📅 October 2026 Events in Oxford

Sat 3 Oct

Bingo Lingo

📍 O2 Academy Oxford

Fri 9 Oct

Sounds of the 60s with The Zoots

📍 Cornerstone Arts Centre

From £22.00

Sat 10 Oct

Legends of Motown live at The Beacon, Wantage

📍 The Beacon

Thu 1 Oct

Jazz Emu: The Pleasure Is All Yours

📍 Old Fire Station

Fri 2 Oct

Candlelight: Tribute to ABBA & More

📍 Holywell Music Room

From £21.00

Fri 2 Oct

Vivaldi's Four Season and the Lark Ascending by Candlelight

📍 Oxford Town Hall

From £25.00

Fri 2 Oct

Candlelight: Tribute to Michael Jackson

📍 Holywell Music Room

From £21.50

Fri 2 Oct

The Wanted

📍 O2 Academy Oxford

From £222.92

Fri 2 Oct

The Wanted 2.0 - Glad You Came Tour

📍 O2 Academy Oxford

Fri 2 Oct

The Cureheads + Siouxsie & The Budgies

📍 O2 Academy2 Oxford

Fri 2 Oct

Klub Kakofanney 's 35th Anniversary Gig Fri 2nd Oct at Florence Pk Community Centre Oxford

📍 Florence Park Community Centre

Fri 2 Oct

The Wanted Oxford Tickets

📍 O2 Academy Oxford

From £214.22

Thu 1 Oct — Fri 2 Oct

BROKE THURSDAYS Oxford’s Best Value Night Out!

📍 Plush Oxford

Sat 3 Oct — Sun 4 Oct

PARTYLICIOUS - Your Ultimate Saturday Night Out

📍 Plush Oxford

Thu 8 Oct

Quiz night in aid of Maggie's Oxford 2026

📍 Oxford Factory

£15.00 - £90.00

Thu 8 Oct

Perennial

📍 The Library

Thu 8 Oct — Fri 9 Oct

BROKE THURSDAYS Oxford’s Best Value Night Out!

📍 Plush Oxford

Fri 9 Oct

Night-ish LIVE @ THE BULLINGDON Oxford

📍 The Bullingdon

Sat 10 Oct

Great Milton Freecycle

📍 Great Milton Recreation Ground and Pavilion

Sat 10 Oct

THE INFLATABLES

📍 Tap Social Taproom

Sat 10 Oct — Sun 11 Oct

PARTYLICIOUS - Your Ultimate Saturday Night Out

📍 Plush Oxford

Sun 11 Oct

Guides for Brides Milton Hill House Wedding Fair, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF

📍 Milton Hill House

Wed 14 Oct

ERJA LYYTINEN

📍 The Bullingdon

Thu 15 Oct — Fri 16 Oct

BROKE THURSDAYS Oxford’s Best Value Night Out!

📍 Plush Oxford

Thu 1 Oct

Forage and Weave a Bramble Basket - Sutton Courtenay, Thursday 1 October

📍 Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre

£69.51

Thu 1 Oct

Sales Navigator & Outreach (Half Day Course) - OXFORD

📍 Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford

£145.00 - £295.00

Thu 1 Oct

Content, Leads & Company Page (Half Day Course) - OXFORD

📍 Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford

£145.00 - £295.00

Sat 3 Oct

Inside Life and Mind

📍 Life and Mind Building

Mon 5 Oct — Tue 6 Oct

Fundamentals & Applications of TUS | Oxford

📍 Life and Mind Building

£445.00 - £990.00

Wed 7 Oct — Thu 8 Oct

Youth Mental Health First Aid ( October )

📍 Oxfordshire Youth

Wed 7 Oct

British Isles Workshop on Self-Harm and Suicide Research

📍 Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

£44.04

Wed 7 Oct

Writing for Self Expression (Part 2)

