Join our regular Creative Workshop in October to try your hand at crochet! This workshop is for beginners, no previous experience expected. All materials will be provided, payment by donation (suggested £5).

Plus our bar and café will be open 12-4pm, and we’ll have our live 100 Club draw at 3pm. Stop by to see if you’ve been the lucky winner this month!

We’ll be celebrating the Hindu Festival of Lights and The Big Draw on 19th October. Help us to make and decorate new bunting to hang in the barn, plus try your hand at rangoli designs, mehndi hand painting, and more!

Lockdown Dhaba will be serving their delicious vegan and vegetarian food, and our bar will be open throughout.

All activities free & all welcome!

Join Josie Bridges and Julian Woodman from Natural Resources Wales for an insightful talk on the rare and important plant life found at Stanner Rocks National Nature Reserve. They will share details of the conservation work—past and present—dedicated to protecting some of the site’s most sensitive species.

Josie Bridges is Project Office for the Welsh Marches, working within the wider Natur am Byth project in Wales.

Julian Woodman is Specialist Advisor for vascular plants at Natural Resources Wales.

We’ll have light refreshments and bottled drinks from the bar available. The talk is free, but donations are warmly welcomed.

We’ll welcome back KLEEN on Saturday 11th October as they press apples for the community (bring washed apples and clean containers to press your own juice!).

We’re also going to celebrate The Big Draw at the same time, so join us for a whole range of apple-themed art and craft activities! Suitable for all ages and free to attend.

Join the Dots return to The Oxford Arms for a barn dance on Saturday 4th October. We’ll also welcome back Street Food Collective with their delicious pizzas + more!

Tickets are on sale at The Oxford Arms, £8pp adults, and £5 under 16s. Write to info@openarmskington.co.uk if you have any questions.

This month’s creative workshop will focus on decoupage! If you’ve an item that needs a new decorative lease of life, bring it along! Materials will be provided, payment by donation (suggested £5).

As well as the workshop, the Kington Community Choir will be performing in the barn at 1pm, and we’ll have our live 100 Club draw at 3pm. The bar and Caravan Café will be open 12-4pm.

Whether you’ve been walking the hills and ridges of Kington as part of the walking festival or taking it easy, join us at The Oxford Arms on Sunday 21st September to celebrate this year’s edition. We’ll have Drover’s Bait ploughman’s lunches on offer, cakes from the Caravan Café, and our bar will be open all afternoon.

Plus there will be another chance to see two films made by OAK volunteers on the history of Kington. One focuses on the drovers who used to pass through town with thousands of animals, tracing their route, describing the history of the town and The Oxford, and reimagining the sights, sounds, and smells of droving life. The other offers a short history of Kington’s many pubs—over 40 at one point! The two films are short (20 mins) and will be shown on a loop in the barn throughout the afternoon.

As part of Heritage Open Days, Britain’s biggest festival of history and culture, nine craftspeople will be stationed in our courtyard, barn, and gazebo on Sunday 14th September giving demonstrations of their traditional skills and allowing you to have a go. Three of the crafts on show are on the red list of endangered crafts, so this is a rare opportunity to see them first-hand!

You’ll see England’s last traditional clog-maker, Jeremy Atkinson; vardo and Romany artist Jane O’Connor; frame-quilter Rosamund Black; basket-weaver Laura Rowlatt; letterpress artist Graeme Hobbs; potter Nancy Frost; blacksmith Ambrose Burne; and paper-maker Sarah Rickett. There will be crafted items for sale, KLEEN will be giving demonstrations of apple pressing, and our bar and Caravan Café will be open with Drover’s Bait ploughman’s lunches available.

It’s free to attend and all are welcome!

This month’s Creative Workshop will focus on mixed media collage! All materials and refreshments provided, payment by donation (£5pp suggested). No need to book, just drop in!

Plus the exhibition of entries for our young people’s art competition will be showing in the barn, and live 100 Club draw at 3pm!

Bar and café open 1-5pm.

Join us on 23rd August for the biggest music event ever hosted at The Oxford Arms as Project SMOK play a warm up gig before their show at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival!

More details will follow nearer the date on food trucks and support acts.

Tickets are £17.50 in advance (plus postage, free collection from Kington is available) or £20 on the door. Tickets will also be available for sale all day on Saturday 16th August, during Kington Vintage Show.

