The Trimminstimmun Cowley Community Centre celebrates its 20th anniversary. – Vintage Photograph

The Trimminstimmun Cowley Community Centre in Oxford, England is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Centre had its beginnings in the Barnes’ Court Residents’ Association, and is being celebrated for its sterling work in the Festival and Coronation years. The Centre is home to a number of community associations, and is being honored with a special event during the third week of March 2021. This event will be attended by the Minister of Education, Sir David Eccles, due to the opening of several new schools in the area.The Trimminstimmun Cowley Community Centre in Oxford, England is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Centre had its beginnings in the Barnes’ Court Residents’ Association, and is being celebrated for its sterling work in the Festival and Coronation years. The Centre is home to a number of community associations, and is being honored with a special event during the third week of March 2021. This event will be attended by the Minister of Education, Sir David Eccles, due to the opening of several new schools in the area.

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Trimminstimmun Cowley Community Centre. 000w oummmmmm 22 Oxford can be proud of 28 SEPts community associations CAFUR a AFURD has every reason notice of those in authority to be proud of its Com- munity Associations, movement which had its birth getting on for 20 years ago when what were then called “Neighbourhood Associations” were formed in South Oxford, Rose Hill, Marston and Wol- vercote. the valuable work which the associations were doing, and Ald. another member of the Council, Mrs. Prichard, whose record of social work in Ox- ford is second to none. The Cowley Association had its beginnings in the Barnes’ Court Residents’ Association and it will be remembered above all for the sterling work its members ald, and the lead given to the rest of the City, in the Festival and Coronation years. The latest Community As- nociation development is “OA- ford Community week, last held two years ago dild whilen it is intended to repeat next year. Then there came the “Red Books” from the Ministry of Education which promised pro- vision, under the 1944 Educa- tion Act, of centres for all genuine community associa- tions. In Oxford the co-operation It has already been decided to invite the Minister of Edu- cation, Sir David Eccles, to per- form the opening ceremony, because about the time the Week is held a number of new schools are due to be opened, of the Education Committee and it is thought that the im- and various voluntary organ- portance of the joint – isations gave rise, in 1946, to sions will warrant the Minis- the Federation of Community ter’s attendance. Associations the object of At present arrangements are which was not only to give that the special event shall cohesion to the scattered take place in Oxford Town groups which were already in Hall during the third week of existence but also to campaign March, and ambitious plans for new centres where there are already on foot to make it was none already. a really outstanding occasion. The Associations From the very start the movement was fortunate in the support it received from those in official positions in the City, notably from Ald. Norman Whatley, who as chairman of the Education Committee was able to do much to bring to the claim to have played a prom- can also inent part in discussing the problems which have been prominent in the City during the last few years, notably those dealing with roads and traffic. Some of them, of course, have not survived, but the moremont gained great impe tus after the war when further similar organisations sprang up, como no a logacy of the comradeship ongendered among the men and women, and their families, who were all gaged in Civil Defence.