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PROJECTS SUPPORTED AT TOE'S FEBRUARY 2009 MEETING

  • Improvements to Asthall Leigh Memorial Hall - £20,000
  • Access improvements at Cuttlebrook Local Nature Reserve in Thame - £8,500
  • Repair and restoration of Fifield Village Hall - £10,000
  • Refurbishment of Steventon Playground - £40,000
  • Path improvements in Brightwell Baldwin Millennium Wood - £2,950
  • Replacement of septic tank at Combe Village Hall and pavilion - £5,745
  • New sports facilities at the Islip recreation ground - £10,000
  • Thinning of trees at Nancy Bowles Wood in Souldern - £2,475
  • Whitchurch Hill Circular walk - £8,000
  • Access improvements at Cow Common in Ewelme - £4,297
  • Improvements to Pyrton Village Hall - £10,000 

PROJECTS SUPPORTED AT TOE'S NOVEMBER 2008 MEETING:

  •  Shotover Grassland Project - a biodiversity project to restore an area of acid grassland at Shotover Country Park, £6,000
  • Ground source heat pump at Dorchester Sailing Club, £10,000
  • Creation of a village green at Letcombe Regis, £25,000
  • Millennium Window at Ardley Church, £5,000
  • Tree and hedge planting at the Oxford Downs Cricket Club in Standlake, £8,750
  • Upton Village Hall Extension, £50,000
  • Stoke Lyne Play Facilities, £30,000
  • Rollright Community Woodland, £2,145
  • Provision of community facilities at St Mary’s Church Wallingford, £10,000 
PROJECTS SUPPORTED AT SEPTEMBER 2008 BOARD MEETING
  • Replacement boiler for the Holford Centre at Stanton St John - £8,682
  • Additional funds for the Astons Pavilion at Aston Tirrold - £5,400
  • Jonh Hampden Hall in Chalgrove - £5,000
  • Upper Thames Tree Sparrow conservation project - £2,000
  • Habitat management work at Tackley Heath pond - £330
  • Replacement playground for Watlington - £15,000
  • Stoke Lyne new link bridleway - £4,827
  • Hedgelaying at Kennington Memorial Field - £885
  • Improvements at the Sutton Courtenay Environmental Centre - £3,940
  • Bridge stabilisation at Woodstock Water Meadows - £3,300
  • New playground in Ambrosden - £20,000
  • Cutteslowe Community Woodland - £1,773
  • Oatlands Road community woodland, in Oxford - £725

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS! 

TOE celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Northmoor Trust's Hill Farm on the 26 June. Copies of our 10th Anniversary Review are available by request from the TOE office; this provides an overview of what TOE has achieved since 1998 and information about the wide range of projects we fund.

Here are a few photographs taken at our 10th anniversary celebration:

1. Ben Earl shows guests round some of the Northmoor Trust's projects

2. Board members celebrate 10 years of TOE

3. David Shirt of the Rollright Trust receives the heritage and access award for access improvements at the Rollright Stones from Mike Snell, General Manager for External Affairs at the Waste Recycling Group 

4. Chris Thornton from the Ardley Playing Fields Ciommittee receives the Community Project award for Ardley Village Hall from Dan Cooke of Viridor Waste Management

5. Stephen Roscoe, Technical Director of Grundon Waste Management, presents the award for biodiversity to Ben Earl of the Northmoor Trust for the Trafalgar Wood project.

ARE YOU UP FOR A CHALLENGE?

TOE has launched a £50,000 Youth Volunteering Challenge Fund, encouraging young volunteers (16-25 years) to transform public spaces

We can fund projects which promote and develop practical youth volunteering on rural and urban sites across Oxfordshire.  Up to £5,000 is available for individual projects such as improving youth clubs and other community buildings, community gardens, recreation grounds (eg; BMX tracks, skate parks etc), and practical works to improve countryside access and biodiversity.  All projects have to involve making practical improvements at a site which has public access for a minimum of 2 days a week, and should be developed in response to local needs as identified by young people.

We are working in partnership with the v team based at the Oxfordshire Children and Voluntary Youth Service (OCVYS).  Applications should be submitted on the usual application form which can be downloaded from this website.  Please contact the TOE office for further details.

PLACES FOR PEOPLE

Following our May Board meeting we can now announce that a further £50,000 has been committed to the Places for People scheme run in partnership with Oxfordshire County Council.  If you have a local project to improve access to the countryside in your area, please contact us for more details about how to access funding.  We can fund a wide range of improvements including installation of gates, upgrading path surfaces or installation of signs.