General

Friday night is film night!!!

This coming Friday (26th) will be our last film night for the current season and to add to the occasion we will be holding a BBQ on the new patio at the rear of the Memorial Hall.  BBQ is inclusive of the ticket cost (Standard £7.50/Concessions £5.50).  Please bring your own drinks and nibbles.  A complimentary choc ice is also included in the ticket price.  By popular demand we will also be running a raffle with proceeds (including surplus on ticket sales) goingtowards further improvements to the Memorial Hall's facilities. The final film for this current season (we will be back in September - dates to follow) is 'Chef' - a comedy starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey Junior. BBQ

Marie Curie – 10K Walk to Remember @ Blenheim Palace

  Marie Curie are holding a charity walk at Blenheim Palace on Saturday August 8th. The walk is a 10K evening walk. It is £10 to enter. Participants are asked to raise at least £100. All money raised will go towards funding the fantastic nurses working in Oxfordshire, treating terminally ill patients all over the county. Sign up by clicking here.   Additionally, Marie Curie are also looking for volunteers to help put on a safe, successful event. If you are able to help by manning stations along the route or with registrations or giving out T-shirts and would like to sign up as a volunteer or you have any questions, please e-mail event.delivery@mariecurie.org.uk or call 01883 832 621.      

A FUN AFTERNOON AT THE FETE

Over two hundred from the village and further afield flocked to the Manor for a most enjoyable afternoon at the Fete last Sunday. The weather finally came good and the sunglasses and hats were much needed. There was fun on hand for all ages and soon the twenty or so attractions were doing brisk trade with the Garden Club plant stall and Air Ambulance stall both selling out completely. Meanwhile the Morris Dancers, including the Vicar as a volunteer dancer, added plenty of colour in the centre of the lawn. The hot dog BBQ and cream teas were busy throughout along with the Pimms bar being drunk almost dry! Most importantly - the occasion raised the amazing sum of almost

Film, BBQ and Social Extravaganza!

To celebrate a second successful year of Wardington Village Cinema we will be holding a Film, Barbecue and Social event! We would love for you to join us at the Memorial Hall on Friday 26th June at 7pm to enjoy a Barbecue on the new rear patio. The Film selected to fit in with the end of season celebration and barbecue is “Chef" and will follow commencing at 8pm. We then encourage you to stay after the film to socialize, please feel free to also bring along your own food and drink. Special ticket price includes the film and freshly barbecued burger/hot dog with salad:  £5.50 for concessions / £7.50 standard. There will also be a raffle drawn at the conclusion of the film.

Garden Club Stall at the Village Fete

Jean Butler is organising a Garden Club plant stall at the fete on 14 June. Gardening books will also be on sale. Please donate any plants and books that you can spare. She will also require some help on the day. Jean says, "I would be grateful if you would drop any contributions at my house as soon as possible. Alternatively, if it helps, I will collect them". Her telephone number is 758143.

Wardington Village Fete – Manor gardens, 14th June 2-5pm

The Wardington Village Fete will be held in the Manor gardens on 14th June between 2 and 5pm. Highlights this year include: Morris Dancers Best-dressed teddy competition Highland dancing Cake stall Lots of activities Pimms Barbecue Raffle The fete is to raise money for improvements to the Memorial Hall, specifically the current project of buying new chairs. Please do support. Please donate cakes and raffle prizes - drop in to the Manor any time. If it's wet, the fete will be held in the memorial Hall. Download the poster.

Mobile Library Timetable

Following a recent review of the mobile library service, Oxfordshire County Council have identified that they can better serve the needs of people who find it difficult to get to library buildings by joining up our mobile services and providing better stopping places with longer stops. The new routes and timetables will be introduced on Monday 6th July 2015.   The mobile library will stop in Wardington at: The Old School on 10:00 on Wednesday 15th July (departing 10:20) and then every two weeks henceforth  

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Wardington Cinema – This Friday Night! (15th May)

Please join us at the Wardington Memorial Hall at 7.30 this Friday evening (15th May) for another fantastic film night, when we will be showing "The Theory of Everything": The Theory of Everything is a British biographical coming of age romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neuron disease, and his success in physics. The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, and David Thewlis featured in supporting roles. Please Please Please let us know if you plan

WARDINGTON GARDEN CLUB PROGRAMME 2015

Wednesday, 13 May at 6.30 Visit to Calves Close, Culworth Road, Chipping Warden, OX17 1LZ. A Depart Village Hall at 6.20 delightful ½ acre cottage -type garden full of interesting flowers and bountiful vegetables, courtesy of members Kate Palmer and David Wright. Refreshments kindly provided. Wednesday, 17 June at 6.30 Visit to Fairfield, Cross Hill Road, Adderbury, OX17 3EQ, courtesy of Val Depart Village Hall at 6.00 and Mike Adams. Exquisite tiny paved garden. Then a short walk to Placketts, High Street, Adderbury, OX17 3LS, courtesy of Dr. White. A Queen Anne cottage in 1/5 acre with walled garden, lawns and borders. Wednesday, 15 July at 6.30 Visit to Pettifers, Wardington, OX17 1RU. An internationally famous Depart Village Hall at

Wardington Village Cinema – Friday 15th May, ‘The Theory of Everything’

On Friday 15th May, Wardington Village Cinema will be screening 'The Theory of Everything'. The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their