Wantage News
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Wantage Literary Festival 2019
Running from October 26th to November 2nd is the 2019 Wantage Literary Festival offers, as always, a veritable variety of talks and events ranging from the charming to the challenging. Opening the Festival will be Lord David Owen with his thoughts on America’s Hubris – The Road to Donald Trump....
Pandemonium and Friends
The annual Wantage Summer Arts Festival is a shop-window for the many incredible arts organisations that contribute to the social life of Wantage and surrounding villages. The 2019 Festival runs from Saturday July 15th through to Sunday July 14th, with events to suit all interests and ages....
Arbery Arcade – A thriving Community of local shops and small businesses
Take us back 2 or 3 years and a visit to Arbery Arcade left a little to be desired, with just a handful of shops and more empty or half finished units it wasn’t exactly the destination it is today. Fast forward to 2019 and the arcade is now thriving with 13 shops or small businesses buzzing...
Planning for the future health and care needs in OX12
The OX12 Stakeholder Reference Group has been set up to bring together patients, carers and the public from the local community with partners of the Oxfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) to ensure public views and experiences are taken into account in the implementation of Oxfordshire’s...
The King and I
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I Music by RICHARD RODGERS Book and Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Based on "Anna and the King of Siam" by Margaret Landon Original Choreography by Jerome Robbins An amateur production by arrangement with R&H Theatricals Europe Following our...
Wantage Dickensian Evening
Christmas Trees 2018
Wantage Rotary Club will again be supplying Christmas trees this year, all of which will be delivered to your door, at no extra cost. Both Nordmann and Norway Sprucetrees will be available, each in two different sizes - the former, although a little more expensive, retain their needles much...
Home Start
Wantage Calendar 2019
The Wantage 2019 Calendar is now on sale for £9.99 from Peter B Ledbury Ltd, Rowes Newsagents (Wantage Post Office), The Vale and Downland Museum, The Cornerstone Cafe in Grove, KA Fitness and Bretts Pharmacy in Grove to name a few, and it will be for sale at various Christmas fares, a stall...
Healthwatch Report
Healthwatch Oxfordshire has revealed that residents of Wantage and Grove are worried that local health services are not keeping up with the increasing numbers of new houses in the area. The independent health and social care watchdog spent three weeks in Wantage, gathering people’s experiences...
Wantage Hospital Campaign Coach Trip
The Hospital is currently owned by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (part of NHS Oxfordshire) and they report to HOSC (Health, Overview & Scrutiny Committee) and OCCG (Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group). We need to tell all of these bodies how we feel. So that we can get our...
Army Expert From Wantage Makes History
A highly decorated British Army explosives expert made history when he presented his daughter with her Ammunition Technician badge after she graduated in the trade to follow in her father’s heroic footsteps. Lt Col Eamon Heakin RLC QGM* (Queen’s Gallantry Medal), 52, of Wantage, Oxfordshire,...
