Oxted really comes alive in the summer time when all the restaurants and cafes with outdoor space get out onto the pavement and everything feels a bit European! We’d love to encourage more outdoor activity in the town and would encourage all businesses with a little outdoor space to “take it outside”!
Here’s a selection of some of the things you can do in OXTED over the summer holidays!
What’s On
- 1st August – LEGO Portraits at Oxted Library! And Rhyme Time every Friday at 10.30
- 3rd August – Hylo Athletics try-on Day at simply Sports
- 4th August – Deadline for Tandridge Business Awards entries
- 8th August – National Cat Day – spot the cat stickers around Oxted 🐈⬛
- 10th August – Alan Forbes – meet the author and book signing at Wetherspoons 1-4pm
- 11th August – Quiz Night at The Ginistry
- 12th – 18th is Afternoon Tea Week!
- 13th August – Prosecco Day – Enjoy a Prosecco in one of our bars!
- 15th August – A’LEVEL RESULTS DAY
- 17th August – Caribbean VIBES in OXTED – steel band, street entertainment, Oxted Rock Choir and more
- 19th August – World Humanitarian Day – shop in one of our brilliant charity shops or sign up as a volunteer.
- 19th August – World Photography Day – send us your photos of OXTED! We’ll happily share your (appropriate!) Oxted photos if you tag @loveoxted and any businesses featured in them. £20 to spend in Oxted businesses for 5 winners.
- 22nd August – National Burger Day – who serves your favourite burger in Oxted? Post to your social and Tag them and @loveoxted. Celebrate GCSE Results Day with a burger!
- 26th August – National Dog Day! Most Oxted cafés are #dogfriendly so bring in your pooch for a treat!
- 31st August – Gin & Drag at The Ginistry (TBC – recheck @theginistry
- 2nd September – Rag Rugs Workshop at The Woodhouse Centre
- Every FRIDAY – Oxted Country Market at The Woodhouse Centre 9.30-11.30AM
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Meet the Author – Saturday 10th August
Did you know there is a website entirely devoted to carpets of Wetherspoons?
Ever wondered what it would be like to visit every single Wetherspoons in Britain?! Oxted couple, Alan and Agnes Forbes have done just that… AND written a book about it! The pair have visited all 900 of the chain’s venues over eight years and Alan will be at Wetherspoons signing their book on Saturday 10th August 1-4pm, so you can go and ask him all about it! All proceeds of book sales from the day will go to Young Lives vs Cancer.
Caribbean vibes – Saturday 17th August
We’re bringing the holiday toIf you’re not getting away in August, we’ll bring some holiday vibes to you!
August can be a bit quiet on the high street, so we’re going to bring some fun to Oxted with our some Caribbean vibes afternoon on Saturday 17th August 1-4pm. We have 2 steel band trios – Solid Steel – one on Station Road West and one on Station Road East. We also have some fabulous carnival stilt walkers, a limbo dancer – AfroLimbo – who’ll be doing a set on each side of the town and The Oxted Rock Choir are coming to sing some uplifting holiday tunes!
See what specials the businesses have to offer and enjoy a party atmosphere!
Get creative at The Woodhouse Centre
The Woodhouse Centre, is always a brilliant place to get creative and will be hosting creative workshops for both children and adults over August. Just drop in Monday to Thursday morning and see what’s on.
If you’re planning some August gardening projects to help improve biodiversity around Oxted, The Woodhouse Centre also has some absolutely gorgeous bee hotels, bug hotels and all sorts of brilliant bird boxes and tables to encourage insect and birdlife into your outside space. All wooden products are handmade by the amazing Men in Sheds and proceeds go back into this wonderful organisation. They also have lovely handmade wooden trugs to store all your gardening tools, gloves and seeds or collect your home grown veg!
We would love to have a list of interested parties for premises in Oxted, particularly retailer, so if you know anyone who’d love to open a shop in Oxted, please tell them get in touch via @loveoxted!
