The councillor and other volunteers have even been receiving gifts for their help. Courtney Hughes, the woman behind Didcot’s Secret Santa festive fundraiser, made a visit to the vaccination centre and brought food, sweets, and chocolate for the volunteers. Now, the helpers often receive coffee and biscuits as a thank you from those getting the jab. Councillor Ian Snowdon also sits on the committee for Didcot Volunteer Drivers and the community larder. He said: “I am not there as a District councillor; I am there as a volunteer like everybody else. I am furloughed from work, so I am climbing the walls and I am looking for things that keep me busy. The people that volunteer there are absolutely amazing.”
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A COVID-19 community response group has been left homeless for almost a year after it was blocked from using three community centres. At the start of the pandemic Didcot’s Great Western Park Residents’ Association group was launched to help provide food boxes, deliver prescriptions, and offer phone calls for isolated people. However, unlike other Covid community groups it was unable to use the community centres in the Great Western Park area and at one point it was left to use a shipping container. The new Didcot estate is home to three community centres; Northern Neighbourhood Community Centre, and two new empty centres, but when a national lockdown was introduced the council shut all three.
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