KLEEN return for a second apple pressing session on Sunday 25th October. Bring washed apples and clean containers if you want to press your own juice. Apple pressing from 12-3pm.

Our Creative Workshop this month will focus on wax resist leaf journal making. All materials provided, no experience necessary, all ages welcome. Payment by donation (£5 suggested). Creative Workshop 2-4pm.

PLUS we’ll be raising money for Breast Cancer Now - please come dressed in pink if you can, and donate generously!

Bar and café open 12-4pm (note the change to wintertime hours).

Coffee and bacon rolls, with all profits going to Breast Cancer Now in support of the Wear it Pink campaign. This event will run alongside our regular Country Market.

If you can, please come wearing pink!

Richard from AbilityNet will be returning in October to offer one more free digital skills lesson. This class will be an “AI practical”, a hands-on session offering an introduction to the many practical uses of AI in your digital life. Please contact Kim at kim@openarmskington.co.uk to book your free place, or call 07301 081444.

Richard will also host a short Q & A at the end of this session to assist with any other tech or IT queries you may have.

Calling all young photographers! We’re hosting a FREE street photography workshop in association with Rural Media, led by the wonderful photographer Billie Charity. This workshop will allow you to develop skills in capturing everyday moments, and build your confidence. Use your own camera if you have one, or use your phone if not.

Open to all young people aged 11 and over. Booking essential, please contact Kim at kim@openarmskington.co.uk to book.

October means the return of The Big Draw, and Open Arms Kington will celebrate it this year with a drop-in art workshop led by Rebecca Finney. The workshop encourages you to explore the plant community of Stanner Rocks (including the elusive Radnor Lily) through drawing and conversation. Use locally-sourced botanical inks and natural materials to make your mark.

Art workshop 2-4pm, free and all welcome to drop-in. All materials provided, all ages welcome.

Courtyard bar and Caravan Café open 11am-4pm.

NEW MORNING SLOTS NOW AVAILABLE!

Do you need support or assistance with developing a community or voluntary organisation? Do you have questions about securing funding, developing policies, organisation set-up, recruitment, planning activities, or anything else?

On Thursday 1st October, OAK and HVOSS (Herefordshire Voluntary Organisations Support Service) will be hosting free 1-hour drop in sessions with HVOSS Chief Executive Will Lindesay in the barn behind The Oxford Arms. Will has worked across the local voluntary sector for 25 years in community development, youth support, management and leadership roles.

Booking for these sessions is essential: please contact Will at will.lindesay@hvoss.org.uk or call/message him on 07742 090921 to book your 1-hour slot.

Our friends at KLEEN join us later this month for the first of two community apple pressing afternoons (the second follows on 25th October, so do not worry if your apples aren’t yet ready!). Apple pressing from 1-4pm, please bring washed apples and clean containers if you wish to press your own juice.

Meanwhile, our regular Creative Workshop will run 2-4pm with a focus on needlefelt mushrooms. No experience necessary, all materials provided, payment by donation (£5 suggested).

Our bar will also be open 1-5pm.

Please note: you are welcome to pull in to drop off apples or pick up pressed juice, but parking in The Oxford’s courtyard will be restricted to disabled badge holders and OAK/KLEEN volunteers.

The theme of September’s quiz night will be S.E.P.T.E.M.B.E.R. - every answer starts with a letter in September!

£5 per team entry, teams of max 4 people.

Quiz starts 7pm, bar open 6-10pm.

Weary walkers and non-walkers alike are welcome at The Oxford on Sunday 20th September as we celebrate the autumn 2026 Kington Walking Festival. The Caravan Café will be serving light lunches, cakes, and hot drinks, and our bar will be open.

Please note: The Oxford will not be open on Friday 18th September as previously advertised.

August’s Creative Workshop lets you try out making giant crepe flowers. No experience necessary, all materials provided, payment by donation (£5 suggested). Plus our bar and café will be open 1-5pm.

The summer of 2026 has been a scorcher, but how well do you remember holidays of summers past, their chart hits, sporting champions, fashions and fads, and of course the ice lollies of your youth?

If you fancy testing your knowledge on those rainy long-ago summers, join us for our August themed quiz!

Quiz starts at 7pm. Teams of max 4 people, £5 per team entry. Cash prize for the winning team.

For our next talk in The Oxford’s barn, join local historian Clare Wichbold, author of Hard Work – But Glorious: Stories from the Herefordshire Suffrage Campaign, for a talk on the history of women’s suffrage in Herefordshire. The talk is free but donations will be warmly welcomed.

Bar open 6-9pm, the talk will begin around 7pm. Unreserved seating -please arrive early to ensure a seat.

The next Kington High Street Market takes place on Sunday 23rd August, and The Oxford will be joining the festivities by hosting a yard sale. Our bar and café will also be open.

We’ve decided to start theming our Quiz Nights, and to kick us off we’ll host a 70s - 80s - 90s - 00s-themed retro quiz on Friday 31st July.

Bar open 6-10pm, quiz starts around 7pm. £5 per team entry, max team size 4 people. Cash prize for the winning team.

July’s Creative Workshop will focus on making anthotypes - a natural photographic technique using light-sensitive pigments from plants and the light of the sun to create photographic prints. All materials provided and no experience necessary. Payment by donation (£5 suggested).

Plus our bar and café will be open 1-5pm.

Join Josie Bridges, Welsh Marches Project Officer for Natural Resources Wales, for a talk on the giant and veteran trees of the region in The Oxford’s barn.

The talk will be illustrated by local artist and researcher Epha J. Roe with images from their project “Arboreal Encounters”, a series of photographs of English heritage oak trees informed by the Ancient Tree inventory.

Unreserved seating, please arrive early to ensure a place. The talk will begin around 7pm. Free, but donations warmly welcomed. Bar open throughout.

***This talk was originally scheduled for 24th March, and then scheduled for 19th May***

We’ll be having a French-themed celebration to mark Bastille Day this July. Join us for palet (a game similar to boules), a Bastille Day quiz, and French music, and our bar and café will be open. Plus there’s a prize for the best French dress!

Join us this Sunday for some acoustic music and an afternoon drink from our bar. Open 2-5pm.

Our regular Creative Workshop for June will focus on watercolour designs. No experience necessary, all materials provided, payment by donation (£5 suggested).

PLUS this month our bar and café will be open 10am-4pm, while Kington Street Market takes place outside on Kington High Street! We’ll also have a yard sale in our courtyard, alongside a sale of various artwork and art materials.

Monthly quiz nights continue at The Oxford Arms on the last Friday of the month.

Quiz starts at 7pm, teams of max 4 people. £3pp entry. Bar open 6-10pm.

It’s that time of year again! Kington’s iconic wheelbarrow race celebrates its 50th edition this June, and The Oxford will be part of the fun as ever, serving as a stop-off for participants, and one of the best places to watch the action. RJ Smokeshack will be serving their smash burgers and waffles and our bar will be open.

Halls Fine Art Auctioneers will visit The Oxford again on Friday 5th June to put a value on your heirlooms and antiques. On their previous visits, they’ve valued an Old Master painting and a bucket from HMS Victory, so we look forward to seeing what treasures Kington has been hiding this time!

Drop-in between 11am and 2pm, £2 per item valued. All proceeds go towards the renovations of The Oxford Arms.