
IFRA
Iffley Fields Residents Association
Iffley Fields is a great place to live. We welcome people from diverse backgrounds and cultures and aim to encourage a community spirit. In our area we have amazing community assets that can be enjoyed by a much wider community: access to the river, the nature reserves, the recreation ground and the children's playground. We work with local authories and other stakeholders to improve these.
IFRA was set up in 1997 and covers Argyle Street, Bedford Street, Chester Street, Daubeny Road, Eyot Place, Fairacres Road, Greyfriars Court, Jackdaw Lane, Parker Street, Stratford Street and Warwick Street.
The IFRA Committee meets every 2 months alternately in person and on Zoom. All are welcome.
Sign up for regular email updates iffleyfields@gmail.com
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Together we can make a difference
AGM 2025
Join us for our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, March 10, 2025, at 8 PM. The meeting will be held at the Falcon Boat Club, Meadow Lane.
Mark Seal, Boatman for LMH, Merton and Longbridges, will be discussing ideas for improving the Towpath.
We look forward to seeing there!
Support IFRA
Last year IFRA celebrated its first quarter century! Through grant applications and crowdfunding we secured four park benches, three litter bins, a table tennis table and a basket ball net and wildflower, bulb and tree planting in Meadow Lane Recreation Ground. We contributed to the guerrilla garden planting and r secured a grant to improve Longbridges as a safer, better swimming area. We have brought residents together with a new book group, a walking group, a history group and a gardening group. We launched a new IFRA website and produce two Fields newsletters a year. We have advocated for residents’ access rights and planning to the Council and landowners.
However, grants don’t pay overheads and now we need your help to raise about £700 core funding each year for printing, newsletter, website costs so we can maintain our momentum. We are asking residents who can afford to do so to make an annual contribution towards these overheads.
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Set up a standing order from your online account, see bank details here
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Complete the form to make an annual or a monthly Standing Order and send this to your bank.
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Pay a cheque made out to IFRA and deliver to IFRA c/o 53, Stratford Street.
Please donate as little or as much as you like, whether than be £1/year or £10/month.
Account details: Nat West, Cornmarket Street, Account No. 24751634, Sort Code 54-21-23
You can find a Standing order Mandate here.

Longbridges Improvement Plan January 2025
The Friends of Longbridges have authored a plan for the site. The next community work party is scheduled on 23 February - all welcome. Repairs to the collapsing bank were completed by ODS in the autumn. Eradicating Himalyan Balsam on the site will take several years of work through the summer months. Please contact Adam friendsoflongbridges@gmail.com, if you would like to be added to our WhatsApp to be kept informed about our fun and sociable working parties.
See the Improvement Plan here
Updates

IFRA defibrillator installed
The IFRA Defibrillator has been installed! It is located on Meadow Lane, opposite the children’s playground, by the passageway to Chester Street.
In an emergency call 999, they will supply an unlock code for the cabinet so the defibrillator can be removed and taken to where it is needed. Anyone can use it with no training necessary, there are very simple instructions and voice prompts on the defibrillator itself and the 999 operator will also talk through the process.
A big thank you to Tom Green for getting this done, Councillor Emily Kerr for providing the funding, and to the household of 2 Argyle St for letting us use their back wall.

The Kidneys
Sunday 9 March 10 am
There will be a walk around the Kidneys to discuss what might be done, in particular reopen access to the river, and some planting. Ruth Ashcroft of the Friends of Aston’s Eyot will guide the walk and if you are free, we can get started clearing the short stretch of river bank.
Email iffleyfields@gmail.com or just turn up. If you can, bring gardening gloves and we can make a start on Ruth will bring tools.

Meadow Lane Carpark
No decision has yet been made about the reopening of the carpark. It was taken out of public use and became a private carpark for the Falcon Boat Club.
IFRA has campaigned for it to be returned to public use. Meanwhile the field by Donnington Bridge, which used to be a pinic area and one of the few places we can access the river. has become a carpark.
More information here