JCA Notices
This year's Street Fair raffle has a wonderful array of prizes, thanks to the work of our raffle organizer George Taylor. To see the list please click here
More information...Book Street Fair Stalls
This year's Street Fair is on June 7. To book stalls now, please click here.
A full stall is £45. If you commit to not using plastic it is £35. We offer a half stall for individual Jericho residents or non-commercial organizations for £5.
More information...Jericho Pantry
The main purpose of the Pantry is to make food that would otherwise be thrown away accessible to people who live locally who can make use of it.
More information...The cafe is back
Our popular Saturday morning cafe is running again
More information...Life drawing classes
Explore your creativity -- all levels welcome.
Local artist Mike England holds life drawing classes at the community centre.
More information...Join your local association
The JCA represents residents on local issues, organizes events, and runs the community centre. Membership is FREE.
More information...
Boules for all
Oxford’s New Literary Magazine…
A popular boules venue for players from Jericho and beyond
Retrieved from the canal, two bikes in a final tangled embrace (Image: George Taylor)
During the winter, the Community Centre is used as a Night Shelter for the homeless
Dawn over Port Meadow
Not a job for a ladder and a bucket. Time to clean the windows at the Blavatnik.
A crafty afternoon decorating pillow cases at Alive and Kicking
The bench kindly donated by St Barnabas Church in the alley behind Jericho and Cardigan streets, with a profusion of flowers from Greening Jericho
COMMUNITY SITE FOR THE JERICHO DISTRICT OF OXFORD, UK
LATEST NEWS
Coop to close
Quiet times at the Coop
Apparent knockout blow from Sainsbury's
The original Coop on Walton Street suffered a dramatic loss in the trade following the opening of Sainsbury's. Now the shop, including five flats on the first and second floors, is up for sale for £2.5 million.
This is the latest in a sequence of supermarket manoevres on Walton Street. This Coop had a virtual monopoly for decades and there were complaints about high prices. In 2011, when it was faced with the prospect of competition from the renovated premises close to little Clarendon Street it took those too in order to keep Tesco out. Originally this second shop was also to have a post office branch, but negotiations went nowhere. So we finished up with the strange situation of two Coops within a couple of hundred yards of each other.
Now that oddity at least has been resolved. However the preoccupation with competition remains. According to the sale listing, the shop part of the property "will have a restrictive covenant in place so a purchaser will not be able to re-open this area as a convenience store or off-licence in the future. The trading area would suit a number of alternative uses that could include a coffee shop, office or residential accommodation subject to planning."
While Sainsbury's does the business
News posted - April 25, 2025
OTHER NEWS
Rewriting Jericho’s history
There was full house for the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Jericho Community Association. Residents were entertained to a fresh look at Jericho's origins from historian Mark Davies. The JCA officers reported on a successful year for the Association, and there was an interesting update on the Save Jericho Wharf campaign for a compulsory purchase by the City Council
Residents angry at ‘shameful’ derelict Wharf site
A packed Phoenix cinema enjoyed two wonderful film evocations of Jericho. But in the subsequent open discussion they angrily condemned shameful behaviour by the landowner and developers of the Jericho Wharf site, and years of inertia and even obstruction by planning officers. It is time for the City to step in and end this dreary cycle of greed and incompetence,
Recycling this week
Diary
Sat 31 May - 12.00 pmRiver Thames at Binsey
Jericho Fest 2025
Sat 07 Jun - 12.00 pm
Canal Street
Jericho Singers Summer Concert
Sat 14 Jun - 7.00 pmSt Andrews Church. Linton Road
