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Author: Sonja Francis

  • Come and Sing for ‘Hope and Love’ in Thame

    A Come and Sing event at St Mary’s church in Thame this coming Saturday (28/09) will raise funds for two charities, including Sharing Life Thame, which tackles food poverty.

    The all-day Come and Sing, with the theme of ‘Hope and Love’, will involve learning ten songs with a mixture of genres including folk, pop, classical and musical theatre, will also benefit Wycombe Homeless Connection. In the evening singers will perform in front of an audience. Helen Swift, Musical Director of Thame Choral Society, the Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir and Towcester Choral Society will teach and conduct throughtout the event.

    This is the second year Come and Sing has taken place to benefit these two charities. Promoter of the event, Ralph Westby, said: “Last year we raised money to help people in need through singing, which was enjoyed by singers and audience alike. Our charities were SharingLife Trust, Thame (food poverty) and Wycombe Homeless Connection. We want to do the same again this year. Will you help us achieve that goal, please?

    “We will learn 10 songs, many in four parts, on the theme of Hope and Love, songs including items from well-known shows and films, as well as from Karl Jenkins, Morten Lauridsen, Howard Goodall (Thames’ own), Eva Cassidy, Leonard Cohen and John Rutter’s arrangement of a Somerset folk song.  There will also be two guest items, reflecting both musically and emotionally the highs and lows of the human condition.

    “This is a fun event, which we expect to be entertaining as well as thought provoking. We still have space for more singers – just £25 for everything including music (yours to keep). Audience tickets are a bargain at £10! The day for singers starts at 10.15 am for registration and the concert is at 7pm.”

    Contact Ralph on 07790 498718 or email comeandsingthame@gmail.com to take part: book now to secure your place. Audience tickets
    available at all times, including on the door.

  • Cinema for Children begins this Sunday

    A new Children’s Cinema is launching in Thame next weekend and the first screening will be Mary Poppins Returns, on Sunday, September 29, at 2.30pm.

    The following week, Sunday, October 27, The Secret Life of Pets 2 will be shown, with further dates planned for the new year. Tickets are £5 each (for adults and children) and are available now from: www.redkitefamilycentre.org/events.

    The films will be shown at The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, and refreshments will be available to purchase.

    Email info@redkitefamilycentre.org to be added to the Thame Children’s Cinema mailing list to receive the latest news including about future film screenings.

    The Children’s Cinema is supported by Thame Town Council, Thame Cinema 4 All, Thame Players and 21st Century Thame, who all raise funds for the Red Kite Family Centre.

    Bingo !

    Don’t miss out on the Red Kite big Bingo fundraiser on Friday, September 27.

  • Survey will help council track town centre progress

    THAME Town Council is undertaking a survey of people who regularly use the town centre to help it better understand why people use the town, what they perceive as its strengths and what areas they feel need to be improved in relation to ‘keeping our town vibrant’.

    The results of the survey will also allow the council to track progress made as a result of actions taken since the last survey was completed in November 2017.

    “We would really appreciate as much input as possible,” says the council. “It should take 12 minutes to complete and the results of the survey will be used to direct our time and resources over the coming year, as well as to develop a plan for new and improved Wayfinding around the whole town – encouraging more of us to walk or cycle, rather than use our cars.”

    Follow the LINK to complete the survey or pop into the Town Hall to pick up a paper copy. The survey will close on Sunday, October 6, 2019.

  • We need to be carbon neutral by 2025 says climate emergency committee

    A new committee at South Oxfordshire District Council, which aims to help tackle the climate emergency, met for the first time this week and unanimously recommended that the council should aim to become carbon neutral by 2025, and the whole district by 2030.

    The role of the new Climate Emergency Advisory Committee, a politically balanced group of 12 councillors, that met in public on Thursday, September 19, is to make recommendations on how SODC can reduce damage to the global and local environment through its policies and practices.

    Among the topics discussed by the committee included the council’s response to the climate emergency through its policies and projects, and how it runs its day-to-day operations. The council’s target to become a carbon neutral council by 2025 goes beyond the suggested 2030 target as set out in the council’s pre-prepared report, pledges made by other councils across Oxfordshire and the timescales outlined by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report October 2018.

