Local Government
Here you will find content relating to Local Government, including Government announcements and topics surrounding the local economy.

Anneliese Dodds among MPs testing for HIV in support of UK...
Using Simplitude ByMe HIV self-tests by Oxfordshire-based Owen Mumford.

How your customer’s experience has changed in 2020 – and what...
It’s been a year like no other, and alongside the disruption to all our lives, one of the most obvious effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the way the dynamic of the relationships, and interactions, between businesses and their customers have profoundly changed.

The Oxford Bus Group: 2020 Corporate and Social Responsibility Report
We are pleased to be able to circulate The Oxford Bus Group’s 2020 Sustainability Report entitled ‘Taking Care of Every Journey’.

Attend Oxford Living Wage Week Event (Online)
It is #LivingWageWeek, from 9 – 15 November 2020, and we are celebrating the hundreds of thousands of low paid workers who have received a pay rise because of the Living Wage movement.

B4 One: An interview with Ian Hudspeth of Oxfordshire County Council
How Oxfordshire County Council are dealing with staff to support them as (if) they return to offices in the new way of working.

B4 One: Interview with Cllr Ian Hudspeth of Oxfordshire County Council
B4 Interview Cllr Ian Hudspeth on the Wellbeing of residents and staff in a post COVID world.

Your country needs you, get back to the office
Does Britain’s fragile economy really hang on a classic club sandwich and a cappuccino?

Supporting Oxfordshire’s Businesses with Richard Byard & Helen Brind, OxLEP
Did you know that the OxLEP’s Growth Hub provides business support to SME’s across Oxfordshire? The Growth Hub aims to simplifying the business support landscape and help individuals and businesses to easily connect as well as leading a c£10m business support programme.

Oxford City Business Update
Our communities are under severe pressure during the crisis but there have been a few positives, less pollution, less waste and increased awareness and support for the vulnerable amongst others.

Park and Ride free parking offer
Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council are providing free parking at all Oxford’s five Park and Ride sites throughout August.

Restart, Recover and Renew – How Oxford might recover better? With...
This talk will look at ways Oxford City Council and partners are working to stimulate a better economic recovery in a world that is changing rapidly after the events of 2020.

Visitor and hospitality sectors adapting and innovating to take on new...
The COVID-19 crisis hit hospitality, tourism, and events businesses hard. The visitor industry alone is worth £2.2 billion a year to Oxfordshire and thousands of people work in it. So how can it rebuild?

Oxfordshire businesses show flexibility and adaptability in response to the coronavirus...
Rod Macrae has been hearing about the way businesses have responded to the challenge of COVID-19 – and the support available for SMEs from OxLEP.

Oxfordshire’s Visitor Economy – the then, the now and the future...
Oxfordshire has in recent years benefited from a valuable and thriving visitor economy that was worth over £2billion and supported nearly 40,000 jobs across the county.