The Sprout Online

The Sprout publication

The Sprout was one of the items that came up when the Parish Plan was considering practical ways of keeping the community informed. Jenny Barker, the founding editor, devised its unusual name, and it was first produced in October 2005 with strong support from Briony and Roy Newport, Bert Beuzeval, and Steve Elliott among others. In November 2010 Ag MacKeith took over as editor, and a fresh team picked up the advertising, finance and deliveries.

The Sprout is a strictly community project. It happens through the joint efforts of seven prime movers who deal with copy, layout, advertising and deliveries, backed by four directors and a four-person editorial team, and a score or more of willing pavement pounders who deliver it throughout the parish. It is financed entirely through local advertising, and has been recorded as a reason for moving to Botley!

The Spout is published ten times a year and delivered free to all households in the parish. If you’ve mislaid or recycled your copy already and want to read it again (or any back copies). don’t forget that Botley Library has spare copies.

You can read some past copies on line (note that most of the adverts have been removed so the contents’ page numbers are incorrect):

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2020

February 2020 March 2020 April 2020 May 2020 June 2020 July 2020 Sept 2020 Oct 2020 Nov 2020 Dec 2020

2019

March 2019 April 2019 May 2019 June 2019 July 2019 Sept 2019 Oct 2019 Nov 2019 Dec 2019

2018

Feb 2018 March 2018 April 2018 May 2018 June 2018 July 2018 Sept 2018 Oct 2018 Nov 2018

2017

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2016

Dec 2016 Nov 2016 Oct 2016 Sept 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 Apr 2016 Mar 2016 Feb 2016

2015

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The Sprout cover March 2012 The Sprout cover Summer 2012 The Sprout cover Christmas 2012

Extra photographs from recent editions

Here are a few additional photographs from major events in the past year that we couldn’t squeeze into the printed version of The Sprout. Click on the headers to reveal or hide them: