Friday, October 20:

Restore, plants, crafts and card shop: Restore, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, open weekdays from 9am-4pm.

Abingdon Craft Festival: open daily 10am-5pm (Friday until 7pm), until October 29. Medieval Abbey Buildings, Abingdon. Each five days brings a different show. Admission 2.50/ 2, children 1. Mon to Fri only 1.50 and children free. Refreshments every day.

Bridge session: Experienced Acol players only please, Ferry Centre, Summertown, 2pm.

Exhibition of paintings: Paul Kessling's Ridgeway Landscapes; Helen Williams the Thames at Henley and Disappearing worlds, by Brian Rusher. Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch-on-Thames, open 10am-5.3pm, Tuesdays to Saturdays. Continues until October 24. Admission free, children welcome. Tel for appointment Sunday, 01189 845893. Charity bingo session: Littlemore Village Hall, 7.30pm.

Fashion extravaganza: The House of Silk, presented by Friends of the October Club at Wantage Civic Hall. Opening by the Mayor of Wantage, Mrs Jenny Hannaby. 7.30pm. Licensed bar. For tickets, 6.50, including light refreshments, telephone 01235 223221.

Society for Graduates talk: The Earth as a Magnet: a history of early geo-physics, by Dr Alan Shapman, science historian, University Club, Halifax House, 6 South Parks Road, Oxford, 8pm.

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Saturday, October 21:

Table top sale: Littlemore Village Hall, Railway Lane, off Sandford Road, 9.30am. 01865 395590.

Coffee morning: Abbey Hall, Abingdon, 10am. Proceeds to Abingdon Alzheimer's Club.

Jumble sale: West Oxford Animal Rescue at Seacourt Hall, Botley, 10am.

Sulgrave Manor: Apple Day, with Sophie Grigson, apple identification, ciders, juices, fruit wines, apple market and trees for sale. 10.30am-5pm. Also Sunday. Adult 4.50, child 2.25. Tel: 01295 760205. Viol workshops and half-term activities: Bate Collection, 10.30am-5pm, also Sat Oct 28. Music Faculty, St Aldate's, Oxford. Tel 01865 286261 for further details and to book a place.

Craft fair: Langdale Hall, Witney, 10am-3.30pm. Refreshments.

Nearly new sale: babies' and children's clothes, toys and equipment, National Childbirth Trust, Abingdon branch. Peachcroft Community Centre, Abingdon, 10.30am.

Auction of Promises: and Silent Auction. Methodist Church Hall, New High Street, Headington, 11am-7pm. Viewing and refreshments all day.

Autumn fair: Methodist Church Hall, Witney, 11am.

WI Jumble sale: Quarry Village Hall, Headington, Oxford, 1.30pm.

Open workshop: What's Race Got to Do With It? covering education, racism and school exclusion, organised by Campaign Against Instutitional Racism in Oxfordshire. Blackbird Leys Community Centre, Oxford. Free creche. Refreshments. 01865 316698.

Table top sale: Hailey Village Hall, for Hailey Pre-School, 1.30-3.30pm. 01993 774771.

Fungus Foray: near Henley, meet Warburg Reserve car park, 2pm. 01491 642001.

Jumble sale: bric-a-brac and jumble, 2pm, The School, South Moreton. In aid of parish church funds. Pan-African film festival: Quilombo (Brazil). Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Woodstock Road 5-7pm. For Black History Month.

Hallowe'en Disco and extravaganza: for under 12s at the Community Centre, Wootton, near Abingdon, 5.30-8.30pm. Fun and games to play, all in aid of the Young Children's Play Area. For more information telephone 01865 730506.

Naturist swimming: Oxford Naturist Club organises sessions in south Oxfordshire most Saturday evenings. 07941 435021.

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Sunday, October 22:

Rambling club walk: Enstone and Chadlington, 10 miles. Meet Cripley Road near Oxford Rail Station, 9.30am.

