Oxford's Youth Clubs Get Creatively Clever
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
Creatively Clever was created by Wolvercote YPC and Leys CDI. It is a young person led inititive helping Oxford residents aged 13 to 18 to overcome the difficulties of lockdown with group activities available online.
Museum of Oxford
Wolvercote Young People's Club
Leys CDI
Creatively Clever
Shipton Hub is Supporting Oxford's Vulnerable Residents
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
Shipton Hub started with the beginning of lockdown. Previous to the coronavirus pandemic, volunteers had been distributing free Pret A Manger food once a week through the food waste app Olio. However with the onset of lock down and an increase in food povery, members of the community "didn't want [their] regular people to go hungry." So Shipton Hub began. They scaled up, found more food and started recruitment. The hub now distributes food to the A&E at the JR, three homeless shelters in Oxford, two food banks in Kidlington and to the three emergency services on a weekly basis.<br /><br />In addition to this work, because mental well being is just as important as physical, the hub started a letter writing scheme for care homes called 'Letters in Lockdown.' Shipton Hub is inviting Oxford residents to send their letters to a central email address, these messages will then be printed and sent directly to care homes. The organisation delivers on average 45 letters every two weeks.
Shipton Hub
Museum of Oxford
Brenda Gratwicke
Missing the Hustle and Bustle
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
"At first I enjoyed the peace and quiet, and the cleaner air with hardly any traffic. Once I was the only person on High Street; on another occasion I seemed to have Christ Church Meadow all to myself. <br /><br />In spring the city would be thronged with the first wave of foreign language students. Their numbers and noise irritated me so it was good to have some respite. As the days passed and the novelty wore off, I suddenly realised that all the assumed benefits were reminders that we were living in a dystopian nightmare; facing an existential crisis that the peace and quiet accentuated. <br /><br />The normality that returns will never be the same, and nor would we expect it to be. We want to keep the cleaner air, and less congested roads. But I want the foreign language students to return, and all our other visitors, and they can be as noisy as they like."
Bob Weatherhead
Museum of Oxford
April 2020
Bob Weatherhead
A Video of Oxford in Lockdown
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
A video of the empty streets of Oxford during the Coronavirus lockdown.
Museum of Oxford
26th April 2020
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpgaaNAovZYplQM2_fCx3ag">Sam Hamper</a>
Video
Deserted High Street/St Aldates
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
"Been out for a walk on my own as have barely left the house in 3 weeks and needed the exercise . Although it was nice to see that people are isolating it was also so weird seeing Oxford city so empty, I have never in my whole life seen it like this!"
Kelley Spacey
This entry was posted in 'Oxford Community' Facebook group.
Museum of Oxford
31st March 2020
Photographs and text by Kelley Spacey.
Covid-19: Oxford researchers developing rapidly-deployable ventilator, an Oxford Mail Article
Covid-19: Oxford researchers developing rapidly-deployable ventilator, Oxford Mail Article, 24th March 2020. An article on the work done at Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences to engineer ways of making life-saving ventilators quickly.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18331500.covid-19-oxford-researchers-developing-rapidly-deployable-ventilator/">https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18331500.covid-19-oxford-researchers-developing-rapidly-deployable-ventilator/</a>
Oxford Mail Reporter Erin Lyons
Museum of Oxford
24th March 2020
Oliver Parr
Oxford Mail
Clapping for Carers at Derwent Avenue
The Covid-19 Pendemic and Oxford
Applause at Derwent Avenue, Headington, Oxford on the 27th of March 2020.
Jackie Bradshaw
27th of March 2020
Clap for Carers: a community united
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
We live in a small community of students and their spouses. I only learnt one of our neighbours' partner is a Doctor because the virus meant we were making sure everyone was looked after and could get in touch if they needed anything.
At 8pm we left our dinner and went outside to join the chorus of clapping, cheering, drums and whistles to honour and show support for our NHS heros and key workers who are taking risks and making huge sacrifices to help us all in this time of unprecedented crisis.
I looked up to see my neighbour clapping with us too. She took pictures as well - I wonder if it was to show her boyfriend who may well have been at work at the time.
It must be strange being alone in the flat all day waiting for your partner to return from treating sick people, desperately hoping they will be ok and not bring the virus home with them.
8pm March 2020
Rose Hill Pupils Write Letters about Coronavirus
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Oxford
An article which was published in the Oxford Mail on Thursday 19 March about the reaction of children in Year 4 & 5 from Rose Hill Primary School towards the spread of the coronvirus. <br /><br />The following is a link to the Oxford Mail article on school children writing letters to the world to offer support: <a href="https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18317978.rose-hill-pupils-write-letters-coronavirus/">https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18317978.rose-hill-pupils-write-letters-coronavirus/</a>
19 March 2020
Sophie Grubb
Oxford Mail