📍 ORC at Restore Banbury

Sat 10 Oct

Oxford Brookes Undergraduate Open Day - Saturday 10th October 2026

📍 Main Reception, John Henry Brookes Building

Sat 10 Oct

Paint and Sip - Courtside Crush | Slug and Lettuce Oxford

📍 Slug & Lettuce - Oxford

£32.00

Wed 14 Oct

Live your Life Workshop - Oxford

📍 Beckley Village Hall

Wed 14 Oct

Writing for Self Expression (Part 3)

📍 ORC at Restore Banbury

Thu 1 Oct

Preparing for Advent: Rediscovering the Kingdom of God

📍 Diocese of Oxford

Sat 3 Oct

Wild Woman Flow & Sound-bath Journey

📍 Yogalina Bridge Street

£39.71

Sun 4 Oct

The Grief Table Oxford , Cowley - October 2026

📍 Every Body Studio

Thu 8 Oct

Catheter Care

📍 HealthTec Thames Valley

Thu 8 Oct

Thames Valley Rural Mission Hub - 8th October 2026

📍 St Mary's Convent, Retreat Wing and Maribel Centre

£10.00

Thu 8 Oct

BFRB Con 2026

📍 Life and Mind Building

Mon 12 Oct

Understanding Breast Cancer Together: A Patient Forum

📍 Richard Doll Building

Mon 19 Oct — Tue 20 Oct

Youth Mental Health First Aid ( 19th October )

📍 Oxfordshire Youth

Sat 24 Oct

A day retreat with River Wolton

📍 Online and In person at St Margaret's Institute

Free - £15.00

Mon 26 Oct

Sound Bath on Hunter’s Full Moon, donationa between £12 - £20

📍 24 Common Rd

Thu 1 Oct

Neurodivergence and Wellbeing (Part 1)

📍 Restore

Fri 2 Oct

Five Ways to Wellbeing (Part 4)

📍 Restore

Tue 6 Oct

The Psychology of Psychopaths

📍 Said Business School

£13.50 - £32.00

Thu 1 Oct

HAC Public Lecture with Professor Janet Lord

📍 Brookes University Headington Campus

Fri 2 Oct

The Road to Rehab

📍 George Pickering Education Centre

£36.00 - £54.00

Fri 2 Oct

David Kynaston DEEP INTO THE SIXTIES

📍 Blackwell's Bookshop

£6.00 - £35.00

Sun 4 Oct

Oxfordshire LOC CPD Sunday

📍 Milton Hill House

Thu 8 Oct

Baroness Beeban Kidron USERS

📍 Blackwell's Bookshop

£6.00 - £22.00

Thu 8 Oct

Greg Koch Q&A

📍 Fat Lil's

£12.00

Mon 12 Oct

Jonathan Fennell COLLAPSE

📍 Blackwell's Bookshop

£6.00 - £30.00

Mon 19 Oct

Talk: Healthy Homes in a Net Zero Transition

📍 John Henry Brookes Building

Free - £8.83

Wed 21 Oct

How do we revive community spaces?

📍 Rewley House

Thu 22 Oct

Donald Russell Memorial Lecture 2026

📍 Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College

Fri 23 Oct

Elif Shafak in conversation at The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

