Open Meeting and AGM on 24 November – all welcome!
The 2026 Winter Open Meeting and AGM will be held on 24 November at 7.30pm, in Wolvercote Village Hall.
Come and hear the latest and have your say, on how our neighbourhood is changing and how we spend the CIL community funds.
Enjoy refreshments provided by Wolvercote W.I.
CIL funding
Although there has been no invitation to apply for CIL funds recently, we shall be inviting applications again in Spring 2027, with a deadline to be announced at our AGM on 24th November.
In the meantime, CIL applications are welcome, but for practical reasons we cannot promise when a decision will be made on those received before the Spring deadline.
If you are developing a proposal that will lead to a major application for CIL (around £50k or more), please alert us to it from an early stage. A few of us from our Steering Committee will then liaise with you, to provide advice and to keep the committee informed.
It is important that we maximise benefit to the community from the CIL funds we have available, so we encourage applicants to also seek some of their funds from other sources. We shall give preference to such cases, and this applies especially to major applications.
Please note that, even for successful CIL applications, it is not always possible to grant the full amount requested. The amount granted is always at the discretion of the SC, in the light of funds available and the demand for them.
About the Wolvercote Neighbourhood Forum
The work of the Wolvercote Neighbourhood Forum is done by the volunteers making up its Steering Committee. There is much going on at present in the WNF area.
We need more help.
What we do
We have created the Wolvercote Neighbourhood Plan, approved by residents in the 2021 referendum, and accepted by the City Council. We now monitor all developments and planning applications affecting the area. We respond and challenge when they threaten the vision for our area expressed in the Plan and favoured by residents.
We access money from the ‘Community Infrastructure Levy’ that developers pay the City Council. We use this to provide financial support to local groups with projects improving community infrastructure. The amount of money available is growing, so there is great potential for new projects. The photo below shows an example of a recent project. There are many more!
To do all this effectively, we try as hard as we can to keep in touch with our members (i.e. all residents) through publicity, social media, emails, periodic public meetings etc.
Come and join us
If you are a resident of the WNF area, and are interested in joining us in these tasks, please email us at wolvercotenf@gmail.com .
We especially need more help and expertise in local authority planning issues and communications (particularly social media). We also need volunteers to help with our CIL projects for which we require good social skills and an eye for detail.
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