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JCA Notices

Buy raffle tickets now

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

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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.

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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.

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The cafe is back

Our popular Saturday morning cafe is running again

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Life drawing classes

Explore your creativity -- all levels welcome. 

Local artist Mike England holds life drawing classes at the community centre.

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Join your local association

The JCA represents residents on local issues, organizes events, and runs the community centre. Membership is FREE.

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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 <p>Mark Davies identifies 1825 as the key year when OUP and the ironworks arrived in Jericho</p>
Apr 10 2025

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,
Feb 28 2025

Recycling this week

Friday, 23 May


Blue bins, food caddy.

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Diary

Medley Sailing Club Open Day Sat 31 May - 12.00 pm
River Thames at Binsey
Jericho Fest 2025
Sat 07 Jun - 12.00 pm
Canal Street
Jericho Singers Summer Concert Sat 14 Jun - 7.00 pm
St Andrews Church. Linton Road
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