| 20/07/2022 |
£2,329 |
|
SYRIAN SISTERS |
This grant will be used to keep our food bank fully stocked up with essentials, cover the expenses of delivering food parcels such as petrol and mileage costs and to also continue paying for the room we hold our food bank out of at the Rose Hill Community Centre. We also have PPE costs and volunteer time we need to cover every week we open up our food bank to the community. We already know this food bank addresses a huge need in our community as it is becoming a resource which we need help to maintain. As the cost of living increases we will spend this grant to spread out across out community to ensure everyone who needs help has a safe space to get it. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£6,170 |
£51,450 |
DOVECOTE VOLUNTARY PARENT COMMITTEE |
There is a massive demand for our services, which we have facilitated and developed since 1996. Funding if awarded will be used to secure and expand current services; oversubscribed, low-cost afterschool club and stay and play sessions. Breaking down barriers to enable disadvantage children including children with social and emotional problems and families experiencing isolation and social exclusion, to access opportunities and experiences that encourage and support their development of social skills, confidence, self-esteem, sense of belonging and much more. The grant will ensure that the Dovecote Children & Families project can continue to be a focus point in which disadvantaged families and children can come together, build positive relationships, access opportunities and experiences not normally available to them along with work together to make their community a better place. Securing the role of a play coordinator will provide our project with capacity to deliver good quality fun, exciting, challenging and interesting activities and opportunities in which local residents feel empowered to engage with. Activities and opportunities on offer will support children and family’s mental health, social development and much more. Early years settings have a massive positive impact on children from disadvantaged backgrounds giving them access to resources and experiences they might not have at home. Working with parents our services can work with them to reduce the gap in development for children and ensure all children start school reaching a good level of development Providing family trips gives families an opportunity to spend time away from living live in one of Europe’s larges housing estates along with provide children with new experiences and opportunities Part of the funding will be used to purchase materials and equipment needed to enable us to provide children and families with a wide variety of interesting, engaging activities and experiences. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,249 |
|
OXFORDSHIRE DISCOVERY COLLEGE |
Our aims for 2022 involve being a key component in supporting young people to recover from the impact of Covid, by upscaling the programmes we've already created in response to the huge increase in need we're seeing as a direct result of the pandemic - making our services available to more children, young people, and families, and making our structure as an organisation more stable to ensure we can offer them continuity. We plan to appoint longer-term staff, including a Coordinator and Facilitators who can deliver, and continue to develop, an array of programmes on a rolling basis. This will enable us to roll out delivery to at least 3 new locations across the county, identified by indicators such as economic deprivation or high hospital admission rates, and develop a robust enrolment process for all of our participants to ensure ease of access. This grant will enable us to grow and extend our staff capacity by providing salaries for two staff on 9 hours/week basis for 7 months. We currently have Facilitators working with us - co-designing and co-delivering programmes, but having these roles secured for a further 7 months will enable us to be responsive to need, taking different programme topics to different geographical locations across the 7 month period. We will deliver our existing multisession programmes to a variety of beneficiaries, increasing our reach. Existing topics include Self Harm > Self Care (for primary, secondary, young adult, and parent audiences); dealing with change; identity; and wellbeing for primary aged children. We work closely with partners and have the trust of these organisations - this includes Oxfordshire Youth, Abingdon DAMASCUS, Ark-T, Debating Mental Health and others. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,166 |
£118,068 |
BERIN CENTRE |
We'll use this funding to support three key strands of our work: - Staffing for our weekly Community Larder. The larder brings affordable healthy food to the village and is facilitated each week by three volunteers and two staff. We absorb the vast majority of costs, including exclusive use of the building to host the larder, but contributions to enable the continuity of this service are essential. The larder provides vital access to healthy, affordable food that is local and accessible. This enables residents to maintain their overall health through diet, reducing the need to travel to busy shops outside the village. It also provides an opportunity to join up with other organisations and signpost effectively - partners attend the Larder to speak to members about services available to them. - Staffing for our Growing Minds school readiness project which involves distribution of free monthly story books for every child under 5 across the village, 1-1 family support, and 3 Peep Learning Together Groups each week for 0-5 year olds and their parents. This intensive support helps parents to create a positive home-learning environment, understand their child's development, and together prepare their child for starting school. - The delivery of a cohort of the Family Links 10 week programme. Our staff are fully trained Family Links Facilitators and we have identified a number of families in the area who would benefit from this emotional health nurturing programme. We'd like to work in close partnership with the local primary school to co-deliver a full programme, sharing parenting strategies and forming a close network of peer support. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,954 |
£26,403 |
CHOLSEY VOLUNTEERS TRUST |
Each of these areas of involvement requires a significant amount of development and co-ordination, as well as 'routine maintenance', addressing problems which inevitably arise. We have had the good fortune to receive some grant aid and undertaken considerable fundraising to employ a Development Co-ordinator, without whom we would not have been able to initiate half of the projects with which we are involved. Our sim in applying for funds at this critical stage of our development is to be able to pay for her for the remaining portion of this financial year, August 2022 to March 2023, in order to consolidate what we have done so far. Our concern is that we would have to divert our energies to fundraising for her costs at the very time when we expect the need for what we offer will start to increase. To be funded for our core staff member for this period will enable us to enhance what we already do and build up further networking ties with groups in other towns and villages. This role is especially critical given not just the overall number of volunteers and potential volunteers involved, 200 plus, but also because some of the areas of volunteer work require training and supervision. This matters most in areas like advocacy and support, where volunteers have to be 'vetted' for appropriate skills and awareness of the boundaries within their work,, and in areas like transport where the safety and compliance with policy are most important. Volunteers often also need direct support - it requires quite some skill to take on the role - and the Development Officer has shown us how important this role is. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£10,000 |
£119,990 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND |
BLAP appreciates many needs on our estate, exacerbated by the pandemic, will get worse if the financial situation worsens. We have 3 arms of our work: The Holiday work The monthly Family Saturday work. The After School work, We have funding for the first two but now need to ensure we have enough funding for the after school work that is the backbone of all we do. We believe the work we do to be life changing for some and life enhancing for most (we have 150 on the books and often have 30+ a session). We would like to ask for a grant of £8966 to pay the part of the salary that is linked to the After School work, for two of our four workers. We are also asking for operational costs of £1034 to cover : Gold award prizes Telephone costs including group texts, Computer support Activity resources for cooking, arts and crafts and gardening. Communication with parents is essential but many parents do not have access to emails. so texting is better. We need computers and printing ability to provide, for instance, attractive evaluation exercise to see whether we are meeting the children and family needs. Resources for activities are important too. A recent evaluation showed children recognised that staff listen to them. We are aware in households where they are living in crisis it is not always easy to find time to listen to the children's needs. We are very grateful for our volunteers who bring with them a skill in communicating with the children that we know and appreciate. Children love to chat with them. However it is important to have the consistency that the staff bring to BLAP. They are there every day and know the backgrounds of the children. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£10,000 |
£467,130 |
REFUGEE RESOURCE |
This grant will support our Mentoring Service (Coordinator post and service costs). Our well-established mentoring programme offers crucial social connection and one-to-one support for our clients with a carefully matched volunteer mentor. Through weekly meetings over a 12-month period, the mentoring pair identify and work towards goals/aims for personal development and integration. We provide a scale of mentoring support options, tailored to the client’s needs. ‘Befriending’ is less goals-oriented (as this can be overwhelming for some) and more focused on ‘time together’; getting to know the local area and services on offer, building confidence in going out, practicing English, and providing social support. ‘Mentoring’ can involve a mix of social and other activities, but will specifically support some defined goals identified by the client. ‘Coaching’ is more intensively focused support, with more regular reviews of a set goals focussed on particular issues, such as accessing training, education, volunteering and employment. Usually meetings take place out in the community, but the service offers a blended approach to delivery (in-person and virtual), dependent on individual clients’ needs and preferences. It is therefore able to adapt quickly to the changing circumstances of the pandemic. During the lockdowns - for clients who were able to - outside, socially distanced meetings were able to continue. For those who were self-isolating, contact was maintained virtually, through regular phone calls or video calling (at least weekly, and for some clients more frequently if needed). Thus, the mentoring service provides a critical lifeline of support and social contact, no matter the circumstances. We offer a very comprehensive in-house training package for new mentors covering over 13 hours of training (including around mentoring relationships, safeguarding, trauma, boundaries, and cultural difference). Our mentoring training is certified by Oxford Brookes Business School with the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,540 |
£134,296 |
ARCH (ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN IN OXFORDSHIRE) |
Recruitment, training, resourcing and one year support of 30 new volunteers to help at least 90 children in their first year with ARCh. We would hope that many of the 30 new volunteers will continue into second and subsequent years with ARCh when the charity's costs are virtually fully cost recoverable from the financial contributions made by schools, ensuring sustainability. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,320 |
£189,031 |
GROVE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST GROVE - GROW FAMILIES |
This grant will pay towards the core costs for delivering our baby and toddler groups between September 2022 and March 2023, 26 weeks. This includes staffing, hall hire and resources/materials e.g craft materials and refreshments, as well as administration and management costs. We will deliver 2 Bumps and Babies groups and 3 Toddler groups per week, across 3 venues (Wantage, Grove and East Challow). Multiple venues help families attend their nearest, especially those who find it harder to travel. We have a maximum of 25 families at each toddler group, and 18 at each Bumps and Babies group. Groups are fully booked most weeks. Total 115 families per week, mostly mothers with 1 or 2 children each. Funding already securred: Wantage Town Council (£5000), donations from families who attend and gift aid returns from those donations (approximately £2700), and unallocated money already in the bank from previous grants and donations (£1225). Total £8925. We need this grant to continue to deliver at the level of service needed by our community. We work closely with the local health visitors, Midwives and local health and social care services to offer to reserve spaces for families they have identified as most in need, and many families attending tell us they have been told about our service by their health visitor. We are also be open to all of our community to book spaces on a week by week basis on our website. We do not charge for attending our groups, and fund them by grants, donations and fundraising so we are open to everyone. Our groups support parents in allowing them to get out of the house, meet and make friends with other parents and carers in the area, and have a listening ear from our staff. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,963 |
|
OXFORD MUTUAL AID |
This grant fund OMA’s food/essential delivery service for 6 months, which acts as springboard for additional support and thus pathways to independence. OMA has a sophisticated delivery mechanism with the capacity to rapidly respond to, pack and deliver 100’s of parcels per week. We are often the first port of call for many individuals and organisations facing acute food insecurity and / or for self isolating individuals or households. Self-isolation is a key component of the drive to contain COVID-19 yet is more difficult for many of the vulnerable groups that OMA supports e.g. those i) with low income; ii) who are socially isolated iii) who are precariously housed and / or iii) with religious or dietary restrictions. This poses a number of risks to both individuals and the wider community as a whole. It can a) lead to increased food insecurity and b) increases the risk that people will leave their homes when required to self isolate. OMA will therefore spend this grant to ensure we can continue this service as the cost of living crisis bites. Income and vulnerable employment, physical/mental health problems, unpaid caring responsibilities, and isolation/ lack of social connectivity, all have an enormous impact on a person’s risk of food poverty. These groups are also far more likely to encounter barriers to accessing support. Feedback from recipients has noted a lack of comparably flexible support, making us essential to those with access issues. OMA is committed to its holistic approach to individuals and to ensuring that pathways to independence are generated through interaction with us. Therefore we will also spend this grant to improve our signposting capabilities amongst both volunteer delivery coordinators and case managers.While we actively minimise administrative obstacles to accessing OMA, at times people have problems that are better addressed by other agencies. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
£329,581 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPPORT SCHEME LTD |
We will spend this grant on our core running costs between September 2022 and March 2023 to help us to cope with the unprecedented demand for our services that has resulted from the Covid-19 crisis. In 2019-20 we advised 1185 individuals/households - this rose to 1406 in 2021-22. The number of foodbank referrals rose from 81 in 2019-20 to 148 in 2021-22. Since the onset of Covid we have distributed the Government's Covid Winter Support Grants and Household Support Grants on behalf of the City Council. This has mostly been distributed as fuel vouchers to top up gas and electric pre-payment meters for people who have run out fuel. In 2021-22 we distributed over 500 £49 vouchers to households in crisis. We expect to have further funding to help local households in the coming months. For every person who contacts us for crisis support, we offer a benefits check and debt advice to maximise income and help people regain control of their budgets in the longer term. We have had to take on an additional adviser to help us cope with the increased numbers of clients. We are also seeing people with more complex queries as a result of Covid - during the Covid crisis, Universal Credit claims were 'expedited', without the usual verification of income and other details. Now, the Department for Work and Pensions is asking people with expedited claims to provide proofs, which are then often rejected as insufficient. Our advisers have to disentangle what has happened over many months since the start of the claim to help people provide proofs and/or challenge wrong decisions. The grant will help us maintain our essential service despite the increased number of clients and complexity of issues resulting from Covid-19. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£7,000 |
£45,976 |
NAI'S HOUSE |
Based on 90 guest introduction forms: 41% have had a psychological condition diagnosed 56% have self-harmed at some time 56% have had suicidal thoughts. As a result, we will use the monies to train and pay facilitators to provide structured groups and programmes to address the mental health needs of children and young people within Oxfordshire since the pandemic. Groups will be planned for in advance and will form part of the Nai’s House Activity Timetable with no end date and will be the Bereavement Support Group and Suicidal Ideation Group. The following are planned and structured programmes or workshops that have been created to be delivered over a set amount of time and have clear objectives. These programmes will incorporate educational, practical and supportive elements. They will run separately to the Nai’s House activity timetable and have a start and end date and are the Survivors of Suicide Attempt, Surviving Life (incl resilience and self harm and suicide prevention workshop) Self Harm and Suicide Prevention Workshop and Youth Bereavement Support Programme. These groups and programmes will be benefit a significant number of individuals within the Oxfordshire area. In fact we expect the numbers to be in excess of 910. It will enable those who have struggled with the pandemic to lessen the impact by having likeminded individuals to share feelings, emotions and behaviours with, whilst learning and coping mechanisms. When examining the cost/ benefit ratio we consider this to be wholly proportionate to the overall benefit. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£6,200 |
|
WEST OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT |
The grant will be used towards some of the core costs of the organisation: contribution towards the salary of our p-t Administrator, depot and office overheads and contribution towards the increased fuel costs. During the 2 years of the pandemic our passenger numbers plummeted as we reduced/stopped all services in response to the Government's advice to people to only use public transport for essential journeys. Whilst we have seen a steady increase in passenger numbers over the last few months, they are still between 50 and 67% of pre-pandemic levels and do not yet generate sufficient income to cover our core costs. Coupled with this decrease in income, we are also confronted with a massive rise in fuel costs. To ensure that we can continue to run these services whilst they gradually reach pre pandemic levels - we anticipate this will be within the next 24 months (i.e. by summer 2024)- we need further income to support the operation. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£8,880 |
|
PEOPLE, PLACE & PARTICIPATION LTD |
A successful grant will enable to us to employ a partnership coordinator, who will ensure the continuation of this ambitious partnership and address need in our area over the next year. It will primarily allow us to coordinate, share need, pool resources and respond quickly and unitedly in case of outbreaks of Covid. The partnership coordinator provides vital support to local individuals recovering from the pandemic, as well as to the organisations involved with the OX4 Food Crew who face a variety of challenges as a result of pandemic. These include lack of funding, capacity and increasing need in the community. The coordinator supports the needs of people in the local community by acting as point of contact for project recipients, offering signposting and managing internal/external communications and training/inducting volunteers involved with the partnership. They also facilitate regular partnership information share sessions to ensure local needs are being met, identify gaps in provision and coordinate responses to need. This post also supports the community groups involved with the OX4 Food Crew to become more agile and effective at responding to outbreaks, as well as more sustainable in the long term and increase their delivery capacity. The coordinator does this by convening meetings where resources and information about the need is shared, supporting groups to apply for grants for direct delivery food work in OX4, assisting groups to develop evaluation and administration capacity and supporting groups to set up traded revenue streams where possible. Alongside this, the coordinator will act as the point of link for our shared research in partnership with Oxford University and Good Food Oxford, working to develop deeper understanding of local communities recovering from the pandemic. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£10,000 |
£394,910 |
SEESAW |
The support we provide is tailored to the needs of each child or young person and much of this work is delivered by our team of VSWs. This grant will help fund our VSWs for 6 months. We have recently completed the recruitment and training process for a new group of 10 VSWs, doubling our team working throughout Oxfordshire. By increasing our VSWs we are responding to the emerging needs of our beneficiaries, increasing our capacity to offer support at the crucial time of need, whilst keeping the overall increase in operating costs to a minimum. On average, the cost of providing support to a child is just £547. Our service is strengthened with the time our VSWs dedicate to working with bereaved children and their families and attending training and supervision. They are immensely skilled and knowledgeable, with lived experience or a background working with children and young people. SeeSaw invests time in the recruitment, training and supervision of our VSWs to ensure they are motivated to provide the best possible level of service whilst benefitting personally from the volunteer experience. This message from one of our new VSWs highlights this: “I feel so lucky to have been able to take part in your VSW Training Programme. The quality and content of your teaching was uniformly excellent, with a very good mix of theory and practical skills. It was clear that an enormous amount of thought and preparation had gone into the smooth presentation of every single session. You also managed to make the course really enjoyable, enabled us to learn from and support each other, and to form strong friendships and a cohesive group. I’ve attended many courses in almost 30 years as a GP in Oxford, and yours has definitely been the best learning experience I’ve had.” |
| 19/07/2022 |
£4,000 |
£165,799 |
THE BRANCH TRUST |
Our bid has two distinct parts: 1 - Building Resilience in light of Pandemic and Energy Crisis We would like to provide an "EXPRESS" BUDGETING SERVICE, which could be delivered remotely (if person is isolating or vulnerable) or in person. This would not only address the often immediate need for food, but also help them to see how they can make their money stretch to buy a week's worth of food, how to avoid waste, meal plan and budget. We would supplying families and individuals with budgeting pack full of ideas, recipes and a weekly shopping list to the value of £30-50 (depending on family size), with recipes and ideas to make money stretch. Along with this we would supply a food voucher from a local supermarket, empowering them to do the shop and encouraging menu planning and one large weekly shop (Covid safer). Through engaging with this group, we would hope to signpost them, and invite them to further support in the form, in the hope of averting them reaching crisis point, and connecting them better into community and the services that are available. Some families may only need to access this once, but we would hope that they would feedback and, if needed, return a further maximum of 2 times (new packs and more ideas) over 6 months, strengthen resilience and build community, preventing them from moving into a crisis situation again, OPENING OPPORTUNITIES and UNLOCKING POTENTIAL. 2 - Branch Out to Cook Course To fund a continuation of a course we have been offering to pupils who have not accessed a full timetable post Covid. Collaborating with local chef and working in pairs. Teaching cooking on a budget, share those skills with their families and also building their self esteem around re-engagement post Covid. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£8,300 |
£145,301 |
HOME-START BANBURY AND CHIPPING NORTON |
This grant will be used to support our work until March 2023 - 5% of our planned expenditure - helping us to recover from the pandemic and grow stronger. Unfortunately our Administrator has recently resigned, which may temporarily effect the smooth-running of our organisation. Our delivery of 1:1 home-visiting and group work have both proven to help families to thrive. We may employ another Organiser so we can support more families. Families are referred to us to receive weekly support from our volunteers or Family Support Worker. A Staff Organiser meets the family, linking them to a trained volunteer. Volunteers and families are carefully matched to ensure a positive relationship will develop between them. The volunteer visits the family once a week for 2-3 hours at a time. Support continues for as long as needed. Our volunteers provide interventions in the form of emotional support and practical help through: • Listening to the family’s worries • Providing friendship and encouragement • Help getting to appointments • Signposting to local services • Encouraging the family’s involvement in local community • Modelling play activities and interaction The support we provide is bespoke to each individual family and adapts to meet their changing needs. Families choose to engage with our service, it is not imposed on them, and this allows a trusting relationship to be built up between the family and volunteer. If a family is affected by Covid, we can adjust our offer to telephone support, and similarly if parents feel anxious if Covid cases locally rise. Our Stay & Play sessions offer a welcoming and nurturing environment for families who feel anxious attending mainstream community settings. With limited capacity to receive home-visiting support referrals, we often signpost families to our Stay & Plays so they can still benefit from our work. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£4,235 |
|
THE MAPLE TREE |
Delivery of a weekly in centre session focused on Covid recovery and renewal, including - introducing parents to other parents for peer to peer support and possible friendship - helping parents with the daily challenges of parenthood and how to best support their baby/child's development and learning, - helping parents to engage with other sources of advice and support where appropriate. - introducing parents to the activities within the wider community - helping babies and young children to meet other children and adults in a safe environment, - providing opportunities for babies and young children to explore the world through a variety of engaging and developmentally appropriate activities, - helping young children to learn to play in parallel or in groups. - providing opportunities for volunteering within the centre in a variety of roles - engaging parents, as appropriate, in The Maple Tree parent reference and fundraising groups The session will run weekly from 1st September 22 to 31st March 23 including up to fifteen families at each session. These sessions will have a number of bookable spaces with a drop in option for families that find it challenging to pre-plan their attendance. We will also hold priority spaces for families with urgent or immediate needs including those referred by health visitors. Sessions will be run by a very experienced family worker and supported by the centre manager and three volunteers. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,456 |
|
DONNINGTON TENANTS AND RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION |
1 - Premises - hire of space at the local Donnington Community Centre to run exercise classes and other activities. 2 - Activity - hire of professional instructors to run exercise classes (to music) and low impact Pilates to build core strength. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£8,500 |
|
VOLUNTEER LINK UP (WEST OXFORDSHIRE) |
The successful recruitment of volunteers is a challenging task. Initially it is important to communicate and promote the very positive differences which volunteering can make to peoples lives. If a potential volunteer can see the potential positive impacts which they can make, they are much more likely to become a volunteer. It is also important to point out the potential positive results of volunteering, for the volunteer themselves. Such benefits include increased confidence and the opportunity to make new friends. We need to offer the volunteer flexibility, both in terms of tasks and timings. Some potential volunteers will want to suggest what they can do, whilst others will want to see exactly what opportunities are on offer. Our transportation service rigid in the practical service it delivers, but has a degree of flexibility around timings. As an example, if a volunteer is only available one afternoon a week, they can still be of real help to certain people within our community. Our befriending service is a little more flexible regarding practical services delivered and very flexible around timings. There are a plethora of volunteering opportunities linked to good neighbour schemes, including shopping, diy tasks, transportation, gardening, administration etc. The above will be clearly communicated to potential volunteers in 2 stages. We will have written material, professionally designed and produced. This material will drive home the messages around, benefits, flexibility and opportunities. It will include clear contact details for Volunteer Link Up. Having made contact with Volunteer Link Up potential volunteers will be invited into the office for a one to one information session/interview with a paid staff member. This session will again promote the benefits, flexibility and opportunities available. We will commission professional help in both the design, production and circulation of the written material. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£10,000 |
£864,610 |
OXFORD SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS CENTRE |
To enable the additional callback and initial assessment services, upon receipt of COMF funding from Oxfordshire County Council in 21-22, the Listening Service Coordinator's working hours were increased from 18.5 hours to 25 hours to support the growth of the service to meet the need and promote the safeguarding, safety, protection and welfare of survivors via the callback service. In addition, due to the inability to utilise our office space to take Listening Service calls, e-mails and texts, the Listening Service Coordinator quickly adapted the service in response to Covid-19 to continue to offer telephone and online support whilst also maintaining our high standards of volunteer welfare throughout this period. Whilst opportunities to return to office working have risen, due to the unpredictable nature of Covid-19 infections the majority of Listening Services shifts still take part remotely and support from the Listening Service Coordinator remains in high demand. In addition, a Frontline Service Support Worker was employed in May 2021 originally for 30 hours, which was then increased to 37 hours per week. The Frontline Service Support Worker (FSSW) has improved efficiency of referrals coming into the service following the increased demand due to the pandemic, and has improved the response survivors receive by meeting with them within two weeks, down from eight. In addition, the FSSW supports the operational running of the Listening Service shifts, being on-call to support volunteers during the service opening times. We are seeking funding to help cover the running costs of the Listening Services which includes the salary and employment costs of the Listening Service Coordinator and Frontline Services Support Worker, along with volunteer running costs including clinical supervision, training and equipment costs as detailed below. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,576 |
£216,596 |
ARCHWAY FOUNDATION |
Training telephone befriending volunteers (60). The volunteers require updated and specialist training to ensure that they continue to have the skills they require to support Friends with mental health difficulties and tools required to help Friends develop new coping strategies to deal with their anxiety. Providing volunteers with individual and group clinical supervision. This is essential to ensuring we protect the mental well-being of our volunteers. Clinical supervision provides a strategy that helps to support our volunteers emotional stress and to maintain volunteer retention. It is essential that we retain our volunteers in order to provide our telephone befriending service. Sustain the direct costs of providing the telephone befriending services; continuing to provide welfare, emotional support, calls to existing Friends and people on the waiting list. The frequency of calls will depend on the individual needs of each Friend. If they are having a particularly difficult time the frequency of the calls will increased. Without the sustainability of the telephone befriending service 150 members of our community will lose vital support. This will increase the risks of them developing more acute mental health difficulties and having a greater call on statutory services. The service will also enable us to increase our geographic reach, as long as Friends have access to a telephone we can support them irrespective of their geographical location. For a number of current Friends and going forward for new Friends we will often to their only point of human contact. So we can support the mental well-being of people across Oxford City and Oxfordshire. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,710 |
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WASTE2TASTE,LTD |
We would spend the grant to provide the following: - 80 free meals for to individuals/families experiencing food poverty locally. These will be available to enjoy in our cafe, or to takeaway. Delivery will be offered to those with serious access needs. - A further 100 meals through our accessible kindness menu and "Freezer of Love" at the Cafe - Provide food for 6 ‘Pay-as-you-feel’ community meals in partnership with Ark-T Centre’s ‘Community Hub’ days that are aimed at local people experiencing various forms of inequality. These events provide opportunities for people to eat together while simultaneously accessing simple healthy food with no stigma attached even if they can't afford them. We believe this can create a sense of community ownership and involvement, with additional opportunities for people to engage with others and services offered on the day - Employ a community support worker/volunteer coordinator for 8 hrs a week. They will facilitate in person meal sessions at Waste2Taste and provide signposting and support to recipients, manage incoming referrals etc. They will also coordinate meal delivery volunteers. The funding will also increase our capacity to rescue surplus food and transform this into delicious affordable meals for the local community to enjoy. Finally, the funding will also enable us to continue to act as a lead partner of the OX4 Food Crew - a local placed based alliance of 9 charities/community organisations founded by Waste2Taste in response to Covid-19 www.ox4foodcrew.co.uk. We will also continue to develop our partnership with local groups such as Restore, The Agnes Smith Advice Centre, Dementia Oxfordshire and Oxford Play Association. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£3,996 |
£409,331 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
We have recently adapted our Make Me Smile project to meet the needs of young people following the pandemic. This includes developing an online version should a lockdown occur in the future and using learnings from our Summer Projects, which we successfully delivered throughout the pandemic with plans for full and partial lockdowns and no restrictions. Funding would enable us to deliver the project to an additional 20 schools across Oxfordshire. It would include: 1) An hour-long MMS session delivered to a Year 6 class centring on a story of a character who is struggling with worries. We facilitate small group discussions, asking them to consider the strategies the character uses to get rid of their worries, whether these were good strategies, and identify approaches they have used when they are worrying. We teach young people to use our worry map, modelling worries and helping them to identify ways to become less anxious across different scenarios. The session ends with children making smiling faces. Evidence suggests that by combining oral storytelling and creative play, children are better able to absorb complex information. It also acts as a reminder to identify activities and think about tasks they enjoy. 2) After the project, we task them, alongside their class teacher, to deliver the same session to their Year 3 classmates. We provide them with scripts, resources and tools to deliver this peer-to-peer support. 3) Finally, we provide guidance to the school to host a whole-school MMS Day with age-appropriate mental health activities across all classes. Schools often hold fundraising activities across the day to raise money for well-being resources. We encourage schools to appoint Mental Health Ambassadors from the Y6 class. They inform a school action plan promoting Mental Well-being and support children with worries on the playground. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£7,107 |
£694,930 |
CITIZENS ADVICE OXFORD |
We will extend our volunteer recruitment and training programme to train additional volunteers so that we can assist Oxford residents in crisis with timely advice. With funding of £7107 from COMF and £7707 from Friends we will be able to train an additional 12 volunteers. Our volunteer team needs re-building and we plan to increase volunteer number by 50% over the next 2-3 years. to return to pre-pandemic capacity. During the pandemic some experienced volunteers left us and recruitment was more limited. With a mix of home working, face to face advice and similar mix of training/support planned volunteering with Citizens Advice Oxford is more attractive. The grant will pay for our volunteers extensive 20 week training programme. This is run in house by our trainer who is an experienced Citizens Advice trainer/supervisor, supported by our Officer Manager and volunteer recruitment assistant. Our trainer meets with new recruits regularly, runs training sessions and gives one to one feedback. Training includes the trainee volunteer working alongside experienced volunteer advisers. Volunteers start as Advice Assistants assisting experienced advisors with client work and then move on to generalist advice training. The COMF grant will cover 3.5 hours per week of the Office Manager time and 14 trainer hours needed over 6 months. It will also cover room hire costs. It costs more than £1,600 to train and support each volunteer advisers through their initial training; if we train in groups of 10 or more. (Some of the costs such as IT support and management time we have secured within our core planned expenditure). Our Friends group has raised funds to cover the remaining outstanding costs as set out in the budget section. Once trained volunteers help an average of 6 clients a week - this grant will leave a legacy of advisers. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,000 |
£379,781 |
REDUCING THE RISK OF DOMESTIC ABUSE |
Our multi layered approach will: 1. Using Rural Friends of Reducing the Risk - engage with volunteers and communities in rural areas to increase their knowledge and awareness of the signs of domestic abuse and where to access support. Develop discrete accessible information that can be made available in locations where victims may go. 2. Offer online training for professionals to raise their awareness of the issue and where to access support. 3 Enable us to sustain the additional IDVA capacity needed to support older victims of domestic abuse within Oxfordshire and stay alongside them as long as is required. For those who accept ongoing support (c 85%) the IDVA will build a relationship of trust and will: o meet the victim in their home, to respond to immediate anxieties and risk assess how best to stay safe o liaise with the police and other agencies to put in place initial safety measures. Where it is not safe to stay in the home, supporting the victim to move and access suitable accommodation. o act as an advocate for the victim at a Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) o develop safety plans which meet their needs o provide practical help to ensure that all basic needs are met (see case study) o entrusting the IDVA to keep them safe enables victims to let go some fear and anxiety so they can consider options for the future. The IDVA will support them to make independent choices o ensure they have safe accommodation: staying in their own homes if possible and if they wish o work with partner agencies and domestic abuse Champions from services for older people to help them access the resources they need o help them access courts to obtain legal means to restrain the perpetrator if required |
| 19/07/2022 |
£7,067 |
£189,616 |
CHERWELL THEATRE COMPANY |
We’ll spend this grant on staffing and materials needed to support our new ‘Amplify’ programme, which joins up grassroots organisations in Banbury to improve access to services for YP, helping rebuild communities who’ve been adversely affected throughout covid. Amplify consists of 4 weekly participatory arts groups with 3 partner organisations: • The Hill Centre, based in Banbury’s highest area of deprivation, engaging YP from a range of challenging backgrounds. • Banbury Mosque, based in Grimsbury who’ve identified cultural barriers for Muslim children in accessing the arts and seen positive well-being outcomes for YP. • Let's Play Project, the biggest provider to YP with additional needs in North Oxfordshire, supporting 135+ families. We’ve co-delivered several projects, and they want to make drama a permanent provision. Beyond work with CTC, none of these partners has ever had a free, consistent accessible arts offer for YP. As a result of this work: • An increased number of YP from a greater set of diverse backgrounds will participate in creative arts workshops. • YP will build back their confidence and social skills after many months of isolation • YP will increase their sense of well-being and improve mental health • YP identified as ‘at risk’ will be engaged in positive social and creative activities, diverting them from criminal activity • Participants will have a greater sense of value within their community and a stronger voice within it • More YP will have the opportunity to shape CTC’s programme, taking roles in the design, delivery and evaluation of our work We’re requesting funding to support delivery of this project between August 2022-March 2023, but CTC’s aim is to develop ‘Amplify’ as a permanent provision for YP who have experienced barriers to accessing inclusive arts opportunities in our district. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£10,000 |
£218,655 |
HOME-START OXFORD |
Over the next year IN GROUPS will provide a highly supported, inclusive group programme in 2 areas of the highest need in Central and West Oxfordshire. We know there is a possibility of a winter spike in Covid cases and that the situation is still uncertain going forward. However, we now have proven experience of delivering covid safe services in different situations whether that be moving support online or outdoors, to socially distanced activities, doorstep deliveries, WhatsApp groups or 1:1 telephone calls. We are embedded in our communities and will respond to their needs as we see them evolving on the ground. 1.BLACKBIRD LEYS is Oxfordshire’s area of highest overall deprivation, currently with almost no parent-infant group provision. Targeting women from BAME communities, we will run IN GROUPS including ‘Mums’ Mindful Haven’ which combines mental wellbeing support for mums and PEEP Learning activities for under 5s. PEEP Learning is an evidence-based programme which supports parents as their children’s first educators, modelling positive activities and using songs, stories, books and play. Sessions will be supported by volunteers and run by our new Inclusion Coordinator – a local Asian mum who has developed her own career through volunteering. Her goal is to recruit more volunteers from BAME communities, enhancing how we support and empower our community 2.SMITHS ESTATE, WITNEY. Building on a pilot, we’ll deliver sessions to reach families with complex needs targeting the most socially isolated and anxious parents and children in a deprived estate we have not served before. We’ll provide: three targeted ‘Peep Learning Together’ group programmes per year and partner with Cogges Farm and Bridewell Community Gardens for Home-Start sessions in these special settings. Our Family Group Coordinator will give 1:1 support, telephoning and meeting up with mums to build confidence to attend. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£8,438 |
£75,071 |
OXFORDSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT |
Our project can address the above needs in a way that is accessible and flexible to a spike in Covid cases. This grant will fund our weekly session at Donnington Doorstep for six months. In this session, our specialist facilitator team can offer families in-person breastfeeding support, targeted at complex and urgent feeding issues. Donnington Doorstep - with its welcoming and inclusive ethos - is the ideal physical space as a partner organisation for this work. Our volunteers also play a valuable role in our Donnington sessions, chatting to families on a parent-to-parent basis, offering them refreshments and social support, and helping to normalise infant behaviour. Sessions remain bookable for the time being, and we have a COVID-19 risk assessment that can be tightened or relaxed as circumstances dictate. We are conscious of the need to be flexible during the winter, and to be in a position to support families should there be a significant spike in Covid-19 cases. This is why this grant includes funding for 90 virtual 1:1 consultations for six months, which would help support families with establishing breastfeeding should they need to self-isolate. Crurically, should a rise in coronavirus cases necessitate that we suspend our Donnington session, we can convert those in-person ‘slots’ into further virtual 1:1 consultations. We are primed to support Oxfordshire families this winter, whatever the situation with COVID-19. Our grant request includes support for our volunteer programme, which has been commended at the 2022 OCVA Awards. We want to go beyond simply covering volunteer expenses, to include a mentoring programme that helps prospective volunteers become accredited breastfeeding Peer Supporters with our charity. We recognise that investing in structural adjustments is crucial to increasing volunteer diversity within our organisation. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£9,000 |
