News archive - May 2022 | Oxford City Council

Businesses urged to apply for Covid Additional Relief Fund
Published: 31st May 2022
Oxford City Council is urging ratepayers who have been impacted by the pandemic to apply for new government funding from the COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF).
BLOG: Plant a tree for jubilee
Published: 30th May 2022
Oxford City Council is encouraging people to plant a tree in their garden as part of the Queen’s canopy initiative.
BLOG: Have a get together in a local park to ‘go green for the Queen’
Published: 30th May 2022
Join teddy bears Teacup and Tilly in celebrating the jubilee with a picnic in the park.
BLOG: Live like a Queen at the Covered Market
Published: 30th May 2022
Oxford’s Covered Market - steeped in 250 years of British tradition - has had a history of Royal celebrations including a recent visit from HRH Prince Charles. The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is no excep
BLOG: The Queen and I
Published: 30th May 2022
Oxford City Council Communications Officer Sue Hall found herself becoming the story when the Queen visited Oxford on 5 May 2006 to officially open the £40m Oxford Castle complex.
Civic leaders across county come together to light Jubilee beacon
Published: 30th May 2022
The Oxfordshire Lieutenancy is bringing together civic leaders from across the county in a ceremony to light Oxfordshire’s beacon in honour of Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Market Street toilets
Published: 27th May 2022
Oxford City Council has temporarily closed the public toilets in Market Street following the collapse of part of the ceiling in the disabled facility.
A2Dominion and partners celebrate construction milestone at new Oxford development
Published: 26th May 2022
Housing provider A2Dominion, contractor Exel Construction and Oxford City Council, have marked the completion of a major construction milestone at a new apartment block in Oxford.
BLOG: Councillor Shaista Aziz on the second anniversary of George Floyd's death
Published: 25th May 2022
Today marks the second anniversary of the racist murder of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.
The council tax energy rebate – don’t miss out
Published: 24th May 2022
In February the Government announced that, from April, households in England that are in council tax bands A to D would receive a £150 rebate.