Oxfordshire for people who use social care and support services. Oxfordshire County Council is introducing a new, personalised way of supporting people and... read more...

Oxfordshire Playing Fields Association has a new email address - please update your records and discontinue using opfa@ruralnet.org.uk read more...

Oxfordshire Playing Fields Association are looking for someone with an appropriate range of skills, a flexible approach and a willingness to work in partnership with others to deliver the information ... 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...

We soon hope to develop a new area of work to support home-based businesses and their communities in rural areas– are you interested? read more...

SEEDA to provide funding for rural broadband projects - expressions of interest by 31 May 2010 read more...

ORCC is celebrating its 90th birthday in good shape after a challenging period of re-organisation and new building works. It’s hard to believe that in a few short months we’ve recruited 5 new staff an... read more...

We are delighted to announce that we have just been awarded 'Level 3' of the national ‘ACRE Quality Standards’. The standards are designed to ensure that all aspects of our organisation’s operations –... read more...

At ORCC’s recent AGM, Calor made the announcement that they were pulling out from their national sponsorship of the Village of the Year Competition in 2010. read more...