East Challow Parish Council

06/01/2025

We'll be emptying your bins a day later than normal this week.
See the pic for details or visit southoxon.gov.uk/Christmaswaste
Collections will return to the standard schedule from Monday 13 January.
Please note - garden waste collections restart on Thursday 9 January, not 8 January as previously advertised.

15/12/2024

Have your say on our budget In this consultation we are seeking your views on our budget proposals for 2025/26, based on what we know now about our financial situation. They contain £14.1 million of money to meet financial pressures caused by factors such as population

30/11/2024

Tomorrow is 1 December – the end of National Tree Week and the start of Christmas Tree season. If you are buying a real Christmas tree have you considered buying a potted tree, ie with roots? This can be taken out after Christmas and kept in the garden, to be cared for like the rest of your outdoor plants until next year and the year after that and so on. Saving money and trees. The Royal Horticultural Society has good advice for those thinking of a potted tree https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/trees/christmas-trees

13/06/2024

Register to Vote for the General Election 4th July 2024

The deadline to register to vote is midnight on 18 June If you are not already registered to vote at your current address, apply online now at gov.uk/register-to-vote, it takes just five minutes.

Voters have a range of options – they can vote in person, by post or by appointing someone they trust to vote in their place, known as a proxy vote. The deadline to apply for a postal vote is 5pm on 19 June. The deadline to apply for a proxy vote is a week later, 5pm on 26 June.

Everyone voting at a polling station will need to show photo ID – to find out which ID you can use in the polling station, visit the Electoral Commission website.

If you do not have one of the accepted types of ID, you can apply for free ID at gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate. You must apply by 5pm on 26 June, to be able to use the Voter Authority Certificate on 4 July.

25/03/2024

They're registered to vote, are you? Your voice matters, so make sure it's heard on 2 May.

18/03/2024

*** Oxfordshire County Council Communication ***

Investment set to bring 1,300 more chargers to county by next year

Oxfordshire will receive £3.6 million to triple its number of public electric vehicle (EV) chargers after the county’s Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) bid was approved.

Money from the Department for Transport will seed fund a major rollout of infrastructure worth over £10m that will see more than 1,300 public chargers delivered in the county by the end of 2025. The rest of the funding will largely come in the form of investment from the EV chargepoint operators themselves.

Oxfordshire County Council led the application in close collaboration with Oxford City Council and Cherwell, West Oxfordshire, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils.

The programme aims to create a reliable, easy-to-use, contactless EV charging network spanning the county. This will give more people the opportunity to switch to an EV – regardless of where they live or their parking situation – to improve Oxfordshire's environment and air quality.

Full Information:

Oxfordshire will receive £3.6 million to triple its number of public electric vehicle (EV) chargers after the county’s Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) bid was approved.Money from the Department for Transport will seed fund a major rollout of infrastructure worth over £10m that will see more than ...

11/01/2024

There will be a drop in at The Beacon, Community Centre, Portway, Wantage, between 11am and 4pm on the 31st January to find out more on the Joint Local Plan.

Other sessions are available across both districts.

11/01/2024

The consultation for the Joint Local Plan 2041 is now open. Make your views known before the 21st February.

Find and participate in activities run by Join the conversation - South Oxon & Vale of White Horse

08/01/2024

Remember to put your bins out a day later than normal this week.

This is the final week of our holiday collection changes. From 15 January, we’ll revert back to the usual collection days.

06/12/2023

*** South and Vale Communication ***

Join the fight against festive food waste – put your knowledge to the test and you could win a £100 farm shop voucher!

Residents in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse are being challenged to put their knowledge of food waste to the test and be in with the chance of winning a voucher worth £100 for a local farm shop and a hamper containing items to help reduce their waste!

Nationally, too much of our food ends up being thrown away, especially at Christmas time when two million turkeys, five million Christmas puddings, and 74 million mince pies get disposed of in the UK each year while still being edible. This results in more than 270,000 tonnes of food waste produced during the holiday season alone!
Recycling food waste is good, but not wasting food is even better – to join the fight against food waste, try the South and Vale Festive Food Waste Quiz now by visiting

See our guide to dealing with your waste over Christmas and New Year including changes to bin days and lots of Christmas recycling ideas.

29/11/2023

If you are a parent or carer of a child born between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020, you can now apply for your child to attend a primary school for September 2024.

Please complete your application online by 15 January 2024.

We’ve provided further details and a link for you here:

https://news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/primary-school-application-process-opens-in-oxfordshire-for-september-2024/