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Nasio Trust on The Market Place

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Nasio Trust on The Market Place
On the Market Place today Oxfordshire Young People were fund raising at the Abingdon Nasio Music fun day. The Nasio Trust is a UK-based Charity supporting projects working with orphaned and destitute children in Kenya. Nasio have been holding events on the Market Place for a few years now.
Nasio Trust on The Market Place
I remember buying my first orange Nasio brick to help fund one of the Nasio Day Care Centres in about 2008, and got another brick today. The 2014 bricks are bigger and more squashy.

The Nasio charity began when an elderly lady called Irene found an abandoned baby and cared for it. The works has grown from there, and the trust run two day care centres, and also offer young people from Oxfordshire the chance to get involved with activities and fundraising, culminating in volunteering for one of the projects in Kenya.
Nasio Trust on The Market Place
The Land Rover on the Market Place is due to be shipped to Mombasa in October , and will be used to help transport sick children to the nearest hospital and help their work in other ways.

Yeah Baby 6

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Yeah Baby 6
For the sixth year running The Yeah Baby free music festival took place on Abingdon Market Place – raising funds for local charities: Amber Phillpott Trust, Ronald McDonald Houses, Helen & Douglas House, and Oxford Children’s Hospital.
Yeah Baby 6
There were fun stalls: cakes, arts and crafts, face painting, play your cards right, and lucky dips. The Abingdon Fire Service was there with their engine, and Loose Cannon with beer. And bunting made by school children decorated the trees.
Yeah Baby 6
The main event was the music. Bands included: The Benbows with James Phillpott, founder of the Amber Phillpott Trust. Their song Highlife written for the event by James is downloadable for charity at 79p.
Yeah Baby 6
There were The Undercovers – who also played in Music in The Park.
Yeah Baby 6
There were also two big name bands: The DB band with Ex-Supergrass Bassist Mickey Quinn.
Yeah Baby 6
and Luciee Marie Closier from BBC’s The Voice.

Open Day at The Vet

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Open Day at The Vet
I tried to imagine what Open Day at The Vet would be like beforehand. The signs had been up for some time in front of the Boundary Veterinary Centre on the Oxford Road in Abingdon. And so when TODAY arrived I went to find out.
Open Day at The Vet
I imagined that it would be a chance to look round the treatment rooms and talk to the vets. There was a little bit of that.

But mostly it was about some of the animal charities the vets and their receptionists support.
Open Day at The Vet
The Cats Protection League were there with some of their cats and kittens.
Open Day at The Vet
They also had a stall.

There was an information board for another Charity called IAPWA (International Aid for the Protection of Animal).

Some people brought their dogs and were relaxing with Tea and Cakes, or having a go on the raffle or other stalls.
Open Day at The Vet
There were also two sheep, and a ferret.

So it was partly a chance to look round the clinic, and partly a fete raising money and awareness for animal charities.

World Cup cup cakes and Two Town Criers

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World Cup Cupcakes
The World Cup Cupcake stall opened outside Cancer Research UK at 10 am this morning and were almost sold out when I visited an hour later.
World Cup Cupcakes
Just a few cakes left to show.
World Cup Cupcakes
Due to an administrative error there were two Town Criers about in town today.

As far as I know they were never both in the same place at the same time, and did not come to blows. Their duties included announcing:

  • The Queen’s birthday
  • Market Place Craft Fair
  • Carswell School Fete
  • Lace Making demo in the museum attic.