OX3 Guide
The new 2008 edition of OX3. Bigger, revised content, new colour, and free!
The first OX3 Guide – an invaluable mine of information for everyone living and working in Headington and Marston and most of the communities with the OX3 postcode – was launched in 2006. A new updated edition was published in June 2008.
The handy-sized guide contains details of pubs and restaurants, shops, estate agencies and hotels, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and opticians, regular events, schools and adult education, local groups and organisations, and worshipping communities of every kind.
The 2008 free guide has been distributed to the 13,000 households in the community and is available through local shops, estate agencies, hospitals, libraries and health centres.
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The launch of the Guide in 2006
Mary Hope, then Chair of Headington Action :
“We are a charitable organisation whose aim is to improve the lives of those who live and work in Headington. For some time many of us have had an ambition of producing a guide to the Headington and Marston area and now, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford City Council and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, we have been able to do so. I am delighted with what has been achieved. It is a very professional product and a credit to the designer and the small group who have undertaken the research to bring this wealth of information together.”
James Bloice Smith, Deputy Chair of Headington Action who led the co-ordinating group:
“It has been fascinating to be involved in preparing the OX3 guide. Headington and Marston are thriving and diverse communities and we’ve been able to reflect that in what we’ve included in the guide. All of us who have worked on it have lived in the area for many years, but each of us has been surprised at the new things that we’ve discovered about the place where we live. My hope is that the guide will help to foster a sense of true community amongst all those who receive it. We have been fortunate to have the services of Martin Anderson, a local graphic designer, who has taken a mass of information and used his skills to present it in an attractive and readable format. I am really excited about what we’ve achieved and am confident that OX3 will be a vital resource both for long-time residents and newcomers to the area.”
Martin Anderson, from Martin Anderson Design and Photography:
“Having studied in Headington and lived here for many years, I was delighted to be awarded the contract to produce the OX3 Guide about the area I know so well.”