Friday, September 8:

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 Asian Cultural Centre, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, 10am (01865 246190).

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.

Charity bingo session: Littlemore Village Hall, 7.30pm.

Music in the Abbey: Christine Cairns (mezzo-soprano), John Lubbock (baritone), Elizabeth Hayes (piano). Programme to include music by Britten, Finzi, Chopin, Schubert and Warlock. Dorchester Abbey, 7.30pm. In support of The National Autistic Society. Tickets: Oxford Playhouse box office, tel 01865 798600 or 01865 790610. 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.

Ladies self-defence class: Thame Sports and Arts Centre, Oxford Road, Thame, 8pm. 01844 215607.

Social evening: Oxford Open Circle 50+ Club for the unattached. Foxcombe Lodge Hotel, Boars Hill, Oxford, 8.30pm. Every Friday. 01865 750245 or 01235 528685.

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Saturday, September 9:

Pendon's Modellers: Demonstrations of their techniques at Pendon Museum Trust, Long Wittenham, 11am-5pm.

Open day: Florence Park, off Rymers Lane, Temple Cowley, noon-7pm. Annual health and environment festival along with a live folk festival stage. Stalls, environmental walks, allotment produce, Royal Horticultural Society Show. 01865 774911. Craft demonstrations: Cogges Manor Farm Museum, near Witney, Corn Dolly Weekend. Museum open noon-5.30pm. 01993 772602.

The Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust Sponsored "Ride or Stride": Between 10am and 6pm. Raise money for your Church and also for the Trust. Sponsorship forms are available from your local Organiser, Church or Chapel look out for the yellow posters. Tel: 01993 824196.

Blewbury Antiques, Charity Stall: Proceeds towards converting an empty listed building into a useful meeting place. If you can spare something for the stall, collection can be arranged. 10am-5pm. 01235 850366 or 01235 850053.

Museum Store Open Day: The Oxfordshire Museums Store at Standlake will be open from 10-4pm. Free public open day. No booking required. Ample parking and disabled access. Tel: 01865 300972.

BARTS Society Study Day on Romanticism: The Grand Tour of three lectures on Art History, Music and Literature in Europe. Owen Harris Lecture Room One (downstairs), Queen Alexandra Road, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University, High Wycombe. Open 9.15 for 9.30am start and ends approx 4.15pm. 10 including tea and coffee. Tel: 01494 715 109 or 01494 814706 for more details.

Yard sale: 169 Hollow Way, Cowley, Oxford, 11am-4.30pm. Also Sunday. For animal rescue charity. Village show: vegetables, flowers, fruits, photographs, crafts, cream teas, The Square, Eynsham, 2pm.

Jumble sale: St Mary and John Church Hall, Cowley Road, Oxford, 2pm. In aid of The Porch.

Church fete: Longworth parish church, with 50/50 auction, teas, Highworth Silver Band. 2pm.

Fun day: St Mary's Church Restoration Committee, Chesterton. Village Playing Fields, 2-5pm. Family entertainment, including Punch & Judy, magician, bouncy castle, cream teas, beer, ices, cakes and pig roast. Home produce competition, entry forms from Julie Pegler. Tel: 01869 250402.

Annual show: Kennington Village Centre, 2.15pm.

Autumn sale: Yarnton Village Hall, 2.15pm. Village fete: The Old Fisherman, Shabbington. Barbecue, cake stall, aunt sally, lace making demonstration, noon-4pm.

Jumble sale: Village Hall, Kelmscott, 2pm. In aid of Fairford Cottage Hospital.

Charity stall: Blewbury Antiques, London Road, Blewbury, 10am-noon, details, 01235 850366. Proceeds go towards cost of converting a listed building into a meeting house with toilets.

Music in the Abbey: Eltham College Jazz Orchestra. Director Norman Levy. Bring along a picnic and enjoy the idyllic setting of the Abbey garden. 6pm. Tickets: Oxford Playhouse box office, tel 01865 798600 or 01865 790610.

Music in the Abbey: Choir and Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square. Conductor John Lubbock. Songs from A Garland for Linda. Taverner, Prayer for the Healing of the Sick; Rutter, Musica Dei donum; McCartney, Nova; Berkeley, Farewell; Bennett, A Good-night; Mozart, Requiem K626. 7.30pm. Interval drinks reception for Helen House Hospice and Adventures in Sound Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square programme of education and community events. Tickets: Oxford Playhouse box office, tel 01865 798600 or 01865 790610. ___________________

Sunday, September 10:

Car boot sale: Rover Cowley Social Club, Romanway, 8am. For cricket club funds.

Car boot sale: St Augustine School, Iffley Turn, Oxford, 9am-noon. No bookings necessary. No caterers.

Chastleton Ride and Walk: from 9.30am between Chipping Norton and Moreton-in-Marsh, off A44. Ride: approximately 12 miles, optional jumps, stunning views, minimal roads. Walk: and quiz, one to two hours. Food and barbeque. Proceeds to five parishes and the Lawrence Home Nursing Team. Tel 01608 642597, or just turn up on the day.

Annual Longworth 10k run: multi-terrain course, mainly on tracks or footpaths, mainly close to the Thames. Starts 11am from Longworth village centre. Affiliated runners 5, unaffiliated runners 6. 01865 821276.

Child Free Travel Day: children free when accompanied by a fare paying adult. Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, taling timetable, 01844 353535.

Pendon's Modellers: Demonstrations of techniques at Pendon Museum, Long Wittenham, Abingdon, 11am-5pm. Tel: 01865 407365. Village fete: creams teas, cakes stalls, games, Milton-under-Wychwood, 2.30pm. Proceeds to Euro Disney holiday for the handicapped.

