Leisure and culture

Halfords Tour

Oxford gets set for top cycle race

Oxfordshire County Council is delighted to welcome the Halfords Tour Series Cycle Race to Oxford for the first time.

21 May 2012

Boost for local museums after successful funding bid

Museums in Oxfordshire will receive more support following a successful bid by the county council’s Museums Service and partners to the Museum Development Fund.

11 May 2012

Cash boost for budding musicians

Musical provision for youngsters in Oxfordshire will be even better following a successful county council application for its Music Service to receive central government funding to ensure every school pupil locally is able to access musical tuition.

8 May 2012

Hundreds selected to celebrate with The Queen

Hundreds of Oxfordshire residents will soon find out if they will be celebrating with The Queen at her Diamond Jubilee Garden Party near Henley-on-Thames in June.

4 May 2012
Diamond Jubilee logo

Attend the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Garden Party

People living in Oxfordshire are being given the chance to attend a unique summer garden party to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

11 Apr 2012
Rachel Joyce

World Book Night

Four Oxfordshire libraries are marking a worldwide celebration of reading with a range of author events.

10 Apr 2012
One of Maj Smyth's photographs

Museum displays local soldier’s Afghan conflict photos

Stark and unusual photographs of soldier life on the front line in Afghanistan taken by a Territorial Army Reservist Major from Oxfordshire are the subject of a new exhibition presented by the Soldiers of Oxfordshire at the county museum in Woodstock.

21 Mar 2012

Young authors give gloveresses a voice

Oxfordshire’s young authors have designed a special exhibition at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock to give visitors an inspiring insight into the lives of gloveresses who used to live and work in the area in the 18th century.

14 Feb 2012
Heritage Gateway

Oxfordshire now on national ‘Heritage Gateway’

Oxfordshire’s Historic Environment Record is now live on Heritage Gateway, a national database integrating both national and local records of England’s historic and archaeological sites and listed buildings.

13 Feb 2012

Oxfordshire museums awarded major Arts Council grant

Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford University museums have been awarded a Renaissance 'Major Grant' from Arts Council for England (ACE), it has been announced today.

24 Jan 2012

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