I don’t know why Barnardo’s don’t get a mention on the information boards, but I have read that in 1974 Bardardo’s gave a strip of land at the town end to Abingdon Town Council to help create the Ock Valley Walk. The Vale District Council owned the adjoining land which allowed the footpath we now know from St Helen’s Court to Drayton Road.

Caldecott House was a Dr Barnardo’s home, housing about 35 boys and girls between 1952 and 1971, and about 35 boys from 1945 to 1952 so the strip of land was left over after the sale of the house, which was demolished to create the St Amand Drive Estate.

Barnardo’s still have a Charity Shop in Abingdon at Peachcroft; and run after school and holiday clubs at Kingfisher School. They could also still run the Summerfield Resource Centre on the Wootton Road.

After a couple of months of being closed the Children’s Air Ambulance shop has reopened with a new manager.

So they have a sale to get the stock moving and then who knows what. The sky is the limit.

The Children’s Air Ambulance is now operational from Oxford since Monday 17 September 2018.

Abingdon-based charity Against Breast Cancer will bring all the ingredients needed for a fun day on the Market Place on Saturday 22nd of September.

They will have stalls, music, dancing, Stormtroopers and Pikachu, and bras.

Every year the local community joins the fight to support the vital research into secondary spread breast cancer undertaken by local charity Against Great Cancer.

The event will be opened by the Mayor of Abingdon, Margaret Crick, who will also have the final say on which of the local shops wins the ‘Breast-Dressed-Window’ competition.

Stert Street are in the pink two days ahead of the event. Can the other streets compete?

The Mayor of Abingdon, Councillor Margaret Crick, cut the tape to re-open the South Abingdon Children’s Centre this afternoon. Margaret is also one of the trustees of the new charity Carousel that will be running the centre, alongside some services for Caldecott School.

There were displays by the Abingdon Health Visiting Team, Carousel Cooking Club, Inspiring Minds, Downs Syndrome Oxford, and Citizens Advice Abingdon showing some of the services that will be available when the centre starts opening regularly from September 17th. More information on the Carousel website.

Like other Children’s Centres previously run with finance from Oxfordhire County Council, the centre closed when that funding was withdrawn in 2017. The charity Carousel has grants from the County Council, and Abingdon Town Council to help run the centre for at least three years.