    Cllr Sue Roberts, Chair of the committee, said: “We’ve recommended a target of becoming a carbon neutral district by 2030, and went even further, to suggest a very challenging target for the council, within its own operations, to be carbon neutral by 2025. This will require liaison with other councils and groups as well as funding from central government, but we must act quickly and decisively if we are to contribute to becoming a carbon neutral society.”

    The committee’s recommendation for these goals will now go to the council’s Cabinet and full Council meetings for further discussion before it can be fully adopted.

  • Piano – FREE to a good home!

    Chappell piano. FREE  – The new owner would have to arrange and pay for its transport from Scotsgrove.


    Thank you
    Ros Alexander

    Telephone 01844 214933

  • Youth Climate Strike: These Thame students won’t be seen and not heard!

    DOZENS of pupils from Thame’s Lord Williams’s School, some parents and climate acitivists from Thame and Chinnor, joined the thousands who gathered in Oxford to take part in the global Climate Strike yesterday, Friday September 20.

    In bright, warm sunshine, they gathered, primary school children, teachers, teenagers, parents, union representatives and climate activist groups including Extinction Rebellion Oxford, carrying placards and wearing badges and T-shirts, united in their message; our future is threatened and we need the politicians to listen to us, and to the warnings of climate scientists and to take action now, before it is too late.

    After rousing and often moving speeches by Rosie Rawle from Oxford Young Greens, Emma Woods and Rowan Ryrie, Founder of Parents For Future Oxford , several times the crowds strode along Broad Street, turned left into Cornmarket and back into Broad Street.  Gazed at and photographed along the way by wide-eyed tourists, they chanted and sang their protests at, what they see as the lack of action by those in power to protect them, the ecosystem and a fair and habitable future for everyone.

    Emma Woods speaking to the Oxford Youth Climate strike crowds

    The supporting adults could only look on and listen in awe at the passion, the eloquence, the understanding, the anxiety and above all, the enthusiasm and the hope that perhaps, just may be, they will be listened to by those who can make the biggest difference between manageable climate change and ecological breakdown, and an inevitable mass extinction. 

    Students from Lord Williams’s School, Thame, join the Oxford Youth Climate Strike

    If strength of numbers, loudness of voices, intelligent argument and the power of young people to plead for the grown ups to listen to them works this time, there naieve trust in authority may just begin to turn the hearts and heads of those with the power to save their futures.

  • Road closure notice – Thame Park Road Wednesday and Thursday night

    Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice – S14 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 – Temporary Road Closure at Thame, B4012 Thame Park Road

    IN the interests of public safety it will be necessary for Oxfordshire County Council to close the road as detailed above in order to facilitate structural patching.

    A temporary Notice is being made to implement the temporary closure and will operate from 18/09/2019. The anticipated completion date is 19/09/2019.

    (two night closure and each night from 20:00hrs to 06:00hrs).

    Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and for those frontages within the closure area, subject to the progress of the works and liaison with the works supervisor.

    Further information regarding the works may be obtained by contacting Colin Holt of Skanska on 07876874413.

  • Occupation representatives wanted for ‘Human Library’

    REPRESENTATIVES  from the world of work are being  invited to play the role of Human Library ‘books’ and to tell their career stories to students at Lord Williams’s school in Thame.

    The ‘Human Library’  is set up for Year 8 students aimed at developing their understanding of career roles and the range of decisions involved in making career choices. The idea is that the students are organised into groups of four around tables and will ‘borrow’ a Human from the shelf to find out the career story of the individual they are talking to, using a list of suggested questions.  

    Each interview is limited to seven minutes before the Human has to be returned to the Library shelf and another Human selected.  Students are provided with a short list of questions to ask their Human but are encouraged to think of their own questions. 

    “The activity will help to dispel gender stereotypes and demonstrate the flexibility of career pathways across a lifetime,” said a school spokesperson.  

    Anyone willing to take part in Lord Williams’s Human Library event, can find out more by contacting the LWS Careers Team via –  rvau2642@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk

    The Dates:  8am start:

    Tuesday 22nd October 2019

    Tuesday 26th November 2019

    Tuesday 25th February 2020

    Tuesday 17th March 2020

    Tuesday 31st March 2020

    Tuesday 12th May 2020

    Location: 

    LWS Lower School, Towersey Road, Thame, OX9 3NW

    Key Stage 3 Library and Lower School Sports Hall Conference Room

    Programme:  

    8am:          Employers arrive at Lower School Reception

    8.10 am:    Refreshments and briefing 

    8.30 am:      Students arrive and are briefed on the activity

    9.35 am:      End of activity, quick review and close

    Questions asked by students:

    Please give us a quick description of what your job involves.