All day cycle ride: Wantage CTC, meet 9.30am at Wantage Market Square, tel 01235 772134.

Open day: for National Back Care Week. Oxford Natural Health Centre, 3 Church Cowley Road, Oxford, 10am-4pm. Fungi Identification Workshop: near Henley, meet Warburg Reserve Visitor Centre, 10am. Booking essential. 01491 642001.

One World Week: service at Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, 10.30am. Preacher: Rev P. Beuzeval.

Festival of Well Being: vegetarian food, meditation, talks, hands on treatment, over 60 exhibitors, Thame Sports and Arts Centre, Oxford Road, Thame, 11am-5pm. 01844 215607.

Boundary Brook Nature Reserve Open Day: Start 2pm, finish 4pm. Further details 01865 715830 (Oxford City Council).

Pan-African film festival: Lumumba (Germany, France, and Switzerland. Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Woodstock Road 5-7pm. For Black History Month.

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Monday, October 23:

Half-term activities: for adults and children alike to work alongside RSC experts and find out more about the world of theatre. Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, tickets for most events 2.50, tel 01789 403402 to book a place.

50 plus badminton: East Oxford Games Hall, Collins Street, Oxford, 10am-noon, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 01865 242486.

Book signing: Richard Whiteley of Channel 4's Countdown fame at Borders Bookshop, Magdalen Street, Oxford, 6.30pm.

Half-term fun: Uncle Brian's Children's Show, Civic Hall, Didcot, 2.30pm.

Kidlington Folk Dance Club: Every Monday during school terms. Beginners and experienced dancers welcome. 7.30pm. Term Time. 6th Form Block, Gosford Hill School, Kidlington. 01865 372085.

Bingo session: Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Centre, 7.30pm. For Sunningwell Cricket Club. Abingdon 18 Plus Group: Meets Mondays at the Flowing Well, Sunningwell, 8.30pm. 01865 765356.

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Tuesday, October 24:

Carers coffee morning: Carers Centre, 174a Cowley Road, Oxford, 01865 205192. Every Tuesday.

Water aerobics: Blackbird Leys Pool, noon-1pm, every Tuesday. 01865 779843.

One World Week: The Case for an Economic and Social Security Council at the UN, speaker Prof Francis Stuart. Oxford Town Hall, 1pm. 01865 249360.

Whist Drive: Church of St Michael at the North Gate, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, 1.45pm.

Support group: Every Tuesday afternoon 2.30-4.30pm, Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford. For those living with the dying.

Drop-in Centre: regular drop-in centre for people with life-threatening illness, carers and friends; potential volunteers welcome. St Barnabas Community Centre, 33a Canal Street, Jericho, 2-4pm. 01865 316200.

Introductory meeting: SPECAL Specialised Early Care for Alzheimer's informal re-launch. Teas. The Old Hospital, Burford, 4-6pm. One World Week talk: The Role and Composition of the UN Security Council. Speaker: Prof Francis Stuart. The Danson Room, Trinity College. 5-7pm. 01865 249360.

Free healing: Oxford Spiritual Healing Centre, 43 St Giles, Oxford, 6.30pm. 01865 716371.

Sequence dancing: Beginners tuition 7pm, general session 7.30pm. Witney Sequence Club, Langdale Hall, Witney. Tel to check venue, 01865 722250.

Oxford Photographic Society meeting: Print Competitions for black and white photographs. Modern Times and Open. Also Morris Trophy for black and white prints. Judge: Terrick Meakin of Bath. Nurses Seminar Room, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. Visitors welcome.

Bingo session: Oxsrad Sports Centre, Marsh Lane, Marston, 7.30pm. Wantage Camera Club: Multi-projector AV Competition, judge Robert Albright. Methodist Church Hall, Newbury Street, Wantage, 7.30pm. Weekly meetings.

Oxford Speakers Club: The Boardroom, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. 01865 224299, 01608 811338.