Please note: the ticketing vendor uses Paypal to take payment, but you do not need a Paypal account to buy! You can simply use a debit or credit card.

The Oxford Arms will be open all day on Saturday 16th August to celebrate Kington Vintage Show. Pizza Box Hay will be providing food throughout the afternoon and into the evening, and expect to see traction engines from the show stopping off in our courtyard!

Tickets for the Project Smok gig on 23rd August will be on sale all day at The Oxford on Saturday 16th August!

We’re honoured to welcome Rita Langford BEM as our next Kington castaway! Rita founded Kington Community Shop, a local institution which has raised over £1 million for local causes in the last twenty years.

We’ll be open 1-5pm, with the regular refreshments from the bar, plus the caravan cafe will be serving light meals and cakes.

Lake’s last gig in The Oxford’s barn was standing room only. He returns on 1st August for an acoustic set, with an open-mic session to follow. Free and open to all!

Plus Lockdown Dhaba will be serving their delicious vegan and vegetarian Indian food from the Caravan Cafe!

Join us this Sunday for our regular Creative Workshop! This month, we’ll be learning the skill of macrame to create a plant hanger. Please bring a pot for your plant hanger. All other materials and refreshments will be provided, payment by donation (suggested £5).

Come down an hour before the workshop begins to take part in our community Q & A session (1-2pm), and listen out for our live 100 Club draw at 3pm - will you be the lucky winner this month?

Bar and cafe open 1-5pm

Returning to The Oxford following her popular performance in the barn last November, Kate Green will perform a new show with a watery theme. Expect ukuleles, quirky comedy, and “high concept nerdery”!

Our bar will be open 5-10pm, and Lockdown Dhaba will be serving delicious vegetarian Indian food from the Caravan Cafe.

Free, though please tip the performer if you enjoy the show!

2Faced Dance Company will be at The Oxford on Saturday 5th July for a celebration of dance and movement. Expect dance workshops, pop-up performances and flashmobs, yoga with Georgie from 10.30-11, while our cafe and bar will be open serving light meals, snacks, and the usual refreshments.

Free and open to all!

Learn the flashmob moves in advance by watching this video!

Join us this Sunday for our regular creative workshop. This month, we’ll be creating stylish geometric designs with paper cutting!

All materials provided, payment by donation (suggested £5).

Our bar and cafe will be open 1-5pm, and our monthly 100 Club draw takes place at 3pm.

Join us for a ceilidh in The Oxford’s barn on Friday 27th June! We’ll have music from Join the Dots ceilidh band and traditional guided dancing.

Tickets £10pp, and £5 under 16s. To book, either come to The Oxford anytime during opening hours (Wednesdays 10am - 12.30pm; Sundays 1-5pm), or send an email with the number of tickets required to admin@openarmskington.co.uk.

Our bar will be open 5-10pm - no ticket required if you just want to join us for a drink in the courtyard!

For further information, contact admin@openarmskington.co.uk or info@openarmskington.co.uk

Halls Fine Art Auctioneers are back by popular demand on Friday 20th June for another antiques valuation event. The last one, in September 2024, turned up an old master painting! Is there something as rare and valuable in your attic? Join us to find out!

£2 per item valued, all proceeds go toward the renovation of The Oxford Arms. Cafe open throughout.

The Oxford Arms will again be a stop-off for participants in the annual Kington Wheelbarrow Race, and our courtyard bar will be open for spectators! We’ll also have delicious burgers and waffles on offer from RJ Smoke Shack.

Join us for a fundraiser for Herefordshire Mind with live music and activities for all the family!

We’ll have arts and crafts activities under gazebos in the courtyard, including:

Clay squishing - Colouring in - Tangram and mandala patterns - Visible mending - Origami - Analogue Minecraft design, and more!

We will be playing acoustic, atmospheric music, outside and unamplified in the beautiful courtyard, with gazebos for shade:

1pm - RSJ play deep Radiohead songs on guitar, flutes, and vocal harmonies

2pm - Erika plays hang drum - modal improvisations on the beautiful, ethereal instrument

3pm - Diego Brown and the Good Fairy - sing-a-long with “I want to be a bee” and other favourites

4pm - RSJ sing harmonious favourites - hum-a-long with “Detectorists” and songs by The Beatles, Love, Gorillaz, and The Velvet Underground

Plus delicious vegetarian and vegan Indian food from Lockdown Dhaba, tea, coffee, and cakes from the caravan café, and bar open throughout!