    What aspects of your role do you enjoy best?

    Have you always wanted to do this job?

    What qualifications do you need to be able to do your job?

    What skills are useful for your role?

    What other job roles have you experienced?

    Student Feedback from previous Human Library sessions:

    Things you have enjoyed about meeting your Humans this morning:

    • Seeing others people’s views on jobs and learning how to get a good job
    • That they had different jobs from what they have now
    • Asking questions/ talking to different people about their jobs and work experience

    Reasons why people might change their career path:

    • They might not have the choice of qualifications
    • They might not enjoy what they are doing
    • They might want a change

    Taking part in the Human Library has helped me think about ……

    • What I want to be when I’m older 
    • My future and what kind of qualifications and skills I need
    • My journey in choosing my job and what paths I can take

    Contact:  

    Rebecca Vaughan, Careers Office, Lord Williams’s School

    Email:  r.vaughan@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk

    Phone: 01844 210528

  • Sometimes. Always. Never. at Thame Cinema

    DIRECTED by Carl Hunter, Starring Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Jenny Agutter, Tim McInnerney, Louis Healey, Alexi Sayle, this new season of films at Thame Cinema 4 All, kicks off with an overlooked, bittersweet and whimsical British gem.

    Bill Nighy brings his characteristic deadpan wit to his portrayal of Alan, a retired Merseyside gentleman’s tailor who has never recovered from the disappearance of his beloved son Michael many years earlier. Michael stormed out following an argument over a game of Scrabble – a passion that is shared by the family, who pride themselves on a rare mastery of obscure words. Alan’s other son, Peter, is now an adult with a son of his own. He has had to live in the shadow of his missing and unimpeachable sibling, living with the repeated stinging reminders of his status as the second favourite, while attempting to cope with his increasingly eccentric father and the endless search for the missing brother.

    Meanwhile Alan, becomes convinced that Michael is trying to reach him when he sees a rare word being used in an online Scrabble forum – a word that he imagines few outside his own family could know.

    Scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce, this is a sensitive, poignant and very English film about fathers and sons, about ordinary families enduring loss and sadness, and with an exceptional cast of top drawer British acting talent. One to leave you smiling but with a tear in your eye. View trailer here.

    Saturday, September 28, 8pm – UK 2018, 91 minutes, 12A certificate

    Thame Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame

     

  • Thame round off the season in style

    THAME Town Cricket Club’s T20 team, comprised of a blend of 1st and 2nd XI players, emphatically defeated rivals Oxford by 111 runs in the final of the Wilf Bennett T20 competition, at the Wormsley estate last Saturday (14/09), to round off a hugely-successful season.

    Captain Will Sutcliffe receives the T20 Trophy at Wormsley

    Batting first, man-of-the-match Cal Russell anchored the innings with 72, allowing Tom Bamford (33) and Hassam Mushtaq (34) to force the pace and bring up an impressive total of 173-6.

    Thame’s T20 winning team

     

    Oxford never looked like matching Thame’s total once big-hitting Mohammad Ayub was caught on the boundary. Faisal Ali (4-32) was again the main wicket-taker, supported well by Mike Higgs (2-17) and Dan Patey (2-8). During the interval at Wormsley, some of Thame’s young All Stars (5 to 8 years old) took part in a skills session organised by Oxfordshire Cricket.

    TTCC’s All stars practicing at half time

    On the same day at Church Meadow, the club played a friendly against Hetairoi. Thame batted first but could only muster 139 all out, with Guy Holmes (62) the backbone of the innings. Hetairoi reached their target with just two wickets to spare.

    On Sunday (15/09), Thame’s women played their penultimate league match against Cookham Dean at Church Meadow. Thame posted a respectable 153-5 from 30 overs thanks to an outstanding 88* from Sarah Sanderson, but the strong visiting side chased down the total for the loss of only three wickets.

    Sarah Sanderson, ThameTCC’s woman-of-the-match against Cookham Dean

    The season concludes next weekend with two matches at home, at Church Meadow:- a Women’s league match on Saturday (1pm) vs Henley and a friendly men’s match on Sunday (1pm) against Northfields CC, from Ealing.