📍 The Sheldonian Theatre

£12.00 - £28.00

Thu 1 Oct

Business Breakfast Networking Event

📍 Hexagon Business Centres

Thu 1 Oct

Win Clients on LinkedIn - Full Day Course - OXFORD Social Selling Training

📍 Leonardo Royal Hotel Oxford

£195.00 - £345.00

Thu 1 Oct

Guides for Brides Networking Event at voco® Oxford Spires Hotel

📍 voco Oxford Spires by IHG

Free - £95.00

Tue 6 Oct

Cotswold Networking Witney October 2026 Meet-up

📍 Old Swan & Minster Mill

Free - £36.00

Wed 7 Oct

EQ Investors: Live & On Tour - Oxford

📍 The Ivy Oxford Brasserie

Sun 11 Oct

Members Open Day

📍 Brasenose Wood

Tue 13 Oct

ISPE GAMP CoP UK Forum - Tuesday 13th October 2026

📍 Worcester College

Wed 14 Oct

Mental Health First Aid – 14th & 21st Oct

📍 Restore’s Training Room, Manzil Way

£325

Thu 15 Oct — Fri 16 Oct

Oxford Generative AI Summit 2026

📍 Jesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub

£92.80 - £1192.45

Mon 19 Oct

RIBA Oxfordshire: Healthy Homes in a Net Zero Transition

📍 John Henry Brookes Building

Wed 21 Oct

Business Netwalking at Blenheim Palace, Wed 21st Oct, 9.30am-11.30am

📍 Blenheim Palace

£25.00

Sun 25 Oct

Members Open Day

📍 Brasenose Wood

Thu 1 Oct — Wed 28 Oct

Theatre After Dark - Haunted Tour

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £15

Sat 3 Oct

Family Friendly Foraging Course

📍 Evenley Wood Garden

Mon 5 Oct

Lime Garden

📍 The Bullingdon

Wed 7 Oct

On the trail of the Pre-Raphaelites

📍 Weston Library

£12.00

Fri 9 Oct

Jonn Elledge 31 INVENTIONS THAT BUILT OUR WORLD

📍 Blackwell's Bookshop

£6.00 - £25.00

Sat 10 Oct

Man! I Feel Like Bingo!

📍 Florence Park Community Centre

Wed 14 Oct

How To Manage Oxford's Growth

📍 Florence Park Community Centre

Sat 17 Oct

Autumn Stroll - Sutton Courtenay, Saturday 17 October

📍 Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre

£5.73 - £11.06

Mon 19 Oct

The Nature Ready Economy Summer School, 19th October 2026

📍 The H B Allen Centre

£0.00

Wed 21 Oct

Owl Talk and Pellet Dissection (for adults) - Sutton Courtenay, Wednesday 21 October