£150,598 |
HEART HEROES |
Heart Heroes continues to adapt and respond to the challenges the pandemic presents in order to meet the needs of our existing families and to reach out to those who have yet to access our services. Parents remain anxious about the pandemic and the possibility of a new variant and a winter surge. This would present a high risk to clinically vulnerable children. To ensure we can support our community the best we can in any eventuality, our short-term goal is to develop an advanced Online Community Portal which will: -support digital inclusion, becoming a central point for families to access support -enable access to specific online community groups to connect and discuss their journey with other families in similar situations -provide relevant health recourses for families to access, including online videos on practical care -closely monitor and improve the well-being of families -offer discussion groups for specific health conditions, highlighting where they can access support. The clinical CHD Network group has expressed an interest in operating their own support group within our online community portal -signpost users to relevant services and networks -enable parents to discreetly request financial support for care packages, transport and at home activity packs -help to grow our volunteering programme in Oxfordshire -seek to develop a business network to build partnerships with local businesses for corporate support and raise awareness in the area. Covid-19 has seen a huge increase in Heart Heroes’ digital engagement activities, but not all our service users or potential service users have the knowledge or resources to access online support. We aim to address this by improving our digital infrastructure, along with increasing volunteer-led training, and loaning equipment to those who are housebound, so activities can be delivered virtually when required or on demand. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
|
COMMUNI-TEA CAFE |
If we were to secure a grant we would be able to take on another member of part-time staff, and potentially be able to reopen 5 days a week again (annual cost c £ 6k). We are currently only able to employ 2 part time staff, who also give volunteer hours for some of the week. Because of the pandemic it was difficult when we re-opened to build up demand to pre-pandemic levels. Many people were reluctant to come out initially - and many of our customers fall in the more vulnerable groups. We have now built up our numbers of customers again, but this, coupled with long-term staff and volunteer sickness, has put a lot of additional pressure on our existing staff. It is difficult to run the cafe with reduced staffing levels, and some additional short-term staffing support would help us to overcome these difficulties. It looks increasingly like if we are unable to find outside grants and funding that this very valuable community asset will have to close. This grant will enable us to stay open until at least the end of the year, and by taking on another part time member of staff this will reduce pressure on other staff. In the last two years, we have applied for and been awarded a number of other small grants, but having built up our customer levels to pre-pandemic levels, we want to make this project sustainable again. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
£184,198 |
NOMAD |
We would like to use the grant to cover staff hours for the food bank. Although, we use volunteers for sorting and packing food we still supervise and undertake the deliveries ourselves so that we can build relationship with the people most at need in our community. During Harvest Festival and Christmas this takes all our staff hours for a period of at least two weeks. This equates to five hundred and twenty of staff time at these peak times and an average of 10 hours a week during normal time (1,040 hours per year). At the moment we do not have funding for these costs. NOMAD has experience at running the food bank and there is a proven need for it in Henley and surrounding villages. As the demand for the food bank grows so does the demand on staff time, the funding would enable us to focus on the food bank more fully and increase the amount of support we are able to offer it's users. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£10,000 |
|
OXFORD PARENT INFANT PROJECT (OXPIP) |
Funding for this project ends in July this year and we do not currently have sufficient funds to continue the project. This grant will be used to continue to fund the dedicated Parent-Infant Therapist Referrals Co-ordinator to work for one day per week. Their responsibilities will include assessing, managing, and processing referrals for allocated projects, undertaking mental health risk assessments, managing the referrals waiting list and offering interim therapeutic sessions before therapy can start (when the need is identified at assessment), and liaising with other professionals where appropriate (including GPs, psychiatrists, health visitors, early years workers, Social Care, and legal teams). Additionally, liaison and consulting with professional colleagues within OXPIP, and maintaining clinical records on OXPIP’s Casework Management System. In this way OXPIP will continue to have the Parent-Infant Therapy resource to respond to referrals more speedily, undertake client mental health risk assessments as soon as possible, manage the referrals waiting list to avoid any delays in receiving Parent-Infant Therapy and provide interim therapeutic sessions before therapy starts – where appropriate. This means that the need in our community to receive Parent-Infant Therapy as soon as possible will continue to be more closely met, and families will continue to have the support they need before Parent-Infant Therapy sessions with their designated Parent-Infant Therapist begin. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£3,200 |
£63,538 |
RIVERTIME BOAT TRUST |
We will offer twenty free trips of two hours plus on the 'Rivertime' for special schools and groups of disabled people across Oxfordshire, reaching 240 people. A total of twelve people can go on the boat per excursion. It costs us £160 to deliver each excursion, including the time of our salaried skipper, volunteer expenses, repairs, insurance, servicing etc. We will contact groups and schools directly through our contacts across Oxfordshire as well as make the offer available through OCVA and the Local Offer. Boats will leave from Oxford or Henley and at times convenient to the beneficiaries. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£5,350 |
£333,410 |
DAYBREAK |
Our project is a collaborative project. We are being supported first of all by the staff at Wytham Woods as well as by Leaf and Bower, a new charity which seeks to find spaces in nature for those who are vulnerable and who may struggle to access the outdoors. I have met with the head of Wytham Woods, Oxford University, about having our clients and or carers visit their site for a project, including using a lodge in the woods where we can meet and paint. Daybreak is proposing an art project to support those impacted by dementia. A similar arts project has had a pilot run which we ran over the last year with Oxford University "Science Together"; that project was workshops for those with dementia using art and music. Our currently proposed project would be for family carers and would focus on art and nature. Covid has highlighted that access to nature is especially important for medically vulnerable people. Being outside in the woods will enable those at high risk of Covid complications, to engage socially, avoiding social isolation. The art therapist for our project comes from the Watlington Climate Action Group. She has devised a project where pigments are made from local hedgerow material; the paints are also carbon absorbing. I have worked with her on the "Science Together" programme which has allowed us to put together a strong programme. Working collaboratively strengthens the project and makes us more flexible when needs change. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£750 |
£139,724 |
BANBURY MUSLIM MOSQUE SOCIETY |
We will buy food for our target audience to meet the cultural sensitivity. And foods they require for their staple diet, Our target audience families are White caucasuian,afro Caribbean, Syrian, Albanians, Romanians, Single mums, and individuals who are living in bedsit with no cooking facilities. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£40,179,000 |
ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE |
Banbury's community centre, the Cornhill Centre, is run by the RVS. However, our funding from the RVS and other areas has been extremely limited this year and some of our projects will have to stop if we cannot find funding. The RVS now pays for the staff and maintenance of the Centre but that is as far as it goes. The project started early this year and is a regular Tuesday lunch for anyone to come to around Banbury and the surrounding villages. We have found that due to COVID many projects and events based around socialising and stopping isolation have completely stopped across Banbury. This project has become extremely successful with many of our clients saying it is their only socialisation the whole week. We put on social activities with a warm lunch. We have found that many of those coming are also struggling to pay for three meals a day, so this has helped them! Unfortunately our funding has run out for this so it will have to stop in two weeks time if we cannot secure more funding. After the lunch we put on a light seated exercise class run by our volunteers who have been trained. This has helped a lot of older people feel more confident with their mobility and the majority of those who come to the lunch then come to the exercise class. We have been able to provide this for people in the surrounding villages too by providing them with transport, as we saw that those in rural areas were most isolated. We have taken feedback from those who benefit from this service and it is overwhelmingly the case that they feel as though they depend on this service for socialising. We will spend this grant on continuing this project and being able to expand to allow more people to access this service. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£2,400 |
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SYRIAN COMMUNITY IN OXFORDSHIRE SYRCOX |
Our food service builds a good relationship among the local community by providing a quality food parcel that meets their needs and supports them for at least 5 days. The project is distributed by volunteers as well as staff members to vulnerable people in the community who are struggling to put food on the table. Volunteers were trained in how to deliver and distribute the packs. They were given basic training in food hygiene. They learned how to be a listening ear for people who had no one to talk to, and gave them practical advice on how to manage their finances and budgeting. This was a part of our Missing Link project. The project also provides volunteers with essential skills such as communication skills, teamwork, organisation skills and leadership skills, which will help them in their future life. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£13,979 |
WALLINGFORD ACCESSIBLE BOAT CLUB |
The purpose of Wallingford Accessible Boat Club (WABC) is to enable disabled and elderly people to get out and about on the river to enjoy a boating experience of some kind - picnicking, nature watching, perhaps fishing or just generally "messing about on the river". Whatever the reason, a boating experience of any kind has an amazing effect on the body and the mind - the tranquillity, the gentle pace, the relaxation, the fresh air - a powerful cocktail that is particularly beneficial to the more vulnerable of our society. Clearly, post COVID this societal group benefit most from the safe and healthy space a boat trip provides. Whilst WABC was constituted in the middle of 2018, for a variety of reasons, not least COVID related, we only started operating public voyages in the middle of last year. However in the short time we were on the water we undertook 16 voyages carrying 60 or so members of the public (all free of charge) all of whom were disabled - wheelchair users and 'walking wounded' together with friends and families, and were blessed with remarkable positive feedback from our passengers, young and old alike. Like the Mum and Dad of three children, one 8 year old being a wheelchair user who said it was such a wonderful experience to have a family activity where all the siblings could participate on equal terms; like the Grandad terminally ill with cancer with only weeks to live wanted to take his two grandsons on the water to share a boating experience, his great love throughout his life; like the elderly wheelchair bound lady, highly vulnerable, who had been 'locked in' for many months due to COVID where the extreme isolation she had to endure had left her depressed and very nervous about going out again. What a lovely time she had! And many more stories concerning autistic children, learning difficulties and many others who benefited hugely from their WABC experience. Now we turn to 2022 and the summer season which is almost upon us. Thanks to a successful volunteer recruitment campaign over the winter, we are planning to significantly increase the number of voyages we are able to operate, up to hopefully 6-8 per week (at the height of the season). We know the demand is there as we have, at the time of writing, 25 requests waiting for their turn in WOW-one - and we haven't started promoting in any meaningful way the availability of the service yet! Based upon WABC's operating costs of £10000 per annum and the number of voyages we anticipate, the average cost of a voyage will be £125. On this basis our grant request for £1500 will cover the cost of approximately 12 voyages and it is this 'Package of Voyages' for which we request funding assistance. We will be very grateful indeed for any help that is available. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£960 |
£23,305 |
THE WYCHWOODS DAY CENTRE LTD |
Our recovery from the Covid pandemic is a slow but improving "work in progress". We can cater for 22 elderly people in the community attending our weekly Day Centre (capacity of hall) and pre pandemic always had a waiting list for places. When Covid intervened we rose to the challenge and examined all our practices. At the centre of this was continuing to support and make a difference to very elderly people . The Wychwood villages are rurally isolated and have to be both resilient and self sufficient. During the two years of restrictions we changed our practice to offer a blended form of support - Day Centre attendance when allowed and safe to organise and home support for those unable or unwilling to attend . Our new " blended " offer is popular and is continuing. We can see real benefits in being more flexible and in taking extra steps in different ways to help our elderly population . We can blend the different activities to meet their individual needs and to respond to any local/national crises, such as Covid, which occur . Our elderly members needs change frequently - they have episodes of not feeling like going out , have frequent medical appointments , feel lonely and isolated and suffer anxiety. The one thing they have in common is an overwhelming desire to remain in their own home and within their local community and we work to help them to achieve this .If they don't attend the weekly Day Centre the Coordinator and volunteers visit for a chat, do their shopping, collect prescriptions and keep in touch with families if they live at a distance . We can deliver members a hot lunch from the Day Centre kitchen on a Thursday and we even walk a dog! Returning to weekly attendance has been hugely impacted by a lack of confidence for some, the need to continue to shield for others and the inevitable ageing of our members. During lock down and restricted working we did not feel it appropriate to maintain a waiting list nor to invite new members to join us. Numbers are slowly improving but still fluctuate and we anticipate an average attendance of 12 members for 6 weeks and 16 members for a further 6 weeks of the grant request period. Members pay £10 to attend the weekly session and we have costed a shortfall in this income for a 3 month period. We obviously do not charge those who do not attend but are supported in other ways .We envisage that the Coordinator and volunteers will continue to support all members and potential new members with whatever help best meets their needs. We can accommodate 22 in the hall but can and are supporting over 30 in the community in different ways . We are the only type of provision locally of this kind for the age group .This is our way forward for the future - the new normal. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,368 |
£30,742 |
THE FLORENCE PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
We provide a free hot, nutritious, 2 course meal (cooked mostly from food donated to the Oxford Food Bank and collected from the Oxford City farm - helping to combat food waste) & a space for interaction and company to members of our community who are over 60yrs. We also translate this to delivered meals if COVID fluctuations mean that we need to close the face to face Friday lunch and successfully delivered to over 40 individuals and families each Friday for the time between March 2020 - Sept 2021 (and then again over Jan/Feb of 2022). Our reach at these times was and is expanded to all ages and families, not just those over 60yrs. After fluctuations between in person (lunch club at the community centre) and delivered meals during the last 2 years we are re-establishing a safe space for them to meet and helping the members (and encourage new members) to reengage with their community and build up their confidence in being back. Access to a well-cooked and balanced meal is essential for all but especially to those older and less financially stable members of our community. We have also found that the Lunch Club has been essential in keeping the older members of our area connected to their community, this makes a massive difference to their mental well-being and feeling connected to their community. Combating loneliness and isolation as well as food security. The group will also continue to be sign posted to any essential services they may otherwise miss (info on vaccines, financial advice etc) During times when we can't meet face to face but move to food deliveries to people's homes, our Group Lead also arranges a phone network so that everyone has someone to check in on them each week via the phone - and any issues can be passed along to the Lead who can then arrange for a solution or connect them with other appropriate organisations (ie dog walkers, shopping volunteers, meal deliveries on other days). Essentially the funding would be used to pay for this Lead Lunch Club coordinator/cook. She works 4.75 hours a week at £12 an hour (for this she plans and executes the menu, looks after the volunteers who help with the face to face group, or with deliveries when COVID implementations mean deliveries, coordinates any activities, advice or events for the club, keeps in touch with all the members). We are looking for 6 months wages cover. (Which would equate to £1.90 per person supported, per week as we support roughly 30 people each week). To support this we also run a Monthly Community Cafe - the proceeds of which go toward the budget for running of this group and previously we have also had support from the Councillors Ward budgets , we would look at doing this again in 2023. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£287,931 |
RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE |
The Open-Door project works in partnership with GPs from the Didcot Health Centre to improve community access to mental health and wellbeing support. Riverside has been operating in the town since 2017 and so we are very aware of the adverse impact the pandemic has had on the most vulnerable people, especially those living with socioeconomic challenges, with pre-existing mental health conditions or poor physical health. Post pandemic our data shows we are seeing more people with an array of mental health disorders, particularly those effected by isolation and loneliness which has led to high levels of anxiety, low mood and depression. We are treating people who are still fearful to leave their homes, mix with others and return to their pre-pandemic way of life. The current economic climate and general uncertainty is likely to have a further impact on people’s mental health. Despite these significant mental health needs there is sometimes a reluctance for people from Didcot to seek support. They are nervous or mistrustful or may not have considered counselling. We know that someone who's lonely often finds it hard to reach out. There's a stigma surrounding loneliness, and older people tend not to ask for help because they have too much pride (NHS 2022). We have already had discussions with the GPs at the Health Centre about how we can reach these people in Didcot and ways to improve access to our service, meet their mental health and wellbeing needs and help their post pandemic recovery. They support our idea to work together and develop this Open-Door project. GPs will directly refer those who are emotional vulnerable, anxious, or fearful of social engagement directly to Riverside. Our counsellor will then phone the patient directly to talk through their fears or concerns. They are offered up to two further phone calls of approximately 30 minutes. We can signpost them to other services or agencies or offer regular counselling with Riverside. A similar scheme has been operating in Berinsfield for the past 3 years and is reaching those most in need and is having a real impact. Feedback from both GPs and service users is positive: ‘Thank you for the conversation the other day it was really useful to talk to someone about how I am feeling that understands’ Client ‘I have had really positive feedback from patients who have used the drop-in service, and also more generally about Riverside.’ GP Last year 49 people used our Berinsfield Drop-In Service with 36 direct GP referrals. We had fifty-one telephone conversations having taken place. 11 individuals have registered for ongoing counselling support. We have approached the Didcot County Councillors for funding through their Priority Grants and will research trusts and foundations to continue with the project after this funding is spent. The Open-Door project in Didcot will directly target those most in need, help individuals with their post pandemic recovery and improve community health and wellbeing. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,440 |
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DOWN TO EARTH COMMUNITY CAFE CIC |
Social isolation and the lack of affordable food has been felt more acutely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Concerns over mental wellbeing, the lack of Covid-safe community spaces, and food vulnerability are now more evident and pose a significant problem for families and individuals across Oxfordshire. Low income families are affected by these concerns disproportionally with people living in rural and semi-rural areas (Wantage and Grove) being limited by barriers such as access to public services and opportunities to socialise safely, according to the OCF’s Oxfordshire Uncovered report. Data relating to post-pandemic poverty levels, released on 9th June 2022 by The Food Foundation, shows a 57% rise nationally (of the 4.7 million adults surveyed) in the proportion of households cutting back on food or missing meals altogether in just three months. Down to Earth Community Cafe addresses social isolation, food equity and environmental justice by offering an inclusive community cooking and eating space. We organise pop-up Community Cook-Ins and Let’s Cook Sustainably social cooking sessions in Wantage using surplus food from the Oxford Food Hub. Since establishing in May 2021, through 10 events, we have reached upwards of 250 people – with support from Sustainable Wantage, Wantage Community Larder, Good Food Oxfordshire, Replenish, CAG Oxfordshire, Green Square Accord. The Community Cook-Ins provide a Covid-safe space for commensality, for eating together to create and strengthen relationships, and the opportunity for those participating to contribute positively to a sense of wellbeing of others. From participant feedback, it is evident that communal cooking, learning and eating together improves social cohesion and promotes a more integrated community post lock-down. The events have increased awareness of food poverty and social isolation on the one hand, and the extent of surplus food being discarded on the other. The social cooking environment positively impacts on a community trying to re-connect socially and helps find practical ways to better cope with the effects of the pandemic and the cost of living crisis – as well as addressing the problem of extensive food waste. Working more closely with the Wantage Community Larder and Community Fridge (co-ordinated by Sustainable Wantage), this grant will enable us to actively focus on extending our reach to include families and individuals experiencing social isolation and food vulnerability. Future Cook-Ins will be held more regularly and will be supplemented with resources and activities by organisations offering support. Information will signpost people to local activities, ways to manage financially during the cost of living crisis, and the support offered by local charities for young families new to the area. Connections to Homestart have already been forged through Let’s Cook social cooking sessions, with funding from CAG Oxfordshire. The funding breakdown for eight monthly Community Cook-Ins from August 2022 to March 2023: Venue hire - £15 an hour, for the duration of 7 hours each. Total venue hire cost per event = £105 X 8 = £840.00. Ingredients = £480 (£60 X 8). Expendables & PPE = £120 Total requested = £1440.00 |
| 19/07/2022 |
£700 |
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FAAAZE |
We need to purchase two Ipad Airs for the Youth group. Faaaaze is run at the Baptist Church in Faringdon for children and young people from 11 to 25 years who have special needs. The Ipad Airs are required as some members are non verbal or have limited verbal communication and the Ipads will enable them to take part in activities as well as enable them to use them as communication devices at the club. It helps to decrease their sense of isolation and means they can take a fuller part in the youth club's activities. The club was set up in March 2018 and acts as the only social activity for many of the members as there are very limited activities available for young people with special needs in Faringdon and the surrounding area. The club ran throughout the pandemic period and the volunteers ran sessions on zoom each Wednesday during this time and was the only social outlet for these children. Without the club many members are very socially isolated. Faaaze began in person sessions again each Wednesday at the Baptist church from September 2021. It is a safe place for members and the volunteers who run the group are very dedicated and well trained. Members feel safe at the club and it gives them a chance to socialise as well as giving parents and care givers a short respite period each week. Since the club has begun to meet again in person the acquisition of these Ipads is very important so that members can take a full part and communicate their needs to the volunteers. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£500 |
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THE VALENTINE CLUB |
The Valentine Club is a seniors group located in rural North Oxfordshire and is thus isolated from many facilities normally found in an urban area. We have 100 members (full capacity) and a waiting list. We provide information, entertainment, journeys to various parts of the country and most importantly, companionship. We attribute our success whilst other seniors groups are struggling, to having a wide and varied programme of events and attract high quality speakers and entertainers to our regular meetings. We arrange coach trips and all this cost money. Being a group with an average age of over 75 years young our fundraising ability is somewhat restricted but we do raise funds where possible. We are obviously doing something right and want to continue and improve. Funding from yourselves of £500 will make a significant difference to our ability to provide this service provided entirely by volunteers. Outcome of this will be to ensure the health and safety of senior members of our society. Encourage members to socialise with others of a similar situation. Provide a safe and welcoming venue for them to meet. And most importantly, to give our most elderly and vulnerable members of society a purpose and thus reduce health and mental wellbeing pressures on the resources following the past two years of the pandemic. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£98,301 |
UCARE (OXFORD) |
UCARE would like to put together self-help/ management printable toolkits that support people and their carers with cancer or long term conditions. These toolkits would be on a variety of elements covering diagnosis, to coping with appointments, to side effect severity to post treatment self management as well as mental health and well being. They aim to offer improved mental health and well-being by offering a focus and self development strategies. The idea being that the person with the condition or their carer can print off or request individual toolkits depending on their place in their pathway. The toolkits will help them access services and help more quickly, organise their thoughts, make plans, add positivity and simply help them through their journey. The toolkits aim to improve the person's ability to self manage, to cope better, help them express their concerns and worries and offer a style of journaling which can be used by the person or their health professional to help understand how the patient is feeling. The aim is to encourage people to thrive and move forward despite their diagnosis. Although at UCARE we focus on cancer, these toolkits can be used for anyone with a long term condition depending on what they require. As they are printable a person can print off one form multiple times and use those that are necessary at their point in their journey. Cancer services as well as many other NHS services are currently inundated. Waiting lists to see psychological services and gain support are in great need. Being able to self manage or put thoughts down clearly is vital to make the most of appointments, understand how you are feeling and to thrive during and post treatment. These forms are written specifically for people with long term conditions in mind. They can be printed off and used anywhere and therefore support physical and mental health adding positivity to difficult times and providing structure. They will also encourage people and guide them and help reduce isolation in this way as well. This has been highlighted by patient support groups whom we work closely, as a need. We would use volunteers to help deliver the project. Once the foundation is built this project will run for many years to come and be useful to so many people and carers. We will work in collaboration with other organisations to ensure clear signposting to services as well as delivery and access to the toolkit. We already have funds to support our volunteer involvement and this has been funded and protected for this project. Budget costs £500 volunteer costs - already funded £100 - design and production £1400- nursing time to work with patients/ health professionals / services to plan and develop each toolkit sheet |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,200 |
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BICESTER AUTISM |
Bicester Autism support local parents and carers of children with or awaiting a diagnosis of Autism or a related condition. A common theme amongst the feedback from our families post covid is that they were in need of opportunities for their children to get used to socialising again, that parents and carers were in need of respite and that neurotypical siblings of our children were in need of support. Many of our families are low income and / or beneficiaries of carers and disability living allowances and cannot afford to attend regular children's activities or pay for babysitting services. The most commonly requested services from our families were drop off play session's and support sessions for siblings. We have responded by running a weekly drop off session for children. These alternate, running one session per month for each of the following groups: Junior (5-11 years) Siblings Junior Special Education Needs (SEN) Senior (11-17) Siblings Senior SEN These sessions are run by experienced volunteers with DBS and will usually involve a craft activity, workshop or games. Parents pay £2.00 per session per child to book in. Eventbrite fees are deducted from this and the remaining amount contributes to Bicester Autism running costs. We budget £50 per session (Hall hire each week is reduced by OYAP to £20 and we budget an average of £30 for materials per sessions). Activity Frequency Estimated Cost Per Session Annual Estimated Cost Sibling Sessions Junior Monthly £50 £600 Sibling Sessions Senior Monthly £50 £600 SEN Sessions Junior Monthly £50 £600 SEN Sessions Senior Monthly £50 £600 The sessions to date have been funded by our own fundraising efforts, including a christmas fayre. If successful this grant will be used to run the sessions six months. We have secured funding for the remaining 6 months from the Bicester Village (Value Retail) make a difference grant scheme. We hope to commit to a further full year of these sessions. Our Members have to date responded positively to the sessions, stating the impact on not only the child attending but the rest of the family also. One example is a 15 year old and his single mother. She states that following the period of covid restrictions her son, who has a diagnosis of ADHD, suffers from extreme anxiety which is commonly seen in children with ADHD or ASD. He is only able to attend a hospital school remotely. This has left him isolated, and Mum without any respite at all. Attending the post covid children's groups has given him confidence and a sense of achievement and has allowed Mum the freedom to take an hour to herself. She often joins other parents of children in the group for a walk or a coffee whilst her Son makes Friends in our safe and supportive group. She states 'I was lost and didn’t know where to go and what to do and then I found this amazing group ! I am forever grateful'. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£745 |
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NEPALESE COMMUNITY OXFORDSHIRE |
Nepalese Community are organising a “Meet & Greet” recreational, social and cultural event on Saturday 15 October 2022. The main aim of this event is to re-connect people with each other, give them an opportunity to intermingle and share their experience and any lesson learnt during and post pandemic. Our community volunteers in liaison with its’ committee will run this event. This event will provide a friendly environment where people will have a chance to come together and reconnect with each-other who are still suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of our community family members are still feeling emptiness and loneliness. Nothing will replace or repair the damage that the pandemic has done in peoples’ lives but by bring people together under one roof and giving them a change to meet and greet, share their experience (positive/negative) together will help them to reconcile, think positively and help them to move on to better their lives. This event will also give us an opportunity to thank many community volunteers who worked hard to provide support to vulnerable people during pandemic and are still supporting where necessary. The event is important for the community cohesiveness, recreational purposes, educational awareness and to maintain our culture and traditions. Not just member from our community, we would also love to welcome members from other communities in this “Meet & Greet” event. Organising these events will inevitably attract costs such as paying for venues, transportation, decoration, entertainment, refreshment, hosting external guests and other miscellaneous costs. We are expecting that the event will be attended by around 500 people and finding a suitable hall for this size of people is always difficult and expensive in Oxford. We have provisionally booked Oxford Academy for this event and is costing us £745.00 for hall hire only. We, as the community are still in our formative stage, and we don’t have any regular income. In addition, about 40% of our members are elderly Gurkha veterans who live on benefits. So our income source is very limited and low. Without the help from such as yours the community does not have the financial ability to fund the event which is critical in maintaining community cohesiveness, culture, traditions and customs. I would therefore, like to request for a grant of £745.00 to help us run these community activity. The requested fund will be used for hall hire only. I sincerely hope that this request will be considered favourably. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
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CUTTESLOWE SENIORS |
The grant will contribute towards the work we do in reducing the social isolation that affects so many older people . In common with everyone the pandemic took its toll. particularly as most members were living on their own and two members sadly died during the pandemic. Returning to partial normality, the grant will contribute towards rebuilding the social lives of members, for example, by contributing towards fees for speakers, who provide a variety of informative and entertaining talks. These take place on the second Friday of each month and the question session afterwards gives everyone a chance to air their views, exchange experiences and ask questions. All too often the opinions of elderly people can be dismissed, so it is good, for speakers to hear the opinions of older people. We also have an on-going and important link with the pupils of Cutteslowe First School. Clearly during the pandemic it was impossible to maintain a physical connection with the school but the link is now re-establishing. Past interdisciplinary sessions have centred on the Cuutteslowe Walls , School Life during the 1950s and World War II experiences. We will use some of the funds to work towards producing a booklet on these sessions. We also maintain a link with the out-reach service of the Museum of Oxford and recently members enjoyed mosaic making sessions. We also sometimes connect with the Evergreens Group based in Cutteslowe Park. The grant will help with transport because unfortunately there is no bus service for residents living in Cutteslowe and Sunnymead. Most members live on a very restricted budget so transport to the Centre to attend the talks is a life -saver for many members who would rarely leave their homes otherwise. The funds will also be used to contribute towards the monthly outings to places of interest .We were very dependent on the subsidized travel provided by the Wolvercote Transport minibus service, but this option is no longer available so we have had to make other plans. We have therefore managed to negotiate a very fair travel arrangement with Heyfordian Coaches, whereby if we return to Oxford by 2.30 pm in time for the school run, they take us on trips for a reduced rate. The grant will help with subsidizing the cost of the coach. Members, most of whom will increasingly struggle to live on their pension,particularly during the winter months contribute 5 pounds per person for local trips and this enables people to enjoy a day out and have lunch together ( which they pay for themselves). We have successfully linked up with a group of Seniors from Jericho for some of the outings. The grant will thus help around 8-10 additional elderly people as well as contribute towards the well being and independence of the 20 plus members of the Cutteslowe Seniors. Research shows that reducing social isolation is central to improving the post -COVID lives of the frail elderly and it benefits society to support those who survived the pandemic. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£3,724 |
OXFORDSHIRE OLDER CHINESE PEOPLE CENTRE (HAPPY PLACE) |
The Happy Place has been running for 18 years now. The initial purpose for our organisation is that to find a place to let the older Chinese people in Oxfordshire to meet, socialise with friends in their own language and cultural background. Subsequently, we have developed to a more supportive network, formally registered as a charitable organisation with trustees, committee members, a bank account etc. Due to the language barrier, we provide information on how to better access the health and social care service. We regularly held talks on specific topics with an interpreter, such as on benefits, dementia, dental hygiene and varies health topics. We provided hot lunches, leisure activities such as table tennis, karaoke, dance etc We had been funded by the Oxfordshire County Council for years, in addition of other donations from shops, restaurateurs and some individuals, plus our fund raising events every year. However, because of the pandemic, for the past two years we were unable to deliver the physical provision of our service due to the Covid restrictions. All funding have been ceased at the same time! During that period, we created a befriending service, continued to deliver support and to meet new needs. Our volunteers called the Happy Place's members by phone frequently to check if they were doing fine in order to combat their isolation and loneliness. We re-opened regularly every Monday afternoon from February this year. We have reduced from two afternoons to one and open for a shorter time in order to save money. We need to pay two hours rent for the hall in West Oxford Community Centre, we pay the coordinator's wages, other expenses are insurance, Happy Place mobile phone bill and so on. We would also like to organise a day trip which we used to do annually for the older people. Happy Place provides a vital service for the older Chinese people in Oxfordshire. I remember one widower told me that because she lives alone in a small flat, she loves to come to the Happy Place every week to catch up with friends, asks for help when she needs to, she would have been depressed if she stayed at home all the time with nobody to talk to! As things start to get back to normal, the isolation and loneliness for some of them were unbearable, the anxiety level amongst them for attending the Centre has reduced, we bring people out of the house and attend Happy Place regularly. That improves their mental health and well being. We provide a safe and familiar place for them to socialise again. We have about eight volunteers who work tirelessly to run the Centre which is great value for money. The older Chinese people know us and trust us. The success of this grant application would make a very big different to us. I think the physical attendance will be rising in the coming months and we are expecting a growing demand in all areas where we give support. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£695 |
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3 PARISHES COMMUNITY FRIDGE |
The 3 Parishes Community Fridge aims to reduce food insecurity and food waste. Operating in rural North Oxfordshire, we mainly serve the villages of Fritwell, Soulden Ardley, Heyford & Somerton. We realised that urban areas were well catered for with Community Fridges/Larders and food banks but rurally with limited public transport – we have a bus once a week - our community was not able to access such facilities and our neighbours who faced periods of isolating or food insecurity had nowhere formally to go, this became more apparent as the pandemic moved on and centrally led initiatives closed We started as a trial in February 2021, and the response the fridge has far exceeded our expectations. Since November 2021 we have “Fed” 12557 people We run a twice weekly Fridge and delivery service to those who cannot attend in person due to covid isolation or infirmity. The fridge is open to all, with no means testing. We take waste food from Sainsburys, Tesco & Waitrose and the Oxford Hub. We link to the schools local to us to identify families who have food insecurity ensuring their needs are met. We are a local port of call for those who are isolating to get a food delivery. We have a social media presence. We are neighbours helping neighbours, we are a user led group helping and supporting each other. The fridge has brought the communities together, with volunteers from the surrounding villages working to a common aim. We use our social media prescence to share news, help can be asked for and offers made, recipe ideas are shared. The fridge gives an opportunity in an easily accessible place for people to become involved without the need for transport reducing the isolatation often felt in rural situations. For example, one of our community who has learning difficulties, has taken the task of dealing with some of the vegetables at the Fridge, this means he deals with lots of people who attend asking what they want. We have seen him grow in confidence and begin to take a more active part in the wider community With the success of the Fridge, we want to become a permanent part of our community. The Community has backed this decision with the Playing Field in Fritwell giving us a space to have a storage facility and use of electricity to run Fridges and Freezers. We are asking for a grant of £694 to pay our running costs for the next 12 months, this will cover our contribution to electricity and our hire of venue costs in bad weather. Our longer-term plan is to secure funding via fund raisers and make use of any grant opportunities that arise. The grant will allow us to execute these plans in a timely fashion. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£23,778 |
BERINSFIELD VOLUNTEER DAY CENTRE |
The grant will go towards transport costs, we currently subsidise this each month. We pay £336 to Transpiration ltd, but received back £140 from our service user’s that have very little mobility leaving a £196 short fall every month. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£11,992 |
OXFORD HINDU TEMPLE AND COMMUNITY CENTRE PROJECT |
Friendship, Food, Fun = 3F OHTCCP, registered charity 1131440, is recognised in Oxfordshire as a strong, effective community player, fostering community cohesion, integration, harmony & mutual respect. Our strength is organising events to bring the communities of Oxford together, and these are a testimony to our success in bringing together diverse cultures in Oxfordshire. During the last two years with social distancing, it’s difficult to get out of that habit & continue to meet, to garden and eat as communities thus we desperately need healing from Covid isolation & building on the good work done during that time. We are, and always have been, a community that comes together in front rooms and community spaces together with our families. Our wider reach has included the Syrian, Nepalese, Filipino, Muslim communities & other mainstream organisations. Aim: collaborate with Syrian Sisters, Filipino & Oxford Hindu Temple via three food related workshops “Communities that cook together, stay together,” is very appropriate. Food, a universal human need, is a natural way to break down barriers, lessen isolation, and learn new skills & access information. Through these three food related community & learning events, we will celebrate a joint cultural experience. This will positively help towards the recovery & renewal of our community to come together, share ideas, gain access to new resources & organisations. Our objectives: 1 To build community within, & across minority cultural communities by sharing recipes, food traditions & stories *We aim to break down barriers to use food Hubs by sign posting and normalising access to healthy food by connecting people to community fridge, Food Hub, pantries. Older members of these communities may be too proud access or lack awareness of services available. To make these services acceptable & easy to access to supplement their food with healthy alternatives, we’ll invite their members & also users of these facilities to share experiences. * Use community kitchen to cook & eat together as participating in a community kitchen breaks down social barriers, isolation & improves skills around healthy & affordable eating. Towards this we will have 3 workshops by communities listed where we will cook, share food, recipes & stories. It’s a friendly, yet non threatening way to encourage access to healthy food yet feel supported. 2 Befriending *Support & match up community need with volunteers – start with 5 volunteers responsible for 5 members * Support by phone, help to access to services * Encouragement to join our monthly sessions * By getting together, members for the communities can make friendships and build up a network of support for each other 3 Awareness of healthy eating Encouragement to get away from packaged meals by offering recipes & menus geared to easy cooking Invite nutritionist to chat about healthy eating, issues, services available Encourage values of a plant based diet Funding We’re looking to access other funding. The grant will go towards hosting 3 workshops by the 3 communities, hire of hall, volunteer travel cost, publicity, food sharing & insurance. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,485 |
£175,665 |
CHARLBURY PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL (PCC) ST MARY'S CHURCH, CHARLBURY |
We aim to continue the good work we have started within the Cornerstone project in Charlbury. A grant would enable us to start a weekly coffee morning for residents dealing with loneliness and isolation, and to run it in a way that is safe for those who are still feeling vulnerable following the Covid pandemic. We would be able to resource support from a local mental health worker at these events and through mental health training support to our volunteers. She will also be able to provide ongoing support to us as we plan our community involvement and possibly advice to the households we support. A grant would also enable us to increase the number of households that we support weekly with food support and to continue to provide home delivery and emergency support to any needing to isolate. We expect that our numbers will remain high, they are currently at their highest, and continue to increase this year as people struggle with rising costs and the effects of the pandemic. Many of our households have been greatly affected by the Covid pandemic. We are supporting them to reintegrate into the community whilst still providing the support they require. A grant will enable us to continue and increase the signposting work that we have commenced with other organisations in Charlbury including the Town Council, All Together in Charlbury, our Social Prescriber and Medical centre participation group. Here we aim to improve the access of our residents to support services. Alongside this our work through Learning Cafe support for primary school children, Stay and Play sessions for under 4's and carers and Memory Cafe for those struggling with dementia and their carers continues. Cornerstone is managed under the Charlbury PCC to provide safeguarding and insurance. Cornerstone is funded solely by grants and donations not by St Marys. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£750 |
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EAST OXFORD FARMERS' & COMMUNITY MARKET |
The East Oxford Farmers & Community Market serves the local community, and during covid lockdowns its role in community cohesion was apparent like never before. We operate in an area with high turnover of residents, and our location is a little bit hidden out of the way, and so we need to regularly let the local residents that we exist. One way of reaching out is leafleting. In the past we regularly, and steadily, leafleted the East Oxford area. During the COVID years, we have fallen behind on such leafleting. First because of lockdowns, and leafleting being out of bounds, and then because keeping the market going in a COVID-safe way took up much more of our human resources than in normal times. We are therefore now in the situation where many people in the market’s catchment area are unaware of the market’s existence, thus missing out on the opportunity of regularly engaging with their neighbours. This includes enjoying the market café, with its bustling and friendly atmosphere, reducing sense of loneliness (the market café will start running again from the beginning of July, after a 2-year hiatus). We are now gearing up for a big outreach campaign, but we will need extra funds beyond our usual turnover if it is to be successful. This grant will be spent as following: • £400 – leaflet distribution, ideally by local people (we printed leaflets just before the pandemic started, so no need to print more) • £50 – poster printing (for noticeboards in the area) • £400 – renewing street signs and banners (current ones are old and almost unusable) • £200 – boosted, targeted social media posts • £403 – extra hours for manager to manage all the above This investment will provide benefits for years beyond the grant itself – the new signs and banners will last us for years; the raised level of awareness about us in the community will bring us back to the level we were before the pandemic, and the immediate increase in customers will help the market become viable again, instead of our traders struggling to sell enough to make an income. The market’s existence benefits the local community – enabling small local businesses to operate, facilitating people’s engagement with their community and providing a regular income to the East Oxford Primary school, via the rent we pay. The more people who know about the market, the more people will benefit from it, and the stronger, more resilient the market will be. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£800 |
£919,809 |
BARTON COMMUNITY CHURCH |
Barton is a beautiful community made up of wonderful people, but it’s one of the 10 most deprived wards in Oxfordshire. There are many short-term, urgent needs to address but we are interested in tackling the issues that are harder to fix, but will have the most long-term benefit. In short, we want to play our part in removing the deep-rooted obstacles that stop many people here reaching their potential. Poverty can lead to poor mental health. And poor mental health can also keep people in poverty. People living in the most deprived households are 2-3 times as likely to develop mental health problems as those in the highest. And they’re less likely to have help – counselling is a ‘luxury’ the poor can’t afford. Even when help is not behind a paywall, it’s hard to access – long waiting lists for NHS therapy have gotten longer with COVID. One lady who had been on a waiting list for ‘Talking Space’ for 8 weeks was finally referred to our ‘Hear4You’ listening service. “You have given me hope,” she told us. When lockdown hit, as a frontline service embedded in the local community, we surveyed people in Barton to find out what they felt the biggest needs where. One lady let us know her frustrations with being unable to find a counsellor. Our local GP told us she was desperate to give patients experiencing isolation or poor mental health someone to talk to. So in May 2020 we put a pop-up gazebo outside the local shops to provide a space for people to be listened to, which developed into Hear4You – a 1:1 listening service overseen by a qualified counsellor, providing Barton people with weekly 45 minute sessions for up to 12 weeks. 6 trained volunteers have already supported 20 people, most of whom were prescribed to us from the GP surgery. Our hope now is to expand the service, and to do that we want to make the space more inviting. Barton Community Church already rent space from the Neighbourhood Centre that includes a private room perfect for the Hear4You listening service. But it's not a very inviting space. We're looking for £800 in funding for a renovation project, to provide an inviting, safe and relaxed atmosphere for people to have a listening service. Funds will be spent on materials, with the majority of the work done by volunteers. We expect the Hear4You service to benefit 25 people over the coming 12 months, offering people from a deprived area who experiencing loneliness, isolation and poor mental health the opportunity to improve those outcomes. With full honesty, our impact reporting to date has been affected because our final survey of participants is done on their last session, but with so many clients experiencing chaotic lives, often sessions end prematurely or people miss weeks. So we need to build in a 1,3, 6 and 12 week assessment that captures data along the journey, rather than just a before and after. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
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WATLINGTON VOLUNTEER DRIVERS |
The purpose of Watlington Volunteer Drivers is to take people to hospital, GP and other medical appointments. We will also take people to lunch clubs or to visit care homes if we can. Many are unable or uncomfortable to drive, and there is very little public transport available in Watlington. Over the past three months the number of requests for trips to hospitals and clinics has increased as the NHS is endeavouring to clear the backlog caused by the pandemic. We charge a mileage charge but would like to be able to use the grant money to cover our overhead which is low, and the rest of the money to offer free rides. Even though there were fewer requests during the pandemic and some of our drivers did not want to drive, we continued to cover all requests. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
|
BLEWBURY AMAZONS GIRLS FOOTBALL CLUB |
This grant is for the express purpose of addressing an urgent need for specific and targeted mental health provision/education for our group of 100+ girls. We will also need to upskill a selection of Coaches and involved parent-volunteers. We have noticed that many more of the girls than we had anticipated have been detrimentally affected by the last 2 years of lockdowns, restrictions etc. This has impacted their ability to engage fully in the sport that they have previously unreservedly enjoyed. We are deeply concerned that if not addressed promptly, we will have trouble retaining some of these girls due to their lack of confidence, increased anxiety, destruction of community, friendships etc. We already know that retention of teen girls in sport is difficult; one of our long term measures of success is to minimise this drop-off rate.\n\nWe will spend any grant funds on buying the time of mental health and wellbeing professionals who can help us address the most pressing mental health needs that we seeing affect our community of girls. The funds will also allow us to hire the spaces required to host the meetings and provide appropriate refreshments if required. We are raising funds ourselves that will be added to any Grant monies received, but here are some examples of the costings for courses/options we are considering: The Clubhouse meeting room at Blewbury where we currently play/train is £15 per hour to hire. Youth Mental Health First Aid Awareness workshop YMHFA (half day) 5 adults (coaches or involved parent volunteers) - 5x£125 = £625 - will provide mental health first aid coverage across all our age groups to cover playing/training sessions & match days. Sports Psychologist session (managing emotions on the pitch) - £35 p/hour. We have seen a big increase in difficulties managing frustration, anger & anxiety etc which is impacting wider team morale and individual enjoyment when playing the game itself. Bespoke Wellbeing Workshop with Sophia Cleverly (The Happy Place Practice) 2x2hr workshops (1xPrimary age/1xSecondary age) to cover mindfulness/relaxation techniques/communication/anxiety management strategies. 2x£500=£1000. These workshops would be repeatable and less expensive when repeated as there will be less preparatory work. Nutrition for Mental & Physical Health with Tash Pepper (Nutritionist) - hourly rate to be confirmed. We have noticed that lockdowns and now the cost of living crisis have had a detrimental impact on food choices and options. Coupled with the lack of access to organised sports over the last two years we think this has impacted the physical and mental health of our cohorts. At this moment in time, we feel the most appropriate spend will be on the YMHFA courses as they are established and can be tailored easily to our audience for minimal cost. |
| 19/07/2022 |
£1,500 |
£17,866 |
BOTLEY BRIDGES |
Botley Bridges will run 40 sessions of our parent-and-baby group – the only support group for new parents in West Oxford. For each session, the grant will cover the £37.50 cost of hiring the venue. Held weekly at the Seacourt Hall in Botley, each two-hour session will provide parents with practical advice, emotional support and signposting to other services. A well-qualified staff member will lead each session: either New Parent Mentor Susan Dowe, who has ten years’ experience of running children’s centres, or Coordinator Hayley Hayle, who has fifteen years’ experience of early-years services, and who in 2021 was awarded a British Empire Medal for work supporting new parents during lockdown. The funding will enable us to keep providing the same service we have run since 2017 (including during lockdown, when we held sessions online). It will mean we can continue: * reducing isolation by providing a relaxed environment in which new parents can socialise and seek the advice and support of their peers * giving parents day-to-day child-development advice on topics such as breastfeeding, speech development and establishing a healthy sleeping pattern. * assisting child development and improving parents’ mental health through shared activities such as the 20-minutes of group singing which forms part of every session. * giving parents an in-depth knowledge of key areas of child development by providing expert guest speakers who will hold question-and-answer sessions on specific topics, such as maintaining good oral hygiene in young children. * enabling staff to spot parental mental-health problems, give appropriate advice and, if necessary, signpost or refer a parent to services such as a health visitor or the Specialist Breastfeeding Clinic at the John Radcliffe Hospital. * training parents in paediatric first aid by providing two-hour teaching sessions hosted by an expert facilitator covering subjects such as burns, head injuries and CPR. * improving social integration by providing a welcoming, multicultural experience for foreign-born parents that will help them to establish a local support network (16 of the 40 families we currently support speak English as their second or other language). Testimonies from current service users “The baby group is great! It offers a weekly opportunity for new mothers to interact with other mums and babies in the catchment area, sing nursery rhymes together, and work on baby’s motor and developmental skills. It’s also a good reason to get out of the house.” “When I had my little one, I was just moved to the UK and I had no friends or family or even neighbors to talk to…until one of the health visitor told me to join the botley bridges mums group. It wasn’t easy to overcome all of this trapped feelings and go out. But once I started join this amazing group, I started to feel I am alive again and I could see some colours in my day. We talk, we share, we connect…seeing other mums and sharing my struggles with them helped me so much. Thank you for holding this group together.” |
| 13/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
£120,608 |
OXFORDSHIRE PLAY ASSOCIATION |
Each year OPA organises a series of Play and Activity days at multiple venues across Oxfordshire in line with the ethos of National Playday, the celebration of the Childs Right to Play, (www.playday.org.uk) In the 9 years from 2012 to 2021 we have delivered over 100 events across Oxfordshire which have been attended by over 130,000 ‘guests’ (Our 2020 Events were postponed due to Coronavirus Lockdowns / Restrictions) The key selling point of our project is that all of our events offer both FREE Entrance and FREE Activities to ensure an Inclusion for ALL. These events were already becoming increasingly important with the savage cuts previously imposed on Children and Families services in Oxfordshire (including the closure of local Children’s Centres and Youth Services) in terms of providing activities and information on services available to local families. These needs will be further exacerbated by the issues caused by Covid-19. We will deliver a series of Community Play & Activity days across the County offering both FREE Entrance and FREE Activities to ensure an inclusion for all The planned events are as follows; 9th July = South Abingdon 16th July = Wheatley & Holton 23rd July = Cutteslowe, Oxford 27th July = Peoples Park, Banbury 28th July = Eynsham 30th July = Wantage & Grove 2nd August = Berinsfield 5th August = Faringdon 6th August = Kidlington & Gosford 17th August = Princess Diana Park, Banbury |
| 13/07/2022 |
£4,358 |
£118,068 |
BERIN CENTRE |
We'd like to further develop the Community Kitchen Garden with a broader range of local groups and residents. Following our initial success in establishing the garden with input from the Youth Club, we now want to engage the local Day Centre for older people, and a broader cross-section of older people in the village, alongside children, families, young people, and working-age adults. We'd like to add a few key items, which will in turn provide opportunities: - A seed shack/plant swap. We will build this, and engage visitors to our Community Larder and the wider village in populating it with seeds from their gardens, seedlings and plants, and messages to one another. - A water butt. A number of people across the community have enquired about helping tend the garden, however there's no access to running water. We'd like to install a water butt to catch rain water so that anyone can help water the plants. - A bench. We've had requests, particularly from older people, to provide a place to sit and enjoy the garden. Based on the Friendly Bench model, we'd like to install a bench with signage that prompts people to sit and chat, inviting conversations with people they may not otherwise talk to, and a clearly defined place to visit if you'd like to meet people. - A mosaic art installation. By running sessions and providing materials to the Day Centre and other groups across the village, including the school, different individuals will decorate tiles and we will then install them in a community mosaic in the garden, creating an inter-generational art piece for all to enjoy. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
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AFRICAN FAMILIES IN THE UK (AFIUK) CIC |
Staffing a series of drop in sessions at St Christophers primary school where parents can be directed to receive essential support services. The drop in will be a safe space where issues can be brought and addressed in a culturally sensitive way. Parents will be made to feel safe in knowing that the staff there have an understanding of their home lives from a cultural perspective and will grow in the confidence that asking for help does not automatically mean that they risk their children being removed but in fact re-enforces stability for their family. In a very informal way this space will provide an ongoing place where information can be gained, it will be a place to talk and make friends with other parents. Where their are specific needs, professionals form outside can be brought in, under the guidance of the AFiUK staff to deliver necessary information. This award would also enable us to run the BOMA parenting course for the families at the school which will educate parents from overseas to the expectations of parenting in the UK context, i.e parents can also be given guidance around discipline, positive language, homework and what to do with reading books and how important it is to display the children's achievements in the home. A parent-volunteer system will also be central to drop-in where parents that have used our service will be able to offer support to new parents coming in. We will also be able to signpost to services such as the school's English classes which are already running. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
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TANDEM OXFORD CIC (WORKING TITLE TANDEM COLLECTIVE) |
This grant will enable us to run a full term of our new weekly community music group celebrating cultural diversity in Oxford. Weekly peer-to-peer song-learning workshops will engage participants from a wide cross-section of the local community, including both refugee/migrant/asylum seeking communities and residents from British backgrounds. Our sessions create an inclusive, welcoming space for migrant and non-migrant communities to build connection and friendship and share their heritage. At each session, a different participant is supported by our experienced facilitators to teach a song from their heritage to the rest of the group. We also invite a participant each week to bring the rehearsal refreshments, giving them a small budget to bring a snack to share from their culture. The group will perform as part of an OCM event at the end of the term (Dido’s Bar - a show about the experience of migrants.) Preparing for a performance gives a sense of shared purpose to the group, and builds confidence in participants through the validation of publicly sharing their heritage, as well as demonstrating positive intercultural interaction for audiences. We will recruit participants through existing community networks and partners (Mandala Theatre, Syrian Sisters, Asylum Welcome, Refugee Resource, Multaka, EMBS college) and targeted publicity (flyers at refugee support centres and community centres, visiting community groups and local cafes/restaurants.) We will employ someone with connections in these communities to work on outreach and engagement, building trust with harder-to-reach groups and ensuring we reach communities of particular need. The grant will enable us to pay two experienced facilitators (both also local residents) a venue to host the workshops, refreshments at each rehearsal,access travel bursaries to participants who need it, and some project overheads such as project management and marketing. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
£428,714 |
OXFORD HUB |
We will spend this grant to revive and strengthen our English language support through FELLOW, following challenges during the pandemic. FELLOW began in 2007, as free volunteer-run language classes for those who could not afford prohibitively expensive language schools. Affordable language classes have since become available, and Oxford Hub has learned through our programmes about the strengths of a one-to-one approach. One-to-one matches allow a pair to develop their own unique relationship and support, with the flexibility adult learners need. They introduce people who might otherwise not have met. Learners and mentors form strong relationships and show one another different sides of Oxford, increasing community cohesion and belonging. In 2019-20, before the pandemic, we supported 100 learners, including five weekly classes and 52 one-to-ones. During the pandemic, FELLOW moved online, focusing on one-to-ones. Our pandemic crisis response, mobilising over 1000 volunteers across the city to complete over 10,000 tasks, reduced our capacity to run FELLOW. As this work subsides, we are excited to reinvigorate FELLOW. Our pandemic response focused on increasing community connections and cohesion, and we will apply this expertise in FELLOW. We aim to raise £30,000 across the year to fund a staff role to support learners, train mentors, create matches, monitor impact, and consider opportunities for the programme to grow. We are confident of raising £10,000 respectively from public funds and the National Lottery’s Awards for All, and £5,000 from the University of Oxford. We are asking OCF to complete that picture with a £5,000 donation, which would play a key role in reinvigorating FELLOW this next year. We will focus this money on growing our one-to-one matches to 100 per year. We aim to grow a community of 30 further participants through language and cultural exchange group events such as food-sharing. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£4,905 |
£57,450 |
REAL TIME VIDEO LTD |
Community Radio has a global reputation as an effective tool for fostering social action and building agency. Wallingford Radio has grown from a small internet-based outfit, to one holding a broadcast licence, undertaken by local volunteers. Over £6000 was raised for the studio and equipment. Our project will work with local people to provide training to produce content about local issues. Real Time will run digital workshops to engage with hard-to-reach groups. At least 5 workshops will be offered to community groups to produce stories which will be aired on the station. This could include storytelling workshops with older people, intergenerational work with young people and those who are economically disadvantaged. The workshops will take place in local venues, targeting areas of deprivation. There will be 10 workshops, engaging at least 50 participants. At least 20 volunteers from 4 different organisations will be offered training in how to engage people to create stories. Participants will come from existing contacts and volunteers from other organisations. The project will target people who have direct contact with those who can benefit. Volunteers will be supported throughout the process and will have access to professional support. An online toolkit will be produced to support volunteers in their ongoing work. It will include information on how to use participatory interview techniques, structuring stories, plus technical training. It will be available via the stations website and partner organisations. The toolkit will be a useful information exchange to ensure ongoing active participation and skill development. Volunteers and station staff will be encouraged to add to this to improve the station’s resources. The project will develop ways that volunteers can be supported to improve their skills taking on more advanced work, such as presenting local news. Thus, Wallingford Radio will become more representative of the community it serves. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£4,984 |
£467,130 |
REFUGEE RESOURCE |
This funding will contribute towards supporting our weekly therapeutic football group for young men, aged 16-20 years old. This is a jointly run project between Refugee Resource, Asylum Welcome and Oxford United in the Community. We are looking to fund the running costs of group for the next 12 months: the football group co-ordinator; the football coaches’ fees including mentoring and training up the older young men, and organising trips to football matches; pitch hire; psychotherapist supervision; and Asylum Welcome outreach support. Sessions are run on a weekly basis for an hour and half at a local school's AstroTurf pitch. This is a secure location where the young people feel safe to enjoy themselves. The group is assisted by a small number of 'older’ young men in their twenties who volunteer their time to support these younger men, and are training up as sports leaders and coaches. The group has been running as a pilot since summer 2021, and has been extremely successful. It has been well attended (even throughout the cold winter months), with around 20 young men coming each week, and there has been high retention. This funding will help establish the group as a sustainable part of the three charities’ provision for these young men. As a therapeutic provision, the football coordinator is supported by one of our highly experienced therapists (specialist in trauma) who provides clinical support in the form of group observation, as well as a reflective practice space for the coordinator. By attending the group, the young men also have access to practical and emotional support from Refugee Resource (some current members are now getting specialist counselling and mentoring support) and Asylum Welcome (casework support from youth workers), and coaching input from Oxford United in the Community staff and volunteers. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
£127,597 |
LEYS CDI |
The grant will be spent to help fund the following staff salaries: 1. Charity Manager - role: To oversee all Leys CDI Projects and to raise further funding to keep the projects running beyond the funding period. 2. Youth Project Development Manager. Role: to support young people in the design of their youth project and support the team of youth workers to deliver the project. To carry out outreach work to ensure we are reaching the young people who need us most. 3. Clockhouse Project Worker: Role: - To support older people in the design of their project and help provide what they need for their projects to succeed. To carry out outreach in the community to ensure we are reaching the older people who need us most. For the Leys CDI Projects to have the best outcomes for the community we need to ensure the salaries for our key staff. The current projects not only need to be sustainable but staff also need to be able to build on the outreach work to ensure we are reaching everyone who can benefit. Securing salaries can enable Leys CDI to plan and deliver projects looking beyond 12 months when real benefit and change can be delivered. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
£78,878 |
JACARI |
This grant would contribute to the main part of our work - our tuition programme for young people who use EAL and are struggling at school. We focus on this because regular 1:1 tuition increases children’s confidence along with language and communication skills, helping them feel less isolated and enabling them to participate more fully in school and community life. Each tutee is given tailored, 1:1 tuition by their Jacari tutor for 1 hour a week during term-time. The majority of the grant will go towards the salary of our Senior Coordinator, who will be responsible for recruiting and training volunteer tutors and matching them to young people with EAL. They will then oversee the match and ensure that both the pupil and the volunteer are thriving and that the pupil is developing in their language and confidence. They also are regularly in touch with the lead contact at the child’s school to discuss how the tutor can best support their pupil and any issues they are experiencing. In addition, our Coordinator will monitor and report on the impact of our work and manage relationships with our local partners in Oxford, including other charities and tutoring organisations. They also oversee the finances, fundraising, charity strategy and policies for Jacari. In addition they are currently setting up a Youth Advisory Board made up of young people aged 14-18 who have been tutored by Jacari so that we are involving our service-users in making decisions about Jacari's programmes. The grant will also go towards some general running costs, including rent for space in a shared office where we can store our library of teaching materials so volunteers can drop-in and chat to our Coordinators and borrow resources to use in their tutoring sessions. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£4,920 |
£612,011 |
THOMLEY HALL CENTRE LTD. |
We will facilitate these 'Open for all' days to ensure that we support inclusion and awareness in our local community. These days will directly encourage those with and without disabilities to play together, whilst educating children and parents about varying needs and barriers to inclusive play, that people face. We will spend the grant to ensure we have qualified staff on site to supervise and encourage the positive integration. The staff are extremely experienced in handling difficult situations and ensuring that all visitors, regardless of their ability, health, background receive a fantastic experience. They will do this by educating parents about why Thomley exists and why Open for all days are an important element of our programme of activities. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£5,000 |
£89,581 |
CUTTESLOWE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
If successful; the funding will be split with £2,000 of the funding put toward our Summer Programme’s total £8,500 delivery costs. Our programme includes art, dance, bushcraft, sports, crafts, singing and nature education for under 5s, bug club, science, literacy and drama. The budget includes £2,000 for 150hrs by our programme leader (who led our summer provision 2019&2022). £5,000 for facilitation by specialists including a professional artist, football coach, Early Years Specialist and Latin dance instructor. £500 for materials, £500 for CCA overheads and a £500 contingency fund. To date we have secured funding from 5 other sources and we have an active grant application for £1200 and are applying for the final £2,000 required to fund our programme. The remaining £3,000 will be used to cover any costs associated with the activities listed previously that are delivered within the Centre free of charge to promote the development of residents. There are ongoing management costs associated with activities taking place in the Centre both administratively as well as promotion of activities and procurement of materials. There are also overheads associated with all activities in the building through loss of hire revenue, utilities to light and heat the rooms while in use, insurance, rates, and Centre cleaning costs. In order to make the activities listed previously possible and sustainable long-term it is vital that we procure funding to allow them to continue without incurring any costs. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£1,000 |
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PEPPARD LAWN TENNIS CLUB ("PEPPARD LTC") |
Peppard LTC, legally incorporated as a private member's club is not in a position to directly employ Coaching resources to assist with group or individual tennis development. The current solution is to enter in to commercial arrangements with Coaching organisations where all Coaching relationships are subject to the governance of the Lawn Tennis Association ("LTA") where it is both appropriate and important to mention that qualification, safeguarding and adherence to LTA policies and processes is required of the Coaching organisations as it is for Peppard LTC. In order to promote the engagement and support of refugees at Peppard LTC, we have received significant interest on coaching for said refugees where ability levels range from "beginner" to "advanced" in the standards of play. The club is of the opinion that provision of coaching services will greatly enhance the inclusion of the refugees and this statement is made based on the fact that it is absolutely the case for the general community of the club. Peppard LTC therefore requests the grant for the total sum of £1,000.00 to be spent on providing free of charge tennis coaching for refugees either looking to learn how to play tennis or improve their skills. The coaching will be provided with the specific aim of promoting inclusion where the plan is for "group" coaching where refugees receive the coaching free of charge and other Members pay for the sessions. To avoid any and all doubt, the request for the grant is specifically for persons who are refugees. |
| 13/07/2022 |
£1,375 |
£11,992 |
OXFORD HINDU TEMPLE AND COMMUNITY CENTRE PROJECT |
We will spend the grant on setting up and organising our 13th annual Mela in Rose Hill Community Centre on the 13th anniversary of the founding of our organisation (Autumn 22). The Mela will provide an opportunity for residents from all backgrounds to come together post pandemic, have fun, socialise, meet new people, see friends and participate in/benefit from the following: • healthy activities such as the interactive Bollywood dance session (Jay Kumar); basketball, dodge ball & football activities run by Youth Ambition. Oxfordshire Cricket Association approached to run taster sessions; Go Active MOTs • tours of the Rose Hill Gym facilities and one of the raffle prizes will be gym membership • joint presentation of cultural activities –local & invited artistes to represent the diverse community we live in/encourage community interaction & widening participation for all age groups e.g. Jay Kumar & classical Indian dancers; Dragon School Band; Strawberry Fayre; Ashnah group; Sol Samba; Confluence; World Music; Drumming workshop & Dancing Oxford; Museum of Oxford, Science Oxford, & artistes helpful in involving children & young adults • information, advice and support stalls: The Oxford Mela will be run in partnership with other mainstream agencies, ie Oxford City Council, Education providers, NHS, Health & Wellbeing providers, Community Police & Fire Services, community groups and other charities, (Carbon group & recycling team; Oxford Food Hub; St John’s Ambulance; OCVA – volunteering opportunities) The grant will thus be spent on the following: • healthy international food • publicity • Professional performers (Oxford living wage) /transport • PA and DJ hire • Stage hire • refreshments Other income raised/in kind will cover: • Sports activities • Contribution to brochure (some business sponsorship) • contribution towards use of Rose Hill facilities • marquee hire volunteer expenses |
| 29/06/2022 |
£15,000 |
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ALEF TRUST CIC |
Alef Trust CiC is a not-for-profit company that aims to nurture individual and societal transformation by providing learning and community programmes in the fields of transpersonal psychology and integrative psychology, as well as the study of spirituality and consciousness. The focus of our mission is educational. We offer postgraduate opportunities which draw on leading edge pedagogic approaches facilitating transformative processes in our students. The grant applied for here is to support disadvantaged students through scholarship funding on our MSc in "consciousness, spirituality, and transpersonal psychology". There are two aspects to the "needs" in the question. First is the need for learning opportunities in the topic areas in which we have expertise; and second is the need to support potential students who would be unable to afford to study without scholarship support. The first need concerns the educational approach that we are offering. This very much relates to what might best be expressed as the "needs of our time". With the demise of institutional religion, a groundswell of interest in spiritual values and pathways to growth is evident. This interest is sometimes reflected in "new age" courses, which are often poorly contextualised in terms of scholarship and research. Alef Trust offers the opportunity to explore these interests specifically in an academic context. Moreover, in the wake of the Covid pandemic, the groundswell has, if anything, increased; large numbers of people are looking for a broader perspective than the one offered by medical science. They recognise that the pandemic highlights issues of globalisation, and the need for responsible practices in human engagement with eco-systems and food sources. As for the second need - that of supporting disadvantaged individuals who aspire to study with us - we feel it is crucial that our learning community includes the diversity that would otherwise be compromised. We are motivated to teach those who qualify in aspirational and academic terms, and not to have financial circumstances be a major determining factor. |
| 29/06/2022 |
£30,000 |
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COSTAIN CONSULTING |
Grant to Costain Consulting |
| 27/06/2022 |
£119,505 |
£1,035,613 |
PEEPLE |
Growing Minds aims to improve school readiness in two areas of disadvantage by providing a continuum of support for families from birth until their child is five. It is a place-based, universal initiative, led by trusted third sector delivery organisations, which complements and enhances the statutory provision available to families from Health, Education and Social Care. Growing Minds was initiated by the Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF) in 2019. It was launched in January 2020 as an ambitious, seven-year project which families would come to trust as part of the fabric of their community, with their needs and voices at its heart. There was also the aspiration to provide a model which could be implemented nationally. Although, almost from the outset, Growing Minds was significantly disrupted by Covid, it is now firmly established in Littlemore and Berinsfield. However, the need for support has increased due to the extraordinary pressures that families have faced during the pandemic; for example, the percentage of pupils at John Henry Newman (Littlemore) achieving/exceeding the expected standard at the end of reception has fallen from 57% in 2019 to 11% in 2021 and from 70% to 50% at Abbey Woods (Berinsfield). As delivery partners, we also learnt a great deal during the last two years which has informed the work we will carry out this year, and our plans for the future of the project. In 2022/23 we envisage that Growing Minds will move through three, overlapping, stages: Transition – from the auspices of OCF to a partnership led by Peeple, Home-Start Oxford and the Berin Centre; and from an approach dominated by the pandemic to a post-pandemic recovery phase. Consolidation – of the model, embedding the learning from the first two years of the project with the systems and infrastructure to enable an effective and sustainable menu of support for families. Growth – with more families involved as beneficiaries but also in the design of services, and towards a model that that can inform the evolving landscape of early years services nationally and the development of Family Hubs locally in Oxfordshire. This year we will: • establish the project systems and infrastructure • recruit a Project Manager (funding dependant) • strengthen referrals routes into Growing Minds from the Registry service, midwifery and the health visiting team • recruit new cohorts of families with children born 1.1.22 – 31.12.22 (Cohort 3) and 1.1.23 – 31.3.23 (Cohort 4) • recruit additional families into Cohorts 1 (born 2020), 2 (2021), A (2018), B (2019) • provide the Imagination Library (12 free books pa posted to each registered child) • offer a Welcome Visit to every new family to share information about Growing Minds, book sharing and a welcome pack (including their first Imagination Library book). The visit may take place at the family’s home, at the Berin Centre or other community venue. If a family is not available for a visit, the information will be shared during a phone contact or online. • provide sustained one-to-one family support to families with highest level of need • deliver and support the delivery of Peep Learning Together sessions (these will be one-to-one, groups or via a Stay and Play) • deliver three interactive, online newsletters to all registered families • provide a closed Growing Minds Facebook Page for each area • build on links with partner professionals for mutual referrals/signposting • support the uptake free early education and childcare • continue to initiate partnerships that bring enriched learning opportunities to Littlemore and Berinsfield children (e.g. City Farm, Story Museum, Active Oxfordshire, Oxford University development study & play resources) • encourage families to engage with additional activities which support a range of needs (e.g. Community Larders, hardship support, addiction, speech and language, mental health services) • design and distribute an annual evaluation questionnaire to all registered families • use elements of Storytelling methodology and case studies to gather evidence of impact to add to quantitative data • commission an independent evaluation • hold bi-annual Learning Days which will include funders, and guests such as the Suffolk Growing Minds project and Thrive at Five. |
| 27/06/2022 |
£2,000 |
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GOT2B CIC |
Sponsorship by Meech International of the Young Hidden Hero Award at the West Oxfordshire Youth Awards 2022. Meech will be able to be part of the judging panel for this award and event tickets and other marketing materials will include their logo. Other benefits of this sponsorship include attendance at the event. |
| 27/06/2022 |
£720 |
£50,982 |
BAMPTON PARISH COUNCIL RECREATION GROUND CHARITY |
Replacement cabinet for the defibrillator located at the Bampton recreation ground which has been damaged. It is not possible for this to be reparied so a new case is requested. The replacement cabinet from Turtle Engineering is more robust. |
| 26/05/2022 |
£36,700 |
£101,696 |
WOLVERCOTE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLUB |
To ensure the future growth and sustainability of the WYPC, the club will hire a Charity Manager with proven management and fundraising skills. The Charity Manager will oversee two areas: !) Growth: managing and facilitating the club's development into the area of Daytime Youth Work for young people out of work, training and education (NEET), and; 2) Sustainability: reducing our annual deficit by setting and achieving fundraising targets. The 'Step Change' grant will give the Charity Manager the time to establish themselves and initiate growth at the WYPC before undertaking to fundraise their ongoing salary. |
| 26/05/2022 |
£28,964 |
£305,727 |
SUNNINGWELL SCHOOL OF ART |
We have a 20-year-old website, no branding and no online booking or payment system. We plan to employ a marketing consultancy to develop a brand identity, build an integrated on-line booking system that connects to our new student database, and allow us to take payments on-line. This, along with a redevelopment of our website will boost our online presence, streamline our customer experience and keep us healthy in terms of competition in the market. We recognise that this is something we desperately need as we grow our timetable to cater for students on our waiting lists. |
| 26/05/2022 |
£39,520 |
£239,258 |
BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS |
Improve our ability to communicate with primary external audiences including potential beneficiaries, referrers, supporters, and donors. Making internal operations more efficient, external communications more effective and impactful, and strengthening the quality and integrity of our data and back office operations to future proof key elements of Bridewell's operations. |
| 25/05/2022 |
£5,500 |
£409,331 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
Part funding of One-Eighty's Kick Start pilot project to cover four primary schools including Abbey Woods Academy in Berinsfield. |
| 25/05/2022 |
£21,000 |
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ASYLUM WELCOME |
Asylum Welcome has a range of services skills and experience specifically relevant to the situation of most of the 21 people the project hopes to help in its second year. As well as general support through our advisory services and specific support in terms of our foodbank and hardship fund, our experienced immigration team will work closely with the beneficiaries of this project to move their claims for asylum forward to the desired outcome. We have recently welcomed a highly experienced level 2 qualified Immigration Advisor to strengthen our team, as well as new volunteers undergoing training. Our laptops project has allowed us to explore creating an IT digital support service working closely with the laptops project. The purpose is to coach clients in using these platforms, creating, and using email accounts. This will help with this next phase of support. This project, while supervised and guided by staff is mainly volunteer led, and the focus was having volunteers with lived experience and language skills. We have recruited a Sudanese person with a background of architecture; an Iraqi client with experience working with the UN; a person from Afghanistan with IT skills and another Iraqi volunteer working in IT support. |
| 25/05/2022 |
£95,220 |
£7,342,445 |
CONNECTION FLOATING SUPPORT TEAM |
We are seeking funding for our joint project, which is working to deliver the goals of the initiative established by Oxfordshire Homeless Movement (‘OHM’) to provide emergency support to people with No Recourse to Public Funds. The project will support a group of vulnerable individuals in Oxfordshire, who have been rough sleeping and have been temporarily housed as a result of Covid-19. They currently have No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) and face homelessness. Connection Support will deliver tailored individual support which will enable each individual to access the essential services they need, to maintain their medium-term tenancy, and ultimately to move on into long term secure housing. Our team will work with each individual to develop a tailored support plan, designed to equip them with the capacity to build the life skills they need to live independently, and turn their accommodation into their longer term home. At the same time, they will help ensure that each participant has access to training, work opportunities, banking, and substance misuse, health or mental health support, as appropriate. Additionally, Connection Support will provide financial hardship support to project participants receiving accommodation, as required. |
