About us
The Site Administration
Playing a crucial role to help keep our village safer for all road users
In case you wondered why a Community Speed Watch (CSW) team has appeared throughout Brailes regularly for the last 12 months the answer is simple – it’s because a number of motorists persist in failing to acknowledge the speed limit in a built-up area, risking not only theirs’ but other peoples’ lives too.
A Volunteer-run Website For Brailes
This website was originally launched in 2010 and the village thanks Lisa Bryan and others for maintaining it for the first 15 years of its service. It was redesigned and relaunched in August 2025. It is not a registered business or charity but a private endeavour for the public, currently owned and run by Ben Goren (Park House, Lower Brailes, OX15 5JB) contactable either by emailing info@brailesvillage.co.uk or desk@bgoren.com.
The owner of the site pays for all the costs associated with running the site from their own sources and from donations to the site (paid directly to the owner), and volunteers their time to do the work to update published information, ensure the software is working correctly, and to abide by relevant publishing laws.
The annual running costs of the Brailes Village Website are approximately as follows (varies according to exchange rates):
Domain Name: £15
Hosting: £50
Calendar App: £100
Security & backups £75
Style template £38
TOTAL: £278
* Time on Maintenance = avg 1 hour per day, 350 hours per year @ £15 per hour (website design rate) = £5250
To this end we invite local businesses who want to support the website to make a minimum donation of £12, representing £1 per month, and in return they will receive a complimentary listing on this website’s Business Directory. Apologies, those donations are not tax-deductible.
This website is not run for profit.
The Community Speed Watch (CSW) team will continue to monitor vehicle speeds through the village every week to help remind drivers of their speed. The static speed cameras in Lower and Upper Brailes record all traffic speed data 24/7 and the monthly reports obtained from the cameras show that 30% of all vehicles recorded are exceeding 35mph.
A ‘1st level’ warning letter is sent to speeding drivers reported for the first time. The 2nd offence letter is much more severe and states consequences if speeding persists.
Over 230 vehicles are still speeding every single day! Most importantly the data shows the time of day when these vehicles most often exceed the speed limit and so this is what is being used to determine our CSW activity and for the Police to attend with their detection vehicles in the village, day or night!
