A little bit About Us…
We started in 2009 as Transition Chipping Norton – a community initiative to help local people transition away from fossil fuels and towards a more sustainable way of living. Some of our early projects involved setting up the Chipping Norton Community Orchard, campaigning for better cycling provision and a community allotment.
Fast forward to 2023, we constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation to better meet the needs of our community. We are still part of the worldwide Transition Network, but in 2025 we rebranded as Sustainable Chipping Norton, in line with many other Transition Groups.
We are also part of Community Action Groups Oxfordshire, a network of over 50 Oxfordshire groups at the forefront of community led climate change action, organising events and projects to take action on issues including waste, transport, food, energy and biodiversity. The network runs over 1,000 events per year, attended by over 60,000 local residents.
Our Most recent impacts
Take a look through our recent Impact Reports which capture how these projects have strengthened resilience, enhanced the environment and connected people.
2025 Age-Friendly Award winner
Youth work and connected communities continues to be at the heart of our ethos, and we were delighted to win an award from Incommon for our Intergenerational Youth Social Action in April 2025.
It is looking like dry weather for this Saturday's Ditchley Park Hedgelaying competition. A group of us are meeting up at 11:30 to see how things are looking and learn more about this heritage craft. Feel free to join us!
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Great to have Tatiana and Martha from WODC join us to help inspire with nature-based art activities today – thanks as ever to our brilliant volunteers and MOR Bakery for keeping us fed.
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Several of our members are planning to go to this event by Wild about the Wychwoods – do join us if you can make it 😊
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Exciting news – At our AGM in September members voted to change our name officially from Transition Chipping Norton to Sustainable Chipping Norton.
We hope this makes it clear to everyone that our aims are to support our community with initiatives to become more sustainable.
We have now officially registered the new name with the Charity Commission.
If you would like to help support the work we are doing, please do get in touch at office@sustainablechippingnorton.org or come along to one of our events.
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Storm Amy didn't put an end to all our planned activities this weekend and the annual ploughing competition was able to go ahead as planned.
Great to see so many young farmers-to-be involved in helping out, amply supported by those with many many years of experience. As always lots to see, do and learn at the Warriner School Farm.
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Here are some of the events we have planned along with dates – as ever, if you are able to join our whatsapp group you will hear about things as soon as they start being discussed, along with other local activities that might be of interest…. Please do get in touch if you would like to on 07517 144828.
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