Inspiration

Shopping for kids Christmas gifts can be great fun, and a good wander around Oxford is a wonderful source of gift inspiration. We are spoilt for choice with a huge range of indie shops, many of [...]

Today marks the beginning of our #indieNovember challenge! We've put together a list of daily prompts to help indies show off their awesome businesses in the run up to Christmas.

Hello, everyone – it’s guest blogger Rose here! If you’re at loose end come the second or fourth Saturday of the month, why not pay a visit to North Parade Market? This pretty [...]

While coffee needs no introduction, my name is Rose of Where Goes Rose and I’m excited to be guest blogging for Independent Oxford. I’m beginning my career here the way I do every [...]

I don’t know about you, but as someone who has lived in, or very near Oxford my whole life, I find I sometimes take the beauty of Oxford for granted. Transport me to another European city with [...]

Today the gates of Glastonbury Festival open to hoards of excited revellers, ready to taste a little bit of escapism at Worthy Farm, in the heart of Somerset. Festivals have become a mainstay of [...]

Our awesome indies have some great ideas to make Father’s Day gift buying super easy this year! Plus you can be sure that buying a gift from an Oxford Independent is going to be unique and [...]

With months of everything being a bit topsy-turvy, we all know that taking time to focus on ourselves and do the things we love is important. While deep down we know this, many of us fail to do [...]

For the 1st in a series of interviews with some of our Indie Oxford members, I spoke to Hannah Shipway, the creative craftswoman behind Jericho Studio Pottery to find out why she started, [...]

When Rosie and I sat down the other month to plan the year ahead we realised that at the end of March Independent Oxford turns two. How quickly have these two years gone!? And how much have we [...]