Wantage CTC agm: 13 Alfredston Place, Wantage, 8pm. 01488 772134.

Oxford 18 Plus Group: Meets every Tuesday from 8.45pm. Tel 01235 810361 for further details.

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Wednesday, October 25:

Half-term activities: Galloping Away. Hunt for horses in the Museum. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 4 per child. 10.30am-noon, to book tel 01865 278015.

The Pathway Workshop: Handmade garden furniture and other items. Made by disabled people at Dunnock Way, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, open daily 9am-4pm.

Refreshments on sale: Church Centre, St Michael at the Northgate Church, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, 12-2pm. Spoken Sanskrit: an introductory course, lessons 1-2pm on Wednesdays. Free. Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies, 15 Magdalen Street, Oxford, 01865 304300.

Dyslexia Drop-In Centre: Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford, noon-2pm. Every Wednesday.

Cherwell U3A Oxford meeting: speaker, Brian Cox A Publishing Phenomenon, Robert Maxwell at Pergamon Press. St Columba's Church Hall, Alfred Street, off High Street, Oxford, 2pm. Weekly meetings, tel 01865 242885 for details.

Open day: model landscapes show life in the Vale of the White Horse; model trains run on a re-creation of a Devon branch line. Family admission ticket admits two adults and three children for 10. Route 5 on the National Cycle Network passes the door. Pendon Museum, Long Wittenham, 2-5pm.

Pan-African film festival: Africa Dreaming (Namibia and Tunisia). Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Woodstock Road 5

4.30-7pm. For Black History Month. Book signing: Robert Llewellyn, Krylen in BBC 2's Red Dwarf, with Sudden Wealth. Borders Bookshop, Magdalen Street, Oxford, 6.30pm.

Modern Sequence Dancing: With professional tuition. SS Peter and Paul Church Hall, West Way, Botley, Oxford, 7.15pm. Contact 01993 773506 for further details

Annual general meeting: Wolvercote Local History Society. Followed by talk: From Arcadia to Paradise? Garden History in the Thames Valley, by Julie Elliott. Tea and coffee will be served. All welcome. Wolvercote Village Hall, 7.30pm.

Hallowe'e'n bingo session: Appleton Village Hall, 7.30pm. For First Appleton Rainbow Guides.

Cajun and Zydeco dance classes: Lake Street Community Centre, south Oxford, 7.30pm. 01865 510066.

Oxford International Folk Dance Group: Meets Wednesdays in St Giles Church Hall, Woodstock Road, 8.15pm. No partner needed. 01865 310216.

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Thursday, October 26:

Coffee and tea shop: With home-made cakes, WI Hall, Brize Norton Road, Carterton, 9.30am-12.30pm. Every Thursday. Rubber bridge: Wallingford Bridge Club, Bullcroft, 2.30pm. Partners not necessary. Every Thursday. Tel 01491 612652 for information.

Pan-African film festival: Fepasco (Burkina Faso) and More Time (Zimbabwe), Dahrendorf Room, Founders' Building, St Antony's College, Woodstock Road 4-7pm. For Black History Month.

Book signing: psychologist Dorothy Rowe with Friends and Enemies, at Borders Bookshop, Magdalen Street, Oxford, 6.30pm.

The Abingdon and District Camera Club meeting: Practical Evening. Night time photography Outdoors. Methodist Church Hall, off Appleford Drive, Abingdon. 7.45pm. (Behind The Boundary House). New members welcome. First two visits free.

Headington Quarry Folk Dance Club: Methodist Church Hall, Quarry High Street, 8pm. Dancing to live music.

Round dancing: Beginners class (featured rhythm waltz), Kennington Methodist Church, Upper Road, Kennington. Organised by Scarlet Ribbons Club 8.15pm. For further details, contact 01865 453744. Sessions held alternate Thursdays. Please telephone to confirm dates.