The Mix

16/10/2026

Woohoo!!! A huge thank you to The National Lottery Community Fund! 🥳 🥳 🥳

🎉🎉🎉 We've been given a grant of £223,422 over 3 years by The National Lottery Community Fund 🎉🎉🎉

This will support The Mix, as well as expanding volunteering and empowering young people to take action on climate change.

We’re absolutely delighted to receive this very generous grant. A very big thank you to National Lottery players for making our work possible. Thank you also to our fantastic group of over 150 volunteers who last year gave 6,650 hours to Sustainable Wantage activities, equivalent to 3.8 years of full time work!

This funding will allow us to continue and expand our activities and services - look out for Mix pop-ups appearing across Wantage and Grove!





Community Action Groups - CAG Oxfordshire
Love Wantage
Down to Earth
The Makery
Cornerstone Café & Bookshop, Grove
Good Food Oxfordshire
Vale & Downland Museum
GroW Families - Grove & Wantage Family Community Group
Sweatbox Wantage
Cherwell Collective, CIC
Low Carbon Hub
Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust
Letcombe Brook Project
Betjeman Millennium Park
The Beacon, Wantage
Wantage and Grove Foodbank
Wantage Library
Getting Oxfordshire Online
Repair Cafe Oxfordshire
SHARE Oxford
Vale of White Horse District Council
Wantage Town Council
Grove Parish Council
Oxfordshire County Council
Olly Glover, Liberal Democrat MP for Didcot and Wantage
SOFEA
Wantage and Grove Active Travel - WAGAT

15/10/2026

Our Repair Cafe and Stitch Clinic volunteers are joining forces in Grove this Saturday!

🔧 This Saturday is International Repair day, our volunteer fixers will be at Grove Methodist Church Hall 2-5pm ready and waiting to fix your stuff!

🧵 Bring along household, electrical, clothing and textile items in need of repair, we can also look at laptops and we'll have tool sharpening available too.

🌍 There are over 3,000 events in more than 40 countries over the next two weeks, celebrating International Repair Day and helping people keep things going a bit longer. Come and join in locally - repairing helps the planet and helps your pocket!





Repair Cafe Oxfordshire
Love Wantage
Love Retro
The Makery
Vale Community Impact
Wantage Town Council
Vale of White Horse District Council
Down to Earth

14/10/2026

Popping up tomorrow 4 - 5pm at Grove RFC during the Wellington Gate Community Drop-in.

Come and say hi and pick-up some free surplus food!

Vale Cdo
Love Wantage

13/10/2026

We're having a cook-up tomorrow with Mila's Kitchen 🍲

Mila will be using the Instantpot from our Library of Things to demo low-energy cooking using ingredients from our Community Fridge.

Come and visit between 12.30-3.30pm to find out more and have some free lunch!





Vale Community Impact
Vale Cdo
Love Wantage
Wantage and Grove Foodbank
GroW Families - Grove & Wantage Family Community Group
Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust
Community Action Groups - CAG Oxfordshire
Good Food Oxfordshire
FareShare
CM Neighbourly

09/10/2026

Last day tomorrow from bringing in any disposable gloves for recycling through the Terracycle scheme, we'll be open 10am - 4pm. If you have any to drop off come on down!

08/10/2026

Great food saving by the families at St Nicholas' Primary School at our Pop-up this afternoon, we hope the bananas helped fuel the football team to victory ⚽️ and that everyone enjoys their oranges, cucumbers, potatoes, bread, salad, mushrooms and more... let us know your thoughts on the caramel marmite sauce!

Alongside our Tuesday visits to Cornerstone Café & Bookshop, Grove we're popping up somewhere different each Thursday. In October we'll be at:
Wellington Gate Community Drop-in on the 15th
Wantage Primary Academy on the 22nd
and The Shoulder Of Mutton on the 29th - an evening special for anyone on their way home or heading to the quiz





Love Wantage
Vale Community Impact
Vale Cdo

07/10/2026

Tomorrow: Mix Pop-up - St Nicholas' Primary School, East Challow in the playground at pick-up time.

We'll be bringing oranges, bananas, cucumbers and more... come and say hello and pick up some free surplus food!

03/10/2026

International Repair Day is 2 weeks today!

Join us at Grove Methodist Church Hall on Sat 17th October for all kinds of fixing, 2-5pm

🪡 Clothing and textiles
⏰ Household items
📻 Electrical items
✂️ Tool sharpening

No booking required, just turn up and we'll do our best to help your items have a longer life 🧰

02/10/2026

Autumn Open Day at Wantage Market Garden is Sunday - pop in for plants, cake and smiles 🌿

30/09/2026

A couple of afternoon slots available for this Saturday's Repair Cafe if anyone has something in need of a fix?

Book here: https://book.plinth.org.uk/e/8Wf8sAfPpSH7O4wDIfzJ