| 25/05/2022 |
£8,675 |
£1,990,199 |
ASPIRE |
Housing and individual wrap-around support for people with No Recourse To Public Fund. |
| 25/05/2022 |
£35,000 |
£1,990,199 |
ASPIRE |
This funding is for individual personalisation budgets for the 50 upcoming Housing First accommodation units being put in place as part of the Councils strategy to move to a more Housing Led approach. Some of the units will be run by A2 Dominion and some by St Mungo’s. The total number of units is 50 across Oxfordshire. It was agreed by the OHM Steering Group that Aspire would hold and distribute these funds as they already have experience in this area and are carrying out this role for another project. As there is already £15,000 in a pot for this, OHM agreed to pay a further £35,000 so that the average amount per client would be £1,000. In the knowledge that some will be less and some more - Aspire will be able to help decide the appropriate among depending on the quality of the inherited properties. |
| 23/05/2022 |
£2,000 |
£1,197,746 |
ACTIVE OXFORDSHIRE |
Active Oxfordshire is a registered charity helping people in greatest need across the county to increase their activity levels and protect their physical and mental health. Our key priorities are to support children and young people facing disadvantage, residents with long-term health conditions and older people, helping them to move more, improve their physical and mental health and enjoy the significant benefits that sport and physical activity can provide. Some examples of our work in action include helping children and their families in areas of greatest deprivation to learn to swim and ride a bike, providing bikes for Oxfordshire keyworkers during the COVID-19 crisis and supporting people most impacted by COVID-19 to move more at home and in their community. In February 2022 we launched a new inclusive sports programme known as Access Sport Oxfordshire, to help hundreds of disadvantaged children and young people change their lives through sport. |
| 23/05/2022 |
£2,000 |
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WILTSHIRE AND SWINDON SPORT |
To promote and support sport and physical activity To promote and support high quality PE and School Sport To support a high quality workforce through providing education and training To build networks and partnerships that create and sustain opportunities for participation in sport and physical activity |
| 23/05/2022 |
£2,000 |
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ACTIVE SURREY HOSTED BY SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL |
Active Surrey is one of 42 Active Partnerships across the UK. As the Active Partnership for Surrey, we work collaboratively to help everyone in Surrey realise the benefits of a more active way of life. We focus on influencing systems, removing barriers and creating opportunities to get people moving more. We strongly believe that movement matters. It matters to our health, our schools, our communities and our environments. |
| 09/05/2022 |
£1,000 |
£665,948,138 |
CANCER RESEARCH UK |
Supporting employees fundraising for Cancer Research UK |
| 28/04/2022 |
£1,500 |
£180,420,000 |
DISASTERS EMERGENCY COMMITTEE |
Support for Ukrainian refugees |
| 28/04/2022 |
£500 |
£10,420 |
BRITISH-UKRAINIAN AID |
To match fund efforts by the Beard staff in fundraising to support local causes. In this case the Beard staff have chosen to support Ukrainian refugees. |
| 26/04/2022 |
£500 |
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WHISTLEY 2000 SCOUT GROUP |
Martin Clarke has been approached to support a project to create an outdoor space as the current Scout hut for Whistley 2000 in Turweston doesn't have one. They have been given an area of land in Syresham to create an outdoor activity space including a storage area for equipment, a covered area for activities & a fire circle. This will be used by Scouts of all ages for activities & camps & will also be available for use by local groups including Brownies & Guides. Their intention if the for the Explorer Scouts (aged 14-18) to build this area with support from Martin & the leaders. They have already cleared the area which was overgrown with lots of rubbish. Martin will be supporting the teaching of; creating a suitable base for the storage shed, the erection of the shed, building a pergola for a sail cover & laying an appropriate surface for the activity area. |
| 25/04/2022 |
£18,000 |
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EDGE HOUSING - OXFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH |
The grant will specifically be used to cover the costs of our specialist, experienced staff team during the 12 month period specified as they support and work with 3 NRPF residents. We value the opportunity to work in partnership with Connections Support and Asylum Welcome, NRPF project delivery partners, to ensure that resident support standards and methods are consistent with other accommodation offered under this project. (See attached documents for more detail). Costs are £6000 per client per year and we will be supporting 3 NRPF clients, ie. a total cost of £18,000 for the year. |
| 25/04/2022 |
£1,300 |
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SUSTAINABLE WYCHWOODS ACTION GROUP |
To support the reduction of waste in the local community by providing a series of community events. |
| 25/04/2022 |
£2,000 |
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CARTERTON METHODIST CHURCH |
To purchase a polytunnel & equipment/seeds to turn their outside space into a sensory garden. |
| 25/04/2022 |
£2,000 |
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WOOD FARM PARENT AND TODDLER GROUP |
To pay for rent, refreshments & arts & crafts for 1 year. |
| 25/04/2022 |
£2,000 |
£4,047 |
BLEDINGTON SCHOOL ASSOCIATION |
To purchase a play unit for children 2-4. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£4,000 |
£426,497 |
LADYBIRD PRE-SCHOOL |
We have, in the past, run a Family Links Nurturing programme which promotes emotional health at home, school and work. These groups give parents different strategies to use to cope with family life and promote the emotional health of the whole family. We have been unable to do these during Covid, due to government restrictions and subsequent loss of income. As we are now coming out of restrictions we feel that there is an even greater need for these groups for parents who are struggling with their home life and the stresses of bringing up a family in these challenging times. Each course consists of 10 x 2.5 hour workshops. We plan on running 3 courses between May 2022 and April 2023. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£4,000 |
£10,105 |
OXFORDSHIRE FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION |
Learn Makaton to be able to communicate with children that are non or limited in verbal |
| 12/04/2022 |
£10,557 |
£237,736 |
QUEST FOR LEARNING |
To address educational disadvantage in the community which has been exacerbated by Covid-19 by supporting Didcot children struggling with mental maths the opportunity to catch up on lost learning and grow in confidence and self-esteem through their participation in our “NumSkills” programme. Without good English and maths skills, children are unable to access other parts of the curriculum and quickly fall behind in class. Literacy and numeracy are fundamental to children’s ability to engage with the rest of their education at primary school and beyond, and low levels of these key skills are strongly correlated with poor employment prospects, criminal behaviour, and poverty in later life. We know that support for learning is an important part of children’s success in school and the parents of many of the young people we work with do not have the confidence or skills they need to help their children. Our programme will support home learning and we will also run family maths drop-in sessions in each school for parents and siblings of the children on the programme to help them build their skills in this area. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£12,000 |
£250,935 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
We are planning a yearlong programme of respite activities for our Didcot young carers to attend. These activities will be decided by our young carers via our Youth Panel. We plan to use funds to enhance our befriending programme and give the most vulnerable young carers, the opportunity to have weekly 121 sessions with a qualified volunteer, over a period of 6 months. We also plan to produce young carer packs for local schools to further help them identify and address yc in their schools. Our Support worker will liaise with schools to support them and encourage them to set up yc hubs. At the heart of our interaction with ycs sit our fully trained Support Worker whose role is to implement the activities, 121 emotional support and school liaison. Alongside our Support Worker, sits our Befriender Coordinator, who manages our volunteers, organises training and matches our most vulnerable ycs to befrienders. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£3,500 |
£134,296 |
ARCH (ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN IN OXFORDSHIRE) |
To recruit, train, resource and support for one year 10 new volunteers reading helpers to work one-to-one with disadvantaged children lin primary schools in the Ox11 area, After successful completion of our application, vetting and training process each volunteer will be assigned to a local primary school and work with 3 children, sharing books, games and conversation once a or twice a week during the school day for a period of one year. Sessions will be tailored to suit individual children's interests and abilities. Volunteers get to know their children well and develop a supportive mentoring relationship, acting as reading role models. We work with the volunteers to provide resources personalised to each child (the books to hook these often reluctant readers in) Funding would allow us to offer our service cost free to schools for the first year and we would hope that many volunteers continue in subsequent years thereby reaching more children We want to support every primary school in Didcot but to do this we need more volunteers and we would like to work with local secondary schools, colleges and employers on this. We would hope that Powerhouse Funding would aid this collaboration. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£13,000 |
£321,497 |
ABINGDON BRIDGE |
(EMPOWERING Minds - FUELING Resilience) will be an exciting brand-new initiative that aims to Support the young people of Didcot with Preventative wellbeing and mental health initiatives. Through our partnership and consultation with local young people we know there is a huge need for this project and that will enhance the local wellbeing offer rather than duplicate anything already existing. To many young people are sat on waiting lists waiting for help. We feel there is so much they can be doing to help themselves. Our professional counselling team will deliver the following: • 10 psychoeducational workshops (to identified Didcot young people through community partners and schools) • 200 x 1-1 preventive counselling sessions (supporting 33 different young people) • Train five young people to facilitate peer support groups that will give young people the tools needed to adapt to change and manage their emotions in a healthy way. • Develop 100 wellbeing packs that can be distributed to those young people currently sat on waiting lists. • Provide a weekly drop in for young people to talk to a professional and get some tips on how to make sense of how they feel and participate less in risky behaviours. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£5,000 |
£118,866 |
DIDCOT TRAIN YOUTH PROJECT |
Moving Up Group Mentoring Programme for primary schools in Didcot. To fund a professional youth worker and a youth support worker to deliver a free 6 week programme to 8 young people per school to 4 schools each half-term (6 weeks). There will be a choice of 3 programmes for the schools comprised of the following: Positive Behaviour in Schools – aiming at helping the young people develop a better understanding of actions and consequences, reputations, managing emotions and developing assertiveness. Confidence and Team-Building – focused on equipping the young people with vital communication skills, boost their self-esteem and improve their participation. Promoting Wellbeing and Exploring Mental Health – learning about overall well-being, develop resilience, recognising when and how to ask for help. This grant will include the resources required for the young people for the Programme. At the end of the 6 week programme, they will be rewarded with an invitation to attend their group’s celebratory trip, designed to increase their confidence, self-esteem, communication skills and their team-building skills. Following the completion of the programme, they will also be able to access the wider provision at Didcot TRAIN up until their reach the age limit of the service. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£2,983 |
£138,793 |
HOME-START SOUTHERN OXFORDSHIRE |
We run a weekly drop-in parent and baby support group called First babies Group. It is for first-time or expectant parents who's first baby is under 15 months old. Our First Babies Group has been running in Didcot for more than 25 years. The group allows attendees to meet other new parents, make new friends and share experiences. It provides a calm environment for the child, encouraging exploration through toys and socialising with other babies. Parents who attend get support and advice from our highly skilled Group Worker, Jacquie, and long-time group volunteers. Parents can just drop-in each week if they wish to come or sometime we get referrals from local services such as health visitors which we direct to this group for support. The group held every Tuesday at Ladygrove Community Centre, Tamar Way, Didcot between 10am-11:30am. We also sometime incorporate buggy walks into the group as a way to get parents and babies outside. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£12,800 |
£2,064 |
DIDCOT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP |
DCP’s 2020 research identified 29 local groups providing activities for parents and young children. Whilst some were free, many (music groups, sports clubs, brownies) charge fees and require long-term commitment, uniforms and kit. Such costs put these beyond the reach families looking for low-cost / no-cost options. Other groups support parenting classes, breast feeding and special needs support. Whilst such services were historically provided by statutory agencies, budget cuts have seen these reduced or withdrawn. Having engaged residents and piloted new services, we will continue collaborating with inspired and inspiring individuals and community-based, parent-led groups across neighbourhoods in trusted venues. We will focus on those services for children and families that were most in demand before Didcot’s children’s centres closed. Our funded programme will enable us to focus on children and families: -Continue developing our network of local community service providers. -Publicise the range of services already available, especially for children and families, and create ways to successfully signpost them. -Help build the capacity of existing provision, particularly in relation to children and families. -Fill gaps in existing provision, through direct delivery and/or brokering other services. -Build a business case for the next 3 years of development. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£2,854 |
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DIDCOT APUK |
Development of the group to meet the needs of our growing and increasingly diverse community, as we recover and re-emerge from the pandemic. Increase capacity for breastfeeding support: We have been partnered with Oxfordshire Breastfeeding Support since January 2020 to share the cost of our professional lactation consultant and for supervision of our trained volunteer peer-supporters. This arrangement is working very well and, with demand for support increasing, our group chair is currently training as a breastfeeding counsellor. We are also considering establishing a second dedicated breastfeeding support group in Didcot once she has qualified (late 2022/early 2023). In 2021 11% of OBS’s service users lived in Didcot. Increase variety of support available: Provide more support to parents navigating the challenges of infant sleep. Introduce a sling library, working with a local babywearing consultant. Hold topic-based sessions, e.g. introducing solid food. Expand our parenting book library. Activities: work with other local community groups and businesses to provide free/low-cost sessions. e.g. baby massage, baby signing, Clear Sky Baby Bonding, postnatal yoga, first aid. Marketing: focused on reaching more diverse and harder to reach families: Engaging with other organisations and businesses to display posters and distribute leaflets, e.g. Health Visitors, Polish Supermarket. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£5,000 |
£90,770 |
ABINGDON DAMASCUS YOUTH PROJECT |
Transition to secondary school is an exciting but anxious time for children and daunting for those moving from a village school to a secondary in the nearest town. They tell us that they get very nervous - during the pandemic they have struggled to establish friendship groups having been isolated from their peers for so long. Families expressed a wish for a transition project that supports young people within the villages. Discussions with the headteachers of the primary schools in the DAMASCUS villages – Drayton, Milton, Sutton Courtenay and Steventon welcomed it as a much-needed community resource. There are three parts to our project which we would run from June through to December. June/July deliver activity workshops in the schools to Y6 children exploring feelings around independence, increased responsibility for self, social changes and different school system, the unknowns including the onset of adolescence and the accompanying surge of emotions. August activities will include travelling to Dicot or Abingdon on the bus, getting used to navigate in unfamiliar places; understanding risk taking and protective behaviours. September to December – meet off the school bus, picking up and addressing needs, liaising with families, parent workshops and school and project evaluation. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£10,589 |
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OXFORD PARENT INFANT PROJECT (OXPIP) |
OXPIP currently delivers Parent-Infant Therapy at Didcot Health Centre (and via Zoom) for 2 days a week and for which we have already secured a funding contribution from the National Lottery Community Fund. Due to the increased demand for Parent-Infant Therapy in the local area because of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated social restrictions, we now need to extend this provision for a further day to meet the increased referral demand as we emerge from the pandemic, and to also include Parent-Infant Therapist Outreach Work to meet the ongoing needs of referred families who have access difficulties. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£5,500 |
£1,455,638 |
GREAT WESTERN SOCIETY |
Didcot Railway Centre has previously worked with Didcot Grub Hub to give local disadvantaged families a day out and hot meal during school holidays. We plan to build on this to support local young families in August by providing four free special days out with activities and meals. To make the day more interesting and relevant in this post-pandemic year we propose to develop a range of activities to illustrate how the Great Western Railway and the local community recovered from the post First World War flu pandemic 100-ish years ago. This will build on our Lottery funded First Word War display. If we are successful in our Expression of Interest we will seek local partners to work with us on the event. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£400 |
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GWP BABIES & TODDLERS GROUP |
1. We are excited about the idea of running Baby & Toddler sessions during school holidays. This would give children emerging from the pandemic some continuity and engage older siblings. Families have requested this before but we haven’t been in a position with enough volunteers or extra resource to deliver this. 2. We have observed parents/carers lacking confidence to socialise so would like to offer peer support beyond what we currently offer. This could be providing brunch with facilitated discussion topics while their child is engaged in play or after group running a social lunch and practical money-saving/cooking sessions that benefit the whole family. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£825 |
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DIDCOT RUNNERS |
Didcot Runners is an adult only club. There is no coached running activity for teenagers (12 to 17yrs) unless people travel to Wantage, Abingdon or Radley. In 2020, the club voted to explore the creation of a junior section. During 2021, the club has researched the requirements and made proposals to members to start a junior section. The club has voted to expand membership to juniors and we would like to launch this year. This project will see the creation and launch of the junior section. There will be one coached session a week, provided on a different night to the adult section - preferred venue is Didcot Girls School. We will start with 12 junior members, as England Athletic safeguarding is to have a ratio of 1 adult to 12 children. We plan to have two run leaders at each session to give focused training and support. We have a qualified coach who will plan and deliver the sessions, with support from the run leaders. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£2,000 |
£25,027 |
HARWELL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION |
To install a climbing traverse wall to encourage children of all ages to take part in a new physical activity, challenging themselves on various routes, with differing degrees of difficulty as they traverse along the length of the wall. Climbing builds confidence and self esteem as well as strength, endurance and flexibility; hand, foot and eye coordination plus problem solving skills. These problem solving and planning skills, learned through play, transfer easily to every day life - it's also great fun for children! As the wall will be outside, it will be available not only to the 210 children in school, but after school at weekends and in holiday periods to other community groups throughout future generations. |
| 12/04/2022 |
£500 |
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12TH DIDCOT SCOUTS |
In a socially distanced world, what better than camping for fun and to leave the stresses of the pandemic behind for a little while? We would like to offer our members and their families the chance to attend and get involved in a weekend of camping, learning new skills, bonding with family and other members families. In the hope that we can inspire, teach and ignite a passion for the outdoors in the member and their family. We would like to open up this adventure to approximately 150 members, their families and volunteers . |
| 01/04/2022 |
£9,955 |
£189,019 |
OXFORD FILM & VIDEO MAKERS LTD T/A FILM OXFORD |
A week of community arts activity in and around Film Oxford premises shaped by local residents from the Howard Street community project and Film Oxford. Activities will take place between Monday 30th May and Saturday 4th June and culminate in a street party and outdoor film screening on Howard Street on the final day. The activities will be an opportunity to relaunch creative community activities that were suspended during Covid and an opportunity to reconnect with local residents. Weeks Activities. Film Production. “This is Howard Street 2022”. Local residents will learn filmmaking skills as they plan, film and edit a 6–8-minute documentary about people and characters who live on the street, with the support of a professional filmmaker. This will be a companion film to a similar documentary made in 2002 when Film Oxford first relocated to the area. 20 years on, the film will feature a new generation of families and residents who have moved to the area. It will be an intergenerational project working with 10 local people. The film will be premiered at the Street party on the Saturday evening outdoors on the big screen and then be featured online on Film Oxford YouTube showcase. Craft workshops. Mon 30th May – Friday 3rd June. Five creative arts day workshops led by local professional artists to design and make decorations for the Saturday street party. These will be based at Film Oxford and include: lantern making, bunting creation, flag printing, mosaics. An intergenerational activity for 50 local people. Evening Events. On 4 nights we will run a series of evening events resurrecting some of the popular community cultural activities that took place before Covid. These will include local musicians, poetry, spoken word and dance and feature performance from a variety of cultures and backgrounds that reflect the diversity within the street. Target number 100 people. Street Party and outdoor Film Under the Stars On Saturday 4th June we will arrange with Oxford City Council to close part of Howard Street from 11.00am – 9.00pm to bring local people out onto the street. During the day there will be music, food, children’s workshops and performers. In the evening curry and refreshments will be provided free to 150 people. Cooked by the local Nepalese restaurant and served by local volunteers. The event will conclude with the outdoor screening of the completed documentary “This is Howard Street 2022” followed by the screening of a popular family feature film. This will mark the relaunch of the local residents’ monthly cinema events, Poppadom Pictures. Target number 300 people for the Street party and screening. Throughout these activities there will be an emphasis on intergenerational creative activities that reflect the multi-cultural make up of Howard Street. They will be environmentally responsible and look to minimise the carbon footprint through, recycling waste along City Council guidelines, minimising electricity usage, with no single use plastics or plates. Participants will walk or cycle to all activities. The Jubilee week will have the following impact: • Increase community cohesion and improve health and wellbeing • Celebrate the Queens Jubilee achievement. • Bring older and younger generations together. • Reduce isolation of those who live alone • Build new friendship groups. • Recruit new volunteers for the Jubilee and future events. • Build a sense of pride and place. • Offer activities for families who cannot afford half term holidays away from home. • Build new creative skills and raise aspirations and ambitions. • Make local people more aware of creative activities through Film Oxford. • Break down cultural stereotypes through an emphasis on multi-cultural celebration • Help prevent anti-social behaviour • Raise awareness of local authority zero Carbon and sustainable environment goals. • Relaunch community activity run by local residents, including: Poppadom Pictures (local cinema), talks and cultural events Over the last 20 years Film Oxford has worked closely with its community and particularly the Howard Street Project. In that time we have together: fundraised and built a community garden, run children’s workshops in planting and mosaics, set up a community cinema for children and adults and supported community events and celebrations. With Covid, all of these activities were put on hold. We see the Jubilee week as an opportunity to relaunch many of these activities and both reconnect to volunteers from the past and to bring in a new generation of residents who have more recently moved to the street. |
| 01/04/2022 |
£9,122 |
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AFRICAN FAMILIES IN THE UK (AFIUK) CIC |
Weaving the Tapestry is an ambitious project bringing together a collaboration between Oxford's African diaspora communities, local artists and our local museums in an extravaganza to learn, re-tell, re-imagine and celebrate the Queen's Jubilee using diverse artistic mediums and community-centred activities. The proposed activities include: - Belonging workshops - Intergenerational Storytelling Sessions - Museum of Oxford Royal Family Day and Workshop - Jubilee Anthem - Community celebration and exhibition of project journey - Jubilee Weekend A tapestry has two sides, which are not always identical. A tapestry is many pieces joined up to make a whole. Many times a tapestry is the work of different creators, sometimes this creators work from different spaces and time, and eventually bring the pieces together to make a beautiful whole. This project is seeking to mark the Queen's Platinum jubilee among Oxfordshire's African diaspora community in a way that is meaningful and reflective of the 70 year journey that diverse multicultural Britain's has made. BELONGING WORKSHOPS Proposed Date: Starting Saturday 16 & 23 April 2022 Partners and Artists involved: Euton Daley, Amantha Edmead Location: Temple Cowley Shopping Centre Number of anticipated live audience: 50 Belonging is a participatory, educational and creative arts project which explores people, place and identity. Belonging A sense of place A sense of home A sense of pride But when/how Do we know We Belong? Using a large world map, participants trace their journey/journeys to Oxford and recall things such as their memory of that journey, their expectations, the arrival in a new place etc. They are then invited to crochet, write what belonging means to them. All these elements will then form a piece of art, a tapestry which will be on display on the jubilee weekend where further participants will be invited to add to it. Artists: Euton Daley, Amantha Edmead & Anne Griffiths with support from Oxford Brookes students. INTERGENERATIONAL STORYTELLING AND CO-CREATION WORKSHOP Proposed Date: Friday 22nd April Partners and Artists involved: Amantha Edmead Facilitated by AFiUK Community Ambassador (Chiko Ncube) Location: Jack Argent Hall, Blackbird Leys community centre, OX4 6HW Number of anticipated live audience per session: 12 children + 6 youth + 6 elders (48 people in total for the two workshops) Two intergenerational storytelling workshops will take place in the Community centre Room for a maximum of 3 hours per session. Each workshop will aim to have a maximum of 24 participants (6 older persons/storytellers and 18 children/youth/co-creators, 2 young adults/co-creators) and an AFiUK community ambassador facilitating the session with the support of AFiUK staff. Older person as storytellers Older persons (aged 60 and over) from the local African and Caribbean community will be invited to share their stories in a structured format with promptings from the facilitator. The storytellers will bring personal objects to share with the group and children and young people will be encouraged to ask questions and respond to the stories. Young people as co-creators of stories The young people who attended the Youth Belonging Workshop and young people in the local community will be recruited to play an active role in the storytelling sessions by documenting the narratives shared by the older persons and re-telling/co-creating their stories through digital channels (video, social media etc). Content will be recorded, collated and later curated by AFiUK to be shared freely online. The stories will be added to the Oxford City Stories online platform - https://museumofoxford.org/city-stories. Museum of Oxford Royal family day and workshop Proposed Date: Monday 30th May 2022 (during school half-term period) Partners and Artists involved: Museum of Oxford, Natty Mark Samuels from African School, Visual Artist Location: Museum of Oxford, St. Aldates. Oxford Number of anticipated live audience: 48 people total ( 24 children, 6 youth, 6 elders, 12 parents Cultural link: Museum of Oxford Cultural link 2: Pitt Rivers Museum will donate their artefacts for “handling sessions” Activity 1: A ‘Royal’ trail around the Museum of Oxford’s galleries. Collections will be selected to underpin the connection to African Kingdoms globally and locally at UK monarchy. This will include African Kings and Queens demonstrating the collective and connected social history/anthropology and art collections. Activity 2: An African Kings and Queens workshop This workshop will be in Museum Makers with Natty Mark and a visual artist (to be decided). Natty Mark Samuels will use storytelling through making objects with families. AFiUK family workers, Museum staff and artists will collaborate to deliver this event free targetting African Diaspora families. A Jubilee Anthem Celebrate, People of Colour Celebrate, people of the world Celebrate, humanity Celebrate and rejoice! Working with young people from the Black Excellence Project, to write a new song for the jubilee using this chorus. This will then be recorded and invitations sent to various youth and community groups to learn the anthem and come together at the Jubilee weekend for a mass singing of the anthem. This will be both film and recorded. Artists: Kemastry, Inspired Sounds, Euton Daley & Amantha Edmead Community Celebration and exhibition of project journey , Jubilee weekend, 2 June 2022 Proposed Date: Saturday 2nd June 2022 Partners and Artists involved: Oxford Brookes University Art and Design foundation staff & students support by AFiUK staff and community ambassadors and advocates Location: The venue at cowley/or open air under Marquee in Blackbird Leys Grounds - OX4 6HW neighbourhood Number of anticipated live audience: 150 people expected This day will be a Jubilee celebration for African diaspora families and the local community. The celebration will include people with heritage from all African nations and all the islands of the Caribbean, which are represented in Oxford. Individuals and groups from Various African and Caribbean countries will be invited to display stalls with historical and cultural artefacts symbolic to their culture and relationship with British culture. Food and drink from diverse cultures will be made available to collectively share and exchange. The celebration will be depicting their heritage as Black British. |
| 01/04/2022 |
£3,000 |
£12,702 |
THE RECREATIONAL TRUST |
We will be holding a 'Fete at the Gate' on 4th June and a Village Picnic, including 'Whit Races' on 5th June. We will additionally be creating a living storybook, an audio archive of villager's memories of the Coronation and previous Jubilee Celebrations for inclusion in our village archive (Steeple Aston Village Archive). The ‘Fete at the Gate’ and ‘Jubilee Reflections’ are the creative thrust and form the majority of this grant application. Fete at the Gate, 4th June This event is about enabling the creativity of each and every villager. It uses culture to encourage everyone to get out, enjoy the village and talk. Houses will be bedecked with community made, upcycled bunting and villagers encouraged to decorate both houses and gardens to reflect the jubilee. Households will organise stalls on their drives or in their gardens, selling everything from bric-a-brac (encouraging recycling) to handicrafts (showcasing local artistic talent). Connecting this all, a new map of the village will be commissioned from a local artist, leading people around the village and including ‘Jubilee Reflections’ on its reverse. Whilst a relatively small village, the physical layout and broad demographic lend themselves to an increasingly less cohesive community. There are ‘pockets’ of community, in different streets, or particular groups, but little, if anything, that brings us together as a ‘whole village’ community. With this project, we aim to be as inclusive and accessible as possible, with the maximum opportunity for full community engagement. • Bunt-ing the Village – a community crafting project creating bunting to decorate the whole village, using recycled materials donated by residents. This will include: - Access - running free bunting making workshops for the community at Sports & Rec, Village Hall, pub and through village groups, such as the Brownies, Valentine Club (over 60s). Free creative packs will be available for home delivery too. - Education - teaching new skills, particularly sewing and printing, encouraging our youngest residents to colour/paint paper bunting, and our more creative to knit, crochet…. A range of templates will cater for all levels of creativity/skill/dexterity. - Support - supporting local, independent businesses in the creative and hospitality sectors, from our village pub and local craft/printing studio to community facilities. - Environment - Encouraging the re-use of materials, including fabric (clothing, bedding etc), paper/card, wood etc, to create bunting which becomes a resource for future village events, e.g., our Horticultural Shows. - Socialising - Get the community working together, both in the creating and hanging of the bunting. • Stalls – Whether on the lawn, drive or doorstep, this activity is accessible to all, providing the opportunity to: - Showcase village community groups, increasing awareness and encouraging wider participation. - Highlight the wealth of creative talent in the village. - Encourage people to build new, lasting social connections. - Raise funds for village groups/projects through charity sales. • Village Map – Working with a village based artist, we will revisualise the village map for 2022, highlighting those areas and houses participating in ‘Fete at the Gate’, including artistic impressions of some of the village’s key features and, on the reverse, exerts from our ‘Jubilee Reflections’ project. This will: - Provide commissioned work for a local artist. - Create a lasting visual print memory of the day. - Encourage people to explore the village. - Promote the Jubilee Reflections project (see below). • Jubilee Decorations – Halloween and Christmas see villagers mustering their artistic skills to create elaborate displays. In addition to the bunting, we will encourage all to get creative again and decorate their properties in a way suitable to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. This will: - Encourage families to get creative together (and away from screens). - Create another reason for people to wander around the village on a day meant for community celebration. Souvenir Jubilee Poster Designed by a resident artist, this 50s themed poster will be sold at a subsidised cost, as a souvenir. This will: - Provide commissioned work to a local artist. - Create an artwork to live in all households, as a souvenir of the occasion. - Contribute towards the funding of the village’s Jubilee Orchard, creating a lasting reminder of the Jubilee, with all proceeds from the sale (after costs) being donated to this project. Jubilee Reflections Culture is reflected through the tales told and the voices heard within a village. Not wanting to overlook this, we will create a living story book - an audio archive of Platinum Jubilee memories. This will feature interviews with those who have memories of the Coronation, the Silver & Golden Jubilees and vox pops recorded over the Platinum Jubilee Weekend. Extracts from these recordings will be used on the reverse of the Village Map, transcribed for the village website and magazine and the full recordings (including transcripts) submitted to the Steeple Aston Village Archive as a historical record. This will: - Engage with our older population. - Engage with a broad cross-section of the village during the recording of the vox pops. - Create a lasting record of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Village Picnic & Whit Races, 5th June An afternoon of relaxed community fun and games on our village sports field. Open to all, we will encourage all residents to come together for an afternoon of food and conversation. The picnic will feature the re-launch of our Whit Races; a mad-cap sports day for children young and old, featuring everything from egg & spoon, through tug of war, to slow cycling/walking, with Platinum Jubilee Medals for the winners (and those who take part!), the design of which will result from a competition open to our under 18s. • Get everyone outdoors, encourage social interaction and physical activity. • Enable the whole community to come together to celebrate for the first time since the pandemic. • Provide the opportunity to re-start our traditional Whit Races after a pandemic forced hiatus. • Engage our under 18s, encouraging their creativity as we seek a design for our Platinum Jubilee Medals. |
| 01/04/2022 |
£4,448 |
£694,745 |
SUNSHINE CENTRE |
We will be hosting in partnership with Cherwell Theatre Company an afternoon community event on Princess Diana Park in Banbury. Invitations will extend to the whole community, including the residents of our local care home. VIP guests will also be in attendance. We have invited Puritan Radio to be master of ceremonies and they will bring along their roadshow trailer and sound system. We intend to provide entertainment depicting the 7 decades of Her Majesty the Queen's reign, particularly encouraging different dance styles, spanning time and traditions which reflect the cultural mix and varying generations within the community. We will encourage participation in family games such as musical statues to bring together the different generations. We will be working in partnership with Cherwell Theatre Company. Initially we will recruit a group of 20 young people / children who have an interest in dance. Our partner agencies will also be encouraged to encourage children to attend these workshops. At the beginning of the half term school holiday May 30th and 31st we will run "Dance in Advance" workshops. The workshops will last all day and will focus on teaching the group different dance styles which will span the 7 decades of Her Majesty the Queen's reign. This group will have a dress rehearsal on the morning of 1st June. 2 Tutors will facilitate the group and dance students from Banbury College will also be encouraged to come along and mentor the children and young people. The idea of the "Dance in Advance" workshops is to create a flash mob of young dancers who are able to demonstrate to the community, dances of the decades reflecting the reign of Her Majesty the Queen. We anticipate that this will encourage the members of the community to join in and experience the joy of dance. In order to create a lasting memorial of the Platinum Jubilee event for the community we will be employing a mosaic artist to create, in collaboration with the community, an outdoor mosaic which can later be displayed on the wall of The Sunshine Centre as a lasting reminder of neighbours coming together in celebration. In the tradition of historical jubilee events we will be providing tea and cakes for those attending and will be decorating the area to provide a visual interpretation of celebration. A group of local volunteers have already committed to baking and providing cakes. It has also been suggested by a community member that we create a jubilee ice cream for the children to enjoy on the day of our celebration. For this idea to meet required hygiene standards in the park and for the ice cream not to melt, we would like to employ the services of an ice cream van. Our communication and advertising of the event will be facilitated through the various effective community platforms available to us, it will include promotional material for Cherwell Theatre Company. On the day of the event we will ensure there is also promotional material for organisations such as the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury. The event will promote cohesion within the geographical community by bringing communities within the area together in a joint event. Our dance theme and the employment of local dance tutors, will encourage residents to move and dance improving their physical and mental health. We will promote businesses which offer workshops and classes in both dance, theatre and the arts. Our vision is for residents to be able to continue to pursue either performing arts or visual arts as a way of improving their mental and physical health . The project will encourage an expression of self and community through the medium of dance theatre, visual arts and music. We will also be encouraging participants to dress up in the tradition of Jubilee events. |
| 01/04/2022 |
£8,245 |
£89,581 |
CUTTESLOWE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
The North Wall, Cutteslowe Garden Project and Cutteslowe Community Centre will work together to programme and produce an outdoor variety show featuring comedy acts, musical acts, family theatre and community performances. The outdoor variety show will be ticketed but free and for local residents to enjoy and connect with each other. During the May state school half term, The Cutteslowe Community Centre and The North Wall will run dance and drama workshops for young people where they will devise short performances to be premiered on stage at The Not Quite Royal Variety Show. These workshops will be lead by local freelance artists and supported by The North Wall Arts Centre. These workshops aim to bring together young people living in Cutteslowe and offering them a place to socialise, gain confidence and connect with their community through drama and dance. “Catriona loved doing this. It had such a positive impact during lockdown when she really looked forward to the sessions. And it gave her confidence to work as part of a team and I think it pushed her out of her comfort zone and I could see she was really buoyed after each session.” (parent of participant from previous community project) When this project is over, we hope that participants will continue the legacy of the project and be inspired to join The North Wall participation programme and clubs at The Cutteslowe Community Centre. We also plan to partner with Cutteslowe Primary School on their art & fashion exhibition, this year inspired by the Queen's Jubilee. Pupils will use upcycled clothes to create outfits for a fashion show of the Queen through the yours. The Cutteslowe Primary eco warriors will launch a poster competition before the half term to design outfits from upcycled school uniform & other materials and then will model these with other entries from the public on 4 June. On 4 June, an outdoor event area will be created in Cutteslowe Park, allowing for a stage to be erected and a relaxed ‘picnic-style’ seating area to be created for audience. There will be 6 – 8 local acts over the course of the day, as well as free workshops that the public can take part in. The free taster workshops will be aimed at young people in Cutteslowe and Sunnymead and hosted by The Cutteslowe Community Centre, The Cutteslowe Garden Project, The Museum of Oxford and The North Wall with a view to reach new audiences and encourage them to take part in opportunities offered. We hope to engage with new audiences and renew connections with audiences returning post pandemic. We hope that our taster workshops will create an on-going legacy and those who have joined in will continue to engage with each organization after the Jubilee weekend. We are very interested to hear from the community and local residents about their hopes and dreams for their neighborhood, local park and community programmes. During The Not Quite Royal Variety Show, we will have a 'Wishing Line', whereby audiences, passers-by and participants can express their wants and needs for their community. We will collate all of these and bring them to the committee of the Cutteslowe Partnership (a group formed of local businesses, councilors, schools, food larders, community groups and arts/heritage organisations) to discuss ways in which we can action the requests and suggestions put forward by the community. |
| 01/04/2022 |
£9,972 |
£4,317,219 |
AGE UK OXFORDSHIRE |
Project overview Paint the Town for the Jubilee Project builds on existing partnerships and a commitment to supporting older people to engage in creative activities as leaders, as well as participants. Working with our Age Friendly Creative Ambassadors (AFCA) lived experience group and a professional visual artist, we will co-design a simple creative activity for older people, and the wider community, to do in response to the Queen’s Jubilee, as part of a weekend of celebration. Everyday Creativity Following on from the success of the “Rainbows in our Windows” concept informally carried out by the public during the pandemic, we aim to build on this type of community creativity by delivering a similar project for the Jubilee. Working in partnership with the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury, we will support local people to produce their own work in the lead up to the Jubilee weekend, then celebrate the work achieved at the on 4th June 2022 with cake- and more creativity at a Creative Celebration event at the Mill Arts Centre. Co-Creation We will work in partnership with our AFCA lived experience group and artists from the Mill Arts Centre’s extensive network of creative practitioners to devise a Creative Challenge pack that can be delivered by post and via existing networks. We don’t want to prejudge the exact nature of the creative challenge as this will be determined by working in partnership with our AFCA group and artists, but we envisage something to reflect the memories people have of the past 70 years be they recent or historic and connected to Royal Celebrations. We recognise that some people may wish to reflect memories that fall outside of Royal Celebration’s, and this will be equally valued. Artistic Delivery In the lead up to the Platinum Jubilee weekend we will hold a series of creative workshops led by professional creative practitioners, to generate interest and build skills. The workshops will be delivered on multiple platforms to ensure those who are online and offline can take part, in whatever way they feel most comfortable. Each workshop is free for all to attend and led by a range of creative practitioners with a track record of working with community groups. Individuals will be supported to explore different artistic mediums and approaches to creativity each of the in-person workshops will be delivered in accessible community venues in areas where arts participation is lower than average. Place-Based Delivery The project activity is primarily designed for Banbury residents, but communities across Oxfordshire would be invited to take part and we will use our extensive networks to support this. Age UK Oxfordshire is one of the founder members of the Age Friendly Banbury project which seeks to make Banbury a great place to grow older in and is part of the World Health Organisation Age Friendly Cities initiative. In 2019 AUKO’s Creative Team worked in close partnership with the Age Friendly Banbury project and the Mill Arts Centre to deliver a month long programme of Age Friendly Creative activities for a Banbury Age of Creativity Festival programme. The project will build on these partnerships and contribute to our vision of enabling more older people to enjoy living in Age Friendly Communities, with equity of access and agency in creative and cultural provision. Our delivery will ensure people who are often the most marginalised in the cultural sector can take part by supporting individuals to put pictures up in their own homes if they can’t leave their accommodation, encouraging connections with neighbours and passers-by with artwork in the windows. A “trail” will help the public to enjoy the artworks in situ in their local area and provide another way of supporting communities to reconnect through creativity. Community Engagement This is an intergenerational project, but we will particularly encourage older people and families to participate, to bring young and old together in local communities to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, to cement existing community relationships and forge new ones. To achieve this, we have a range of excellent contacts in Banbury, and the wider county, including Community groups, Care Homes, Banbury Museum, Arts Officers and Cherwell District Council Communities Team. We have a strong track record of reaching isolated older people, which includes: the Creative Challenge Pack offer in partnership with 64 Million Artists, the Virtual Culture Club project in partnership with the Mill Arts Centre and The Art by Post project with the Southbank Centre in London. Reaching Audiences Using the Age of Creativity Festival platform and the wider AUKO and OAFCN networks to support recruitment to the workshops and wider project, we will have access to hundreds of older people who might benefit, as well as support organisations, Social Prescribers and local groups to help us promote the project. Legacy We anticipate that the project will create a very positive long-term legacy for individuals and the local community. More marginalised older people will feel confident to access creative opportunities, there will be increased awareness of our AFCA programme, artists will gain skills in age friendly practice and the Mill Arts Centre will increase its engagement with older audiences. We will also commission a photographer to co-create a photographic record of the art works on display in windows around Banbury and the celebration event will provide us with high quality resources to create an Archive Legacy for the project. We will seek to find a home for the archive legacy at the local Museum and Archive Centre once community teams and local groups have had the chance to see the work, with the support of our networks. Impact Harnessing some of the creative power and community spirit that was generated during the pandemic to deliver an artistic project will bring local communities together for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations and beyond. National celebrations are a special moment in our collective history; the Queens Platinum Jubilee gives us a chance to look back at what has been achieved over the last 70 years and look forward to what’s possible in the future. |
| 01/04/2022 |
£900 |
|
ABINGDON FLOWER CLUB |
On the Jubilee Weekend starting on 2 June 2022 we would like to work with Dementia Friendly Abingdon to join in with wider Abingdon celebrations for the Jubilee with a celebration of flowers. We would like to have a stall at the event taking place at Rye Farm for the whole community. Our stall would offer the opportunity to either purchase or to make your own flowers, whether button holes, corsage or pretty headdresses. There would be a request for donations to cover some of the costs. |
| 01/04/2022 |
£2,335 |
£38,484 |
BARRACKS LANE COMMUNITY GARDEN |
We will use this grant to host a Jubilee Joy event on Sunday 5th June. The garden will offer a number of free nature focused creative activities for the local community to take part in to celebrate the Jubilee. We hope that the diverse offer of these free activities/workshops will increase the garden’s engagement with our wider local community, and bring different communities together, to celebrate the Jubilee. The garden currently runs a Wellbeing through Song group. This group will perform at Joy for Jubilee and there will also be the opportunity for the local community to take part in a Jubilee Workshop led by the groups singing facilitator. This will see the singing group have exposure to a new audience and will encourage new participants to join the regular Saturday group. The garden has recently started collaborating with Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre. Students and staff from the centre will run two workshops. There will be a poetry and movement workshop, designed for young people, and wellbeing and poetry: haiku inspired by the garden workshop, open to all. This collaboration should see new users come to the garden via the links with Oxford Brookes. Our younger community attendees will be able to take part in crown making using materials found in the garden, feathers, and tissue paper. This workshop will be led by our Community Engagement Gardener. There will be the opportunity for attendees to decorate their own jute bag, using nature and Jubilee Joy as inspiration. There will be a posy/wall hanging making workshop whereby members of the local community can make a seasonal posy or dried flower wall hanging to take home with them. This workshop will be led by a local floral artist. There will be the opportunity for everyone to make some Hapa Zome bunting which uses cotton and leaves. This punting will be hung in the garden to celebrate the Jubilee and then participants can take it home. This workshop will be run by one of the garden’s trustees. The garden will give attendees the opportunity to make their own pizzas throughout the day. Side salads will be on offer showcasing the produce that has been grown in the garden by volunteers. The garden’s secretary will DJ between the live workshops/performances, show casing music from the last 70 years. The posy/wall-hanging workshop and Hapa Zone bunting making are new activities for the garden. We wanted to offer these activities as posy’s and bunting are a definite nod to a Jubilee celebration, whilst keeping the nature focus. If these activities are successful we will look to including them in our events later in the year. We will record aspects of the event and the workshops as a short film so that it can be kept as a legacy resource on our website and shared via our social media and newsletter. On the day participants will be asked to complete a short survey. This data will be used to write a detailed report which will cover where attendees have come from, strengths of the days and any areas for improvement. |
| 28/03/2022 |
£500 |
|
LANDAID |
Land Aid helps young people who are or have been homeless, or who are at risk of homelessness in the future. Through a unique network of corporate partners, they invest funding and expertise where they can achieve lasting impact. |
| 23/03/2022 |
£9,271 |
£1,035,613 |
PEEPLE |
Grant to Peeple |
| 23/03/2022 |
£1,250 |
£118,068 |
BERIN CENTRE |
Grant to Berin Centre |
| 22/03/2022 |
£37,500 |
£359,330 |
THE NASIO TRUST |
Drill a borehole and provide access to clean safe water to the community of Musanda Mumias West, Kakamega County Kenya |
| 22/03/2022 |
£5,000 |
£24,666,000 |
DISASTERS EMERGENCY COMMITTEE |
Request from donor to support the fundraising efforts of the DEC during the Ukraine crisis. |
| 17/03/2022 |
£20,000 |
|
EDGE HOUSING - OXFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH |
The grant will specifically be used to facilitate the release of 3 rent free spaces in our housing stock for NRPF residents. These residents will be supported by our experienced staff team and we will value the opportunity to work in partnership with Connections Support and Asylum Welcome, NRPF project delivery partners, to ensure that resident support standards and methods are consistent with other accommodation offered under this project. |
| 17/03/2022 |
£6,000 |
£1,761,468 |
STORY MUSEUM |
To support the Learning & Participation team's work with the Maggie's Schools includig Maggie's Day November 2021. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£9,220 |
|
BANBURY RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB LTD |
The project will deliver weekly 2-hour sessions at the Club. The sessions will consist of a 1-hour fitness matching the abilities of the group followed by 1-hour social time with discussions on health and wellbeing. These targeted groups will be: Over 60’s Over 40s with health decline (overweight, smokers, etc) Over 40s with increased health challenges (obese, heavy smoker, limited mobility) Our Project Coordinator will engage and encourage members of the community who match the above groups to join the project. They will work closely with organisational partners such as health centres, weight loss support groups and elderly luncheon clubs for referrals. We have strong links with the local Slimming World team who use our Club as their group venue and receive referrals for health and weigh support from local GP’s. They will also support participants throughout and keep in regular contact to address any issues that may arise outside of weekly sessions. Delivery of the weekly sessions by our qualified coaches and volunteers will enable participants to take part in physical activity that matched the abilities of the group. Different activities will take place, including walking rugby, low-intensity cardio workouts, floor exercises which use aspects of yoga or strength building using low level hand weights and resistance bands. After fitness sessions, participants will have the chance to socialise with access to refreshments and a safe and comfortable place to relax and chat with other like-minded individuals. Our staff and volunteers will also attend to offer support, guidance and signpost to organisations if required. We will also include workshops and information sessions from guest speakers such as nurses, nutritionists, smoking advisors and relaxation practitioners. These will support participants to increase their knowledge and understanding of good health, assisting them to make positive changes to their wellbeing and quality of life. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£20,620 |
£1,990,199 |
ASPIRE |
This grant would enable us to sustain and develop our variety of fitness classes and subsequent wellbeing sessions, making use of the data taken from sessions to inform the physical activities we develop and introduce in future. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£13,193 |
|
SUNRISE MULTICULTURAL PROJECT |
We will provide 32 sessions x 2 hours with creche in the community room at St. Leonards school in Grimsbury, Banbury for BAME women aged 18+. This is a new group we have not worked with before. We will work with Achieve Oxfordshire to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease and develop healthy lifestyle regimes aimed at prevention. Sessions will include exercise, domestic abuse awareness, yoga, pilates, mindfulness, healthy cooking, art and craft and group walks and encourage participants to see outside activities as a part of everyday healthy living. We will cover the risks of smoking, how it effects health and ways of breaking the addiction. We will organise trips to improve mental well-being and reduce isolation, building confidence to take on new experiences and giving opportunities to relax and have fun. The project outreach worker will support sessions and make home visits as appropriate to encourage participation and deal with any problems arising 1:1. We will provide a creche to ensure equal opportunities for women with pre-school age children to attend. We will use the requested equipment as part of activities in sessions and will continue to use it once the project is completed for more physical and well-being activities led by the participants to embed this in their everyday lives. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£33,161 |
|
OXFORD UNITED IN THE COMMUNITY (OUITC) |
OUitC's Hub and Spoke model would enable FIT U's to be delivered in a targeted way in Banbury (3 cohorts), Abingdon (2 cohorts) and Oxford (3 cohorts) with engagement and promotion directed at residents in the ten areas identified in the Director of Public Health Report 2019/20 as the most deprived wards across the county, those who are at most risk from CVD. https://insight.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/system/files/documents/202009_Bitesize_Oxfordshire%27s_10_most_deprived_wards_1.pdf Throughout the year, alongside FIT U's, OUitC will work with Oxford United FC and community partners such as Easington Sports FC, Age UK Oxfordshire and Active Oxfordshire to engage and recruit participants. Utilising the EFL Trust's strong partnership with National Academy of Social Prescribing we will connect with social prescribing services, local VCSE organisations, PCNs and GP surgeries to build an effective referral pathway into the programme to reach those individuals of greatest need. Funding would be used to provide a dedicated resource within OUitC to promote and deliver the programme, establish locations within each of Banbury, Abingdon and Oxford to offer this free to access programme to a maximum of 30 participants in each of eight cohorts. Within the year of the programme FIT U's would be delivered at least twice in each of the three locations. At the sessions the FIT U's participants would be provided with information from and signposting to existing smoking cessation services and where possible and appropriate, visits from the providers of the support. OUitC would set up follow-on maintenance multi activity sessions in each of the three locations to ensure new healthier behaviours established as part of FIT U’s programme continue to be sustained. On top of FIT U's engagement and delivery we commit to developing a public campaign of engagement, awareness raising and education, highlighting the risks of smoking, smoking prevention techniques and signposting existing cessation services. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£7,294 |
£10,014,394 |
STYLE ACRE |
We will spend the grant on the Co-ordinator salary and delivering the following activities at our Banbury hub: 5 healthy heart themed workshops - activity sessions to promote how to keep hearts healthy, the benefits of physical activity for our hearts, the importance of healthy eating and how smoking and alcohol affects our health. One workshop will be an arts session to focus on creating smoke free zone signs for display at all of Style Acre's community hubs. 5 taster sessions to encourage people to try a new physical activity, and establish new physical activity sessions if activities prove popular 5 wellness drop-in sessions at our Banbury hub where people can receive 1:1 support to discuss their wellbeing needs and to plan how they can adopt healthier habits and become more physically active. We will support people who wish to make changes with personalised action plans which could include regular weigh-ins, making meal plans and keeping food diaries dependent on individual circumstances. Themed activities for a 'Healthy Hearts February', this will include a special Valentine themed group walk and wheel, themed healthy hearty cooking sessions and a heart themed wellbeing day to further promote the benefits of physical activity and heart health. This wellbeing day would include inspirational visiting speakers, physical wellbeing practitioners providing health advice and activities for people to participate in on the day. The wellbeing day would welcome people from the wider learning disability community, as well as people supported by Style Acre. Creating a Style Acre Guide to Heart Health with people we support, compiling ideas about keeping active and keeping your heart healthy in an easy read, accessible format. This Guide would be shared across Style Acre and the wider learning disability community on our website and social media. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£11,795 |
£850,987 |
EMMAUS |
We would spend this grant on the following activities to address the need amongst our companions. Both parts of this project have a lasting legacy to improve individuals' physical health and will help us to improve our practice in a way which we can keep applying to support companions in future. - Weekly programme of physical activity We will spend part of this grant on weekly football sessions (hiring a pitch and arranging transport for companions), on one to one sessions with a personal trainer for up to 4 companions and weekly group training sessions which will be open to all companions. - Smoking reduction and cessation advice We would like to keep helping our companions to reduce or stop smoking by consistent messaging throughout the year, training all of our support workers and the staff delivering our exercise sessions in Very Brief Advice (VBA) approaches. We would like to offer companions financial incentives to reduce smoking and to help staff and companions to make an initial switch to vaping or nicotine replacement products with a view to quitting, as recommended by NICE. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£6,300 |
£127,280 |
ROOT AND BRANCH |
1) Dedicated staff time: Physical Health Lead 3h/week @ £12/hour = 1728 plus on-costs. This person would raise awareness of the importance of cardiovascular health within and beyond Root and Branch, coordinate and facilitate activities and training of beneficiaries and volunteers, source resources and equipment, establish and strengthen partnerships in the locality to improve access to community groups and services, make referrals to OCC lifestyle services and monitor engagement, outcomes and impact. 2) Equipment & clothing £1000: In order to enhance our offer, provide a range of equipment to support the range of activities and provide a sustainable variety of options available to beneficiaries and volunteers. These would be stored and used on site. eg. pedometers, Nordic walking poles, garden games such as badminton, croquet, boules, yoga mats. In some instances, beneficiaries may require financial support for suitable clothing or equipment to enable participation and maintain health and safety, e.g. trainers/walking shoes, waterproofs 3) Instructors to lead 6-week taster courses: Following successful and popular sessions held in the past, further funding would support qualified instructors to run activity sessions on site. This would improve choice and access, whilst ensuring health and safety. Volunteers may also access sessions for their own health and wellbeing. e.g. Nordic walking, Yoga/Pilates, Tai Chi, Fencing, seated exercise @£25/h 4) 4 x Workshops : cooking and healthy eating, reducing stress through relaxation @£450/ 6 week course 5) Contribution to fees for external exercise classes or gym memberships or personal equipment and occasional transport for those without own transport wishing to access activities on site or in the locality. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£23,919 |
£78,851 |
OXFORD CITY FARM |
The majority of the grant will be spent on worker time to deliver on average 7 community farming sessions per month which supports physical activity and access to a smoking free environment. These regular sessions will run over 180-minutes providing a supportive environment to engage in physical activity. They will be offered on both weekdays and weekends to ensure that inclusive access is provided. All sessions are run with one paid worker and at least one co-lead volunteer. These co-lead volunteers need training support and coordination, so we have included one day per week of the volunteer co-ordinator time in this bid. We will ensure that paid staff attend the Very Brief Advice workshops to improve healthy living awareness raising. We will design and install smoke free signage around the Farm with positive messaging about the benefits of our smoking free environment. We will share via our social media, newsletter and through the distribution of healthy heart recipe cards: 12 healthy heart recipes focused on low cholesterol and simple, low cost meals. We will deliver four healthy heart community lunches - celebrating the delicious nature of ‘heart healthy’ food. 12 days of community chef time is allocated to support this output. Where possible these recipes will be linked to seasonal vegetables available from the farm. (Volunteers will have access to workshops to learn how to cook the dishes shared at the lunches - funded separately). Management time is allocated to support both the volunteer coordinator and the delivery roles, but crucially, to continue to build links with community organisations, practice care navigators and GP surgeries to ensure those most in need can access the provision. |
| 16/03/2022 |
£9,516 |
£280,634 |
THE PORCH |
The project will promote exercise and provide a vehicle for an NHS-supported stop smoking service in one positive and fun social setting. The HSP will be delivered by The Porch homeless day centre but we will partner with Edge Housing to engage others beyond our direct members and with the NHS stop smoking service to deliver collaborative weekly classes for those identified as most at risk of CVD. The Porch and Edge Housing will identify and refer potential participants to the project who will have the option to join one of two fun and enjoyable fitness classes per week. These will include: 1) a seated exercise class for older/lesser able clients and; 2) a second, more upbeat exercise class i.e. Zumba. Classes would be held at The Porch’s new church building and each class would be facilitated by qualified instructors. Each class would include talks and discussion on CVD including ways of reducing smoking amongst participants. This would be facilitated by an NHS stop smoking nurse. Both The Porch and Edge Housing will alternate a project worker for each session to support the group, the instructors and healthcare worker. We will aim to break down any barriers that a person may face in engaging with the sessions including providing bus passes and suitable clothing. Participants will be offered a free nutritious meal at The Porch’s homeless café along with opportunities for mentoring, activities and further support from staff and volunteers at the day centre. Participants will receive a certificate to mark their achievement and the completion of a set of classes and we will aim to provide classes to 40 participants across 48 weeks (10 attendees per quarter). We will provide 10 participants with the opportunity of a one-month membership at a local gym on completion of the course. |
| 14/03/2022 |
£15,009 |
£1,990,199 |
ASPIRE |
Grant to Aspire |
| 21/02/2022 |
£3,500 |
£173,621 |
FARM ABILITY |
The Garden Programme Leader plans and leads gardening activities each day for groups of co-farmers (people with learning disabilities, many also with autism) through the seasons of the year in gardens and orchards. FarmAbility offers a total of 60 session per week – or just under 3,000 per year. Our most treasured garden is at FAI Farm, Wytham. It is a garden that has been established for many years, as until recently FAI Farm was the full-time, permanent location for FarmAbility. Since the beginning of 2021 however, we have moved our base from the farm and now operate on an outreach basis. However, we still run FarmAbility from FAI on Monday and Wednesday every week, so this garden is very important to us and the co-farmers. In this garden we mainly grow food. Activities include planning, planting seeds, potting up seedlings, watering, weeding, looking after plants, harvesting, tidying, digging in manure, making compost, maintaining paths and raised beds, pruning orchard trees and soft fruit bushes. Due to the age of the garden, and some neglect during the lockdowns of 2020/21, it is now very much in need of a makeover, to make it safe and effective for co-farmers. We will be rebuilding the raised beds which are severely dilapidated; mending paths; renewing the polytunnel cover; adding more potting benches and undertaking some redesign to ensure that areas are accessible to those with less mobility. The funding will contribute to both the cost of materials; plants, seeds and compost; the salary of FarmAbility’s Garden Programme Leader and a supporting Programme Leader. Materials will include timber, preservative, bolts and lining for building new raised beds and polytunnel covering. |
| 21/02/2022 |
£13,500 |
|
CENTRE FOR AGROECOLOGY WATER AND RESILIENCE COVENTRY UNIVERSITY |
I am using the funds to support my research into cooperation, competition, and self-organisation in local agri-food systems. I will work with organisations to investigate, develop, and contribute to pathways and strategies that improve long-term resilience and reduce vulnerability within LAFS, which can be utilised by food organisations, funding bodies, and local government. The funds themselves go directly to supporting my living - housing, uni fees, travel, food, etc. This enables me to carry on my work without searching for alternative funding streams or slowing down by needing to take on extra side work The primary audience is those who work in local agri-food systems, and those who rely on it. This includes farmers, small businesses, local food aid organisations, volunteers, and networkers, and facilitators. |
| 10/02/2022 |
£50,000 |
|
MAKESPACE OXFORD CIC |
To expand our offer through the 'Meanwhile in Oxfordshire' programme to ensure meanwhile spaces are as financially, socially and physically accessible as possible, for both resident organisations and the beneficiaries and public they serve. We have 290+ organisations who have applied for space but the barriers for 100+ of them mean they will be unable to access the spaces Applying learning from the refurbishment and management of MakeSpace buildings in Aristotle Lane and Makespace central and drawing on our diverse networks, we would partner with residents to deliver more accessible spaces and provide peer support that enables all organisations to thrive. |
| 27/01/2022 |
£10,000 |
£2,855,308 |
THE EARTH TRUST |
The funding we have received will be spent on bringing two schools targeted from the most deprived wards in Oxfordshire based on the Bitesize report to the Earth Trust to receive two classes annually of environmental education. The selection process is still being confirmed as this application is being written, however we hope it will be a referral from from an agency. These education sessions will be offered for 3 consecutive years. This grant will fund 60% of the education cost, while the school funds the remaining 30%. This fund will also include a 100% costed travel subsidy per trip for each school over the 3 years. |
| 26/01/2022 |
£6,960 |
|
EYNSHAM MUSEUM AND HERITAGE CENTRE |
Grant to Eynsham Museum and Heritage Centre |
| 24/01/2022 |
£10,000 |
|
OXFORD COMMUNITY ACTION |
Grant to Oxford Community Action |
| 24/01/2022 |
£10,000 |
|
OXFORD MUTUAL AID |
Grant to Oxford Mutual Aid |
| 24/01/2022 |
£2,500 |
|
OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB |
Grant to Oxfordshire County Cricket Club |
| 24/01/2022 |
£20,000 |
£428,714 |
OXFORD HUB |
Grant to Oxford Hub |
| 24/01/2022 |
£5,000 |
£457,426 |
ARTIS FOUNDATION |
This funding was matched by other donors at the Funding Network Fundraiser, and will be used to roll out Arts Training to primary school children in disadvantaged schools in England. |
| 24/01/2022 |
£2,000 |
£264,170 |
MY LIFE FILMS LTD |
This funding will be used for the business development leading to roll out of my life dementia services in care homes. It was matched by other donors and the recent Funding Network event. |
| 19/01/2022 |
£26,080 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Grant to Gatehouse |
| 20/12/2021 |
£2,500 |
£286,333 |
THE NASIO TRUST |
Grant to The Nasio Trust |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,500 |
|
LETCOMBE FOOTBALL CLUB |
We encourage youngsters to join our club at the age of 16, where we have role models to guide them on how to show respect to others both on and off the football pitch. We promote physical fitness, discourage any form of substance abuse, and have a qualified physio who treats all injuries. One youngster was scheduled to go to the United States on a sports scholarship in 2020 when he snapped his achilles tendon. He was mentally distraught, but our physio has treated him for over a year and we have encouraged him to socialise with his friends even though he could not join in training or matches. We raised £2000 for him to cover loss of earnings, and he is now joining in training and will hopefully be able to play matches again soon. His American dream has gone, but he is extremely grateful to the club for providing a positive outlook for him when he was in `a very dark place`. |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,979 |
£53,033 |
HENDRED SPORTS CLUB |
During 2021, our main challenge has been the ability to safely operate our children/youth sporting programs given the huge numbers of people wanting to attend. Clearly it has been fantastic to have had so many participants, but it has brought to light the physical limitations we have at our ground and facilities. As a result, the Trustees are actively engaged with Architects and other advisers to understand the options and implications of launching a significant investment program for a "once in a generation" improvement in facilities. This will, of course, be a long term and expensive program requiring significant efforts not least of which being fund raising. Put another way, the club has outgrown its facilities and is simply no longer fit for purpose. Our clubhouse was built in the 1970's for what was then male-dominated team sports. We have moved way beyond this, especially with regard to children, youth and female participation and our facilities just do not support modern day needs. |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,500 |
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OXFORD SAINTS AMERICAN FOOTBALL YOUTH TEAM |
Like many other team sports the Oxford Saints junior programme gives young people to not only play an up coming sport, but to give these young people to develop life skills, such as team work , reliability (time management, accountability and off field learning, such as knowing and creating the playbook) , problem solving Improving mental health Sport and exercise go a long way to help improve young peoples' mental health. American football does that, because we are a big squad of 20 , and with several coaches giving the young athletes a lot of opportunity to meet new people and make new friends. Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour American football is a contact sport and m the aggression on the field (like rugby) is of the catharsis type which allows for the purging of, what are seen as negative emotions , but also because of the dangers associated with contact sports (again like rugby and boxing for example) the level of discipline is very high to keep athletes safe. Such discipline and and order can give young people structure. Which is important. The increased social interaction with people of their own age, team working principles as well as the 'mentoring' effect that good coaching can bring also provide the life skills and confidence to make the right decisions in other aspects of their lives |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,900 |
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CHOLSEY BLUEBIRDS FOOTBALL CLUB |
We provide a structured environment with FA qualified coaches which enables children to develop their football skills and get regular fresh air and exercise. They also develop numerous life skills including; communication, organisation, team-work, positive attitude, resilience among others. We create a positive environment where children can flourish and develop whether winning, losing or drawing -the emphasis is on enjoyment and development. We have a number of wider club events throughout the season which also brings communities together with our annual tournament, quiz night, presentation evening etc and through associations with other local village organisation such as the Golf Society, Cricket Club and local school which the Bluebirds support. |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,979 |
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DONNINGTON FOOTBALL CLUB |
Football contributes towards the development of local communities by bringing people together who otherwise might not much mix. Our club represents people from many different ethnic and social backgrounds, and through the sport children are not only brought into each other's company but encouraged to work together as a team. |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,142 |
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CHIPPING NORTON SKATER HOCKEY CLUB |
By the very nature that Skater Hockey is a team sport, CNSH develops real life skills and improves mental health of its players. Coaches and volunteers have seen children grow in self-confidence, improve their self-motivation (manifested in attendance and practicing at home), and willingness to take risks. The club teaches players how to become agile skaters, to follow the puck or ball wherever it goes, to coordinate skates (feet) with arms (stick), and learn to dribble, shoot and pass among team mates. Working within a team, coaches support players to develop the ability to quickly assess situations and opportunities, and accept the consequences of their own decisions, whether that is positively to score a goal, or negatively to foul an opponent. Skater Hockey is a very fast and fluid game. CNSH training sessions teach players how to think on their feet. Keeping active is key to boosting self-esteem and feeling part of a team provides children with a sense of both empowerment and belonging, two elements the club particularly focuses on developing among players. A particular child tried various sports, including cricket, rugby and football, however he failed to commit to any. On a trip to the local leisure centre to pick up his sister from a party, he saw a training session for the Chipping Norton Skater Hockey Club, and that was it. He went to the very next Beginner's sessions and instantly fell in love with skating. His mum was keen to support, and volunteered to join the committee. Seven years on the child is now a youth - skater hockey has completely changed his life. He's been part of. team that has won lots of regional competitions, even qualify for the European Championships. He's also made lifelong friends among the players both of CNSHC and other teams which he plays regularly. He has grown in confidence to the point when the CNSHC goalie was unable to play in the National Championships, he volunteered and stepped in. He has learned many life skills from skater hockey including improving his ability to communicate with others, team playing, confidence, discipline, tolerance inclusiveness and dedication. He is also improving his leadership skills as a supporting coach for the Beginners and PeeWees sessions. |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,000 |
£9,208 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS AMATEUR BOXING CLUB |
Boxing has long played a vital and transformative role for people of all ages in countless communities up and down our country, and Blackbird Leys is no exception. In particular it has a real power to engage with and inspire young people (especially but not exclusively young men) who are otherwise “hard to reach” and/or at risk of making poor life choices that affect themselves, their families, and their communities. In addition to the fitness/physical, self-defence and (for those that choose them) competitive sporting benefits, boxing has a great deal to offer people of all ages, for example: • Setting goals, working towards them, and achieving them • Discipline, focus and persistence • Respect – for self and others • Building confidence • Social and interpersonal skills – boxers box alone in the ring, but behind this lies the enormous value of being part of a club and community. • Relationships – with fellow club members and boxers. Coaches and trainers also play an invaluable role in helping boxers develop in ways beyond boxing ability and fitness alone. • Building skills for personal development – learning skills, problem solving, communication and facing challenges. Clearly, these are powerfully positive outcomes for life, not limited to our sport itself. Case study L is 27 years old and has been coming to our club for 15 years. At first, his dad brought him along because he was getting into trouble and “hanging out with the wrong people”. He had always been a fit young man, but the Club has helped him get healthy too, and provided focus, discipline and direction. L tells us that being a member of the Club has “definitely kept me out of trouble and definitely prevented me doing ‘the stupid stuff’ like getting a criminal record.” |
| 14/12/2021 |
£2,000 |
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CHOLSEY CRICKET CLUB |
We believe by providing our youth coaching programme and the associated bar and BBQ's on a Friday evening and other evenings through the summer we address all of the listed outcomes (Except employability skills).We have ~125 children every Friday with their parents and carers as well as other family members, young and old. We provide coaching and a structure for the children to develop numerous skills while allowing the adults a relaxed and friendly environment to socialise and meet friends. This outlet was particularly important last year as we came out of lockdown where people had been isolated and unable to socialise. Our large cricket outfield space allowed us to do this in a safe and still socially distanced manner. The coaching provides the children with a fun and friendly, safe environment to exercise, learn new general skills and cricket related ones. They also learn about communication, listening and teamwork skills along with perseverance and determination. There is limited activity for teenage children within the development where the cricket club is located so we encourage children of that age to join in. We are also looking to actively engage with some of them to understand how we can support them outside of the cricket season as there have been some instances of vandalism and poor behaviour due to the limited activity options. Maybe by erecting a football goal or similar on the cricket outfield that they can use it during the winter rather than have nothing else to do. |
| 13/12/2021 |
£3,100 |
£89,581 |
CUTTESLOWE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
Grant to Cutteslowe Community Association |
| 13/12/2021 |
£9,446 |
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WASTE2TASTE,LTD |
Grant to Waste2taste,Ltd |
| 13/12/2021 |
£2,000 |
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THE MOTHERKIND CAFé |
In 2022 we will: Run a weekly café session in Oxford City, at our venue at Flo’s in Florence Park, East Oxford. Continue to provide our online support group, The Motherkind Virtual Café. To help with this, we will hire a social media administrator for 3 hours a week to create online content and grow our community. Publish regular new content on our blog and create new episodes of our podcast. Increase our reach and grow our community with a new printed flyer to distribute locally. Increase our specialist perinatal community mental health provision with monthly Circle sessions led by a qualified specialist. Currently we only host these specialist sessions on rare occasions due to lack of funds. Upskill our voluntary Peer Supporters by sending three of them on a mental health first aid course. |
| 09/12/2021 |
£4,000 |
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SYRIAN COMMUNITY IN OXFORDSHIRE SYRCOX |
Grant to Syrian Community in Oxfordshire SYRCOX |
| 09/12/2021 |
£4,800 |
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BANBURY RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB LTD |
Grant to Banbury Rugby Football Club Ltd |
| 09/12/2021 |
£5,000 |
£145,914 |
OXFORDSHIRE CHINESE COMMUNITY & ADVICE CENTRE |
Grant to Oxfordshire Chinese Community & Advice Centre |
| 09/12/2021 |
£10,000 |
£167,806 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
Grant to BeFree Young Carers |
| 09/12/2021 |
£9,000 |
£120,908 |
CHOLSEY DAY CENTRE TRUST |
Grant to Cholsey Day Centre Trust |
| 09/12/2021 |
£5,760 |
£29,739 |
JESUS WOMEN INTERNATIONAL PRAYER MOVEMENT |
Grant to JEWINS WOMEN2WOMEN LTD |
| 09/12/2021 |
£2,940 |
£1,003 |
SHED OXFORD |
Grant to Shed Oxford |
| 09/12/2021 |
£3,432 |
£86,544 |
UCARE (OXFORD) |
Grant to UCARE (Oxford) |
| 09/12/2021 |
£5,100 |
£343,123 |
SUNSHINE CENTRE |
Grant to Sunshine Centre |
| 09/12/2021 |
£3,950 |
£46,443 |
LEYS CDI |
Grant to Leys CDI |
| 09/12/2021 |
£7,800 |
£92,156 |
ROOT AND BRANCH |
Grant to Root and Branch |
| 09/12/2021 |
£4,000 |
£264,488 |
THE PARASOL PROJECT |
Grant to The Parasol Project |
| 09/12/2021 |
£10,000 |
£601,380 |
ASYLUM WELCOME |
Grant to Asylum Welcome |
| 09/12/2021 |
£2,608 |
£17,744 |
THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT |
Grant to The Pump House Project |
| 09/12/2021 |
£4,500 |
£793,974 |
YELLOW SUBMARINE |
Grant to Yellow Submarine |
| 09/12/2021 |
£7,500 |
£15,408 |
TANDEM IN OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Tandem in Oxfordshire |
| 09/12/2021 |
£6,500 |
£4,537,294 |
BANBURY YOUNG HOMELESSNESS PROJECT |
Grant to Banbury Young Homelessness Project |
| 09/12/2021 |
£9,977 |
£224,000 |
OXFORDSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND |
Grant to Oxfordshire Association For The Blind |
| 09/12/2021 |
£5,475 |
£263,714 |
RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE |
Grant to Riverside Counselling Service |
| 09/12/2021 |
£9,922 |
£223,912 |
ARCHWAY FOUNDATION |
Grant to Archway Foundation |
| 09/12/2021 |
£5,000 |
£296,829 |
BANBURY MUSLIM MOSQUE SOCIETY |
Grant to Banbury Muslim Mosque Society |
| 09/12/2021 |
£1,040 |
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SYRIAN SISTERS |
The money from this grant will go directly in to the community group in funding the weekly lunch club, easter trip, and marketing materials for both. After listening to feedback from our current service users and other community groups in the area, it is clear that after the COVID pandemic people more than anything want to feel as part of a community again. We believe by setting up this lunch club and inviting everyone on the Easter trip, we will be able to introduce our long time service users to our newer users who haven't been able to integrate in to our community due to the pandemic. In doing so, the mental and physical wellbeing of our service users will be addressed and looked after, which to us is priceless. We will also use the money to market the events but also to market ourselves. We know there are so many refugees in Oxford who still do not know about our group, and this money will allow us to reach untouched areas and increase our impact on the community. |
| 09/12/2021 |
£2,244 |
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THE MAPLE TREE |
Delivery of a weekly in centre session focused on: - introducing parents to other parents for mutual support and possible friendship - helping parents with the daily challenges of parenthood and how to best support their baby/child's development and learning, - helping parents to engage with other sources of advice and support where appropriate. - helping babies and young children to meet other children and adults in a safe environment, - providing opportunities for babies and young children to explore the world through a variety of engaging and developmentally appropriate activities, - helping young children to learn to play in parallel or in groups. The session will run weekly from 5th November until 8th April 2022, including up to twelve families at each session. These sessions will have a number of bookable spaces with a drop in option for families that find it challenging to pre-plan their attendance. We will also hold priority spaces for families with urgent or immediate needs including those referred by health visitors. Sessions will be run by the centre manager and supported by two volunteers. |
| 09/12/2021 |
£1,000 |
£38,484 |
BARRACKS LANE COMMUNITY GARDEN |
This project will help address the need of members of our community who feel lonely or isolated. There will be two strands to this project. Community members can take part in both, just one, or drop-in and out of both as they wish. 1) Gardening for Wellbeing - We will create the opportunity for the local community to come to the garden one Sunday (10am – 4pm) a month from January – October to take part in gardening activities, focused around growing seasonal organic fruits and vegetables. We will provide lunch and refreshments. The Community Engagement Gardeners will run several workshops throughout the project to provide those attending with skills that they can use at home. E.g. Growing Food in Containers and on Balconies, home composting, and fermentation 2) Singing for Wellbeing – We will create the opportunity for members of the local community to come to the garden to sing once a month on a weekend (10.30am-12.30pm), facilitated by a Singing Leader from January - October. This singing project will follow on from our successful eight week Singing and Sharing project which was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. The focus of these sessions will be on singing for wellbeing in nature, however, there will also be the opportunity to take part in spoken word and art based workshops. |
| 09/12/2021 |
£480 |
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STONEHILL COMMUNITY GARDEN |
