Please see the below blog post written by Cllr Stephen Clarke on his visit to Music in the Meadow fundraising event...

"OAKFIELD COMMUNITY 'MUSIC IN THE MEADOW' 5 JULY 2025

Sharon Wykes, MD, Oakfield Community, kindly invited me to their Music in the Meadow fundraising event on Saturday 5 July 2025.  Music in the Meadows hosted singers, dancers, a BBQ, refreshments, raffle, tombola and many stalls. 

As I was parking my car in the car park, I could hear the sound of music coming from a group of excited singers and carers who were accompanying the band in the meadow adjacent to the house.  As I wandered around the stalls, I bumped into a number of residents from Yardley Hastings who were there too, including Georgia who we know from the Pop Up Shop.  Whist enjoying a cup of coffee and a short rest later on, we met a lovely family from Birmingham who were here to see their sister Caroline who has lived in the Oakfield Community for 30 years.  John, Diane, and Margaret were very complimentary about Oakfield and the care and support their sister received.  We had a happy time as we chatted in the sunshine.  The family hope to see us again at the next Oakfield event. 

Oakfield Community provides homes, care and support to adults with moderate to severe learning disabilities and autism over two sites within Easton Maudit and Yardley Hastings.  In addition to the main house in Easton Maudit, Oakfield also own a house in Yardley Hastings where they have been providing a specialised supported living service since 2016. The Yardley Hastings home is a Grade 2 listed building, of which there are 12 individual supported living flats. Within the grounds there is a Community Garden which consists of a Sensory Garden, seating and vegetable patches, with an array of flowers adding colour and scents to the garden.

I have supported them and assisted with the marketing of  the Oakfield Community small pop-up Charity Shop at 1 Castle Ashby Road, Yardley Hastings, NN7 1EL which is open on both a Wednesday and Friday from 10am-4pm. WNC has shared information on its social media accounts and drafted material for its residents e-newsletter. They also intend to include the wording in the next available edition of West Northants Life.

All proceeds from the Yardley Hastings pop-up shop go directly to the Northamptonshire-based Oakfield Charity, which provides quality housing, support and community opportunities to help people with learning disabilities and autism reach their full potential and live as independently as possible."