What else do we do?
As well as the ongoing items listed on the side menu (Low-Carbon Headington, OX3 Guide, Headington Festival, Farmers' Market, and the discussion forum
Headington Action's latest project was to bring a Farmers' Market to Headington. It is now helping the new Headington and Marston Neighbourhood Forum to get launched.
Other projects that Headington Action has helped to bring to fruition are:
- Headington Festival, held every year since June 2003
- The carved tree in Bury Knowle Park, May 2005
- OX3 Guide, first produced in March 2006
- A monthly Events Guide for community notice-boards in Headington & Marston
Here are just some of the other things that we have done:
Headington Action also:
- Supports the Headington Business Association's Christmas FunDay
- Highlights the poor cycling facilities of Headington
- Introduced and runs the central Headington community notice boards
- Liaises regularly with the City Council with ideas for improving the area
- Liaises with "Oxford in Bloom" which provides hanging baskets for Headington
- Takes an interest in the maintenance of Bury Knowle Park
- Improves public seating in Headington
- Helps with the removal of graffiti
- Hopes one day to produce a calendar of views of Headington
- Supports European Car-free day (22 September) and has made a leaflet showing a walk to Oxford
- HCDA response (PDF) to Oxfordshire County Council’s Consultation on the London Road, Oxford, Study, July 200