We plan on spending this grant on the materials to build a new rocket stove so that we may have more events where we cook and eat together. Over the summer, as restrictions were loosened, we started using our outdoor kitchen more for cooking some of our surplus produce for our volunteers. After a year and a half of isolation (and many of our garden attendees were socially isolated before the pandemic), garden attendees reported that they particularly enjoyed the activity of cooking and eating together as eating is inherently social and many had been eating their meals alone. Stonehill has no electricity or gas. Our current rocket stove does not heat up to the temperatures needed to cook a wider variety of dishes. Moreover, we also like to provide our volunteers with tea, coffee and biscuits. An additional rocket stove with a better design would allow us to more regularly cook and eat together as well as simultaneously provide tea and coffee. A better design would also mean we would only have to burn minimal amounts of dried twigs and other small pieces of wood and it would cut down on the smoke. We are therefore requesting funding for materials to build the stove and for the garden coordinator wages to supervise the sessions when we construct and first use the new rocket stove. The garden coordinator wages would also pay for all admin and purchasing related to this project. Garden Coordinator wages for 4 open sessions at £120 per session = £480 (The £120 covers the supervision of our Wednesday open sessions and all related preparation, admin, and reporting). 90 degree “elbow” stove flu pipe - £48 Exhaust pipe – £10 40 bricks (50p each) –- £20 Grill grate for stove top - £12.99 Premixed bag of concrete – £7.76 Ready Mixed mortar 20kg bag – £8.05 Total = £586.80 |
| 09/12/2021 |
£1,655 |
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SUSTAINABLE WANTAGE |
This grant will support the delivery of three Mindfulness for Stress and two Mindfulness for Health eight-week group courses, ensuring these remain free to attend and making it possible to include people who do not qualify for the Abingdon and Witney College funding. We have a Community Learning contract with Abingdon and Witney College which funds the majority of tutor teaching time and Sustainable Wantage admin time; this grant will fund resources to support people's learning during the course and to encourage them to continue using Mindfulness tools in their lives after the course ends. The Mindfulness for Stress course is designed for people struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood and burnout. If provides participants with a range of practical tools for building resilience, reducing tension and boosting their wellbeing. Resources needed to support participants learning for this course include: - 'The Little Mindfulness Workbook' by Gary Hennessey - 'The Little Mindfulness Practice Book' - CDs/audio downloads of guided Mindfulness practices The Mindfulness for Health course is designed for people feeling overwhelmed, isolated or exhausted as a result of chronic pain or health conditions including long COVID. The course teaching Mindfulness techniques for living well despite physical discomfort, and helps people to feel less alone in their experience. Resources needed for this course include: - 'Mindfulness for Health' book by Dr Danny Penman and Vidyamala Burch (First Prize winner in the British Medical Association's Book Awards 'Popular Medicine' category, 2014) - Mindfulness for Health workbook - CDs/audio downloads of guided Mindfulness practices We are also seeking funding to cover the preparation time needed to publicise each course and conduct one-to-one induction meetings with participants before the start of the course. We will specifically look to engage those at risk from low to moderate mental health conditions with the aim of helping people manage their own well-being, thereby reducing recourse to medical services and increasing confidence in self-care. To achieve this we will target advertising in areas such as: - local mental health organisations Root and Branch, Restore, Oxfordshire Mind and Elmore Community Services - GP surgeries and staff - local ambulance services where there is currently a high level of staff absent from work due to stress-related issues - Oxfordshire Recovery College - Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership staff, volunteers and clients - Followers of / subscribers to the tutor's and Sustainable Wantage's newsletters and social media |
| 09/12/2021 |
£2,000 |
£198,268 |
VALE COMMUNITY IMPACT |
1)It will be used to extend the hours of a Community Advice Liaison staff member so that the overall scheme is managed responsibly and neither clients nor volunteers need feel burdened or concerned by governance or accountability. 2)will enable recruitment of and training of a volunteer assessor (ideally 2) to join the VCI team. 3) will be used to survey the potential service users to ensure the true and tailored needs can be met by the project deliverables. 4) will help to effectively communicate & collaborate with smaller grass-root groups within the various villages, the churches ie Anna chaplains & community development leaders, social prescribers for better wellbeing initiatives, HomeInstead, AgeUK's Community Link Workers, local care-agencies etc 5)contribute towards venue hires for the village gatherings as well as costs associated with the hire ie tasks from a village hall hirer's agreement, catering, activities 6)publicity to target the relevant audience for those who may be interested in one on one, small group or village gatherings 7)improvement to VCI's client relationship management software (Bluedoor Caseworker Connect) to underpin the enhanced service offering and better support the existing befriending service provided 8)recruit volunteer befrienders, volunteer contributors to group or gathering events, volunteer shoppers and volunteer drivers to assist with the access the groups or gatherings 9)contribution towards volunteer expenses reimbursement 10) hardship fund - towards the transport fare to cover volunteer expenses as there might be a contribution to the gathering on occasion, SUMup equipment & pre-purchase of shopping vouchers m |
| 09/12/2021 |
£1,000 |
£145,030 |
TRINITY CHURCH ABINGDON |
Quotations have been obtained from local private hire firms, the best of which is £115 per day, £1,380 in 2021-2022 (i.e. 12 meetings). However, the Club is developing a plan for the next 3 years, 2021-2024, to embed such arrangements in its organization to help combat what are recognized as the long-term effects of the pandemic for health and social well-being. Allowing for inflation at a notional 2% p.a., the total then, over the 3 years, becomes £4,000. |
| 08/12/2021 |
£2,660 |
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NETTLEBED GOOD NEIGHBOURS SCHEME |
Grant to Nettlebed Good Neighbours Scheme |
| 02/12/2021 |
£7,345 |
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MAYMESSY COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY |
Grant to Maymessy Community Interest Company |
| 02/12/2021 |
£2,600 |
£32,579 |
WITNEY DAY CENTRE |
Grant to Witney Day Centre |
| 24/11/2021 |
£9,000 |
£1,325,820 |
STORY MUSEUM |
Grant to Story Museum |
| 24/11/2021 |
£2,000 |
£23,903 |
CHARITY MENTORS |
Grant to Charity Mentors |
| 23/11/2021 |
£8,179 |
£67,847 |
OXFORDSHIRE PLAY ASSOCIATION |
Grant to Oxfordshire Play Association |
| 23/11/2021 |
£8,475 |
£67,346 |
BERIN CENTRE |
Grant to Berin Centre |
| 23/11/2021 |
£5,319 |
£386,210 |
ALDATES COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES |
Grant to Aldates Community Transformation Initiatives |
| 23/11/2021 |
£3,539 |
£619 |
OXFORD PADDLERS FOR LIFE |
Grant to Oxford Paddlers for Life |
| 23/11/2021 |
£5,000 |
£428,714 |
OXFORD HUB |
Grant to Oxford Hub |
| 23/11/2021 |
£7,520 |
£90,770 |
ABINGDON DAMASCUS YOUTH PROJECT |
Grant to Abingdon Damascus Youth Project |
| 23/11/2021 |
£5,000 |
£334,377 |
PENNYHOOKS FARM TRUST |
Grant to Pennyhooks Farm Trust |
| 23/11/2021 |
£6,009 |
£173,621 |
FARM ABILITY |
Grant to Farm Ability |
| 23/11/2021 |
£3,000 |
£162,365 |
GROVE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST GROVE - GROW FAMILIES |
Grant to Grove Parochial Church Council, St John the Baptist Grove - GroW Families |
| 23/11/2021 |
£5,000 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Grant to Gatehouse |
| 23/11/2021 |
£1,000 |
£61,333 |
BENSON MILLSTREAM CENTRE |
Centre reopened post lockdown but operating in a very different environment. Operating costs have increased with need for additional cleaning through our contractors, more hours, increased frequency of deep clean. Additional equipment has been purchased. Revenue on the other hand has fallen, local parish councils, with their own reduced income, haven’t been able to support the Centre this year, investment income which usually covers more than 10% of running costs has reduced by a third, fund raising events such as Open Gardens and Mediterranean Evening have been cancelled because of Covid restrictions. The Centre is solvent we have cash reserves, earmarked for an extension/refurbishment, but it would be difficult if that scheme was further delayed because of Covid |
| 23/11/2021 |
£2,000 |
£133,228 |
CHINNOR VILLAGE CENTRE |
The grant is required to fund the remunerated roles (as above), a nourishing meal, entertainments and specialists are to be included in the package as this would make it possible to subsidise the amount members pay, thus ensuring equity. Costs associated with DBS checks and training re safeguarding of vulnerable people also need to be met. Itemised grant request • The recruitment of a Day Care and Assistant Day Care Manager who manage the service, organise activities and support and supervise the 80 volunteers. This is crucial to the running of this service. • The costs associated with transporting individuals to and from the Village Centre which is provided by a mini bus and volunteer drivers • Expenses for experts and specialists and those offering entertainment • Subsidising of the refreshments • Administration costs associated with safeguarding vulnerable peope i.e DBS checks and training Over the next year it is envisaged that the costs will be met through fundraising which, since the lifting of COVID restrictions, is gaining momentum. To pay for entertainers and specialists to visit the day care. and the centre. To subsidize the amount the members pay to ensure that this facility is available to everyone in the community. training re safeguarding of vulnerable people, ensure air quality, by purchasing air quality monitors, To kick start all the services again after a long shut down during Covid. To re-engage with volunteers and members of the clubs. |
| 23/11/2021 |
£1,000 |
£631,778 |
SPORT IN MIND |
The grant will be used to contribute towards 3 weekly activity sessions in locations in Iffley Fields, Cowley and St Mary's wards of Oxford (venues likely to be outdoor but we may look at indoor as well depending on the COVID situation). One football, one yoga and one Pilates. We have recently started piloting these sessions to gauge demand and interest and to date we have a minimum of 8 people attending each session. Each session is one hour long. We are using the feedback from these pilots and the need in the area to be able to tweak any changes and attract funding to continue them from March onwards. We will run Pilates and yoga during the daytime to attract more older adults who are more likely to attend a less 'active sport' type session. Through this we will be looking to target the 65+, living alone who have a higher probability of loneliness. These sessions will give them an opportunity to socially interact with people, during the day whilst also engaging in some gentle activity tailored to suit their needs. We will also run a football session to attract men (and women) with mental health issues who are currently not working, claiming personal independence payment, so this will also be run during the day. From our experience of running programmes for over 10 years, many men are reluctant to engage in traditional mental health services, however, sport and physical activity is something they are generally comfortable with. Though, in their current situation they are also unlikely to join a mainstream football session. The Sport in Mind session will be a relaxed, welcoming friendly environment. Each participant will also receive a Sport in Mind Wellbeing Journal. Research shows that keeping a journal can help us gain control of our emotions and improve our mental health. The journal is A5 ring binder style, and references the evidence based Five ways to Wellbeing: Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep learning and Giving. It includes information on improving physical wellbeing, eating healthily, sleep habits and being more active. Each section provides an opportunity to write points down that are positive, worries, fears, activity goals and activity tracker amongst others. We hope through the journal it will help people prioritise problems, identify negative thoughts and behaviour, fears and concerns and focus on the positive. We also encourage participants to track their activity progress and associated moods. to start to notice how activity improves their mood. The grant will go towards the cost of the coach/instructor for 40 weeks of sessions in 2022 and enabling us to continue offering all our sessions at no cost to participants. |
| 23/11/2021 |
£1,244 |
£6,412 |
KIDLINGTON & DISTRICT INFORMATION CENTRE |
If successful this grant would be used towards the salary cost of our part time office co-ordinator who runs the Good Neighbour Scheme office during our weekly opening hours which are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1000 - 1400 hours. This person also regularly reviews all of our organisations emails when not in the office to ensure that all requests received by email are dealt with as fast as possible if the request demands it. When the office is unmanned we also have an answer phone to ensure that any telephone requests are followed up when the office is next open. It is essential that we have a office co-ordinator as without this there would be no continuity of the service that we provide and we believe no alternative way of ensuring that all requests made to our Good Neighbour Scheme are fulfilled speedily and to a high standard. The salary for this person is £460 a month which equates to a total of £5,520 per year. We receive no funding from any other source to meet the cost of this salary and we would be unable to operate our Good Neighbour Scheme without funding of this cost by applying for grants and hopefully being successful in receiving positive outcomes. If we were successful with this grant application any funding we receive would go towards this cost. The office co-ordinator is supported by a voluntary office based person who assists fortwo hours at a time on a rota basis. In addition the office co-ordinator is also responsible for running the Kidlington Information Centre office which the Kidlington Good Neighbour Scheme is part of. The Information Centre provides timetables, attraction leaflets within a 50 mile radius, AGE UK Information leaflets etc. We also answer numerous requests for advice on obtaining blue badge, bus passes and various general enquiries received from the resident of Kidlington and the surrounding villages. |
| 23/11/2021 |
£2,000 |
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SILVER THREADS CLUB |
The Grant will be spent by doing, multiple activities. Covering mental awareness, self help by. Aromatherapy massage Exercise., Trips out,. Chair fitness, mind games Speaker's from other agencies. All this to support one another. |
| 05/11/2021 |
£700 |
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PEOPLE, PLACE & PARTICIPATION LTD |
This project will support three food-based enterprises to build resilience in their communities, create employment and build peer to peer support through a partnership addressing food inequality in OX4 |
| 05/11/2021 |
£600 |
£543,650 |
ARK T CENTRE |
Grant to Ark T Centre |
| 05/11/2021 |
£700 |
£250,935 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
To support and encourage young carers in South Oxfordshire and the Vale through 121 emotional support, respite activities, training, our befriending service. And to be an advocate for young carers. |
| 22/10/2021 |
£35,000 |
£167,806 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
Grant to BeFree Young Carers |
| 22/10/2021 |
£70,107 |
£237,736 |
QUEST FOR LEARNING |
Grant to Quest for Learning |
| 12/10/2021 |
£276 |
£118,866 |
DIDCOT TRAIN YOUTH PROJECT |
Family collection at the funeral of a loved one asked for funds to be donated to Didcot TRAIN |
| 25/08/2021 |
£4,000 |
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OVERSTONE RESORT HOLDINGS |
Grant to Overstone Resort Holdings |
| 23/08/2021 |
£7,185 |
£369,032 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
Grant to One-Eighty |
| 23/07/2021 |
£4,885 |
£67,847 |
OXFORDSHIRE PLAY ASSOCIATION |
Grant to Oxfordshire Play Association |
| 23/07/2021 |
£5,000 |
£876,318 |
PEEPLE |
Grant to Peeple |
| 23/07/2021 |
£4,124 |
£59,265 |
THE MAPLE TREE |
Grant to The Maple Tree |
| 23/07/2021 |
£9,880 |
£223,220 |
ABINGDON BRIDGE |
Grant to Abingdon Bridge |
| 23/07/2021 |
£8,000 |
£289,440 |
DONNINGTON DOORSTEP FAMILY CENTRE |
Grant to Donnington Doorstep Family Centre |
| 23/07/2021 |
£8,000 |
£134,369 |
ARCH (ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN IN OXFORDSHIRE) |
Grant to ARCH (Assisted Reading for Children in Oxfordshire) |
| 23/07/2021 |
£5,000 |
£64,945 |
JACARI |
Grant to Jacari |
| 23/07/2021 |
£9,244 |
£237,736 |
QUEST FOR LEARNING |
Grant to Quest for Learning |
| 23/07/2021 |
£7,530 |
£93,155 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND |
Grant to Blackbird Leys Adventure Playground |
| 23/07/2021 |
£8,500 |
|
OXFORD PARENT INFANT PROJECT (OXPIP) |
Grant to Oxford Parent Infant Project (OXPIP) |
| 23/07/2021 |
£5,000 |
£89,581 |
CUTTESLOWE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
Grant to Cutteslowe Community Association |
| 23/07/2021 |
£5,000 |
£449,070 |
REFUGEE RESOURCE |
Grant to Refugee Resource |
| 23/07/2021 |
£10,000 |
£167,806 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
Grant to BeFree Young Carers |
| 23/07/2021 |
£3,000 |
£116,831 |
HOME-START BANBURY AND CHIPPING NORTON |
Grant to Home-Start Banbury and Chipping Norton |
| 23/07/2021 |
£3,722 |
£188,045 |
FUSION OXFORD COMMUNITY ARTS AGENCY |
Grant to Fusion Oxford Community Arts Agency |
| 23/07/2021 |
£10,000 |
£46,443 |
LEYS CDI |
Grant to Leys CDI |
| 23/07/2021 |
£8,000 |
£202,789 |
AUTISM FAMILY SUPPORT OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Autism Family Support Oxfordshire |
| 20/07/2021 |
£15,000 |
|
ALEF TRUST CIC |
Grant to Alef Trust CIC |
| 20/07/2021 |
£36,000 |
|
COSTAIN CONSULTING |
Grant to Costain Consulting |
| 20/07/2021 |
£50,000 |
£187,320 |
THE MINDFULNESS INITIATIVE |
Grant to The Mindfulness Initiative |
| 20/07/2021 |
£1,000 |
£234,055,000 |
MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT |
Beard are sponsoring Jack Winterbottom to run the Bournemouth Half Marathon in October 2021 for the amount of £1000. |
| 19/07/2021 |
£12,500 |
£872,539 |
ACTIVE OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Active Oxfordshire |
| 13/07/2021 |
£15,000 |
£1,990,199 |
ASPIRE |
Grant to Aspire |
| 13/07/2021 |
£10,000 |
£277,140 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPPORT SCHEME LTD |
Grant to Blackbird Leys Neighbourhood Support Scheme Ltd |
| 13/07/2021 |
£12,000 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Grant to Gatehouse |
| 13/07/2021 |
£15,000 |
£772,499 |
EMMAUS |
Grant to Emmaus |
| 13/07/2021 |
£12,000 |
£95,371 |
SANCTUARY HOSTING |
Grant to Sanctuary Hosting |
| 13/07/2021 |
£20,000 |
£386,210 |
ALDATES COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES |
Grant to Aldates Community Transformation Initiatives |
| 13/07/2021 |
£50,000 |
£5,760,842 |
CONNECTION FLOATING SUPPORT TEAM |
Grant to Connection Floating Support Team |
| 13/07/2021 |
£7,500 |
£632,750 |
CITIZENS ADVICE OXFORDSHIRE SOUTH AND VALE |
Grant to Citizens Advice Oxfordshire South and Vale |
| 13/07/2021 |
£12,000 |
£3,050,003 |
EDGE HOUSING - OXFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH |
Grant to Edge Housing - Oxford Community Church |
| 08/07/2021 |
£6,750 |
£124,275 |
HOME-START SOUTHERN OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire |
| 07/07/2021 |
£37,974 |
£218,655 |
HOME-START OXFORD |
Grant to Home-Start Oxford |
| 07/07/2021 |
£50,201 |
£876,318 |
PEEPLE |
Grant to Peeple |
| 07/07/2021 |
£5,000 |
£67,346 |
BERIN CENTRE |
Grant to Berin Centre |
| 06/07/2021 |
£48,460 |
£322,496 |
MY LIFE MY CHOICE |
Grant to My Life My Choice |
| 28/06/2021 |
£66,480 |
£9,355,000 |
RELATE OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Relate Oxfordshire |
| 28/06/2021 |
£20,000 |
£7,134,000 |
MANSFIELD COLLEGE |
Employ Oxford University graduate to support MB shrieval year fundraising activities. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
BICESTER RUFC |
Developing Life Skills — Rugby is underpinned by the values of Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline, and Sportsmanship. These life skills are taught on and off the field and reinforced by coaches and referees alike. Off the field this includes respecting their environment and surroundings, cleaning up after themselves, ensuring they keep the clubhouse and changing rooms clean. Building Strong Communities — A rugby club is at the heart of a community, bringing people together from all walks of life. It builds social cohesion. We pride ourselves in our family ethos at Bicester RUFC. We look after each other and do our bit to contribute to the broader community through our community programme. Improving Mental Health — We have a mental health programme, launched in 2020. This includes mental health awareness training for volunteers. We also have a training programme to ensure every age grade and section of the club has at least one MHFA England trained Mental Health First Aider, able to support our members. This underpins our vision to treat mental health first aid and physical first aid as equally important within the club. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT |
CASE STUDY - TL TL JOINED THE URBAN MOVEMENT ACADEMY SESSIONS AT THE AGE OF 10. AN AWKWARD, SHY AND RESERVED CHILD, AN ONLY CHILD FROM A DISRUPTED HOME SITUATION. VERY INTELLIGENT BUT ALWAYS ON THE SIDE LINES WATCHING. THE LOCAL SENIOR SCHOOL BASED THEIR PE LESSONS AROUND PARKOUR AND AT THAT TIME A LOCAL GROUP SET UP THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT. THE REASON BEHIND THE APPROVAL FOR THE PROJECT WAS THAT URBAN MOVEMENT/PARKOUR/FREE RUNNING WOULD BE BROUGHT TO THE BUILDING AND OFFERED OUT TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO ENGAGE CHILDREN FROM 7 AND UP. TL JOINED THIS GROUP EACH WEEK TERMLY AND OVER THE PAST 8 YEARS HAS CHANGED FROM THAT QUITE, SHY BOY INTO AN ALMOST QUALIFIED (THROUGH THE PUMP HOUSE) URBAN MOVEMENT INSTRUCTOR, LEADING HIS OWN SESSIONS AND ALSO WORKING IN A LARGE ESTABLISHMENT BASED IN SWINDON (FREEDOG) AS A TRAINER. WE ARE VERY PROUD OF THE CONFIDENT, MATURE AND NURTURING ADULT HE HAS BECOME AND THAT HE IS NOW ABLE TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT WITHIN AN INDUSTRY THAT HE LOVES IN THE UK AND INTERNATIONALLY. CASE STUDY 2 - ML & DR TWO 17 YEAR OLD MOVED TO THE AREA AS THEY HAD BECOME DISTRUPTIVE AT THEIR OWN HOMES AND WERE PLACED WITH FAMILIES LOCALLY. THEY ATTENDED THE URBAN MOVEMENT ACADEMY AS ASSISTANTS TO THE THEN TRAINER. BOTH BOYS HAD SPENT MANY YEARS TRAINING IN GYMNASTICS. INVOVLEMENT IN THE WEEKLY SESSIONS MENTORING CHILDREN OF ALL AGES SHOWED THEM THAT THEY WERE IN FACT MORE VALUABLE AS AN INTEGRALE MEMBER OF SOCIETY THAN AS A 'DROP OUT'. OVER A FEW MONTHS THOSE TWO YOUNG MEN HAVE GONE ON AND RE-ENTERED COLLEGE AND PASSED THEIR A LEVELS, DR FOLLOWED UP WITH A CONSTRUCTION COURSE AND BECAME A ROOFER AND ML HAS BEEN ON A 3.5 YEAR JOURNEY AND IS AT THE END STAGE OF BECOMING A QUALIFIED AIRLINE PILOT FOR EASY JET. WITHOUT THE BOUNDARIES AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE PUMP HOUSE PROJECT OFFERED THESE TWO BOYS THEY WOULD SURELY HAVE ENDED UP LOST IN THE 'SYSTEM' AND NEVER REACHED THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
CHESTERTON FOOTBALL CLUB |
The aim of Chesterton Football Club is to reach out to as many young people as possible to inspire them through group sport. It is important that children learn to be part of a team, to make friends, to strive to improve life skills and to help shape them into caring, sharing and responsible adults. The aim is to encourage children to enjoy our sport and to do the very best they can. I have witnessed the improvement in concentration application and ability in children which sometimes is astonishing. Our Sports gives young people a focus, to achieve but most importantly to enjoy being part of a team and believe in themselves. I believe that skills they pick up in the early years gives confidence and improves social skills that will remain with them forever. As previously mentioned I believe that if children have a focus and a clear aim and are motivated to be the best person they can they are less likely to become involved in crime and anti social behaviour. The principal of the club is not necessarily about winning but all about social interaction, friendship, kindness and doing your very best. It is this caring, considerate attitude that gets the best out of the individual. They then grow and learn to achieve through hard work and honesty into adult life. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
CHIPPING NORTON SKATER HOCKEY CLUB |
CNSH's organisational aims are outlined in the club's constitution, which match closely to the ethos of delivering wider social outcomes to all members. Skater Hockey is not a mainstream sport, so it tends to attract children who may not fit into the regimentation of traditional team sports. CNSH is an inclusive club. It does not audition children, so there are no barriers - academic, physical, emotional - to joining and participating in training sessions. The same applies to competitions: ability is no barrier to joining the team (three age groups) and experiencing the camaraderie and excitement that a competition against other teams provides. For many, this is their first taste of team sport. By the very nature that Skater Hockey is a team sport, CNSH develops real life skills and improves mental health of its players. Coaches and volunteers have seen children grow in self-confidence, improve their self-motivation (manifested in attendance and practicing at home), and willingness to take risks. The club teaches players how to become agile skaters, to follow the puck or ball wherever it goes, to coordinate skates (feet) with arms (stick), and learn to dribble, shoot and pass among team mates. Working within a team, coaches support players to develop the ability to quickly assess situations and opportunities, and accept the consequences of their own decisions, whether that is positively to score a goal, or negatively to foul an opponent. Skater Hockey is a very fast and fluid game. CNSH training sessions teach players how to think on their feet. Keeping active is key to boosting self-esteem and feeling part of a team provides children with a sense of both empowerment and belonging, two elements the club particularly focuses on developing among players. One of the club's original players suffered from Dyspraxia, a brain-based motor disorder, affecting motor planning and coordination. As per the club's ethos, he was readily accepted into the club, ability being no barrier to entry. This same player found that he excelled both at Skater Hockey and as a team player, progressing to represent Great Britain in international competitions. The more experienced players are encouraged to volunteer with the club, to guide, support and inspire younger players and help coaches in beginners' sessions. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
OXFORD CITY ATHLETIC CLUB |
In 2018 we launched a new initiative, "Accessible Athletics" dedicated to encouraging young people with physical and learning difficulties to participate in sport. Within 3 months we had a group of approximately 15 young people under 18 training regularly, with dedicated coaches, alongside able bodied athletes. This initiative involved making one of our qualified coaches the lead coach, and then relying on young volunteers from within the club to act as mentors and assistant coaches. This was extremely popular both with the young athletes and with our volunteers. The sessions were fun, energetic, and safe. The athletes benefited by being regulary involved in energetic exercise, their parents benefited by being able to take time off for a while as their children trained, and our volunteers gained in confidence, skills and a sense of achievement in becoming volunteers for the first time. The outcomes are many in terms of mental health, physical well being, developing employablity skills (several of the volunteers have already used this experience in making personal statements for university applications) and developing life skills (the parents of athletes often commented that their child's greatest learning outcome was improved ability to take instructions, listen, work with others and attend regularly). |
| 25/06/2021 |
£1,000 |
£118,866 |
DIDCOT TRAIN YOUTH PROJECT |
We have been working with a young lady for the last few years who I will refer to as “Jane”. Jane first engaged with Didcot TRAIN back in 2018 along with her sister. Their family life is chaotic as they have lots of other siblings in the same house with Mum and Dad. The family are struggling financially and with a large family and these two sisters being the oldest, they have been left to manage themselves. Jane and her sister have been getting in trouble with the Police due to ASB, thefts and substance misuse. This along with the family situation has meant many services are involved with them. Over the last year Jane has been kicked out of college and left with nothing to do but hang around the town centre, which leads to boredom and ASB becoming an issue. TRAIN has been working with the family and Jane, plus other services to provide a safe and positive environment for Jane to engage with. In the last 6months we have seen a positive change in Jane, previously with participation programme and group sessions she would be giggly and not always as interested in topics such as mental health and wellbeing. However, in the last 6months TRAIN have been working with her discussing the reason behind her ASB and substance misuse. Jane has become more open with reasons why and begun expressing her want to move onto something positive rather than hanging around the streets of the town. We hosted a CV and Interview workshop and supported many of the young people in attendance with applications for jobs and further education. Within a month of this workshop Jane and many of these young people have now found part time employment and have aspirations of going back to college. The relationship Jane has developed with the staff and volunteers have been an important fact in Jane’s journey. As we have been a constant in this young lady’s life and have given her tools to develop in our sessions. Jane feels comfortable to ask for our support and advice, and we strongly feel her engagement with group work where she has improved her softer skills such as speaking, and listening has played a major part in her development. Jane seems to be motivated and has improved self-esteem; we are very excited to see how she progresses whilst we continue to support her journey. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
£9,208 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS AMATEUR BOXING CLUB |
We see the difference our sport and our club makes in people’s lives at every training session. Ordinarily, we run 6 sessions per week for 50 weeks a year, welcoming up to 30-40 people at each session. We are open to children aged 10 and above, with no upper age limit, and welcome all regardless of background, age or gender. Our club, like the sport itself, thrives on long-term commitment, mutual support, self-reliance and excellent teamwork. Why boxing? It has many benefits beyond just the physical benefits of regular exercise and activity: • Setting goals, working towards them and achieving them • Discipline, focus and persistence • Respect – for self and others • Self-defence. • Building confidence and self-esteem • Social and interpersonal skills – boxers box alone in the ring, but behind this lies the enormous value of being part of a club and community. • Relationships – with fellow club members and boxers. Coaches and trainers also play an invaluable role in helping boxers develop in ways beyond boxing ability and fitness alone. • Building skills for personal development – learning skills, problem solving, communication and facing challenges. “J” – Mum of two club members: J (plus Dad) bring their 2 children to the Club, T (girl) aged 10 and M (boy) aged 12. They live in Headington and come because it is local and great value for money. They struggle to afford basics things like food but want to make sure that their children are fit and healthy. The Club helps the children have a good mindset and build confidence: it helps M learn how to control his emotions, and T to tackle her social anxieties. They are convinced that the Club helps kids understand boundaries and good discipline, as well as having fun. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
£127,597 |
LEYS CDI |
Case Study How long have you been attending CDI? I have been attending CDI for 5 years. What position where you when you first come? I was in a position where I wanted meet new people and part take in activities to enjoy myself being in a safe environment. What activities/projects have you been involved in? Some of the I have been involved in going on residentials in order to evaluate the CDI project. The music project, gaining an art award, learning how to communicate better with people and understanding how to start a business with the young enterprise project, the first aid course and food and hygiene course. I have also been involved in the T-shirt printing project. All of these projects have allowed me to learn and develop new skills. These opportunities where not given to me from school which is why I was interested in coming to CDI because they gave me chances and options to take part in activities that are fun and useful. How has the CDI helped you? Personally, CDI has helped me to develop a talent in music and has helped me to increase my knowledge I’m business. I have used these skills to branch out as a musical artist and without CDI. I wouldn’t have the confidence or be put into the right direction if I didn’t attend the project. What does the future hold for you? In the future I would like to be a successful business man/musical artist. Where do you see CDI in the next five years? In the next five years I see CDI as a positive organisation that proceeds to be a positive establishment for the community and continues to help everybody. I also want CDI to carry on giving chances to young people and to people who really want to be something in life but don’t get given the option due to low income backgrounds. I see CDI being a strong charity and supportive. Young people can gain qualifications and a correct skill set to gain a job and survive in the harsh reality of the world. There is a high unemployment rate for young people and with CDI young people are given the chance to be stronger candidates to get a job. A personal opinion, Blackbird Leys is a deprived area. Did I not have the opportunity to attend CDI I would be in an unsafe environment involving myself in crimes in order to survive. CDI has truly change my life and others and they continue to help everybody. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
OXFORD SAINTS AMERICAN FOOTBALL YOUTH TEAM |
Developing life skill Like many other team sports the oxford saints junior programme gives young people to not only play an up coming sport, but to give these young people to develop life skills, such as team work , reliability (time management, accountability and off field learning, such as knowing and creating the playbook) , problem solving Improving mental health Sport and exercise go a long way to help improve young peoples' mental health. American football does that, because we are a big squad of 20 , and with several coaches giving the young athletes a lot of opportunity to meet new people and make new friends. Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour American football is a contact sport and m the aggression on the field (like rugby) is of the catharsis type which allows for the purging of, what are seen as negative emotions , but also because of the dangers associated with contact sports (again like rugby and boxing for example) the level of discipline is very high to keep athletes safe. Such discipline and and order can give young people structure. Which is important. The increased social interaction with people of their own age, team working principles as well as the 'mentoring' effect that good coaching can bring also provide the life skills and confidence to make the right decisions in other aspects of their lives. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
£53,033 |
HENDRED SPORTS CLUB |
Hendred Sports Club has operated for many years (although it only recently became a CIO). We are a community focused, grass roots club offering the opportunity to all to partake in adult football, junior/youth and adult tennis and, of course, junior/youth and adult cricket. Our sports ground and pavilion is in the heart of the village and is used for a wide variety of community based activities outside of pure sport. For example, we have hosted the Hendred Family Show (the sadly now defunct annual produce show), sustainable local produce markets (eg The Hive Market), personal and group training (ContainerTrainer), dance exercise classes (Jazzercise) and we are shortly to create an Aunt Sally pitch for local residents. The pavilion has also been used (pre Covid) as a venue for local groups to meet such as the choir, a local mens mental health charity, the local amateur dramatic society. I mention all the above not because we are asking for grant money for Aunt Sally nor for Jazzercise classes, nor for the local choir, rather I wanted to try to articulate how the Sports Club goes beyond simply football, tennis and cricket in the way that we seek to help our community thrive in a way that is inclusive to all, where everyone is always welcome and where we continually seek new avenues to Build a Stronger Community. Turning to more specific examples related to sport with particular focus on young people. There is a wide recognition that participation in healthy sporting activities under the kind of ethos found in community based grass roots activity can help young people towards most of the above outcomes. Clearly the club was initially set up as a means for adults to play their chosen sport, but our tennis - and in particular - cricket sections have thriving junior/youth sections that are now the lifeblood of the club. I have previously mentioned that this year we have 100 children registered for the ECB All Starts program. This is a record for us and it will be a fantastic sight to see these kids enjoying themselves on a friday evening (it will be even better if the sun actually shone!). We also have 50 cricket members in what we call our Dynamos groups that allow us to play teams in Under 11s, Under 13s and Under 15s. And we have a further 10 Under 25 members in Cricket. Overall, across football, tennis and cricket, the majority (60%) of our members are under 25 indicating our clear focus and commitment on sport for young people. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
BICESTER ATHLETIC CLUB |
Cherwell District has the highest number of children aged 5-14 across all five districts. We believe that Bicester Athletics Club helps with developing life skills, building strong communities, and improving mental health. We aim encourage and support any young person who wishes to try some volunteering at the club. This can be athletes or non-athletes; no previous experience or training is needed. Both young people and the club can benefit from Young Volunteers, with additional help provided to the club during training sessions and events, and also key hard and soft skill development for the young individuals to put on a CV, university applications and used throughout their lives. We have two programs set up to ensure excellent support and guidance for our Young Volunteers, suitable to any level of commitment, experience, aspiration and varying interests. These programs help our leaders develop important life skills that help them in their school and later working lives. The club has been supporting athletes through the Duke of Edinburgh by providing volunteering and improved skill and participation opportunities. We believe in building stronger communities, and do so by supporting local fundraising such as Bicester Town Council Santa Fun Run and our Andy Reading 10k (including short distance for juniors). The club has been an integral part of the community in events such as the Town twinning project in 2012 which was also an Olympic year and the club run other events to promote athletics in the wider Bicester Community. The club has in previous years both organised and hosted the Primary Schools Cross County Event. Our volunteers and parents also help out with community events such as supporting and proving marshals for the Cross Country races at Bicester Heritage. Mental health is more important than over due to the impact of Covid on our young people, and by running sessions each week, all year around, we give children something to look forward to, and a safe place to come to with their friends to be healthy and to have fun. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
OXFORD HOOPS BASKETBALL CLUB |
Through basketball, Oxford Hoops looks to take on children from as young as 8, with the intention of being interesting, educational and developmental, as to watch these children grow through the age groups until the become adults. Throughout the journey, our members learn about discipline, respect and attitude, which brings a positive effect on the child's home life as they take home these new found morals. We encourage leadership, organisation and development in that if our players choose not to pursue the sport in a playing capacity, we open the doors for alternatives through officiating or even coaching within the club, which can lead in to part time employment for some. We are One Club, One Family, One Mission. I greatly believe that we showcase and advocate a very strong community through our very own gateway. With our coaches in the best positions of trust for some of these young people. we experience the high and low points of their journey through life. Whether its at GCSEs, A-levels or further education, these young people seek our views, opinions and guidance to help them in making the best decision possible. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
CHOLSEY CRICKET CLUB |
Our aspirations as a club are to provide a safe and secure environment for children to enjoy and advance their cricketing ability. We would love all children to develop, progress through the age groups and ultimately be the future of the club playing in the adult teams but appreciate this isn't always going to be the case. What we have learnt over the years is that it is imperative our club provides a fun, enjoyable and friendly environment where the children can express themselves. We provide sessions where they learn about communication skills, they have a positive approach to activities and when they might fail in an exercise they learn to keep trying, be persistent and then they will achieve their aims. We encourage and motivate the children giving them confidence. The majority of children are at an age where they soak up information so we are also helping them to develop positive life skills which we hope will set them in good stead for the future. It is proven that physical exercise helps with mental health and following a particularly tough last 12 months we have been able to provide something for the children to get excited about and look forward to shown by our current numbers of ~125 children. We were resistant last year and despite the ECB cancelling the youth coaching programmes we still ran our sessions in a Covid safe manner ensuring the children still had an opportunity to partake in exercise. Alongside the coaching we provide a facility for parents and guardians to socialise, meet new people and develop a strong community spirit. We work very closely with the CCDT in delivering community activities which is the remit upon which the CCDT was formed. We have had a Cricket representative on the board of the CCDT since its inception, |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
LITTLEMORE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB |
LRFC juniors was establish about 5 years ago. we are the only club located in the south of oxford city itself and the intentions of a few like minded parents were to spread the love of a great sport to children in this part of oxford. since then we have come to find its not just a sport and its a sense of community that happens on the pitch, for the children and the parents on the side lines. rugby is a great sport that slowly introduces rules as the children get older and increases levels of discipline needed for the sport. This mind set and focus can be taken away from the pitch. The sport also teaches you not just basic motor skills (catching and kicking) but a sense of awareness to what's around you and mutual benefit not to hurt one another physically or mentally. One thing from the pandemic was demonstrated that the children wanted to get back to see their friends and coaches as soon as possible. first training back on Easter Sunday (normally we don't train on Easter Sunday through lack of interest) had almost full attendance. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
LETCOMBE FOOTBALL CLUB |
We provide opportunities for 16 year old boys to start to play men`s football in a well run club. We provide regular training from a qualified coach and have a qualified physio. Without this opportunity, many of these lads would have no other focus. We provide essential life skills in these difficult teenage years. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
HANBOROUGH FC |
Within the small village that is Hanborough, there are limited options for youths and adults to take part in. Although the village is expanding, there are only a few teams/organisations that are available to the community. We at Hanborough FC have been a part of the community for 113 years. Established in 1908, the club has been run throughout the years by hard working volunteers who have seen the club succeed at various levels locally. In recent years, the club has looked to move onwards and progress into the Oxfordshire Senior League, finding themselves promoted to the Premier Division after the first season. We have always been a close knit team and focussed on local talent, but have always welcomed people from further afield if they wished to play. Being a team organised by local volunteers, we have always had the villages interest at heart. It began as a small village team that brought in a lot of interest. The village is expanding and this has meant that there has been more interest from people on the whole. We have a club that is open after training and on match days, this has been a great area for players, families and supporters to come together and create a great social atmosphere. This is allowing people to improve their mental health by getting out of the house and socialising with others, whilst watching and supporting their local team. Being a small village that has expanded on all sides with three new housing estates, there has been a surge of population, but with the infrastructure of the village, amenities and clubs have not expanded at the same rate. We believe that Hanborough FC is a great outlet for players and their families, along with supporters of players from past generations to come together and this reduces the level of crime and anti social behaviour. It is a platform for the younger generation to stay away from the impact that crime is having across the nation with the rise in population. I work for Thames Valley Police and we see every day how important these outlets are to the wider community. Most of the volunteers/management staff have all played for Hanborough FC at some point in their life. I myself have played since I was 16. Now at 35, I have spent more than half of my life playing for the club and since 30 I have been club secretary and treasurer. Recently becoming Chairman. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
|
DONNINGTON FOOTBALL CLUB |
