DONNINGTON DOORSTEP 

47% of salaries and running costs over 3-years for Family Support provision on the Donnington estate, Oxford.

Doorstep Families

To provide funds for Donnington Doorstep, as head grant holder to explore with Waste3~Taste and Ark-T3 opportunities for merging/pooling of administrative resources.

Grant to Donnington Doorstep Family Centre

Doorstep to Doorstep

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Financial assistance while they reconfigure services to react to the new and changing landscape of family support services.

towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant

Advice & support - all staff were deployed in distributing food and care packages to as many families as possible.

Towards core costs for the development of the Step Out project to broaden its remit to respond to child criminal exploitation and ensuring a contextual safeguarding approach is applied.

Donnington Doorstep

Funding awarded through community safety commissioning for targeted work with BAMER families

3 year youth participation programme giving young people a voice in sexual exploitation

Youth Ambassadors project

The project will train and support young people who have experienced Child Sexual Exploitation abuse to complete a peer mentoring accredited qualification. This will enable them to deliver early ....more

The project will train and support young people who have experienced Child Sexual Exploitation abuse to complete a peer mentoring accredited qualification. This will enable them to deliver early intervention work within schools prevent vulnerability to abuse.

Funding awarded as a 'one off' grant towards a family support project

Funding awarded through community safety commissioning for targeted work with BAMER families

Core stabilty

Develop a new strand of our targeted family support work and expand our reach: • with isolated women, in particular mothers and young girls, in the Asian community • in order to achieve reduced ....more

Develop a new strand of our targeted family support work and expand our reach: • with isolated women, in particular mothers and young girls, in the Asian community • in order to achieve reduced isolation, improved parenting and family life skills, better engagement with statutory services and other voluntary sector organisations. • which would mean higher reporting of anti-social behaviour in isolated communities, a lower incidence of undisclosed domestic and sexual abuse, and a reduction in vulnerability to extremist messages. We focus on building whole family resilience, which we believe is a highly effective way of combatting the power of negative messages that erode shared values. We think it is very important not to establish this as a separate initiative, but instead we want to weave it into the specialist services already available in our centre, so that our target group becomes better integrated into their locality, and better able to form cross-cultural friendships and protective networks. This work would consist of: - 1-to-1 support from a dedicated family support worker - This would be made available informally by the worker's presence at a regular time each week at our drop-in family stay and play sessions, enabling contact with women who are wary of individual appointments or who would experience resistance from their family networks to accessing support (3 hours/week over 1 year) - Once relationships are established, support would then be delivered by bespoke casework, delivered at the Centre or in the community as appropriate (7 hours/week over 1 year) - Part way into the project delivery we would seek to design and deliver 2 x 10-week parenting programmes for this initiative, adapting our usual content to include input from relevant community and statutory partners to include content around building resilience into family networks. We would intend the participants to be a mix of men and women from the target demographic for this work, and parents from other backgrounds, in order to truly foster a sense of civic participation at the local level. - We also wish to establish a new group for girls from the Asian community, to build resilience, reduce isolation, and facilitate their involvement in either our general youth provision, or referral into our CSE service where needed. (3 hours/week over 20 weeks of the year).We will use the grant to expand our family support work by 10 hours per week, and ensure the availability of a family support specialist in one of our weekly stay and play sessions. We will in addition run 2 parenting programmes with the explicit intention of involving parents from isolated communities, and establish a group for young Asian girls to build resilience and ensure their access to necessary specialist services.

Towards the Step Out programme which provides support for children at risk of or are being sexually exploited and parent/carer support and professional training.

This charity will use the funding to deliver peer education sessions and NOCN accreditation training to vulnerable young people with complex needs. This will build their confidence, self- esteem and ....more

This charity will use the funding to deliver peer education sessions and NOCN accreditation training to vulnerable young people with complex needs. This will build their confidence, self- esteem and improve their employability prospects.

DROP-IN PLAY-OUT (DIPO) Targeted Support DIPO offers play-focused activities for 7-18 year olds targeted at those at risk of social exclusion, anti-social behaviour or offending. We are open 3 ....more

DROP-IN PLAY-OUT (DIPO) Targeted Support DIPO offers play-focused activities for 7-18 year olds targeted at those at risk of social exclusion, anti-social behaviour or offending. We are open 3 evenings a week. We also offer volunteering, work experience and alternative time-table opportunities during the school day. This service has developed over 11 years including building our ‘Youth Space’ area. Many of the children and young people (C&YP) who use our centre have lives that are affected by poverty, crime, substance misuse or domestic or sexual abuse. Others experience disadvantage linked to disability. It is these Disadvantaged C&YP (DC&YP) our service focuses resources on - really making a difference to their lives. The grant will pay for staff to support our drop-in play activities. Trained and experienced key workers will provide 121 support involving befriending, listening, guiding, empowering and providing opportunities for wider awareness, information and choices. We will provide support with CV writing, sexual health (condom card scheme) and protective behaviours with a particular focus on healthy relationships, sexual exploitation and on-line safety - with input from our STEP OUT (CSE - child sexual exploitation) Project. STEP OUT has 2 specialist CSE workers delivering training, preventative work and 121 support to girls, boys and carers affected by CSE. DIPO Key worker responsibilities may include home visiting, attending court dates, case conferences, TAC meetings and inter-agency working with schools, police, YOS, social care and health professionals.

Re-opening six days a week.

Funding was awarded to contribute towards the 1-2-1 support for children and young people who have been identified as at risk of social exclusion or offending. £700 was deducted from the grant to ....more

Funding was awarded to contribute towards the 1-2-1 support for children and young people who have been identified as at risk of social exclusion or offending. £700 was deducted from the grant to pay rent charges due to Oxford City Council for 2015/16.

Funding was awarded to contribute towards the 1-2-1 support for children and young people who have been identified as at risk of social exclusion or offending. £700 was deducted from the grant to ....more

Funding was awarded to contribute towards the 1-2-1 support for children and young people who have been identified as at risk of social exclusion or offending. £700 was deducted from the grant to pay rent charges due to Oxford City Council for 2015/16.

over one year as unrestricted funding for this family centre in East Oxford which focuses on play, food, support and community

Funding was awarded to contribute towards the 1-2-1 support for children and young people who have been identified as at risk of social exclusion or offending. £700 was deducted from the grant to ....more

Funding was awarded to contribute towards the 1-2-1 support for children and young people who have been identified as at risk of social exclusion or offending. £700 was deducted from the grant to pay rent charges due to Oxford City Council for 2014/15.

Donnington Doorstep a family centre in East Oxford is developing its community volunteering programme providing disadvantaged or vulnerable local residents with volunteering and development ....more

Donnington Doorstep a family centre in East Oxford is developing its community volunteering programme providing disadvantaged or vulnerable local residents with volunteering and development opportunities while helping in delivering its activities