April 2026 parish magazine

Scarecrow Trail in East Hagbourne :

Theme: “Historical Figures”

Saturday 23rd May until Sunday 7^thJune

Buy your maps for £1 from the Community Shop and The Fleur from Saturday 24^th May in order to follow and vote for your favourite scarecrow.

Entry forms are available in the Parish magazine, at the Community Shop, or you can print your own from here.

Entry forms to be returned Monday 4^rd May.

Profits will be shared between Oxfordshire Wildlife Rescue and WaterAid.

The Hagbourne Action Group are kindly doing teas in Church during the afternoons of Sunday 24^th May, Sunday 31st May and Sunday 7th June when maps will also be for sale.

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February 2026 Parish magazine

15th Feb @ 3pm in St Andrew’s Church

A Valentine’s concert with music from Monteverdi to Kate Bush,
Purcell to Sandy Denny – something for everyone!
Medieval, folk, classical and contemporary a cappella

January 2026 parish magazine

December Christmas 2025 Parish magazine

TreeFest is 15 years old this year!

This year’s St. Andrew’s Christmas Tree Festival  will run from Friday 5th to Saturday 13th December – with a couple of new events tacked onto the run-up as well.

See the full programme: WHATS ON TreeFest 2025

If you have been kind enough to support TreeFest in the past, we hope that you will participate again this year. If you have not been involved before, we would love to include you in our “Tree Angel” family.

The festival has become so popular in recent years, with visitors coming from far and wide and thousands of pounds raised for charity. It is also a wonderful way for businesses and groups to promote their organisation whilst raising money and having a bit of fun too.

This year, proceeds will be split between St. Andrew’s Church and the Friends of Hagbourne Pool, raising funds to renovate the school swimming pool where so many local people have learned to swim over the generations.

We will have 30 beautiful 4ft Christmas trees inside our parish church available for “Tree Angels” to adopt and decorate. Our optional decoration theme this year is “The Colours of Christmas”, but you are welcome to use business / group specific decorations as much as you like, and the name of your organisation will be prominently displayed by your tree.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You can also buy a tree for your own front garden using the same sign-up form. You can adopt both trees for £27.00 each using the sign-up form available on this website. Deadline for orders is Thursday 27th Nov, but please don’t delay as in-church spaces in particular get taken fast. Very importantly, your tree is not secured until payment is received. Thank you.

The actual location of your tree inside the church will be determined by a public drawing of lots on Saturday 29th Nov at 10.30am in the church. You are very welcome to come along for a coffee and chat and to witness that all is done above board.

As always, the public will vote for their favourite tree throughout the festival and the winner will be announced at the finale on Saturday 13th December, when they will receive The TreeFest Trophy.

“TreeFest” will officially kick-off with “Carols in the Close” outside the church at 6.30pm on the 5th Dec, joyously accompanied by the Blewbury Brass Band. Everyone will then be invited into the church for a countdown and the big “lighting-up” of the trees.

The festival week, and even the run-up, will be packed with entertainments, including the Big Wassail, concerts, wreath workshops, the grand raffle, endless mince pies, soup lunches, mulled wine and cups of tea.

Keep your eyes on this webpage for latest details.

Thank you very much for your support.

ADOPT A TREE Form  2025

November 2025 Parish magazine

October 2025 Parish magazine

Quiz at the Fleur Monday 24th November 2025 @ 7:30pm

Teams up to 6 people, £5 per person (numbers of teams limited)

Raffle

Meals available before the quiz.

Booking required.

Contact the Fleur de Lys to enter: 01235 813247

info@thefleurdelyspub.co.uk

Proceeds to the Friends of St Andrews who look after the Hagbourne Church building.

September 2025 Parish magazine

HAGBOURNE PRODUCE & CRAFT SHOW 2025

SHOW CATEGORIES & HOW TO ENTER

Saturday 6th September 2025

Entry drop off 9:00-11:00am | Show from 2:00-4:00pm

Hagbourne Village Hall

THE CATEGORIES

All home grown or homemade

FRUIT

• Apples, pears, plums: 4 of one variety
• Bunch of grapes
• Nuts: 3 of one variety
• Berries: 8 of one variety

VEGETABLES

• Potatoes, carrots, beetroot, beans, peas, onions, tomatoes (with calyx): 4 of one variety; or a truss of tomatoes
• Courgettes, leeks, beetroot, chillies, peppers: 3 of one variety
• Aubergines, squash, garlic, cucumber: 2 of one variety
• New Category. Longest runner bean!

FLOWERS

• Flower arrangements in vases:
  Combined or single varieties
• Specimen blooms (eg roses):
  single bloom
• Flower arrangement in an unusual container
• Miniature vase arrangement

POT PLANTS

• Foliage indoor plant
• flowering indoor plant
• succulent or cactus

MIXED HERBS

• Up to 6 varieties in a container

ARTS/CRAFTS

• Anything (portable!) paintings, models, photos, craft items, knitting, crochet, pottery etc

BAKING

• Traybake (brownies, cakes etc)
• 5 cupcakes |
• 5 decorated biscuits
• * New Categories **

PRESERVES

• Jar of homemade jam, honey, marmalade, chutney or jelly

EGGS

• Nest of 4 home laid chicken eggs

CHILDREN (UNDER 11)

• Animal vegetable (any vegetables constructed to make an animal); celebrity vegetable; miniature garden on a plate; any arts and crafts

HOW TO ENTER

Entry is free!

All entries must be home grown or homemade

Bring entries to Hagbourne Village Hall between 9-11am. If you have lots of entries, please come earlier at 8.30am.

No Entry Forms needed!

JUDGING & CUPS

• 1st, 20ª and 3’° prizes awarded
• Cup for the best entry in each category
• Community Award Cup for a person who has made a major contribution to the community

DONATIONS
If a profit is made, a donation will be made to a local community group or charity

July August 2025 parish magazine