Donnington FC aims to contribute toward building strong communities through being an inclusive football club. The children who play for the club, and the volunteers who provide coaching, represent the range of diverse backgrounds present in our area. We deliberately foster teams of mixed ability, so that when we have the opportunity to field two teams in a particular age group we do not attempt to make one team more competitive than the other. This ensures that all the children are able to play 'first team' football. We also have a good relationship with the local Tenants and Residents Association, and are working in partnership with them on projects to improve the field where we play. We also believe that sport can have a very positive impact on mental health for children. This has perhaps been demonstrated, sadly, in the clearest way over the last year. Although we have tried hard to maintain our activities when legally permitted, and have attempted online training via Zoom and the like when gathering for sport was not permitted, we have noticed a decrease in confidence - principally socially - amongst some of the children over the lockdown period. Coaches were briefed to look out for signs of this at the return to football this spring, and as a club we are committed to supporting children by having a culture of teamwork and encouragement. |
| 25/06/2021 |
£2,021 |
£13,177 |
THAME YOUTH PROJECTS GROUP |
Sporting activities are used by TYP as a way of developing life skills and improving mental health. Especially after such a long period of being restricted with activities, we value time spent outdoors engaging in individual and team games. The link between spending time outside and being physically active is known to help improve the mental wellness of individuals. Sports and physical activities help develop life skills such as team work, determination and leadership. Recently, these have been worked on when playing Laser Tag and ultimate frisbee. In our latest session, one of the senior members of the club noticed a new member by themselves and encourage them to play football with them. We are seeking ways of including local sports groups in our plan by inviting them to come and deliver taster sessions. This is being done to bridge the gab between the community and the young people and to educate the young people on local opportunities and activities they may not be aware of. |
| 26/05/2021 |
£6,000 |
|
ASYLUM WELCOME |
Grant to Asylum Welcome |
| 19/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
£641,676 |
THRIVE TEAMS (INNOVISTA) |
Re-establishing relationships with isolated young people and enable them to bounce back from the pandemic. |
| 18/05/2021 |
£20,000 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Grant to Aspire |
| 18/05/2021 |
£4,000 |
£7,134,000 |
MANSFIELD COLLEGE |
To provide bursary in name of Allan Dodds, late Bursar of Mansfield College, who was a great supporter of Beard. |
| 18/05/2021 |
£20,000 |
£1,491,691 |
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE FOOD AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE |
Grant to South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance |
| 18/05/2021 |
£4,000 |
£8,514,000 |
ST HILDA'S COLLEGE |
Facilitate Oxford students from deprived background to attend Oxford University. |
| 13/05/2021 |
£530 |
£239,258 |
BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS |
To purchase materials to replace one large raised bed planting area which is used to grow fruit and veg. The work in building the new bed will led by one of their volunteers and will provide invaluable experience for service users in a hard landscaping project and working as a team. |
| 13/05/2021 |
£2,000 |
£20,549 |
BLETCHINGTON CHARITY |
The charity has supported families and individuals who have experienced financial hardship due to the Covid pandemic. During 2020 the Charity distributed £4000 of food vouchers to families in need. This is expected to continue even after the health effects of the pandemic have improved as many individuals have been laid off from work. Funding will support the continuation of the provision of food vouchers to be distributed to those most in need in the local community |
| 13/05/2021 |
£1,080 |
£7,902 |
MADLEY BROOK SCHOOL PTA |
As a school of approximately 340 pupils (including nursery children), working alongside Springfield Special School, funding will support the purchase of a defibrillator onsite. |
| 13/05/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
ABINGDON VALE CRICKET CLUB |
The club supports over 100 members including 75 children and young people who use the club to learn and play cricket. Funding will support club house maintenance and pitch covers. |
| 12/05/2021 |
£49,773 |
£369,032 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
Grant to One-Eighty |
| 12/05/2021 |
£55,000 |
|
PEOPLE, PLACE & PARTICIPATION LTD |
Grant to People, Place & Participation Ltd |
| 27/04/2021 |
£14,160 |
£296,829 |
BANBURY MUSLIM MOSQUE SOCIETY |
Grant to Banbury Muslim Mosque Society |
| 27/04/2021 |
£13,645 |
£279,294 |
IKKAIDO |
Grant to Ikkaido |
| 27/04/2021 |
£5,700 |
|
SYRIAN COMMUNITY IN OXFORDSHIRE SYRCOX |
Grant to Syrian Community in Oxfordshire SYRCOX |
| 27/04/2021 |
£14,317 |
£828,064 |
ELMORE COMMUNITY SERVICES |
Grant to Elmore Community Services |
| 27/04/2021 |
£7,500 |
£145,914 |
OXFORDSHIRE CHINESE COMMUNITY & ADVICE CENTRE |
Grant to Oxfordshire Chinese Community & Advice Centre |
| 27/04/2021 |
£13,367 |
£8,407,553 |
STYLE ACRE |
Grant to Style Acre |
| 27/04/2021 |
£9,075 |
£113,182 |
ROSE HILL JUNIOR YOUTH CLUB |
Grant to Rose Hill Junior Youth Club |
| 27/04/2021 |
£14,768 |
£51,264 |
OXFORD CITY FARM |
Grant to Oxford City Farm |
| 27/04/2021 |
£6,095 |
£1,627,699 |
THE EARTH TRUST |
Grant to The Earth Trust |
| 27/04/2021 |
£14,985 |
£302,821 |
OXFORD HUB |
Grant to Oxford Hub |
| 27/04/2021 |
£14,865 |
£4,194,480 |
AGE UK OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Age UK Oxfordshire |
| 27/04/2021 |
£6,330 |
|
DIVERSITY FOOTBALL LEAGUE |
Grant to Diversity Football League |
| 27/04/2021 |
£4,675 |
|
ABINGDON EAGLES BASKETBALL CLUB |
Grant to Abingdon Eagles Basketball Club |
| 16/04/2021 |
£3,000 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Grant to Aspire |
| 24/03/2021 |
£47,200 |
£4,641,448 |
CONNECTION FLOATING SUPPORT TEAM |
Core staffing costs to support clients with No Recourse to Public funds whom have been accommodated as a result of the pandemic. Many homeless people have been temporarily housed under the ‘Everyone In’ initiative, but once this initiative ends, a number of people will require support in order to prevent a return to rough sleeping on the streets. This initiative will use a housing first approach to help them make their new longer-term accommodation into their home. |
| 24/03/2021 |
£500 |
£82,398 |
SWINDON FOOD COLLECTIVE |
Matched fund from personal donation by MB. |
| 22/03/2021 |
£5,000 |
£286,333 |
THE NASIO TRUST |
Unrestricted costs in the expansion of a programme in Nasio. |
| 22/03/2021 |
£10,980 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Aspire will use this funding to manage up to 3 of Soha housing's 2-bed properties in South Oxfordshire, for adults experiencing homelessness with NRPF status, currently residing in hotel settings. This is Aspire's part in a collaborative project coordinated under the Oxfordshire Homeless Movement. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£4,784 |
£67,847 |
OXFORDSHIRE PLAY ASSOCIATION |
Funds to cover most of our monthly, core costs and will also make a contribution to core management and staff costs. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£4,500 |
£157,714 |
HINKSEY SCULLING SCHOOL LTD |
The grant will be used to keep rowing programmes going throughout the lockdown, albeit remotely. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£5,000 |
£263,714 |
RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE |
Help to fund the mentoring and supervision costs of supporting our volunteer counsellors over the next four months. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£4,400 |
|
FOOD FOR CHARITIES / OXFORD CITY COUNCIL |
Funding to extend the tenure of the manager for the Leys community larder from end April to end September 2021. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£5,000 |
£391,733 |
SEESAW |
Support of our running costs, specifically the ongoing adaptation of our clinical service delivery (because of the pandemic). |
| 23/02/2021 |
£4,590 |
£75,914 |
OXFORDSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT |
Seeking funding to expand our weekly virtual support group for pregnant and new mothers, through and beyond the second Lockdown. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£7,000 |
£224,914 |
FARM ABILITY |
The Garden Programme Leader plans and leads gardening activities each day for groups of co-farmers (people with learning disabilities, many also with autism) through the seasons of the year in gardens and orchards. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£13,500 |
|
CENTRE FOR AGROECOLOGY WATER AND RESILIENCE COVENTRY UNIVERSITY |
This funding is a form of stipend - it would support a research project that aims to broaden and improve approaches to resilience research in localised agri-food systems which can be utilised by food organisations, funding bodies, and local government. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£1,280 |
|
KIRTLINGTON YOUTH CLUB |
Funding for youth club nights from May 2021. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£800 |
£191,540 |
THE WOODLAND CENTRE TRUST (CAMP MOHAWK) |
Online social support groups, art and well being workshops 1:1s for children with special needs, siblings and parents/carers. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£1,260 |
£543,650 |
ARK T CENTRE |
Online sessions supporting a group of 7 disabled adults to produce a creative response to the lockdown and its impact on disabled people. |
| 23/02/2021 |
£2,000 |
£1,990,199 |
ASPIRE |
increasing budget for Community Employment Support Project (CESP). |
| 23/02/2021 |
£1,692 |
£409,331 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
Share of the costs in delivering the 2020/21 partnership with Abbey Woods Academy in Berinsfield |
| 04/02/2021 |
£6,864 |
£263,714 |
RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE |
The additional funds requested will provide specific enhancements to Counsel 360, the CBCMS used by Riverside Counselling Service (RCS) – www.counsel360.co.uk. |
| 02/02/2021 |
£5,000 |
|
OXFORD MUTUAL AID |
Grant funding will be spent on meeting core costs as we continue to experience rising demand in Oxford for the services of our organisation. |
| 02/02/2021 |
£10,000 |
£1,434,028 |
THE GREEN ROOM FOUNDATION LTD |
This grant will enable us to fit out our new build at our farm school (The Green Room School, Kingsley) with a science lab, enabling our young people to access STEM learning and offer GCSE combined science. |
| 02/02/2021 |
£2,000 |
£94,643 |
SERV OBN |
Purchase fuel for our fleet of motorcycles. |
| 02/02/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
CHINNOR RFC |
Supporting 13-16 year olds with daily one-to-one phone calls and group zoom calls where the young people can talk with their peers on similar issues and challenges, project to last 16 weeks. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£296,829 |
BANBURY MUSLIM MOSQUE SOCIETY |
Distributing hot meals and food parcels to the community. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
|
DEDDINGTON PARISH COUNCIL |
Fund to support the purchase of equipment for online learning for disadvantaged children. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
|
WITNEY COMMUNITY FRIDGE |
Purchase of additional surplus and covering core costs such as renovations and rent. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£2,500 |
|
SYRIAN COMMUNITY IN OXFORDSHIRE SYRCOX |
Grant to continue to deliver the service to community and to help to sustain our serviceability to deliver essential services as the crisis evolves and beyond the crisis. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£10,589 |
THE FRIENDS OF THE CHERWELL SCHOOL OXFORD |
Grant will be spent on an additional 25 laptops. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£386,210 |
ALDATES COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES |
Funding for six weeks of winter hot meals for rough sleepers project. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£2,772 |
£264,488 |
THE PARASOL PROJECT |
Zoom groups and care packages delivered to the vulnerable young people who rely on our services. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£167,806 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
Providing secondary school age carers with laptops to do their school lessons on during this lockdown. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£377,904 |
SOUNDABOUT |
Online sessions for disabled children and young people isolated at home during the Covid-19 crisis. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Funding for the provision of food & drink for rough sleepers and vulnerably-housed guests. As well as one-to-one support for guests via Casework Team. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£4,840 |
|
SYRIAN SISTERS |
Support to be better equipped to support this group of BAME, refugee women over the coming months through food vouchers, establishing referral pathways and bringing together groups to meet connect and share experiences. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£11,357 |
CHENEY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (ALSO KNOWN AS "CHENEY FRIENDS") |
Purchase of laptops for the school to lend out to students who are undertaking classes virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£191,620 |
CHILDREN HEARD AND SEEN |
Providing one weekly activity group for children impacted by parental imprisonment living in the Oxfordshire area over the next 3 months. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£4,590 |
|
WASTE2TASTE,LTD |
Waste2Taste assisted food and wellbeing parcels. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£406,735 |
ST.MARY'S CHURCH, CHIPPING NORTON |
Production of 2 delicious, healthy meals per person per week in the Chipping Norton area. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£3,500 |
£6,703 |
BLETCHINGDON PRIMARY SCHOOL PTA |
Purchase of new laptops for the school children (for home schooling and in school learning). |
| 28/01/2021 |
£1,440 |
|
GOT2B CIC |
Funding to provide and run an online youth group, the session will focus on an art-based project. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£2,000 |
£71,808 |
CLEAN SLATE |
Funding to employ 2 x part-time administrators (1 x Emotional Support Administrator & 1 x Volunteer Development Administrator). |
| 28/01/2021 |
£1,232 |
|
THE MAPLE TREE |
Paying the salary of our Early years family worker to run two support groups a week via Zoom, one for new parents and one for parents of children under 5. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£598 |
£53,359 |
ABINGDON CAROUSEL FAMILY CENTRE |
Covering core costs for 4 months Feb to May 2021 to continue offering one-one support to families (especially new born and babies) via staff by phone. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£1,018 |
£66,127 |
STONESFIELD PRE SCHOOL & AFTER SCHOOL CLUB |
Staff costs and extra cleaning to run breakfast and after school clubs for keyworker children during the present lockdown |
| 28/01/2021 |
£1,461 |
£22,048,454 |
BANBURY & DISTRICT SAMARITANS |
Funding for weekly deep clean of the centre and additional PPE/cleaning products. |
| 28/01/2021 |
£2,350 |
£101,696 |
WOLVERCOTE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLUB |
Providing a virtual youth space for young people aged. 9 - 18 delivering positive and interactive online “live” sessions |
| 28/01/2021 |
£1,911 |
£89,581 |
CUTTESLOWE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
Running costs for Cutteslowe Community Larder (CCL). |
| 28/01/2021 |
£562 |
|
BICESTER COMMUNITY FRIDGE |
Purchase of commercial fridge to expand reach and capacity. |
| 27/01/2021 |
£10,000 |
£350,574 |
ARK T CENTRE |
We would use the combined skills of music artists (rappers) and youth workers experienced in exploitation to explore the key issues related to the themes of consent, and healthy relationships. |
| 25/01/2021 |
£4,950 |
£322,496 |
MY LIFE MY CHOICE |
a series of 4 workshops covering “Sexual Wellbeing”, “Contraception”, “Sexually Transmitted Infections” and “Where to get help” will be developed and delivered to the attendees of each of our self-advocacy groups. |
| 25/01/2021 |
£7,400 |
£84,036 |
ABINGDON DAMASCUS YOUTH PROJECT |
Our project is defined with reference to OCC’s Sexual Health Needs Assessment (2018) and Teenage Pregnancy Action Plan for Prevention (2019 to 2022). In particular, we would complement the school-based delivery of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE); support for parents to discuss young people's attitude to relationships and sexual health and how to have helpful conversations; youth friendly contraceptive/sexual health services and condom schemes; targeted prevention for young people at risk; advice and access to contraception in youth settings. |
| 25/01/2021 |
£13,500 |
£624,226 |
SAFE! |
This project will apply the expertise of the local specialist youth work sector to the YPSA. |
| 25/01/2021 |
£5,450 |
|
GOT2B CIC |
we aim to run group sessions using the following activities: goddess workshops- in these workshops we plan to look at femininity and women's sexual health, we will provided information and advice on healthy relationships and what makes a good partner/ friend. |
| 25/01/2021 |
£7,500 |
£1,491,691 |
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE FOOD AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE |
Whilst many parents and/or responsible adults find it difficult to talk about sex with young people, especially those with learning disabilities or from families with a history of abuse, our programmes will also engage and involve parents, carers and guardians so that the information provided can be discussed and positively reinforced at home. |
| 25/01/2021 |
£9,700 |
|
OXFORD COMMUNITY ACTION |
In this regard Oxford Community Action's funding application proposal focuses on working collaboratively with local sexual health services to increase diverse Communities Health Literacy thereby helping to address current sexual health service gaps in understandings of key barriers preventing some BAME groups from accessing local sexual health and reproductive health services. |
| 25/01/2021 |
£9,000 |
£144,747 |
SUNRISE MULTICULTURAL PROJECT |
Sunrise staff will facilitate the sessions as they already have the trust of the local BAME community to tackle difficult topics. |
| 22/01/2021 |
£4,970 |
|
SUSTAINABLE WANTAGE |
Funding to cover The Mix Coordinator's salary for 2 months, as well as rent and bills for The Mix and for more PPE/sanitary products required for operating this service. |
| 22/01/2021 |
£4,970 |
£111,171 |
CHERWELL THEATRE COMPANY |
Providing online and covid secure creative workshops for young people in Cherwell. |
| 22/01/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
FLASH OF SPLENDOUR |
Providing creative online sessions – music, storytelling, singing – to our clients, and to purchase essential equipment and subscriptions. |
| 22/01/2021 |
£1,620 |
£93,155 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND |
Keeping contact with BLAP families during lockdown, providing parents and children with material and emotional support. |
| 19/01/2021 |
£5,000 |
£286,333 |
THE NASIO TRUST |
Young Farmers Club programme will provide sustainable food security and healthy lifestyles, by encouraging children and communities to develop agricultural skills. |
| 15/12/2020 |
£2,500 |
£665,997 |
ACTIVE OXFORDSHIRE |
Introductory grant to support Active Oxfordshire and their work with Access Sport. |
| 14/12/2020 |
£20,000 |
£665,997 |
ACTIVE OXFORDSHIRE |
Support local community support groups By doing this, OAI would be ensuring resident access to support in the community in order to: I. Maximise adherence to guidance to stay-at home in order to reduce transmission rates; II. Minimise risk to clinically extremely vulnerable individuals, if and when asked to stay at home, by minimising their exposure to the virus; III. Coordinate support to the vulnerable to maintain their well-being when asked to stay at home for whatever reason. |
| 24/11/2020 |
£3,001 |
£1,491,691 |
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE FOOD AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE |
Running 11 Community Larders supporting 752 members. SOFEA operates a fleet of 4 vans from Didcot, all requiring the monthly costs of leases, fuel, insurance and drivers. The Covid-19 Co-Op grant will support these collective and essential ongoing costs. |
| 24/11/2020 |
£3,001 |
£350,574 |
ARK T CENTRE |
Ark-T have established a high impact food poverty partnership with both Waste2Taste and Oxford COmmunity Action since the start pf the pandemic. Ensure that those most adversely impacted by the pandemic and ensuing economic hardship incurred by the rising levels of unemployment can be supported with food relief via healthy home-cooked meals and emergency food parcels. |
| 24/11/2020 |
£3,000 |
|
BICESTER FOODBANK |
Bicester Foodbank can continue to provide support for Families in Crisis during these exceptionally trying times. The number of clients needing to use the Foodbank increased exponentially in March as the pandemic and lockdown hit the country. |
| 24/11/2020 |
£3,000 |
|
SUSTAINABLE WANTAGE |
Collect and distribute surplus food from local supermarkets and businesses (currently approx 3.6 tonnes per month). Food is packed into ‘Red’, ‘Yellow’ and ‘Green’ bags which are available for collection from The Mix 3 days a week; we also deliver weekly to approx 40-50 households that cannot collect from us. |
| 04/11/2020 |
£5,000 |
£76,510 |
BERIN CENTRE |
Match Fund support for The Berin Centre via The Good Exchange. |
| 29/10/2020 |
£46,620 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
better management and efficiency with day to day operation - better crisis management, safeguarding incidents of risk to self or others - to report the service impact to grant awarding bodies effectively |
| 29/10/2020 |
£20,000 |
£488,421 |
OXFORD SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS CENTRE |
The Marginalised Survivors Project This project builds upon a previous project (Phase 1), Under-served survivors, which was designed to support learning, consultation, scoping and planning for longer term work on Enhancing the visibility, accessibility and relevance of OSARCC’s services for survivors of sexual violence, enabling more survivors from marginalised communities to access support which service users describe as ‘life-changing’. |
| 20/10/2020 |
£4,714 |
£492,544 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
Grant to One-Eighty |
| 20/10/2020 |
£5,000 |
|
THE FUNDING NETWORK |
Grant to The Funding Network |
| 07/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£88,237 |
DOVECOTE VOLUNTARY PARENT COMMITTEE |
Providing our project with the ability to delivery half term playschemes; October, December 2020 and February 2021 along with delivering more stay and play sessions. |
| 07/10/2020 |
£1,723 |
£84,036 |
ABINGDON DAMASCUS YOUTH PROJECT |
Support for groups for whom social isolation and loneliness has become even more intense in this pandemic |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£101,747 |
CHOLSEY DAY CENTRE TRUST |
They will continue to deliver food, medications, hot meals, do shopping, walk dogs, give lifts and under careful supervision offer befriending to isolated people and those who have clearly suffered emotionally and mentally from lockdown. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,428 |
£49,949 |
THE MAPLE TREE |
Since lockdown we have offered support by phone and online and launched online singing and story sessions for under 5s and parents |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£76,242 |
OXFORD CHURCHES DEBT CENTRE |
Using funds towards our ongoing running costs and to support increase of clients using our debt help service. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,500 |
£41,433 |
2ND ABINGDON SCOUT GROUP |
Meeting with the Young People four evenings a week, and require sufficent, and reliable, lighting all round the building to ensure all activities are well-lit and safe. Purchase of consumables such as hand-sanitiser, PPE etc. to be COVID secure. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,552 |
£55,949 |
BICESTER CHRISTIAN ACTION SHINE FAMILY LEARNING |
The grant will be spent by delivering a ‘Healthy Families’ family learning parenting programme |
| 06/10/2020 |
£250 |
£4,892 |
THE OXFORD BABY BANK |
Provide consumables to families referred to us. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,000 |
£192,193 |
BANBURY MUSLIM MOSQUE SOCIETY |
Reaching out to the target audience supported over COVID-19, during autumn and winter months and provide food parcels to help them through the winter months. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,150 |
|
POPULATE CO-OPERATIVE |
A program of positive extracurricular activities for a group of six looked after young people from 13-15 years old. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
SUSTAINABLE KIRTLINGTON |
Setting up a community shop in Kirtlington |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
OXFORD COMMUNITY ACTION |
OCA are teaming up with the Ark-T Centre to relocate to a larger premises so that our operations can expand wider and further to reach more families to deliver surplus food. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£92,591 |
JOSS SEARCHLIGHT |
Psychosocial therapy sessions for children in Oxfordshire for a 3 month period. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£55,917 |
MILL STREAM DAY CENTRE |
Supporting the eder residents of Benson and the surrounding villages. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,000 |
£74,653 |
SOUTH OXFORD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
Continue to run a successful Community Centre Cafe / Drop in on a Tuesday afternoon |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£110,940 |
FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY |
Support the newly arrived disadvantaged immigrant children who couldn't adapt to the country due to Covid-19 crisis and school closures. We will support over 30 children who come from challenging circumstances and are struggling in English language. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£700 |
£23,273 |
BANBURYSHIRE CITIZEN PROJECT |
Tablets and zoom subscription so we can help clients remotely and so the charity can carry out training and meeting remotely. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
OXFORD MUTUAL AID |
Continue to provide weekly food parcel support. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£700 |
|
SUSTAINABLE WANTAGE |
Laptop repair and redistribution |
| 06/10/2020 |
£700 |
|
SYRIAN COMMUNITY IN OXFORDSHIRE SYRCOX |
One to one support to ensure Syrian migrants are able to understand how to use it and how to access the online courses. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,500 |
|
FOOD FOR CHARITIES / OXFORD CITY COUNCIL |
The community larder is a food club that provides food that would otherwise be surplus - including fruit and vegetables - to members |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,500 |
£58,914,000 |
CORNHILL COMPANIONS |
Supply of "treats" to elderly, isolated people. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,000 |
£27,996 |
ORINOCO |
Big reorganisation of the contents of the entire shop to make it less cluttered |
| 06/10/2020 |
£260 |
£19,142,796 |
BANBURY & DISTRICT SAMARITANS |
Keeping our volunteers Covid safe |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£129,478 |
BANBURY COMMUNITY CHURCH |
The Faithworks Furniture Project (FFP) serves Banbury and the surrounding villages by collecting donated furniture and furnishings, repairing and refurbishing them, before distributing them free-of-charge to individuals and families referred by agencies including social services, housing associations, domestic abuse services, probation service, specialist charities etc |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
FLASH OF SPLENDOUR |
Enabling our workshop leaders, to have the time, equipment and necessary resources to provide ongoing music, storytelling and song sessions to our most vulnerable clients, both individually and in small group sessions. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,950 |
£51,264 |
OXFORD CITY FARM |
Welcome Space - Family Support and Volunteering Sessions |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,000 |
£99,801 |
WOCA CIO |
Enable two groups, Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), to meet at West Oxford Community Centre at minimal charge. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,300 |
£12,039 |
STONEHILL COMMUNITY GARDEN |
Stonehill provides outdoor learning experiences, bringing together communities from diverse backgrounds and with varying abilities to learn about edible horticulture, reconnect with nature, meet new people and increase wellbeing. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,906 |
£133,613 |
CUTTESLOWE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
Support Cutteslowe Community Larder (CCL), one of several activities undertaken by Cutteslowe Community Association in the Community Centre. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
COMMUNITY BASED MINDFULNESS CIC |
Mindfulness for Parkinson’s disease sufferers. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£31,827 |
RAY COLLIN'S CHARITABLE TRUST |
For supporting vulnerable families and individuals related to situations experiencing from Covid related problems. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£500 |
£26,126 |
CHALGROVE AND WATLINGTON FIRST STEPS FAMILY HUB |
One to one support service for new Mums and a baby group for new parents to meet and discuss aspects of motherhood, parenting and share ideas. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,994 |
|
DEMENTIA ACTIVE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY |
Reopening our five Dementia Active groups |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£27,810 |
GRANDPONT NURSERY SCHOOL AND CHILDCARE |
Equipment to enable outdoor provision during autumn & winter (1/2 year), and running costs for staffing to enable the charity to continue running family play sessions in a Covid-safe environment. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
£86,735 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND |
Work with the children and know enough about the children at BLAP |
| 06/10/2020 |
£500 |
|
TURL STREET HOMELESS ACTION |
Provide support and friendship to people sleeping rough in central Oxford. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£1,431 |
£36,344 |
SOUTH OXFORD ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND (SOAP) |
Offer outdoor play and activities, and an opportunity for social interaction and independence for children in a low risk setting. |
| 06/10/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
WITNEY COMMUNITY FRIDGE |
Community fridge food distribution. |
| 05/10/2020 |
£20,445 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Grant to Gatehouse |
| 02/09/2020 |
£30,337 |
£326,514 |
OXFORD UNITED IN THE COMMUNITY |
Grant to Oxford United in the Community |
| 27/08/2020 |
£10,000 |
£1,113,241 |
STORY MUSEUM |
To support the learning and participation team's Extreme Reading at Home project |
| 18/08/2020 |
£29,815 |
£84,691 |
OXFORD AGAINST CUTTING |
The report recommends that OAC develops content and implement Influencers as part of our marketing strategy. Influencer marketing is a powerful tool that is considerably under-utilised by the charity sector, considering some 54 per cent of social media users follow ‘Influencers’. Specific action points include: Content generation “An action for OAC is to grow brand awareness, which will be essential to inform new audiences about OAC’s activity. The content created must focus on highlighting the issues with FGM and HBA and inform viewers about the implications”. Hashtags “Hashtags will support OAC in enhancing visibility. With a new presence across Instagram, utilising hashtags can expand OAC’s audience and increase brand awareness. When users search OAC, the Hashtag will act as a strap-line while broadening OAC’s reach, as when users search for a specific hashtag, OAC’s content will be presented in the results”. Influencers The report outlines the pros and cons of working with micro-influencers, macro-influencers and creating our own influencer. Our team has weighed cost and risk and considers the best strategy is to invest time/funds in working with micro-influencers. On average a micro-influencer can attract 1,000 followers within 5 weeks and reach 10,000 followers within 12 - 18 months. We will invite micro-influencers to work for OAC pro bono and if not, they charge £50 - £100 per post. 1. What do you aim to achieve? i.e. what would be seen as a positive outcome? We aim to achieve new social media initiatives to significantly increase our reach, awareness-raising, sign-posting and brand awareness, all of which are also key to fundraising. By the end of the first year, we anticipate having a significant following (around 5000 people) and delivering our first online fundraising event. Social media is essential for social change work and traditional methods of sharing hard copy leaflets etc have limited reach in today’s society. Social media is also critical to support our body image work as cultural pressures on girls to undergo sexualised body alterations (such as labiaplasty) are largely propagated by social media and online pornographic imagery. We aim to challenge these pressures through the same medium. 2. How do you expect to execute? We will execute the project through the appointment of a Social Media Communications Coordinator with expertise in reaching audiences online. The Coordinator will be supported and line-managed by Kate Agha, CEO. Our social media strategy will be developed with additional support from Monica Majumdar, our Facilitator and Social Media Consultant and Miranda Dobson, Senior Communications Manager for the Orchid Project (an international NGO tackling FGM) and Trustee. 3. What content do you propose for the project? It is essential that all key messages are translated into online content, to create social change, reach young people and ensure effective sign-posting. As detailed in our proposal, our content will include: 3.1 A series of online posters to raise awareness of support services for families affected by forced marriage and HBA in the Thames Valley, with messaging around choice (for example, for a girl to continue her education instead of getting married). 3.2 Marketing film to explain the work of OAC (with the support of a videographer). 3.3 Films to explain our workshops/webinars (with the support of a videographer). 3.4 Case studies to give audiences an insight into the impact of cultural harms on survivors and their family members. 3.5 Quotes, animations and narratives already collected by OAC. We have already brainstormed creative ideas for content to reach our target audiences and will include these in our new strategy. 4. Can you furnish new KPIs and milestones (with measurements) for this part of the project? BY END OF FIRST MONTH: 1. Creation of a social media strategy 2. Set up a reporting tool to measure insights and our reach 3. Management of regular content across all platforms 4. Set up paid advertising BY END OF FIRST 6 MONTHS: 5. Creation of new content including marketing films 6. Creative initiatives such as channel take-over by young people BY END OF YEAR 1: 7. Increased reach to 5000 followers 8. New, strong relationships with 5 influencers 9. Fundraising initiative 5. Can you provide a clear budget for the media project? Where and how is the money to be spent? Item Cost Social Media Communications Coordinator - freelance £25,000 per year pro rata, 3 days per week £15,000 Training £365 Content creation (advertising, videography, reporting tool and payments to influencers) To include: £78 per month for advertising on Instagram and Facebook £10,750 £40 per month advertising on Twitter Videography £6400 Reporting tool £150 Paid posts by Social Media Influencers / Consultancy with Monica Majumdar £2000 CEO time for project and line-management £3700 Total £29,815 6. There was a question on the 3 days a weeks for a social media coordinator for a year - what will they be doing? Is 3 days too much? We anticipate that the work to develop relationships with influencers will take one day per week, to ensure we can identify appropriate influencers, vet their social media messaging and then build relationships to encourage them to support OAC, preferably pro bono. It is essential that this work is carried out carefully, with diligence, given the risks of working with an influencer who is unethical or whose messaging does not fit with the charity’s mission. The creation of new content will take a further day per week, to prepare the script for short films, liaise with videographers, link with facilitators to be filmed and editing. We will also create regular, additional content with still images and “talking head” interviews, for example. The Coordinator will also need time to link with the team, create a social media strategy (including, a content calendar, agreed hashtags, sensitive messaging), participate in training, coordinate sponsored advertising, manage social media accounts and set up a reporting tool. The Coordinator will also set up creative social media initiatives, for example a channel take-over for a day by young people or communities. |
| 13/08/2020 |
£15,000 |
|
ALEF TRUST CIC |
Grant to Alef Trust CIC |
| 27/07/2020 |
£10,000 |
£140,691 |
STARTUP |
Advice & support for disadvantaged women. |
| 27/07/2020 |
£5,000 |
|
OXFORD COMMUNITY ACTION |
Advice & Support - a collaborative initiative bringing together diverse community champions/leaders/community volunteers from new and emerging BAME communities |
| 27/07/2020 |
£3,500 |
|
THE MOTHERKIND CAFé |
Grant to The Motherkind Café |
| 27/07/2020 |
£3,000 |
£14,700 |
JEWINS WOMEN2WOMEN LTD |
Advice and support to BAME women. Online coaching service. |
| 27/07/2020 |
£5,000 |
£113,182 |
ROSE HILL JUNIOR YOUTH CLUB |
Advice and support - supplying activity packs to deprived children and young people. |
| 23/07/2020 |
£4,500 |
£238,698 |
AUTISM FAMILY SUPPORT OXFORDSHIRE |
Advice & Support - providing family support and advice remotely, reaching out to vulnerable families. |
| 23/07/2020 |
£1,943 |
|
VOICES ACROSS TIME |
Advice & Support - podcasts to be broadcast to local care homes via the local hospital radio station. |
| 23/07/2020 |
£1,500 |
£108,733 |
THE HUMMINGBIRD CENTRE |
Advice & support - enabling the organisation re re-open with reduced service. |
| 23/07/2020 |
£44,700 |
£302,821 |
OXFORD HUB |
Grant to Oxford Hub |
| 23/07/2020 |
£50,000 |
£1,491,691 |
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE FOOD AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE |
Grant to South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance |
| 23/07/2020 |
£50,000 |
£403,575 |
ASYLUM WELCOME |
Grant to Asylum Welcome |
| 16/07/2020 |
£4,345 |
£24,728 |
CREATIVE DEMENTIA ARTS NETWORK |
Advice & support - provide digital sessions to people with dementia in care homes and hospital. |
| 16/07/2020 |
£5,000 |
£665,997 |
ACTIVE OXFORDSHIRE |
Advice & support - provide bikes to key workers. |
| 16/07/2020 |
£5,170 |
|
CHINNOR RFC |
Advice & support - ensure the safety and wellbeing of a group of vulnerable young people during these challenging times. |
| 16/07/2020 |
£4,500 |
£370,400 |
FRIENDS OF STONESFIELD SCHOOL (FOSS) |
Advice & support - support needs of the most vulnerable and SEN pupils and parents through lockdown. |
| 16/07/2020 |
£5,390 |
|
OXFORDSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT |
Advice & support - support mothers and family of new-born babies. |
| 16/07/2020 |
£10,000 |
£238,087 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPPORT SCHEME LTD |
Advice & Support - delivering vital social-welfare advice, debt and employment rights, Universal Credit and other benefit claims. |
| 16/07/2020 |
£9,621 |
£172,723 |
ABINGDON BRIDGE |
Advice & support - outreach and counselling for children |
| 13/07/2020 |
£9,080 |
£296,661 |
ARK T CENTRE |
Food provision to families in need in the OX4 area. |
| 18/06/2020 |
£10,000 |
£985,123 |
THE PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD |
The Park offers opportunities to all the Community from 0-100+. The Centre opened in 2000 and occupies a 15 acres site and acts as a hub of community activity including learning, business, support services and leisure. Facilities on site include community garden and farm, gym, café and sports hall. Local people are at the heart of everything that is carried out at the centre and offers a pleasant environment and good facilities to a wide range of ages and interests. Knowle is particularly hard pressed part of Bristol. |
| 18/06/2020 |
£36,000 |
|
COSTAIN CONSULTING |
Grant to Costain Consulting |
| 12/06/2020 |
£5,000 |
£902,196 |
PEEPLE |
Advice & support - continuation of the Growing Minds programme in a different format whilst unable to operate face-to-face. |
| 12/06/2020 |
£9,240 |
£162,678 |
CHILDREN HEARD AND SEEN |
Advice & support - providing support to children with imprisoned parents. |
| 12/06/2020 |
£6,032 |
£148,715 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
Advice & support - Charity staff are home working, using social media to engage with young carers and families across southern Oxfordshire encouraging healthy activities in the home. |
| 12/06/2020 |
£8,928 |
|
BROKEN SPOKE BIKE CO-OP |
Advice & support - relaunch our usual community activities when we are able to do so safely. |
| 28/05/2020 |
£5,000 |
£76,510 |
BERIN CENTRE |
Grant to Berin Centre |
| 26/05/2020 |
£10,362 |
£641,156 |
CITIZENS ADVICE OXFORD |
Advice & support - respond to the unprecedented increase in demand; ensure vulnerable people are not left behind |
| 26/05/2020 |
£5,000 |
£47,031 |
BERINSFIELD INFORMATION AND VOLUNTEER CENTRE |
Advice & support - providing advice and help via telephone and email. Also shopping and delivery of food and medication. |
| 26/05/2020 |
£1,500 |
£14,805 |
THRIVE NORTHOX |
Advice & support - delivery of toiletries and white goods to deprived families and survivors of domestic abuse. |
| 26/05/2020 |
£3,500 |
|
SUSTAINABLE WANTAGE |
Food distribution - delivery of food from community fridge. |
| 26/05/2020 |
£500 |
|
THE OXFORD BABY BANK |
Advice & support - provide the basics necessary to taking a baby home from hospital and caring for its needs. |
| 26/05/2020 |
£1,600 |
|
CHESTERTON PARISH COUNCIL |
Converting two former bus shelters into mini libraries (waterproofing and securing) so that residents can exchange books, CDs, DVDs and non-perishable food during lockdown and beyond. |
| 14/05/2020 |
£7,500 |
£1,491,691 |
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE FOOD AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE |
Respond - Food Distribution |
| 12/05/2020 |
£5,590 |
£38,322 |
CHERWELL THEATRE COMPANY |
Advice & support - support the vulnerable young people in Oxfordshire to stay creatively engaged and feel less isolated. |
| 12/05/2020 |
£9,909 |
£1,761,375 |
RESTORE |
Advice and support - Mental health service for patients |
| 12/05/2020 |
£7,828 |
£2,092,785 |
GUIDEPOSTS TRUST |
Advice & support - working remotely to support and the health and wellbeing of vulnerable families and carers. |
| 12/05/2020 |
£2,581 |
£330,958 |
THE PARASOL PROJECT |
Advice & support - support our registered vulnerable users mental and physical wellbeing in this extremely challenging time |
| 12/05/2020 |
£5,000 |
£574,255 |
HEADWAY |
Advice & support & Food distribution - support people with Acquired Brain Injuries |
| 12/05/2020 |
£2,398 |
£36,003 |
THE FLORENCE PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
Food provision - meal provision to elderly and deprived residents. |
| 12/05/2020 |
£500 |
|
THE VALENTINE CLUB |
Advice & support - make contact with as many of our members and other elderly in our area to ensure they are safe and well and offer help if possible. |
| 12/05/2020 |
£4,975 |
|
SYRIAN COMMUNITY IN OXFORDSHIRE SYRCOX |
Advice & support - support people with different needs. |
| 07/05/2020 |
£7,490 |
|
ASPIRE |
Respond - wifi for homeless people being housed in hotels/hostels etc. |
| 07/05/2020 |
£10,000 |
£243,587 |
OCVA |
Advice & support - greater support for groups requiring targeted help with volunteer recruitment and support, also IT capacity and governance. |
| 07/05/2020 |
£9,900 |
|
OXFORDSHIRE CROSSROADS |
Food provision, advice & support - provide care support to old people and to their carers. |
| 07/05/2020 |
£5,764 |
£707,083 |
CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH OXFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (BANBURY CA BUREAU) |
Advice & support - our community could still access the advice they needed, especially Universal Credit |
| 07/05/2020 |
£5,000 |
£391,733 |
SEESAW |
Grant to SeeSaw |
| 07/05/2020 |
£10,000 |
£772,499 |
EMMAUS |
Advice & support - continue to run our community with 28 rooms for people who have been homeless. |
| 07/05/2020 |
£9,984 |
£1,776,533 |
HENRY |
Advice & support - improve family life for the most disadvantaged families with young children. |
| 04/05/2020 |
£3,538 |
£1,325,224 |
SEBASTIAN'S ACTION TRUST |
Advice & support - provide practical, emotional and social support to seriously-ill children and their families. |
| 04/05/2020 |
£1,500 |
£1,001,146 |
THE NATIONAL HOUSE PROJECT |
Advice & support - using internet video packages to stay in touch with our young poeple who are living alone in their properties without their much needed support networks. |
| 04/05/2020 |
£10,000 |
£717,605 |
RAW |
Advice & support - support young people via video/telephone. Core costs to ensure survival of RAW. |
| 04/05/2020 |
£10,000 |
£126,783 |
ARCH (ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN IN OXFORDSHIRE) |
Advice & support - reading to disadvantaged children in Oxfordshire, enhancing their lives and improving their life chances. |
| 04/05/2020 |
£4,620 |
£157,714 |
HINKSEY SCULLING SCHOOL LTD |
Advice & support - continue our rowing programmes online for all maintaining a sense of community. |
| 04/05/2020 |
£29,965 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Grant to Aspire |
| 04/05/2020 |
£25,000 |
£223,197 |
ALDATES COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES |
Grant to Aldates Community Transformation Initiatives |
| 30/04/2020 |
£5,312 |
|
SUNSHINE CENTRE |
Advice & support - providing support to families via food distribution and regular checking in. |
| 30/04/2020 |
£4,620 |
£166,000 |
BARTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION |
Food distribution - Community Larder supporting local residents. |
| 29/04/2020 |
£3,216 |
£49,949 |
THE MAPLE TREE |
Advice & support - supporting families of early years children. |
| 29/04/2020 |
£4,800 |
£707,083 |
CITIZENS ADVICE NORTH OXFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (BANBURY CA BUREAU) |
Food distribution - to people in poverty or with health issues. |
| 29/04/2020 |
£9,855 |
£488,421 |
OXFORD SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS CENTRE |
Advice & support - listening services (telephone, email and text), to provide support to victims of sexual abuse. |
| 29/04/2020 |
£3,116 |
£771,939 |
THRIVE TEAMS (INNOVISTA) |
Advice & support - online youth work to build resilience and maintain a positive attitude through a time of challenging events |
| 29/04/2020 |
£6,408 |
£43,412 |
DEAN COURT COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION |
Advice & support - rebuilding our business once we are able to open our doors again. |
| 29/04/2020 |
£4,415 |
£3,871,727 |
SOBELL HOUSE HOSPICE CHARITY |
Advice & support - to cope with the death of a loved one without also having to deal with social isolation. |
| 29/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£231,060 |
OXFORDSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND |
Advice and Support - supporting the blind through Covid19 crisis. Continuing normal work. |
| 28/04/2020 |
£3,000 |
£84,691 |
OXFORD AGAINST CUTTING |
Additional support from donor following request to temporarily change focus of their work in response to COVID-19 |
| 28/04/2020 |
£16,250 |
£358,934 |
THE NASIO TRUST |
Response |
| 27/04/2020 |
£6,230 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Advice & support - fund our current temporary activities responding to pandemic, and enable us to return to offering full range of services, and re-opening of our drop-in centre. |
| 27/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£659,171 |
OXFORD WOOD RECYCLING |
Advice & support - moving people towards employment, and our work in promoting good environmental practice |
| 27/04/2020 |