Heathland Horticulture: meet 2pm in car park on the Plain, Shotover Country Park, at top of Old Road, Headington. 01865 715830.

Millennium Madness: International League for the Protection of Horses fun day for all the family. Hinton-in- the-Hedges Airfield, near Brackley, Northamptonshire. For further information telephone 01295 811607.

Oxford Voluntary Services Overseas: Treasure Hunt in aid of VSO. Starts 1pm-4pm, New Street Baptist Church, opposite Westgate Centre. 5 per team. 01865 554157.

Healthland horticulture day: find out how Shotover's own voluntary organisation Shotover Wildlife are working to restore once extensive areas of heathland. Take a heather cutting, or buy a plant for 1. Meet car park, the Plain, Shotover Country Park, top of Old Road, Headington, 2pm. Organised by Oxford City Council countryside department, 01865 715830. Music in the Abbey: Piano recital by Oxford's Tom Poster, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2000 finalist. Beethoven, Sonata in E minor op 90; Poster, Invocation, Recitative and Finale; Franck, Prelude, Chorale et Fugue; Scriabin, Sonata No 4 in F sharp major; Chopin, Nocturne in D flat op 27 No 2; Debussy, from Preludes Book IV; Liszt, Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto. Interval drinks reception for Helen House Hospice and Adventures in Sound Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square programme of education and community events. Tickets: Oxford Playhouse box office, tel 01865 798600 or 01865 790610.

Morris Motors Athletic & Social Club Limited: Ballroom, Country & Western, Marston Ferry. 7.30pm. Crescent Road, Cowley, Admission 4 for members & pensioners, all others 5. 01865 778476. ___________________

Monday, September 11:

Public meeting: Oxford and District Health and Safety Group. Subject The British Safety Council and Its Work in the Safety of the Nation. Speaker Sir Neville Purvis. Cricket Road Centre, Cricket Road, off Cowley Road, Oxford, 2.30pm. Free admission.

Berkshire Family History Society (Vale of the White Horse Branch): Tomkins Room, Baptist Church, Ock Street, Abingdon, 7.30pm. Speakers Beryl and John Hurley: Do you really want to know your Ancestors? All Welcome. 01235 203042 or 01865 820493.

Abingdon Astronomical Society: Methodist Church Hall, Dorchester Crescent, Abingdon, 8pm. Telephone: 01865 725094 for further details.

Bingo session: Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Centre, 7.30pm. Proceeds for Sunningwell Cricket Club.

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Tuesday, September 12:

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

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. Bingo session: Oxsrad Sports Centre, Marsh Lane, Marston, 7.30pm.

Open morning: informal chat, coffee and biscuits, Edith Court (Anchor retirement housing), Kennington, 10.30am-noon. 01865 730842.

Dialability Mobile Information Unit: Market Square, Faringdon, 10.30am-3.30pm.

Wantage Camera Club: Methodist Church Hall, Newbury Street, 7.30pm. Visitors welcome. Visiting Lecturer, Chris Hutchinson 'Landscape with Clouds'.

Letcombe Singers: rehearsal for Christmas concerts. 7.30pm, Letcombe Regis Village Hall. Also September 19 and 26.

Oxford Speakers Club: The Boardroom, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, 7.30pm. Second and fourth Tuesday each month. 01865 224299, 01608 811338.

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

Wednesday, September 13:

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 meeting: Group and Members' Presentation, St Columba's Church Hall, Alfred Street, off High Street, Oxford, 2pm. Visitors welcome. Weekly meetings, tel 01865 242885 for details.

Wildlife talk: Encouraging Wildlife to Breed in Your Garden: Community Education Centre, Union Street, off Morrell Avenue, Oxford, 7.30pm. Speaker: S Muldal. Admission free. 01865 820522. Wildlifetalk: The Garden Birdwatch: Maison Francaise, Norham Road, Oxford, 7.45pm. Speaker: ACannon. An Oxford Ornithological Society event. Visitors welcome. Admission 1 (OOS members free). 01993 880027.

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

Public meeting: Clobbering the Corporations Who Clobber the Planet: What Can Local Groups Do? Speaker: Craig Bennett, Living World Campaigner, Friends of the Earth. Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford. 7.30pm. Admission free. All welcome.

Wallingford Flower Club meeting: with floral demonstration A September Surprise. Sales table, plant stall, publications, raffle and refreshment. Centre 70, Wallingford, 7.45pm. ___________________

Thursday, September 14:

Coffee and tea shop: With home-made cakes, WI Hall, Brize Norton Road, Carterton, 9.30am-12.30pm. Every Thursday.

Taster sessions: kayak racing at Falcon Club, Donnington Bridge Road, Oxford, 6pm. Turn up any Thursday. 5 per session per person. Adults only. 01865 727388. Part of the Riversports Campus Project.

Scrabble session: Small friendly group welcomes players of all abilities. Guildhall, Abingdon, 7pm. 01235 529607.

Line dance classes: Regal Centre, Wallingford, beginners 7.30pm, advanced, 8.30pm. For more information call 01491 825910.

Oxon Woodturners Club meet: New members always welcome, Village Hall, Littlemore, 7.30pm. 01865 770737.

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

Wantage Townswomen's Guild meeting: Charlton Adult Training Centre, Charlton Village Road, Wantage, 7.30pm. 01235 762536.

Modern Sequence Dancing: Village Hall, Stonesfield, 8pm.

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