Oxford Sacred Harp All Day Singing

OXFORD ALL-DAY SINGINGSaturday 21st June 2025 Botley Women's Institute Hall, North Hinksey Lane, Botley, OXFORD OX2 0LT Registration is from 10.00 am Singing 10.30 am - 4.00 pm. Come and join us, either to sing, from the Denson 1991 Sacred Harp, or just listen! Loaners available. Bring and Share Lunch – cold food only please, prepared and ready to serve. Or BYO food. Local shops just round the corner under the A34 bridge. Donations to cover costs - cash only please !! In the interest of the safety of our singing community, some of whom are immune compromised, PLEASE TEST FOR COVID ON THE MORNING BEFORE THE SINGING, THANK YOU. Anyone attending the singing who develops Covid in the following week should please advise the organisers. Early evening social afterwards: venue to be confirmed. Lifts from Oxford Bus and Railway Stations can be arranged; please contact us beforehand by Friday 20th pm – tel: 01865 865773. Oxford is served by two main-line services from both Paddington (GWR) and Marylebone (Chiltern Line). However, because the Botley Road at Oxford Station has been closed since March 2023 and won’t reopen until August 2026, we can’t pick-up from under the Oxford Ox statue opposite main door of the station. Please use the pedestrian footpath under the railway bridge to the Botley Road and make your way past the allotments (on your right) to the car park entrance of the West Oxford Community Centre, opposite St. Frideswide's Church. We can pick-up from there instead. Travel by COACH ('Oxford Tube' from Victoria or Marble Arch) is considerably cheaper than by train, but the pick-up point will be the same as by train. There are several bus services along the Botley Road, starting from the 'temporary' stop outside St Frideswide Church, Osney Island, the E1, S6, S9, 400 and 4A. Minns Industrial Estate is the nearest stop to the singing venue, just past Aldi and before MacDonalds. Minns is at the junction of Botley Road and North Hinksey Lane, which is what you need to find the WI Hall. If you take the S6, please make sure you get off at Minns, or you will be on your way to Swindon. If the weather is fine, walking to the venue is another alternative, which is a mile from the railway station. If WALKING from the Bus Station, turn Right on the road outside the Bus Station, go over the cross-roads, and continue walking in a straight line towards the Railway Station. You will arrive in Frideswide Square just before you reach the Railway Station. Walk under the railway bridge and continue as before. IF COMING BY CAR (including access from Bristol/Swindon A420), don't attempt to go through the City! Leave the A34 at the Botley Interchange, and turn down the hill towards Oxford. You will be confronted by MacDonalds. It is easier to turn RIGHT at these traffic lights, followed by an IMMEDIATE LEFT, keeping MacDonalds on your left. Travel 300 yards southwards, and join North Hinksey Lane at a small cross-roads. Continue south (ie straight on), the Hall is on the left after House No 34. Parking is behind the Hall. *** If lost, telephone Edwin's mobile on 07972 680602 *** Botley WI Hall Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/BotleyWI/locale=en_GB [https://www.facebook.com/BotleyWI/?locale=en_GB] Traffic News relating to the A34 - always worth checking! https://www.trafficdelays.co.uk/a34-traffic-delays/ [https://www.trafficdelays.co.uk/a34-traffic-delays/] Please contact Edwin and Sheila Email: c2hlbHdpbjggfCB0aXNjYWxpICEgY28gISB1aw== Tel: 01865 865 773 Also check out other Nonprofit events in Oxford [https://allevents.in/oxford/nonprofit] .