Please join us for a glass of wine and, for just £2.00, become a member of St Filica for another year.

Bids are invited for allocation of funds raised from last year’s events and should be made to stfilica@hotmail.com by Friday 31 January 2025.  Bidders will be asked to make a short pitch to the membership at the AGM outlining their bid.

Members will then be invited to vote on which bids will be funded this year.

please come to our

BEETLE DRIVE

and help raise funds for Filkins Bowls Club
7.30pm on Thursday
27th February
Filkins Village Hall
A ridiculous game but great fun and
absolutely no experience necessary!
Entry £2.50 to include first game, with subsequent
games 50p
Wine, Soft Drinks and Raffle
ring Jane on 07857 912466 for more information

Communication survey

The Annual General Meeting will take place at

7.30pm on Wednesday 5th March 2025

All village residents are welcome, but of you are unable to attend, do email me if  you would like any issue raised at the meeting

Also, we are in need of an 'Outside Officer' to help keep around the Hall gardened and tidy, If you can help, do please let me know.

Sue Yardley, secretary: sue.yardley@gmail.com

Please click below for agenda of the next Parish Council Meeting

March 2025

Curry & Quiz Night

Saturday 22nd March 7pm

Up to 8 per team, 17.50 per head, pay in advance, stfilica@@hotmail.com

Pay Bar  -  cash or card accepted

Please come and join us to find out about the 2025 season

The Swimming Pool opens for the summer.

Membership bands paid for online in advance * can be collected from the village shop, where they will also be selling bacon and sausage baps along with teas and coffee.

*please note that the shop is not selling swimming pool membership this year

Raising funds for Swinford Museum & the British Legion

VE Day Teas

£8 Cream Tea / £10 Full Afternoon Tea

Booking is essential!

Contact Diane Blackett  ☎ 07798 721290, email: r.d.blackett@hotmail.co.uk

Saturday 10 May 2025

VE Day Celebration 

All members of Filkins Theatre are welcome and so are all others who would like to know more and might like to join.

Wine and soft drinks available.

For more information contact current Chair: Michele Heath

12 gardens in the villages will be open on Sunday 18th May between 2pm and 6pm

Tickets £10 on the day covering all gardens opening
Teas in the Village Hall in aid of the village churches
The village shop will be open for ice creams and treats

£15 per person to include drinks before and after concert.
To reserve seats call Charlie Payne on 7810 158558 or 10367 860519. or email broughtonpoggsmill@hotmail.co.uk
Click here for poster and further information

A quick reminder about the West Oxfordshire District Council public consultation, which closes soon –
this is to help shape the development of the new West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2041. The consultation
runs from 26 June – 8 August 2025 and is focused on 3 particular elements:
A draft vision of West Oxfordshire in 2041: a vision of WODC’s ambitions for West Oxfordshire in
2041.
Revised objectives for the Local Plan: key priorities that WODC believe will help us make our vision
a reality.
Preferred Policy Options: WODC’s preferred policy approaches have been defined in order to
address social, environmental and economic challenges and opportunities facing the district. The
policies are categorised under the following four themes:
• Core policies
• Place based policies
• Settlement strategies
• Development Management policies
This is not yet a draft Local Plan, and no new development sites are being proposed at this stage.
Instead, WODC is asking for feedback on the proposed direction of the plan and the policy
suggestions that will underpin the Draft Local Plan. A separate consultation focused on development
site options will follow later in the year.
Hard copies of the consultation material are available at Council Offices and all district libraries.
To complement the digital consultation, WODC will also be running a number of ‘in-person’
consultation events, details of which will be published in due course..
If you have any questions relating to the consultation, please contact the Planning Policy team
on planning.consultation@westoxon.gov.uk
Click below to take part in the consultation

Folder: Your Plan For The Future | West Oxfordshire District Council

Time marches on, get those seeds planted, dig out your recipes and pick up your schedule which will be in the Village Shop and Cotswold Woollen Weavers very shortly.

Further information if required: 07857 912466

Music, Entertainment and BBQ as well as many village clubs and societies running various stands, activities. For all ages. Free entry.

for more information contact Stfilica@hotmail.com

Quiz & Curry
Saturday 11 October 2025
7.00 for 7.30 start

Teams of up to 8 - £17.50 per head to cover the curry cost

Pay bar - payments can be taken by cash or card on the night

Please pay for tickets in advance
Book your team and for payment details please email:
Mary Bohm,  stfilica@hotmail.com

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All shareholders are warmly invited to our Village shop AGM, which will be held on Thursday 13th November at 7pm in the village hall.

Please join us for drinks, nibbles & shop related discussion.

Click here for agenda.

The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on 19 Novvember 2025 at 7.30pm in Filkins Village Hall Committee Room