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With its vibrant community life, and intriguing history, the market town of Wallingford in Oxfordshire has much to offer residents and visitors alike. The first settlers in Wallingford were drawn here by the River Thames - and the river is still one of the town's great attractions. There's plenty more besides to enjoy here - an appealing town centre boasting a great selection of independent shops and restaurants, regular markets, all kinds of fascinating corners to explore and beautiful villages and Oxfordshire countryside all around. And if you live or work in Wallingford, there are all kinds of ways to get involved in the life of our thriving community. Wallingford has something for everyone - as we very much hope you will discover when you browse this site.
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Your voice has been heard! Wallingford set for £200,000 investment
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Wallingford Partnership Ltd has successfully secured £200,000 of funding for the town to develop a range of projects aimed at exploiting Wallingford's rich history. £100,000 of the funding is from the SEEDA small rural towns fund and South Oxfordshire District Council is providing the other £100,000. The money will be spent over the next 18 months. "Exploiting Wallingford's rich history" is one of the key themes that emerged from the Town Health Check in 2007, which helped the partnership to identify what actions might help revitalise the town.
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The overall project focuses on developing Wallingford's infrastructure to encourage much wider use of the town by residents and visitors. This will be achieved through a number of individual projects such as developing and extending the new town website, installing free wi-fi access across the town centre, providing infrastructure for a range of themed town decorations, providing better information and signs around the town and local villages and developing a range of discovery trails around the town.
Derrick Hoare, the Chairman of the Wallingford Partnership, said:
"This is the successful culmination of nearly two years work by the directors of the Wallingford Partnership and I am delighted that we are going to be able to go ahead with all the work we have planned. We hope that people from around Wallingford and local villages will get involved with implementing the projects and we will all start to see the results soon."
To find out more and see the full Press Release visit the "Its our turn web page".
If any members of the public think they can help us progress our work please contact Derrick Hoare on 01491 839415
The Wallingford Partnership Ltd
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