We are keeping the campaign to Save Our Fox alive.

Taking local media by storm, our recently relaunched campaign needs your donations now!

Donate to help our campaign to save the Fox.

The Fox has been a village pub since at least 1809 and is a building of historical significance dating from the early 1700s, a Grade II listed building, which used to host the local assizes justice courts and the village stocks. It is now the last pub left in the Bartons - and we want it back!

The residents of Middle Barton secured West Oxfordshire District Council’s listing of the pub as an Asset of Community Value (ACV) in March 2022.

The owner, a faceless investment company, put the Fox Inn on the market in June 2023. We quickly formed a vision of a exciting, thriving community pub. Despite raising a significant amount of investment ourselves, we could not agree a sale. In February 2024, we supported a bid made by a group who share our vision. This bid was never even considered.

We are not going away. We need resources to hold more of our popular pop-up-Fox events, remind the owner of their legal duty to maintain the building and convince potential investors that they will have the strong support of our community.

Richard C Brown MBE

The Bartons Community Benefit Society Ltd