A POLISH man who has set up a website aimed at bringing Oxfordshire’s Polish communities together has called on his compatriots to get to know their neighbours.
Michal Gogut, 32, from Banbury, pictured, has lived in the country for seven years and first came to Oxfordshire as a student to learn English.
He set up oxfordshire.pl a year ago, providing information in Polish and English about local services and events, and has organised an event this weekend aimed at bringing not just people from the Polish community together but people from all different cultures and backgrounds.
He said: “There are quite a lot of people for whom the main problem is English — they don’t know how to access information on simple things like how to go to the dentist, and that is why I set the website up.
“I think it’s very important that Polish people integrate within the local community.”
A new Polish Saturday school, from 10am to 1pm, has been launched at Didcot Methodist Hall, and it has been thrown open to the general public.
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