Please support your LOCAL freecycling group

Here in Kidlington we are increasingly proud of our group. It starts, like all such groups in a small way, but is growing steadily. Many groups discourage members joining who do not live locally. That is not our policy.

We take the view that some people may wish to join our group because they work in the area, or even have relations who live here and perhaps those relations do not have access to the Internet.

Whatever the case we work hard to ensure that when an item is offered that both the person potentially taking that item and the offerer consider travel costs as part of the equation. There seems little point in spending a couple of pounds worth of petrol in a car, never mind the maintenance, and any associated ecology downsides such as carbon emissions, noise pollution etc if the item to be collected does not justify the journey.

If the journey is a "local" one then of course such issues pale into insignificance, and that is the main reason we ask people to add their location (a village name or the first 3 characters of your postcode) at the end of the subject.

This of course is only a guideline. Neither do we, nor do we wish to enforce this guideline. We leave it up to the offerer and the taker to decide in their own minds whether such issues are relevant and how important they are.

If you are concerned about travelling then we recommend you might also wish to consider joining other local groups. To the north we have Cherwell Valley group, to the south we have Oxford group, to the west we have the Witney group and to the east we have Bicester group.