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Last Update: 22 March 2025
Welcome to the Horspath Hub in the Old Chapel
An ideal venue with access and a toilet for people with a disability.
Horspath is a lovely village six miles south of Oxford and the Hub overlooks the village green.
Please note that the Horspath Hub is NOT the same venue as the Horspath Village Hall.
The Outreach Post Office is due to close on Friday, 28 March 2025. Please sign our petition to keep this valuable facility open for the village: Post Office Petition
Use the links immediately below the above photograph to navigate the site. All links on each page are highlighted in blue. If you have any comments, please email me at:
The Hub is an ideal venue for classes and activities, parties, weddings, wakes, meetings, exhibitions and corporate events. One wall of the Hall has a special paint applied so that images can be projected onto it. Click on the View Facilities link above to view photographs of the facilities.
To book the Hub, please click on the Hub Booking link above, where you will find the Bookings Calendar showing the availability of rooms, Terms and Conditions, and a Booking form to download which can be completed online. We are taking bookings up to May 2024.
There is an Outreach Post Office and Coffee Morning every Friday morning where people enjoy socialising.
Click on Classes & Activities to see what is happening in the Hub and online now.
If you would like to raise funds for Friends of Horspath, please consider, whenever you shop online, turning your every day online shopping into FREE donations. Please go to Easy Funding
News
(Updated: 7 April 2025)
The Polar Castaways ...
This is the untold other side of Shackleton’s South Pole expedition – a true tale of fortitude and tragedy trapped in the polar ice.
On Friday the 2nd of May Brian Lowe will tell a story related to Shackleton's expedition. He will describe the other side of the Shackleton attempt
on the South Pole.
Although Shackleton lost his ship, after an amazing feat of endurance and hardship, he saved all 27 of his men, and it became the stuff of legend ...
but not anywhere near this exploit, the Ross Sea back-up party was a near disaster – they were to lay depots for Shackleton's expedition once they had passed
the South Pole; in fact they did so, but their ship – the Aurora – broke free in a storm and drifted away, leaving ten men cast ashore ... of these men,
three died, and their experience was one of hardship and disaster.
They were eventually picked up after two years of isolation ...
Photographs from the 10 year celebration have been posted to the Photos page.
Help Wanted - Friday Cafe in the Hub
We are looking for someone that could spare 2 hours once a month to make tea and coffee at the cafe that runs alongside our post office. The volunteer would need to be available between 10-12noon on a Friday and bring a cake they have bought/made on the week they volunteer.
Please pop in and see Anna Radcliffe any Friday 10:00 - 12:00 noon in the Hub.
Village Magazine
The fifteenth edition of the Village Magazine is now available to be downloaded from the Magazines page.
The Film Club is Returning
The Film Club will be every Second Wednesday of the month from 2:00 to 4:00. Price: £3.50.
Doors open at 1:30.