Friday, September 22:

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

Touch for Health: Drop in clinic at The Inner Bookshop, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford, 10am. 01865 246190.

Millennium Festival weekend: exhibition (opens 7pm today, Sat 10am-6pm with nature trail and wild flower planting in churchyard, and Sunday 11am-4pm), harvest festival, concerts and recitals, audio-visual science exhibition, visits to the church belfry and tower. Lunches and light refreshments. St Helen's Church, Abingdon. For further details tel 01235 520144.

Grand book sale: Village Centre, Chinnor, noon-4.30pm. Also Saturday 10am-1pm.

Windrush Flower Arrangement Club show: Flowers Through the Ages, High Street Methodist Church, Witney.10am-5pm. Crafts, plants, cake stalls. Admission 1. Also Sat.

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

Dancing session: Old Time Dancing at United Reformed Church Hall, Collinwood Road, Risinghurst, 7.30pm.

Promises auction: La Venta, Heathfield, Bletchingdon, 7.30pm. To sponsor Nepal trek for VSO workers David Holloway and Simon Roper. 01869 350358.

Charity bingo session: Littlemore Village Hall, 7.30pm.

Sequence dancing: Every Friday at 7.30pm, Old Headington Parish Hall, Dunstan Road, Headington, 01869 601131.

Fencing session: Oxford Scorpions Fencing Club, 7.30pm, equipment provided, all abilities welcome. 01993 702755. ______________________

Saturday, September 23:

Rambling club walk: Shipston on Stour, Cherington and Burmington, 9 miles. Meet Cripley Road near Oxford Rail Station, 9.30am.

Car boot sale: Bartholomew School car park, Back Lane, Eynsham, in sports hall if wet, 9.30am-1pm. 01865 880952. Also secondhand toy and children's goods sale in the playgroup building, Back Lane. Both for Acre End Playgroup.

Steam day: Travelling Post Anniversary Weekend, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September. Travelling Post Office displays and demonstrations. Didcot Railway Centre. 01235 817200 for further information.

Table top sale: Littlemore Village Hall, 9.30am. 01865 395590.

Table top sale: for PDSA outside Allied Carpets, Summertown, Oxford, 10am-3pm.Cancelled.

NCT nearly new sale: good quality baby and children's clothes, maternity wear, nursery equipment and toys. St Clement's Family Centre, Cross Street, Oxford. 1pm.

Long Furlong Buggy Club: nearly new sale for nursery items, baby/children's clothes, toys, books and maternity wear. 10.30am-12.30pm, Long Furlong Community Centre, Boulter Drive, Abingdon. Craft demonstrations: jam and pickle making in the Victorian kitchen. Also Sunday September 24. Cogges Manor Farm Musem, near Witney. Museum open noon to 5.30pm. For further details, tel 01993 772602.

Nearly new sale: Long Furlong Buggy Club. Nearly new ale for nursery items, baby/children's clothes, toys, books and maternity wear. 10.30am-12.30pm, Long Furlong Community Centre, Boulter Drive, Abingdon.

Cholsey and Wallingford Railway: Military Vehicles weekend with Mail by Rail on Sunday. Train rides from Wallingford satatoin from 11.30am, half hourly until 4.30pm, or half an hour later from Cholsey station. Adults 3.50, children 2.50. 01491 835067.

Car boot and tale top sale: Elderbank Hall, Brize Norton, 1pm. 01993 844671.

Teddy Bear Weekend: Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, 01844 353535.

Plant sale: organised by Friends of Waterperry Gardens at the gardens near Wheatley, 2-5pm. Admission free, plant donations welcome. Also stall of second-hand gardening books. Jumble sale: Headington Quarry Hall, 1pm. For animal rescue.

Autumn fayre: plants, books, bric-a-brac, games, rereshments, for Corpus Christi Catholic Church at The Priory, Old High Street, Headington, 2pm.

Saturday dance: Carterton Social Centre, 7.30pm. Music by Flight Deck. Bar and raffle. Tickets at the door, 2.50.

Ballroom and sequence dancing: featuring David Redfern playing the Compton Theatre Organ, Abbey Hall, Guildhall, Abingdon, 7.45pm. Admission at the door, 4.

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Sunday, September 24:

Rambling club walk: Cleeve Common and Winchcombe, 12 miles. Meet Cripley Road near Oxford Rail Station, 9.00am. British Heart Foundation: Sponsored walk across the Downs. Commencing between 9.30am and 10am from Lloyd Lindsay Hall, Ardington. Two routes six miles and 12 miles. Dogs welcome. Tel: 01235 765849 for further information about this event.

Collectors' fair: Haddenham Village Hall, antiques and collectables. 10am-4pm, trade 9am. 01865 331103.

Autumn fair: Shrivenham Memorial Hall, near Swindon, 10am-4.30pm. Wide range of antiques and collectables.

Car boot sale: Wolvercote First School First Turn, Wolvercote, off Woodstock Road, noon-2pm. Bouncy castle, refreshments. 01865 552125.

Table top and car boot sale: Marston British Legion Club, Old Marston, noon. 01865 243991.

Afternoon concert: featuring Nigel Ogden playing the Compton Theatre Organ, Abbey Hall, Guildhall, Abingdon, 3pm. Admission at the door, 4.

Saturday dance: Morris Motors Athletic and Social Club, Crescent Road, Cowley, 7.30pm. Ballroom, Country and Western, Longriders. Admission 4 for members and pensioners, all others 5. Tel: 01865 778476.

