Kirtlington

Kirtlington in the heart of Oxfordshire

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THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION, KIRTLINGTON BRANCH REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY, 10 NOV 24

The Royal British Legion, Kirtlington Branch, will meet at St Mary the Virgin Church, Kirtlington at 10:45 before proceeding to the war memorial for the Remembrance Service at 11:00 hrs, concluding back at the church. 

If you are non-military and wish to parade with the Royal British Legion, Kirtlington Members to remember a family member or friend, please do. If you have their medals, please also wear them with pride on your right lapel.   

Royal British Legion, Kirtlington Branch members will be in the Oxford Arms after the service. It would be lovely to see you there.

KIRTLINGTON’S CALENDAR

WEEKLY CLUBS AND CLASSES

(Village Hall unless specified)

September  
1SundayJohn the Juggler and the Bletchingdon Silver Band 10.30 Bletchingdon Village Hall
7SaturdayAllotment Produce Sale 10am-12pm on South Green
12ThursdayReaching Out Coffee Morning, 10.30am Oxford Arms
12ThursdayW.I. Monthly Meeting 7.00pm Village Hall
18WednesdayVillage Lunch Club, Golf Club, contact Diana Dowdy (01869 350523)
26ThursdayHistorical Society talk ‘Garden Archaeology’ 7.00 for 7.30pm Village Hall
28SaturdayWorthy Earth selling fresh vegetables from 10am-12pm on South Green
October
5SaturdayAllotment Produce Sale 10am-12pm on South Green
19SaturdayFilm Club showing ‘Yesterday’ 7.00 for 7.30pm Village Hall
20SundayCeilidh in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association 7.00pm-11.00pm Village Hall

MondayTuesdayWednesdayFridaySaturday
Body Conditioning with Bazza
6.30 – 7.30pm
barry@primeenergy.org		Over 65s Exercise
with Bazza
9.00 -9.45am
barry@primeenergy.org		Rise and Shine Café
(at church in termtime)
9.15-10.45am
 
Pilates/Yoga Fusion
9.30-10.30am
Beginners
10.45-11.30am
Beginners / Improvers
gemma.c.queralt@gmail.com		Kirtlington Busy Bees
(termtime)
9.00-11.00am		Bazza’s Bootcamp
9.00–10.00am
barry@primeenergy.org
Bell Ringing
(church)
7.30 – 9.00pm
kirtlingtonbells@gmail.com		Youth Club
(termtime)
7.00 – 9.00pm		Tai Chi
6.00 – 7.00pm
 info@qigongoxford.co.uk		Community Orchard Volunteering
5.00pm
rosiewillcock@gmail.com
Morris
8.00 – 9.30pm
bagman@kirtlington-morris.org.uk		Badminton
8.00-10.00pm
01869 350819

This Calendar is kindly provided by the Kirtlington Village News team

Kirtlington Hedgehog Street

Kirtlington Hedgehog Street is connecting gardens in the village to give hedgehogs enough space to breed and to help keep them off the roads. This is part of the national Hedgehog Street campaign. To learn more see this article that was published in the national press.

  • 60 properties in the village are connected
  • c. 16 acres of gardens are included
  • The village pub, school and church are all connected.

The national Hedgehog Street organisation has told KWACS that Kirtlington has one of the biggest volunteer-run Hedgehog Streets in the country!  See the map in green.  To join, please make sure hedgehogs can pass from your garden to your neighbours’ gardens.  All it needs is a CD sized hole in your fence or wall.

In Spring 2020, there was a rapid and significant decline in Kirtlington’s hedgehog population.  We have written up the evidence for the decline which is very clear and the possible reasons for it.  Click here for that article and here for another article by Professor Patrick Doncaster who researched into hedgehogs in Kirtlington Park in 1992. Click here for coverage of the loss of our hedgehogs on local BBC news.

KWACS is delighted, whenever possible, to support other communities who would like to set up their own hedgehog street.  In particular, click here if you are interested in receiving a lecture about what we have done in Kirtlington.  This is given either in person or via Zoom by the brother of the KWACS committee member who leads our hedgehog work.  He is a wildlife photographer, film maker and public speaker.  In addition, visitors are welcome to come to Kirtlington to see in person what we have done.

DONATIONS

If you would like to support our work, please click on DONATIONS above.  That will take you to our on-line giving page for the KWACS Hedge Fund.

All donations will go directly to enlarging Kirtlington Hedgehog Street or supporting other communities start their own hedgehog street.



As hedgehogs have yet to evolve the ability to fly, where there is a ground difference between gardens we have to resort to innovative structures like this stone staircase and oak ramp:

As part of the project, we use foot print recording tunnels and camera traps to check on the presence of hedgehogs. A camera trap video of a hedgehog on the ramp posted to KWACS’ X (formerly Twitter) feed went viral with over 33,000 views!

KWACS Talk: The History and Wildlife of RSPB Otmoor – 4th October

The History and Wildlife of RSPB Otmoor, presented by Gary Smith
Wednesday 4th October at 7.45pm
St Mary’s Church, Kirtlington

We hope this message finds you well after a fun-filled summer and now that the nights are drawing in, the leaves are falling off the trees and our hedgehogs are curling up into tight little balls we welcome you to KWACS 2017 – 2018 winter lecture programme.

Otmoor is a truly special place for wildlife and particularly birds with nearly 200 different species recorded this century, including the spectacular starling murmurations, but Otmoor has a varied and very interesting history from a huge expanse of marshland that villagers used as common land in the 1300s to the SSSI classified nature reserve we know today.

The talk will be followed up with a visit to the RSPB reserve on Sunday 19th November at 1pm to hopefully experience the starling’s breathtaking ballet of the sky.

We look forward to seeing you soon.