📍 Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre

£21.68

Sun 25 Oct

Matthew Rice A YEAR IN THE GARDEN

📍 Blackwell's Bookshop

Sat 24 Oct — Sun 25 Oct

Fawlty Towers Weekend

📍 Hilton Garden Inn Abingdon Oxford

From £310.00

Sat 3 Oct

Freya Ridings

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £38

Fri 9 Oct

TRICH: a solo show

📍 Life and Mind Building

£16.96

Sun 11 Oct

Katherine Jenkins

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £38

Sat 17 Oct

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £69

Sun 18 Oct

A Night at the Opera by Candlelight

📍 Oxford Town Hall

From £25.00

Mon 19 Oct — Sat 24 Oct

The Silence of the Lambs

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £20

Tue 27 Oct

Musical Theatre Workshop - Annie

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £30

Thu 29 Oct

Michael Portillo - A Life of Two Halves

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £35

Thu 29 Oct

The Michael Portillo Show

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £41

Fri 30 Oct

The Legends in Vegas: After Hours

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £35

Sat 3 Oct

Central & East Tour - Abingdon Lawn Tennis Club - 3-10-2026

📍 Abingdon Lawn Tennis Club

Sat 3 Oct

Oxford United vs Stockport County

📍 Kassam Stadium

Mon 5 Oct — Tue 6 Oct

ULTIMATE FRESHERS 26 - THE BIG RED BULL TAKEOVER

📍 Plush Oxford

Sat 10 Oct

Central & East Tour - Oxford Sports Lawn Tennis Club - 10-10-2026

📍 Oxford Sports Lawn Tennis Club

Sun 11 Oct

Oxford Half 2026

📍 Oxford

£12.00

Sun 11 Oct

Oxford Half Marathon 2026

📍 Blackwell's Bookshop

From £25.00

Fri 16 Oct

Men*s Blues vs Leicester Tigers

📍 Oxford University Rugby Football Club

Tue 20 Oct

Oxford United vs Wigan Athletic

📍 Kassam Stadium

Sat 24 Oct

Oxford United vs Bradford City

📍 Kassam Stadium

Fri 30 Oct

Men*s Blues vs Harlequins

📍 Oxford University Rugby Football Club

Fri 2 Oct

Jacob Hawley - Fighting Age Man

📍 Glee Club Oxford

Fri 2 Oct

Pegasus Comedy Club: October 2

📍 Pegasus

£8 - £14

Sun 4 Oct

Jonathan Pie: The End Of The World According To Jonathan Pie

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £24

Fri 16 Oct

George Street Comedy Club: October 16

📍 Wig & Pen

£10

Fri 23 Oct

Halloween Comedy Club in association with Rock the ATIC

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £18

Sat 24 Oct

Stand Up for The Church Roof - With Headliner Ali Woods

📍 St Mary & St John Church

£5.00

Fri 30 Oct

Pegasus Comedy Club: October 30

📍 Pegasus

£8 - £14

Fri 30 Oct

The Laugh Room - 30th October

📍 Summertown Arts Community

£16.00

Sat 10 Oct

Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre (TVERC) Autumn Conference 2026

📍 Upper Basildon Village Hall

£5.00 - £10.00

Sat 17 Oct — Sun 18 Oct

Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art

📍 St Anne's College

£109.05 - £195.72

Sat 17 Oct

Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) Autumn Conference 2026

📍 Oxford Brookes University

Free - £15.00

Mon 19 Oct — Tue 20 Oct

International Conference on Preventive Medicine and Mind Health ICPMMH on October 19-20, 2026 in Oxford, United Kingdom

📍 Hawkwell House Hotel Oxford by Compass Hospitality

Mon 19 Oct — Tue 20 Oct

International Conference on Green Energy and Technology ICGET on October 19-20, 2026 in Oxford, United Kingdom

📍 Hawkwell House Hotel Oxford by Compass Hospitality

Mon 19 Oct — Tue 20 Oct

International Conference on Management, Economics & Social Science ICMESS on October 19-20, 2026 in Oxford, United Kingdom

📍 Hawkwell House Hotel Oxford by Compass Hospitality

Tue 20 Oct

Buckinghamshire VCSE Mental Health Summit Autumn 2026: Day 1

📍 St Mary’s Church

Mon 26 Oct — Tue 27 Oct

Old Norse Poetry in Performance: 4th international conference

📍 Saint Edmund Hall

£22.38 - £49.46

Sat 10 Oct

Grown-Ups' Soft Play Night 90s Edition!

📍 Snakes And Ladders Abingdon

Sat 17 Oct

Bed By 10pm - Oxford

📍 Bridge Oxford

Sat 17 Oct — Sun 18 Oct

Fish56Octagon | Oxford

📍 O2 Academy Oxford

From £10.95

Sat 3 Oct

Old Skool Bingo in Banbury

📍 Aria's Nightclub Banbury

£18.00

Sat 10 Oct

2000's Day Party: Oxford 🦋

📍 Plush Oxford

£10 - £20

Wed 28 Oct

Fishies Week 6

📍 O2 Academy Oxford

Fri 30 Oct — Sat 31 Oct

Shy FX | Oxford

📍 Oxford

Sat 31 Oct — Sun 1 Nov

Rabidfest

📍 Oxford

Sat 3 Oct — Sun 4 Oct

Autumn Festival Weekend 2026

📍 Waterperry Gardens

Sun 4 Oct — Mon 5 Oct

Oxford's Big Freshers Icebreaker - Presented by FOOTASYLUM - UK Largest Freshers Events - Sold Out 10 Years Running 🏆

