Scarecrow Trail in East Hagbourne :

Theme: “Fictional Characters from Books”

Saturday 24^th May until Sunday 8^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 by Sunday 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 25^th May, Sunday 1st June and Sunday 8th June when maps will also be for sale.

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December 2024 Parish Magazine

The 2024 edition of St. Andrew’s Christmas Tree Festival is ready to roll out. The full programme of events, times and venues is available via the link below. Come and enjoy this wonderful festival of Christmas. We not only have carols galore and the 30+ decorated trees in the church (of course) but also the Big Wassail, the grand raffle, tunes, concerts and . . .yes, soup lunches!

Or maybe you just like wandering the lanes of East and West Hagbourne seeing the trees in all the front gardens; there are well over 100 this year!

This is partly made possible by our kind festival sponsors who this year are Krissy’s Canines, Family Placement, Root One, Larkmead Vets and The Fleur de Lys.

We hope that you enjoy the TreeFest!   WHATS ON TreeFest 2024

The local board of Governors at Hagbourne C of E School are looking for a Foundation Governor to join our board. The role is a voluntary position and the applicant needs to be a regular church attendee to meet the Diocese requirements for the role.

If you would like the opportunity to give back to the local community, and be part of a friendly team that makes a real difference to the local children in the area we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please email Chair of Governors, Jemma Dyson on jdyson@hagbourne.oxon.sch.ukto find out more.

Hello Villagers and welcome to TreeFest 2024!

Yes, it’s time for the annual St Andrew’s Christmas Tree Festival – now firmly established as a favourite, traditional village event. As a previous supporters know, as part of the festival villagers in West and East Hagbourne kindly purchase a tree from us then light it up in their front gardens to make the Hagbournes sparkle all over the festival and Christmas.

You can join in too.

The price remains at £26 per 4 foot, ‘live’ Norwegian spruce tree. You can find the order form on this webpage, or you can simply email Sarah on sarahtreefest@gmail.com with your name, address, telephone number and quantity required. Please pay upon ordering as your order cannot be confirmed until payment is received. Thank you.

Trees are available to collect from The Pavilion in East Hagbourne on the afternoon of Tuesday 3 December, but we’ll email you details nearer the time.

Proceeds from the festival will be split between the church and local charities which this year are Didcot Emergency Food Bank & First Steps Baby Bank who provide essential support to families in need in Didcot and the surrounding areas.

The festival will take place from Friday 6 December to Saturday 14 December. As well as the village trees, there will be 30 spruces inside the church, decorated by local businesses and village groups, remaining in place all over Christmas (more info in other articles on this website).

Keep your eyes peeled on this website, and also the village Facebook and WhatsApp groups for details of all the events scheduled for the whole festival which kicks off with the lovely ‘Carols in the Close’ on Friday 6 December followed by the ‘lighting up’ of the trees in the church.

Thank you very much for your support.

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November 2024 – Parish Magazine

From 26th October until the SGN works on Main Road are completed, the 94A bus service has a temporary timetable in place.

During the day, service 94A will operate via normal route to East Hagbourne, then divert via Blewbury and Upton to The Horse & Harrow pub in West Hagbourne, before returning towards Blewbury and resuming normal route.

The following bus stops will not be served:
– East Hagbourne War Memorial on Main Road – use the layby on Blewbury Road where service 94 stops towards Blewbury.
– West Hagbourne Moor Lane (with the exception of the school journeys – see below)

On school days, the morning 94A trip will leave Didcot Parkway at 0717 and serve Sandringham Road as an alternative for students who normally board in East Hagbourne. Both school journeys will then operate via Park Road and serve the Moor Lane bus stop in West Hagbourne for students who board here. These school journeys will not serve East Hagbourne at all.

This is being queried with the bus company and if there is any change made we will update as soon as possible. Please consider alternative methods of travel to St Birinus and Didcot Girls Schools in case the timetable is not able to be amended.

The temporary 94A bus timetable can be viewed here

A reminder:
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