NEWS FROM CAG OXFORDSHIRE

Save the dates: 6-14th June 2026 Calma Alma Singing Group at last Year's Great Big Green Week Great Big Green Week is a national campaign run by The Climate Coalition which encourages nine days of action (this year from 6th-14th June) to raise awareness of climate change and demonstrate how community-led action can make a difference. This is the seventh year that Oxfordshire has thrown itself into the campaign and the response from communities right across the County has been

Written by Marta Lomza The barn was drafty, which was a good thing: it meant we could use the breeze to help with our winnowing . That’s what I was learning from Tim from Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, who was sharing his deep knowledge of seed saving with about two dozen of us - community growers from around the county, gathered for one of our quarterly get-togethers. There was an excited energy in the semi-open barn. The November air was crisp. The sun was pouring in. Outsid

NEW PODCAST NOW LIVE! Between March and August 2025, CAG convened a six-month learning programme for Oxfordshire community organisers titled Sharing the Load: Strengthening your Community Group through Collaborative Leadership . The programme, which was facilitated by Transition Together , brought together 23 participants from 12 community groups across Oxfordshire, all grappling with a similar challenge: how to make their groups more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient by

Number of Hours: 1 day a week (7.5 hours per week) Location: Community allotment in Blackbird Leys Salary: £18/hour Contract : This post is fixed-term and funded for 6 months. This contract is on a freelance basis, with payment monthly upon submission of an invoice and a short report (in the form of photos and a brief bullet-point summary of key developments). This post is funded through Oxfordshire County Council grant funding . Role summary This role’s main purpose is to co

20 Years, 75 Events, and 46 Tonnes of Treasure! Many Thanks to Paul Bailey, of Sustainable Wheatley for this great guest blog. It all started in early 2006. A small, informal Community Action Group had a simple idea: instead of sending unwanted items to the landfill, why not let Wheatley residents swap them? We set up in the Merry Bells for our first "Bring and Take" event, and the reaction was... well, slightly bemused! People couldn't quite wrap their heads around the "ever

We are delighted to be supporting groups once again in putting on events and activities for Food Waste Action Week (9-13th March) and Great Big Green Week (6-14th June ) . We are delighted to collaborate once more with Oxfordshire County Council and the Climate Action Oxfordshire website to support two important awareness weeks in 2026. These weeks have the potential to create a big impact on our climate action efforts by providing enjoyable and engaging ways to educate

Thank you to our guest blogger Ed Macdonald, a local organic grower and member of the CAG growing collaborate group for this insightful blog. We'll be back in 2026 with part 2 of this blog series from Marta who coordinates the growing collaborate and will be sharing more from this group. This Autumn, I attended the first in-person Gaia Seed Sovereignty Conference. Hosted at the Centre for Alternative Technology near Machynlleth in mid Wales. The event was a full-on and fascin

Thanks to funds from Oxfordshire County Council (OCC), we are able to support community groups around the county to kickstart projects that address the impacts of extreme weather events. Since 2007, Oxfordshire has experienced 20 significant flood events, 12 named storms, 8 cold snaps, 4 major heatwaves and 3 periods of drought. The Oxfordshire Community Resilience Small Grants programme supports community groups to organise local events and activities, awareness raising o

'Tis the season and it starts now! Loads of our CAG members and partners are running events and activities in the lead-up to Christmas that promote a more community-led and sustainable way to celebrate the season. Check them out here, share with your friends and family and get yourself out there... More events will be added to this guide as and when we hear about them, so please keep coming back to check. If you are running an event and would like to be included, please email