📍 Plush Oxford

£4.99

Wed 7 Oct — Thu 8 Oct

ULTIMATE FRESHERS 26 - THE BIG UV PARTY

📍 Plush Oxford

Fri 9 Oct

Ocean Film Festival - Abingdon - 9 October 2026

📍 The Amey Theatre

£15.68 - £20.00

Sat 10 Oct — Sun 11 Oct

Wallingford Wellbeing Festival

📍 51a High St

Free - £150.00

Wed 14 Oct

Oxford Freshers 2026 Welcome Party

📍 O2 Academy Oxford

£0.99

Sat 31 Oct

Burford Autumn Food & Gift Fair 2026| Food, Gifts & Artisan Makers

📍 Warwick Hall

Thu 8 Oct

An Evening with Meg Mason - Oxford

📍 Waterstones Oxford

£5.00 - £23.00

Thu 15 Oct

Fantasy series: Dr Juliana Dresvina ‘Fantasy as Therapy’

📍 Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad (Exeter College)

Thu 22 Oct

Fantasy series: Dr Felix Taylor ‘The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn’

📍 Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad (Exeter College)

Fri 23 Oct

Elif Shafak IN ONE BRIEF MOMENT ALL ETERNITY

📍 The Sheldonian Theatre

£12.00 - £28.00

Sun 25 Oct

The World of Oliver Jeffers Book Signing Tour - Oxford

📍 Waterstones Oxford

£8.99 - £14.99

Mon 26 Oct

Family Trail: Hedgehog Adventure - Sutton Courtenay, Monday 26 October

📍 Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre

£8.92

Thu 29 Oct

Nicholas Orme CHAUCER'S ENGLAND

📍 Blackwell's Bookshop

£6.00 - £25.00

Thu 1 Oct

Speed Dating in Oxford | Ages 40-55

📍 The Varsity Club

Thu 15 Oct

Speed Dating in Oxford | Ages 30-45

📍 The Varsity Club

Sun 25 Oct

Unified Dating - Meet Singles in Oxford

📍 Oxford Secret Venue (TBA)

From £17.99

Fri 9 Oct

Oxford Autumn Singles Lock and Key Party (Ages 30-45)

📍 The Oxford Retreat

£22.38

Tue 27 Oct

Unified Dating - Meet Singles in Oxford

📍 Oxford Secret Venue (TBA)

From £17.99

Thu 29 Oct

Speed Dating in Oxford | Ages 40-55

📍 The Varsity Club

From £25.00

Fri 30 Oct

Unified Dating - Meet Singles in Oxford

📍 Oxford Secret Venue (TBA)

From £17.99

Sat 3 Oct

Sensory-friendly Family Day (3 October)

📍 Science Oxford Centre

Free - £9.50

Tue 6 Oct — Wed 7 Oct

ULTIMATE FRESHERS 26 - THE SANTA HAT PARTY

📍 Plush Oxford

Sat 17 Oct

City of Oxford College October Open Event

📍 City of Oxford College

Wed 21 Oct

The Leys College Campus October Open Event

📍 The Leys College

Wed 28 Oct

Half Term Halloween Crafternoon

📍 New Theatre Oxford

From £15

Sat 31 Oct

Free the Seeds!

📍 Oxford City Farm

Sat 3 Oct

Oxford's Craft & Flea Market

📍 The King's Centre

£3.00

Sun 4 Oct

October 2026 Scramble!

📍 Bicester Heritage

Thu 22 Oct

TOAST Oxford Exchange

📍 TOAST Oxford

Sat 31 Oct

Oxford Gaming Market - Saturday 31 October 2026

📍 The King's Centre

£4.28 - £8.56

Mon 26 Oct — Tue 27 Oct

The MNB Halloween Horror 2026

📍 Bridge Oxford

Wed 28 Oct — Thu 29 Oct

THE PURGE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

📍 Plush Oxford

Thu 29 Oct

OXFORD HALLOWEEN 🎃 - THE ASYLUM - Sold out 10 years running! Oxford's Biggest

📍 Plush Oxford

£4.99 - £12.99

Sat 31 Oct

Spooky Sculpt and Sip | Slug and Lettuce Oxford

📍 Slug & Lettuce - Oxford

£35.37