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City Council, police and universities team up to make streets safer for students and public at night
In 2022 Oxford received an additional £426,000 in Safer Streets funding to put measures in place across the city to improve safety and help prevent violence against women and girls travelling in and o
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New plan to increase number of ‘ethical’ suppliers to the Council agreed
Oxford City Council has agreed a new plan to buy more of its goods and services from businesses that ‘do good’ for local residents.
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Flood advice to be delivered to homes in Oxford
Oxford City Council will deliver flooding advice leaflets to at-risk residents this week.
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Take the ‘pane’ out of shopping this Christmas with our ‘winderful’ display competition
This Christmas, take window shopping in the city centre to a new height with the City Council’s Christmas display competition.
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Free family fun finding the Christmas Imps hiding around Oxford city centre
Stuck for ways to keep the over-excited little ones busy this Christmas? Imp-rove your Christmas experience with our fun, free Christmas trail, launching Friday 18 November until the New Year.
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Oxford Living Wage Week celebrates century of employers
Oxford City Council is celebrating this year’s Living Wage Week with a very special milestone, as the number of employers in the city paying staff the Oxford Living Wage reaches one hundred.
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There’s still time to apply for discretionary benefit
This is the final week that residents can apply for a Council Tax Discretionary Rebate. Applications for the scheme need to be submitted by 17 November.
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Census 2021 data shows UK armed forces veterans living in Oxford for the first time
For the first time, the 2021 Census revealed numbers of armed forces veterans in the population, with 2,474 armed force veterans living in Oxford.
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Council aims to retrofit for the future
Oxford City Council is set to bid for government funding to help improve energy efficiency in up to 300 council homes in the next three years.
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Oxfordshire to increase payments for Ukrainian hosts
Hosts of Ukrainian guests in Oxfordshire who are part of the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme will soon benefit from an increase in monthly support payments from £350 to £550 from 1 December 2022