Spider Identification Workshop: meet Henry Stephen/C S Lewis Reserve, Risinghurst, Oxford,10.30am-3.30pm. Leader: L Bee. Beginners welcome. Bring a hand-lens and lunch. Free, but please book in advance. 01865 863510. ______________________

Monday, September 25:

Public speaking group: Bardwell Speakers Club meets regularly in north Oxford, 7.30pm. New members who would like to improve their speaking skills are welcome, please telephone 01865 558195 or 249360 for further information.

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.

Didcot Detachment, Army Cadet Force: Meets every Monday from 7.30-9.30pm, at Newlands Avenue, Didcot, for further information please tel 01865 407802.

Scottish Country Dancing: Henry Box School, Witney, every Monday during term-time, 7.45pm. 01993 702339.

Oxford Civic Society: Public or Private? Modern Sculpture in Oxford, illustrated talk by David Clark. Somerville College, Woodstock Road, 8pm. Dance lessons: Ballroom and Latin classes at Rover Sports and Social Club, Roman Way, Cowley, 8pm. Also improvers' Ballroom on Wednesdays. 01865 777151.

Scottish Country Dancing: Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, Abingdon, 8pm. 01235 530169.

Abingdon 18 Plus Group: Meets Mondays at the Flowing Well, Sunningwell, 8.30pm. 01865 765356.

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Tuesday, September 26:

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

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. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, finding out more about our training and support groups, using our service or know someone who might be, or simply want to know more about what we do, drop-in for a drink, a chat, or to look at our information. Potential and current volunteers, Referrers, potential and current service users and anyone with an interest in our work with Living with Dying. Tel 01865- 316200 for further information. 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.

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

Sequence dancing: beginners tuition. Witney Sequence Club, Langdale Hall, Witney, 6.30pm. General session with further tuition, 7pm. 01865 722250.

Letcombe Singers: rehearsal for Christmas concerts. 7.30pm, at Letcombe Regis Village Hall.

Cajun dancing session: South Oxford Community Centre, Lake Street, Oxford, 7.30pm. Every Tuesday. 01865 510066.

Oxford Photographic Society meeting: Slide Competition Number One. Open subject. Judge Barry Senior ARPS. Nurses Seminar Room, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. Visitors, new members and beginners welcome. Bingo session: Oxsrad Sports Centre, Marsh Lane, Marston, 7.30pm.

Wantage Camera Club: Set subject Selection. Members' slides and patterns for possible, selection for external competitions. Methodist Church Hall, Newbury Street, Wantage, 7.30pm. Visitors welcome. Weekly meetings.

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

Rotaserve meeting: social club for thirty-somethings supporting charity projects in the Oxford area, White Hart., Marston, meet 8pm. 01865 716327.

Dance classes: square and contra dancing at Catholic Church Hall, Sutton Courtenay, 8pm. First evening free. 01235 834778.

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

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Wednesday, September 27:

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.

Dyslexia Drop-In Centre: Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford, noon-2pm. Every Wednesday. Cherwell U3A Oxford talk: Dr Peter Lewis Grendon, a Therapeutic Prison. St Columba's Church Hall, Alfred Street, off High Street, Oxford, 2pm. Weekly meetings, tel 01865 242885 for details.

The Dyslexic Drop-In Centre: The Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford, 12noon till 2 pm.

Parent and Toddler Group: Every Wednesday at Sandhills Primary School in the Playgroup Hut, 1.30-3.30pm. For details please tel 01865 434204.

Book signing: Robert Holden, founder of The Happiness Project in Oxford, discusses new book Shift Happens. Borders Bookshop, Magdalen Street, Oxford, 6.30pm.

Eynsham Road Runners meet: Every Wednesday at Sports Pavilion, Eynsham, 6.30pm. 01865 862077.

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

National Christian Alpha Supper Week: Churches Together in Chipping Norton offer free food, free wine, and an after-dinner speaker, the Town Hall, Chipping Norton, 7.00pm, no tickets, just turn up, and bring an open mind. Chiltern & Oxfordshire Organic Group: Herbs culinary and medical use in the home. St Peter's Parish Rooms, Wolvercote, Oxford, 8pm.

Stonesfield Folk Dance Group: Village Hall, Stonesfield, 8pm. 01608 810184. Every Wed.

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

Short mat bowling: Village Hall, Yarnton, 7.30pm. Also Monday mornings. 01865 376552.

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Thursday, September 28:

Oxford Beer Festival: over 100 real ales, special festival beer from West Berkshire, real cider and perry, hot and cold food, family room, plentiful buses and trains to many destinations, Oxford Town Hall, 5-11pm. Also Friday and Saturday (11am-11pm) Admission 2.50, CAMRA members 1.50.

Natural healing: For you and your pets, Old Magistrates' Room, Abbey House, Abingdon, 6.30pm. Kirtlington Historical Society talk: Dr Felicity Heal Tudor Noblewomen. Kirtlington Village Hall, 7.30pm. Visitors admission 1.50. Annual subscription 5.50. 01869 323732.

North Oxford Folk Dance Group: Beginners and experienced dancers welcome, The Bowls Pavilion, Cutteslowe Park, Oxford, 7.45pm. 01865 559065/779417.

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

Morris dance classes: beginners night at Hurst Village Hall, between Twyford and Winnersh, Berkshire, 8-10pm. 0118 9874346.

Didcot 18 Plus Group: meets every Thursday from 8.15pm. Tel 01235 810361 for further details.

Round dancing: Beginners class (featured rhythm Waltz), Kennington Methodist Church, Upper Road, Kennington. 8.15pm. 01865 453744. Alternate Thursdays. Please telephone to confirm dates.