£6,000 |
£4,194,480 |
AGE UK OXFORDSHIRE |
Advice & Support - keeping older people exercising while in isolation. |
| 27/04/2020 |
£10,000 |
£223,403 |
BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS |
Maintaining a strong connection online and by phone for service users with a trusted team of staff and volunteers. |
| 27/04/2020 |
£4,000 |
£533,386 |
ADVENTURE PLUS |
Advice & support - expand our provision for children and young people at risk, through our specialist Adventure Impact programme. |
| 27/04/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
MILTON PARISH COUNCIL |
Food distribution - ensure our vulnerable residents can continue to access food and essential items |
| 27/04/2020 |
£6,940 |
|
PEOPLE, PLACE & PARTICIPATION LTD |
Advice & support - continue to provide much needed services including midwives, food and home schooling. |
| 23/04/2020 |
£2,500 |
£358,934 |
THE NASIO TRUST |
Advice and Support - continuing support for their work in keeping people safe. |
| 23/04/2020 |
£9,810 |
£417,684 |
SOUNDABOUT |
Advice & support - Children, young people and adults with severe or profound learning disabilities, and their families, will be able to participate in music making at home whilst isolated. |
| 23/04/2020 |
£10,000 |
£18,558 |
OXFORDSHIRE LOWLAND SEARCH AND RESCUE |
Support & advice - adapting to remote planning and searchers to keep social distancing |
| 23/04/2020 |
£3,500 |
£540,992 |
WEST OXFORDSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU |
Advice & support - Providing additional resources in order to support vulnerable people with advice |
| 23/04/2020 |
£10,000 |
£492,544 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
Advice & support - mobilisation of organisation to reach vulnerable young people differently and to re-recruit specialist staff. |
| 23/04/2020 |
£6,000 |
£233,476 |
THOMAS GIFFORDS CHARITY |
Food distribution - serving self-isolated and vulnerable people in our community by shopping for food, personal necessities, and medicine and delivering the items to their homes |
| 23/04/2020 |
£1,500 |
|
WEST OXFORDSHIRE DISTRICT SCOUTS |
Advice & support - Reducing the number of people accessing pharmacies and providing support to many local residents of all ages. |
| 22/04/2020 |
£5,022 |
£294,839 |
SSNAP (SUPPORT FOR THE SICK NEWBORN AND THEIR PARENTS) |
Advice & support - support to parents of sick babies during the pandemic |
| 22/04/2020 |
£10,000 |
£302,821 |
OXFORD HUB |
Advice & support - Oxford Together, the City's community response to coronavirus. |
| 21/04/2020 |
£24,500 |
£324,264 |
OXFORD PARENT INFANT PROJECT (OXPIP) |
Grant to Oxford Parent Infant Project (OXPIP) |
| 21/04/2020 |
£3,000 |
|
WANTAGE AND SURROUNDING AREA CORONAVIRUS SUPPORT GROUP |
Distributing food, collecting and delivering prescriptions and more acute needs to vulnerable individuals and families. |
| 18/04/2020 |
£1,666 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Advice & Support - Provide crisis services for rough sleepers and those living in temporary accommodation during this pandemic. |
| 18/04/2020 |
£1,666 |
£281,177 |
THE PORCH |
Food Distribution - Since the beginning of the outbreak we have seen the demands for our services grow, we are now serving an average of 130 and on occasion we have served 150 meals per day. |
| 18/04/2020 |
£1,666 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Food Distribution - to homeless people. |
| 18/04/2020 |
£10,000 |
£578,119 |
REFUGEE SUPPORT NETWORK |
Grant to Refugee Support Network |
| 17/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£209,497 |
ARCHWAY FOUNDATION |
Response |
| 17/04/2020 |
£6,806 |
£121,859 |
OXFORDSHIRE PLAY ASSOCIATION |
Advice & Support - provide information and play ideas to our beneficiaries and their families, via social media and other channels |
| 17/04/2020 |
£2,500 |
£47,039 |
CLEAN SLATE |
Advice & Support - Sexual, domestic and emotional abuse counselling and support sessions focused on dealing with issues arising, managing clients mental health needs and supporting them through this crisis. |
| 17/04/2020 |
£1,000 |
£54,048 |
ENRYCH OXFORDSHIRE |
Advice & support - We are offering support to people without IT knowledge or equipment. Purchase Smart Phones to loan out to people who have no other access to online equipment |
| 17/04/2020 |
£3,087 |
£1,043,225 |
FINE CELL WORK |
Grant to Fine Cell Work |
| 15/04/2020 |
£10,000 |
£290,070 |
BANBURY YOUNG HOMELESSNESS PROJECT |
Advice & support - Advice & support - BYHP supplies Mental Health intervention and support, counselling and family mediation. All these services are now being delivered virtually either through phone contact, facetime Zoom, WhatsApp and email. |
| 15/04/2020 |
£6,096 |
£126,544 |
SECOND TIME AROUND |
Advice & support - We are in a situation where we currently have no income. We would use the grant to pay our property related expenses until such time as we are able to work with our service uses and trade again. |
| 15/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£6,164,090 |
OXFORDSHIRE CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE |
Advice & support - for children, young people and adults irrespective of the cause of death or the time lapse since death. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£1,000 |
£55,917 |
MILL STREAM DAY CENTRE |
Advice & support - focussed on supporting volunteer hub which is based in the Centre using Centre's infrastructure. The Hub provides shopping prescription collection, dog walking, signposting for isolated villagers. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£9,080 |
£296,661 |
ARK T CENTRE |
Food distribution - Ark-T had opened up a community larder in partnership with SOFEA and Oxford Together to ensure that those who were struggling to get food as a result of stockpiling could access food quickly. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£5,245 |
£148,715 |
BEFREE YOUNG CARERS |
Advice & support - Charity staff are home working, using social media to engage with young carers across southern Oxfordshire encouraging healthy activities in the home |
| 14/04/2020 |
£7,466 |
|
MAGGIE KESWICK JENCKS CANCER CARING CENTRES TRUST (MAGGIE'S OXFORD) |
Advice & support - Advice & support - We're currently offering the following support: - Phone and email support from one of our professional members of staff. - One to one support from a clinical psychologist over the phone. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£4,914 |
£422,746 |
CITIZENS ADVICE OXFORDSHIRE SOUTH AND VALE |
Advice & support - Due to Coronavirus, we have stopped our face-to-face advice in our offices and at our outreaches. Instead, 60 advisers are working remotely, delivering advice by phone, email and webchat. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£115,316,000 |
SUE RYDER SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE PALLIATIVE CARE HUB |
Advice & support - Our nurses are using personal protective equipment so they can support those people who are living with a life limiting condition at this very challenging time. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£320,480 |
DONNINGTON DOORSTEP FAMILY CENTRE |
Advice & support - all staff were deployed in distributing food and care packages to as many families as possible. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£161,365 |
NOMAD |
Advice & support - Food Bank, using the opportunity that food parcel deliveries give us to stay in contact with many of our client base. In addition we are using and developing electronic means to stay in touch with vulnerable individuals and families. |
| 14/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£248,641 |
RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE |
Advice & support - counselling service to adults and young people who are affected with increased anxieties and the effects of self-isolation. |
| 09/04/2020 |
£4,000 |
£100,532 |
SERV OBN |
Advice & support - As result of demand to transport COVID-19 sample our operation is now 24/7. This in turn has caused an increase in our operating costs for fuel etc. |
| 09/04/2020 |
£2,000 |
|
BICESTER GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEME |
Advice & support - Support all of our 80 approx. clients. Volunteers are using telephone and other means to stay in touch with their usual clients. |
| 08/04/2020 |
£7,820 |
£97,219 |
OXFORDSHIRE FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK |
Advice & support - Meeting an unprecedented need for support from an incredibly vulnerable demographic by operating in an adapted way, without face to face contact - but continue to proactively support families. |
| 08/04/2020 |
£8,000 |
£411,697 |
OXFORDSHIRE MY LIFE MY CHOICE ASSOCIATION |
Advice & support - 5 days per week ‘helpline’ number redirected to staff working from home. We have recently made this available to all adults with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire rather than solely our membership base. |
| 08/04/2020 |
£8,990 |
£99,492 |
LEYS CDI |
Advice & support - A response to the effects of COVID19 and the fact that young people are not in school and there is a need for some youth work to avoid antisocial behaviour that may arise out of social isolation. |
| 08/04/2020 |
£2,900 |
£21,140 |
THE WYCHWOODS DAY CENTRE LTD |
Advice & support - Providing support to vulnerable people self-isolating e.g. the elderly, people with pre-existing medical conditions as well as relieving pressure on statutory services. |
| 08/04/2020 |
£4,000 |
£93,238 |
CHOLSEY DAY CENTRE TRUST |
Advice & support - Responding to the needs of the local residents and changed their way of working to embrace this during the COVID19 lockdown. |
| 08/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
£127,520 |
OXFORDSHIRE CHINESE COMMUNITY & ADVICE CENTRE |
Advice & support - Keep the Chinese Centre running, to serve the non-English speaking vulnerable Chinese, to provide immediate help for urgent, unanticipated needs caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| 08/04/2020 |
£3,320 |
£296,829 |
BANBURY MUSLIM MOSQUE SOCIETY |
Food distribution - We have donated over 250 food parcels to the elderly and a further 190 to the vulnerable |
| 08/04/2020 |
£600 |
|
FARINGDON VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY SUPPORT |
Advice & support - By delivering essential food and provisions we are helping to tackle food poverty issues. Gives people hope that they are not alone |
| 06/04/2020 |
£2,000 |
£123,939 |
DIDCOT TRAIN YOUTH PROJECT |
Provide online youth services for young people in a very disadvantaged area, supported by local volunteers, during this pandemic. |
| 06/04/2020 |
£6,150 |
£223,197 |
ALDATES COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES |
Food distribution - 70 hot meals for rough sleepers in the city per day, from our kitchens. |
| 03/04/2020 |
£7,650 |
£96,782 |
KEEN |
Advice & support - Oxfordshire All In platform of website and back-end tools for community engagement and support, data collection, mapping and coordination between organisations. |
| 03/04/2020 |
£5,194 |
£281,177 |
THE PORCH |
Food distribution - Since the beginning of the outbreak we have seen the demands for our services grow, we are now serving an average of 130 and on occasion we have served 150 meals per day. |
| 03/04/2020 |
£3,446 |
£3,088,698 |
EDGE HOUSING - OXFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH |
Advice & support - Provide crisis services for rough sleepers and those living in temporary accommodation during this pandemic. |
| 03/04/2020 |
£650 |
£123,939 |
DIDCOT TRAIN YOUTH PROJECT |
Provide online youth services for young people in a very disadvantaged area, supported by local volunteers, during this pandemic. |
| 03/04/2020 |
£5,000 |
|
ASPIRE |
Advice & support - Provide crisis services for rough sleepers and those living in temporary accommodation during this pandemic. |
| 31/03/2020 |
£10,000 |
£1,491,691 |
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE FOOD AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE |
Food distribution - Supply food to the more vulnerable in our communities. provide food boxes to our Community Larder members in 12 locations across Oxfordshire at no charge = 39 tonnes of food each month, providing 97,500 meals. |
| 31/03/2020 |
£25,000 |
£1,491,691 |
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE FOOD AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE |
To provide SOFEA with funding to promote the growth of SOFEA's Community Larder programme within both Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire. Grant to be spent on following activities: - £150 per day to fund the additional time over prior contracted days for Claire Hughes who leads the Larder activity and who for the purpose of this grant reports directly to Richard Kennell, CEO of SOFEA - £150 per day for consultant costs for Kwame Asiedu for the development of the larder footprint in Milton Keynes, the nature and volume of work to be determined under the direction of Richard Kennell. - marketing materials, including but not limited to point of sale materials, artwork, videos, social media campaigns - brand identity development - development of a retailer loyalty scheme - development of smart card proposition for members |
| 31/03/2020 |
£4,000 |
£150,280 |
THINK THROUGH NUTRITION |
Support from funds raised by HS Sylvia Jay during her Shrieval Year |
| 31/03/2020 |
£4,000 |
£679,943 |
ARTS AT THE OLD FIRE STATION |
Support from funds raised by HS Sylvia Jay during her Shrieval Year |
| 31/03/2020 |
£4,000 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Support from funds raised by HS Sylvia Jay during her Shrieval Year |
| 31/01/2020 |
£43,388 |
£209,497 |
ARCHWAY FOUNDATION |
Our Step Change is to build on the achievements and act on the evaluation of our previous Step Change Funded Project by improving our capacity to a) respond more effectively to Friends (service users) referred to us who have highly complex needs b) provide existing as well as new staff and volunteers with a higher level of training and support to give them the necessary 'tools' to deal with the challenges of their role c) extend the Individual Support Service catchment to incorporate referrals from other parts of Oxfordshire. |
| 31/01/2020 |
£71,586 |
£223,403 |
BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS |
At 25, Bridewell has begun a programme of change to ready its staff, volunteers, governance structure, and garden site for the next 25 years. This project will invest in physical and operational infrastructure to improve our long-term impact: - Invest in marketing, communication, volunteer management to raise our profile and engagement with supporters, volunteers, referral agents, and beneficiaries - Invest in our site to make us more efficient by bringing our administrative and therapeutic teams together at the gardens - Core to this programme of change has been the appointment of a new Director and recruitment of new trustees |
| 31/01/2020 |
£57,380 |
£191,637 |
HOME-START OXFORD |
We have an ambitious 3 year plan. This includes expansion of our core volunteer family support services and developing a unique specialist support group for parents and young children who have experienced domestic abuse. We are well placed to meet this need and grow our capacity. However, we cannot expand our volunteer team, supporter or referral numbers effectively with current systems. To achieve our vision, we need a ‘step change’ in 1. Communications 2. Infrastructure |
| 31/01/2020 |
£47,673 |
£574,255 |
HEADWAY |
Headway Oxfordshire are looking to upgrade our current database to a new bespoke CRM platform that will offer us flexibility and advance reporting capabilities. The system will: - Be easy to navigate and allow staff to find information quickly and easily - Allow staff to view individual member information in one clear screen - Grant the ability to create reports on a large variety of data - Integrate with Sage Pay to enable automated creation of invoices, ensuring it takes into account the type of payment plan that clients are on and more! |
| 27/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£108,793,000 |
ST MUNGO’S |
Distribution of funds from Winter Match fund |
| 27/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£2,419,324 |
SMART/CJS |
Distribution of funds from Winter Match fund |
| 22/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£828,064 |
ELMORE COMMUNITY SERVICES |
Funding awarded re OCF Christmas Match Fund in partnership with OXPAT. |
| 22/01/2020 |
£37,974 |
£191,637 |
HOME-START OXFORD |
Grant to Home-Start Oxford |
| 22/01/2020 |
£50,201 |
£902,196 |
PEEPLE |
Grant to Peeple |
| 22/01/2020 |
£13,500 |
£143,273 |
HOME-START SOUTHERN OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire |
| 22/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£228,756 |
GATEHOUSE |
Involvement in The Inability to Engage Pod meetings and the Lived Experience Advisory Forum. |
| 22/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£10,527,739 |
RESPONSE ORGANISATION |
Response committed to the development of OHM following attendance at the City Conversation. A Senior Manager attended 2 pods- Comms & Hard to Engage. The CEO committed to the Funding & Charter pods. Many of the 350+ residents at Response would have had no home to go to on discharge from Acute Psychiatric Care, others are housed by Response as the AHP is unsuitable for their needs. As part of our Business Strategy we are starting to develop homelessness services. Our Head of Housing is also the organisational lead for homelessness. |
| 22/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£4,641,448 |
CONNECTION FLOATING SUPPORT TEAM |
Signed Charter. Provide services in Oxfordshire giving advice on housing, mental health and independent living skills. Part of the Adult Homeless pathway and deliver rough sleepers outreach services in Oxfordshire districts. |
| 15/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£4,001,958 |
HOMELESS OXFORDSHIRE |
We have helped develop the movement through the Partnership & Charter Pod |
| 15/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£281,177 |
THE PORCH |
One of the founder organisational members. We are represented on the steering committee |
| 15/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£54,000,000 |
CRISIS SKYLIGHT OXFORD |
Director of Crisis Skylight Oxford has been part of the Oxford Homelessness Movement since the start. The Director has led the Inability to Engage Pod. |
| 15/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Aspire have been involved with the Oxford Homeless Movement from the outset as a founding member and our homelessness programmes are fully aligned with the strategic priorities of the Oxford Homeless Movement. We are very excited to be part of this Movement going forward and as ever remain committed to working in full collaboration with the Movement to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. We are particularly excited by the role that lived experience will play within this Movement; at Aspire over 50% of our team have lived experience and this is a core aspect of our mission and values. |
| 15/01/2020 |
£5,266 |
£772,499 |
EMMAUS |
Emmaus Oxford have joined the Oxford Homeless Movement to work together to address rising homelessness in our city. Emmaus Oxford gives homeless people accommodation, support and meaningful work. We run a small community which houses 28 people who have been homeless. We ask them to work in our social enterprise and over time we rebuild their skills and confidence. When they're ready we help people into employment and their own homes. |
| 08/01/2020 |
£2,800 |
£624,226 |
SAFE! |
We would like to set up an Oxfordshire Young Women's Group for girls aged 12-14 years old who have experienced victimisation by crime. The group would meet every fortnight in term time for a 90 minute session, in Oxford City centre (18 sessions in the year). The focus of the group would be empowerment and peer support. The group would be facilitated by three female workers. Each week we would provide a space for peer support but also introduce a new topic such as self-care, sleep, exercise, healthy eating, mindfulness, problem solving, assertive communication etc. The staff team would decide the themes for the initial sessions but over time, we would work with the young women to develop the content of the group based on their needs. We have budgeted for resources and activities and this can include inviting in professionals to share skills, for example, yoga or dance teachers. During the summer break there would be a group residential, organised and planned in part by the young women in the group. |
| 09/12/2019 |
£8,000 |
£248,641 |
RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE |
The project will be based in Didcot and Berinsfield; two of the most deprived areas in the county. We work with many women and girls living with challenging social & domestic circumstances. Some have experienced domestic violence, and suicide within the family which has a huge impact on their mental health and psychological and emotional well-being. We have a clear understanding of their needs and this project will be tailored very much to support those needs. A counsellor who has experience of working with disadvantaged women and girls with similar mental health needs will be availible in each location one day a week. They would be working from venues in the community offering local support to the women and girls. It would enable us to liaise with local GPs, schools, and other support agencies. Counselling will be flexible to meet the individuals needs. Some women and girls may need a shorter intervention lasting several months, while others will need longer term support. The parents/carer of the young person would have access to support. From our work with girls and young people we have found that parents preferred to received individual support with their child rather than in a group setting. We will provide this through face to face, telephone or email contact. |
| 09/12/2019 |
£9,300 |
£488,421 |
OXFORD SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS CENTRE |
The funding will be used to support out counselling service for women across Oxfordshire who have experienced sexual violence at any point in their lives, building on the knowledge and experience we have developed since launching the counselling service in 2015. Survivors are offered up to 48 one to one sessions of trauma-informed, person-centred counselling, Counselling is delivered by volunteers, who have achieved or are working towards appropriate counselling qualifications, and who have also undergone rigorous specialist training within OSARCC on sexual violence and its impacts. The service is coordinated by a paid Counselling Coordinator. We provided counselling support to 56 women in 2018/19 and aim to support 60 women in the next 12 months. We currently have 11 volunteer counsellors, and will carry out three rounds of volunteer recruitment in the coming year to ensure that we are able to maintain and increase volunteer numbers. Our counselling approach, informed by our empowering, non-directive and non-judgemental core values, has proven effective in providing support to survivors. Last year, 89% of service users who gave feeedback reported a better understanding of their situation and what they could do about it, 75% experienced better health and wellbeing, 78% felt more able to access the support they needed, and 88% more able to assert their rights.Comments from service-users include: 'It's been incredibly positive. I feel very lucky to have found you...it's changed my life' |
| 09/12/2019 |
£6,480 |
£57,595 |
OXFORDSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT |
We will provide 48 weekly 2-hour Sunday breastfeeding drop-in support sessions in partnership with Donnington Doorstep Family Centre. Led by a specialist Facilitator, assisted by trained all-women volunteers (peer supporters and breastfeeding counsellors), our sessions will provide skilled assistance with feeding and social and emotional support to women at a critical life stage; the transition to becoming a mother. Specifically we aim to: 1. Make contact with 150 women & their families. 2. 30% of visitors will attend more than one drop-in session, enhancing their opportunity to connect and form sustainable support networks within the OBS community. 3. Recruit at least two mothers to the 2020-21 cohort of volunteer OBS peer supporter trainees, including at least one mother from a BME group, who will contribute to supporting families via OBS both face to face and online. These assumptions are based on data from our existing 4 weekly drop-in sessions. With over 13 years’ experience of running this service (previously known as Oxford Baby Cafes Group, founded in 2006), and an in-depth understanding of local needs thanks to close contact with service users and referrers, we are confident that these estimates are achievable. |
| 09/12/2019 |
£5,965 |
£411,697 |
OXFORDSHIRE MY LIFE MY CHOICE ASSOCIATION |
Over 12 months, we will run a pilot women’s group for women with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire. This will consist of 1 month set up and content creation, 10 monthly meetings and 1 month of evaluation to assess the impact of the project on the women involved and look to develop it into an ongoing project if successful. Each of the 10 monthly meetings will last 3 hours and will consist of some training or group learning on a topic that affects women with learning disabilities such as sexual health, growing older, relationships, and work. This will be followed by a group discussion on the topic and other issues that may be affecting the members. Members will lead the structure and approach of the group and each session will be led by a facilitator and paid co-facilitator with learning disabilities. Both the member of staff and the co-facilitator will be women to ensure the group is open and accessible for women to express their concerns and receive support from fellow women. |
| 09/12/2019 |
£9,800 |
£84,691 |
OXFORD AGAINST CUTTING |
We will deliver 14 workshops to community groups, young people, schools and professionals to raise awareness about FGM and forced marriage. The workshops will be delivered by our facilitators, women from affected communities, some of whom are survivors of FGM and forced marriage, and this makes learning "real". The project will help prevent FGM and forced marriage by ensuring that workshop participants can recognise the warning signs, build confidence in talking about these practices and know where to get help and support. Our evaluation of previous training work demonstrates that our workshops are powerful and support these realistic outcomes. In addition, we have noticed that many school staff have informal conversations about children they many not have previously considered to be at risk of these practices, following our training. We will offer groups and schools a package of workshops, on FGM, HBA/forced marriage and body image, to support their communities. Our proposal supports proportionality as we will encourage schools to ensure staff teams participate in our specialist safeguarding workshops first, before we run lessons, to ensure they are equipped to respond sensitively and proportionately to any safeguarding concerns. We will then run student workshops, tailored for the group's demographics, ages and support needs. We will invite teachers or professionals to join our workshops so they are confident to deliver sensitive material on honour and FGM in future sessions. |
| 04/12/2019 |
£25,000 |
£1,436,166 |
ALEXANDER DEVINE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE |
Grant to Alexander Devine Children's Hospice |
| 04/12/2019 |
£2,500 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Grant to Aspire |
| 18/11/2019 |
£15,000 |
£488,421 |
OXFORD SEXUAL ABUSE & RAPE CRISIS CENTRE |
We will make a ‘step change’ in the extent to which survivors from under-served groups access our services. This will build on our growth to date, and reflects our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and to ensuring that all survivors across Oxfordshire can access the support they need. It supports objectives outlined in our new Strategic Plan. We will focus particularly on working with older survivors, those who live in rural areas, and those in BAMER communities. These groups are currently under represented among our service-users and are likely to face specific barriers in accessing appropriate support. |
| 18/11/2019 |
£40,000 |
£84,691 |
OXFORD AGAINST CUTTING |
We will take strides to increase our income through: the promotion of a suite of workshops for private schools and a delivery target of 18 days of workshops over 2 years (Stride 1). We will deliver a research project on social media influencers (Stride 2). We anticipate that our research will support further investment in social media work to attract new funding and awareness-raising (Stride 3). We will increase the size of our facilitation team, up-skilling 5 new facilitators from affected communities to deliver workshops on HBA and body image. |
| 14/11/2019 |
£50,000 |
£197,146 |
THE MINDFULNESS INITIATIVE |
We will use the grant to support the launch and continuation of The Mindful Workplace Community, the purpose of which is to support the cultivation of mindfulness and compassion in the workplace. We are periodically contacted by people championing mindfulness initiatives in their workplaces, who require support and mentorship and want to contribute their time to help create more human offices (addressing current issues around mental health and well-being, employee engagement, etc.) . In order to meet this need, we would like to create communities, providing these pioneers (working in a nascent field with little regulation) a space in which they can feel supported, access information about best practice and share their knowledge and experiences. The idea is to create several communities to address different populations with specific requirements: champions (for people implementing mindfulness within their organisations who require support, guidance, networking and mentoring), leaders (for VPs and above at companies with large number of employees), trainers (to engage suppliers of mindfulness training in the workplace and help them define and implement best practices), working groups (for people who want to volunteer their time and help us create publications and organise events). We will host events for these communities as well as for the general public. Initially, we would like to have 5 smaller salon events addressed to different groups to generate community, 1 trainer-specific event (workplace trainers do not have anything like this on offer where they can meet with other trainers anywhere else at the moment) and 1 flagship pioneer awards ceremony to engage larger corporates, get media attention and reward best practice, per year. The grant funds will be used to cover the following (figures provided are estimates and subject to change): ● 1 community manager to support the communities, organise events, manage comms, etc.; Base salary £30,000 per year ● 5 salon events costing £600 each (to cover catering, photographer and marketing) - total of £3,000; Venues to be provided by members of the group ● 1 trainer event costing £2,000 (including catering, photographer, marketing and venue hire) ● 1 flagship pioneer awards event costing £5,000 (this includes premium venue hire, catering, photographer, marketing materials) ● Other costs (e.g. design work, annual exclusive community events, additional mar-keting materials, website design and maintenance) £10,000 |
| 04/11/2019 |
£20,000 |
£1,674,059 |
ASPIRE |
Grant to Aspire |
| 31/10/2019 |
£5,000 |
£17,299 |
OXFORD HINDU TEMPLE AND COMMUNITY CENTRE PROJECT |
OHTCCP has strong links with mainstream heritage sector providers & wish to open that access to communities. Through a series of food related community and learning events, socially excluded communities will partner with and access support and resources from MOO to uncover food related stories and celebrate joint cultural experience |
| 15/10/2019 |
£5,000 |
£403,575 |
ASYLUM WELCOME |
Most of the asylum seekers and refugees who use our busy, volunteer-run advice services speak little English. Recruiting bilingual volunteers from diverse backgrounds will address language barriers so clients are better served. Those volunteers gain skills, integrate into our wider volunteer community and contribute to the co-production of service developments. |
| 15/10/2019 |
£3,600 |
£92,591 |
JOSS SEARCHLIGHT |
To create a signature event for our historic town and light up Witney for 6 weeks. The celebration will connect cultures & draw 32,000 residents to the town centre. Our core purpose is to spark togetherness, welcoming visitors to sample food, experience the arts and wonder at the lights. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£3,900 |
£828,064 |
ELMORE COMMUNITY SERVICES |
Elmore is working in partnership with Oxfordshire Discovery College Project to pilot a wellbeing service for children/young people in Oxfordshire, their families, staff and volunteers who support them. The project follows the international Discovery College model, and will pilot the service in two locations in Oxfordshire to inform future development. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£10,000 |
£411,697 |
OXFORDSHIRE MY LIFE MY CHOICE ASSOCIATION |
Gig Buddies pairs up volunteers with adults with learning disabilities, mental illnesses and older adults to support them to get out and do the things they enjoy and expand their social circles. Through these pairings and regular group events, the project reduces social isolation and loneliness. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£3,000 |
£417,684 |
SOUNDABOUT |
Soundabout's Inclusive Choir brings together people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to make music with a community of mixed ability singers with a broad range of life experiences. All abilities are welcome and this community choir is fully inclusive and accessible, building skills, confidence, friendships and love of singing. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£4,500 |
£57,595 |
OXFORDSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT |
A new weekly breastfeeding drop-in provided by OBS in partnership with Barton Community Assoc. alongside their existing community stay & play session. Run by a facilitator & volunteers, it will strengthen this diverse and growing community of parents, reducing isolation and bringing vital services to those who can't otherwise access them. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£3,000 |
£11,306 |
OPEN DOOR (OXFORD) |
We are seeking funding to continue and develop our work at Open Door into next year, and to contribute to a celebration of 20 years of bringing people together, at our anniversary party in December 2019. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£4,970 |
£86,735 |
BLACKBIRD LEYS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND |
We would like to welcome parents and younger children to join us on Fridays. BLAP children will cook food and serve it. Sarah, our play and project leader, will be free to mingle and be a listening ear. Parents can relax, chat with other parents and gain support. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£9,860 |
£460,721 |
REFUGEE RESOURCE |
The Women’s Service brings together refugee, asylum seeker and vulnerable migrant women who are isolated and need support to integrate into Oxford’s communities. The 56 members are from diverse ethnic backgrounds, speak little/no English, and have multiple deprivations. They meet together twice a week (with added individual support as needed). |
| 03/10/2019 |
£5,000 |
£146,933 |
HOME-START BANBURY AND CHIPPING NORTON |
We provide highly-trained volunteers to help vulnerable families with young children who are struggling to cope. We are a unique & cost-effective early intervention service, with volunteers giving non-judgmental & life-changing support in the home, for as long as each family needs it. In addition, we provide drop-in play sessions. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£8,532 |
£302,821 |
OXFORD HUB |
FELLOW supports over 100 English learners each week through eight regular classes a week across three regular classes in the city, a short course programme, and one-to-one tutoring. It provides people with the language skills to succeed in their jobs and the confidence to connect with others in Oxford. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£5,000 |
£54,048 |
ENRYCH OXFORDSHIRE |
Due to the large and ever increasing number of referrals (from Social Workers and Medical Professionals) we need to increase the number of coordinators so we can support more people. The main shortfall currently is in Oxford City although we need additional resources in other districts too. |
| 03/10/2019 |
£9,000 |
|
MAYMESSY COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY |
To provide a venue + fun for Refugee Resource away day To provide skill sharing workshops for women from charity Refugee Resource To collaborate with a new charity AFIUK ,that I met at High Sheriff award by providing cookery classes for young refugees. Continue cookery classes for young disadvantaged people |
| 03/10/2019 |
£9,645 |
|
SUNSHINE CENTRE |
We will build on our sucess of bringing the community together with more regular events and potentially a community newsletter/paper. We will use the skills within the community to bring together young children and senior citizens whilst promoting diversity. Programme planning will include our partner agencies and the community. |
| 05/09/2019 |
£10,000 |
£492,544 |
ONE-EIGHTY |
One-Eighty have agreed a partnership with Abbey Woods Academy to provide intervention services together with support and learning for school staff throughout the academic year 2019-2020. A two-fold partnership has been agreed with Abbey Woods as follows: 1) Abbey Woods school will always have one intervention place allocated with One-Eighty 2) One-Eighty will provide one half day a week for staff support (3 hours). Typically, our interventions last 8 weeks, with young people meeting One-to-One twice a week for a one-hour session and their parent/ carer receiving a further one-hour session each week. In addition, a key part of our interventions involves liaising closely with teachers, TAs, SENCos and family link workers from referring schools and updating them after each session. Each intervention includes a very thorough assessment (usually 8 hours over a two-week period) which involves meeting not only the child, parent/carer and key school staff, but also contacting any other professionals who have been/are/or will be supporting the child and staff from any previous schools. Multi-agency working is a key part of our work and One-Eighty link with Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Social Care and other teams where appropriate and attend all relevant meetings during the course of the intervention. At the end of the intervention, One-Eighty writes a closure report which combines practical strategies for teaching and learning as well as more strategic interpretation and advice; schools often find this document helpful if they need to go on to seek further support, for instance through an Education Healthcare Plan. We therefore anticipate that we would be able to intensively support four children over the course of the school year, once assessment time is taken into account. This partnership enables the school to always have one place kept available for them – they do not have to join a waiting list which can be lengthy meaning the optimum moment for the intervention is missed. Abbey Woods Academy and One-Eighty can also maintain ongoing conversations about the next most suitable child for an intervention. This tends to lead to more appropriate and effective referrals. In addition, One-Eighty get to know the ethos, policies, practices and staff at the school which is helpful without the disadvantages of being too deeply involved – the use of Team Teach, safeguarding approaches and issues of confidentiality can all be pro-actively joined up. This model will also mean that strategies, advice and forward thinking can continue to be shared with SENCOs, Inclusion leads etc. after cases are closed in a way which is not possible for non-partnership schools. Although we deliberately do not always use the same staff for each intervention (we select staff skills to match the needs of the child), over time, One-Eighty and school colleagues will build helpful working relationships. Finally, although One-Eighty have a ‘standard’ intervention as described, in fact no two interventions are ever identical and partnership arrangements allow schools to opt to use their agreed allocated time more flexibly e.g. extend on piece of work if that is felt helpful, or shorten/close another (if, for example, a child moves on). This type of flexibility is not readily available for non-partnership schools. Although some knowledge and understanding of the school and its ethos is a helpful context for this work, there is an advantage to a certain level of separation between school and One-Eighty. Therefore, the staff support element of the partnership could take a variety of combinations and further discussions will take place with Abbey Woods School to finalise this element. Suggestions include: • Weekly, fortnightly or 4 weekly supervision for identified staff, either individually (for instance for the Head teacher or Inclusion Lead), or as a group (e.g. SLT, or all the TAs, or staff working in a particular area of the school – e.g. an Inclusion Base). • Supervision for newly appointed staff • Support and training for any members of staff linked closely to a child being supported by One-Eighty through a 1-1 intervention - in addition to that routinely provided; • Training for whole staff or specific groups of staff or individual staff on areas of identified need e.g. how attachment affects teaching and learning; different reasons for non-attendance and different ways of tackling it; supporting children to manage anxiety etc. • Training or information sessions for parents/carers We believe the combination of these two elements has the biggest impact for the school as a whole by providing multiple levels of support to staff and children. In addition to this Abbey Woods can have one place on our CBT+ 6 week training course to learn some of the techniques and principles we apply to our work with young people. |
| 22/08/2019 |
£27,500 |
£12,557,000 |
UWC ATLANTIC COLLEGE |
Donor Advised: scholarship for 2019/20 academic year |
| 07/08/2019 |
£3,500 |
£60,847 |
AT THE BUS |
Grant to At the Bus |
| 19/07/2019 |
£17,596 |
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FAI FARMS |
There has been a significant shift out of cages across Europe in the last 20 years and this is now transferring to other parts of the world. Cage free production is very variable, and the project team are motivated to facilitate this shift happening in the best possible way for people, animals and the environment. Murilo, who will lead this initial convening, runs a farm in Brazil which has had cage free eggs for 5years. He is motivated to develop a parallel system to the Lakes Free Range Eggs Company in the UK which has supported small farmers in the Lake district for 20 years. The CEO of this company is a long term colleague of the project team and has agreed to support the convening, and assist with transfer of the required information. The money will be spent on the resources required for the day on the farm in Brazil for 60 people, development of the materials for the day, translation costs and travel and expenses. The invitees will consist of: 1. Local farmers who are potential suppliers into FAI/BMK Brazil 2. Innovative farmers who can be leaders for other farmers further afield 3. NGOs 4. Industry (feed, equipment, genetics, animal health) 5. Farm certification and assurance bodies 6. Interested food retailers |
| 16/07/2019 |
£36,000 |
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COSTAIN CONSULTING |
We are applying for continuation funding. Over the last funding period Farmwel has continued to work closely with UK Government and NGO stakeholders to help build a more robust approach to sustainable land use and food production. • With FAI we have brought important new research, into the warming impact of methane, to the attention of the Committee on Climate Change, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and Defra. We also ran a joint workshop for these agencies at Defra to help staff understand the significant implications for land use policy. • As part of the work outlined above we have contributed to the development of a 2030 strategy to deliver climate neutral agriculture with farmers in Northumberland National Park. Carbon and biodiversity foot-printing will form part of this on-going work. • We have continued our positive relationship with Defra's farm animal welfare (FAW) team, and will continue to advise them on the implementation of FAW metrics. • We maintain a close relationship with the Sustainable Food Trust and their staff member seconded to Defra to work on the UK Gold Standard. This work will ensure that FAW is integrated with other Gold Standard sustainability metrics. • Farmwel responded to the All Party Group on Animal Welfare inquiry into slaughter, submitted evidence to the Welsh Government agriculture policy consultation, and wrote a discussion document on FAW and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. • We contributed to the RSA's Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, and engaged with FCRN's Plating Up Progress initiative and Eurogroup For Animals' Fish Welfare Group. In the coming funding period we will continue our work to promote sustainable land use and food production, and accurate methane accounting. In particular we will: • Maintain our relationships with Defra, BEIS, and the CCC. • Promote the need for accurate accounting of the warming impact of methane at global level. • Investigate channels and opportunities to better communicate sustainable land use and food production. • Develop and promote slaughter policies and practices that contribute to sustainability. • Undertake work to re-frame the issue of national food security in a warming world. • Investigate ways in which farm animal health and welfare can be improved through sustainable land use. |
| 27/06/2019 |
£46,764 |
£641,156 |
CITIZENS ADVICE OXFORD |
Our average waiting time to see an adviser is 48 minute, 21% wait more than an hour and only 20% of telephone advice calls are answered by us. This is stressful for clients, staff and volunteers, and due to a dramatic increase in complexity of issues is resulting in people delaying seeking advice until they are at crisis point. We want to change the way we work so that; - more people are helped, faster - we are better able to respond to peaks and troughs in demand - we need less space for the same/better level of service |
| 27/06/2019 |
£67,494 |
£248,641 |
RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE |
This project focuses on using information technology to help Riverside deliver better services, generate more income, and build a stronger sense of community for our clients and supporters. key features of the project include: - suing a cloud based Office 365 platform to bring together the main charity administration into a single GDPR compliant place -introducing a secure cloud based case management system (CBCMS) to store an analyse client data - website development to support clients, counsellors, new and existing donors - integration of all elements to provide a more efficient and effective us of skills and resources -a digital marketing plan to increase client and donor engagement and fundraising income. |
| 24/06/2019 |
£4,000 |
£98,505 |
YOUTH CHALLENGE OXFORDSHIRE |
Grant to Youth Challenge Oxfordshire |
| 11/06/2019 |
£30,000 |
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ALEF TRUST CIC |
The projects of the Alef Trust include primarily education at Master’s level in the areas of ‘consciousness, spirituality, and transpersonal psychology’. The grant applied for here is to support disadvantaged students through scholarship funding, and to support the organisation with administrative support. The sum of £15,000 is for student scholarships. £7,500 of this is committed – following last year’s grant – to support students already awarded scholarships as they progress into their second year of study. The remaining £7,500 is requested for new scholarships to commence in September 2019. The further sum of £15,000 is requested for administrative and business development support. Sankalpa supported us to recruit two individuals for these part-time roles last year. Their impact has been huge, and we now depend on their input in order to run and grow the organisation effectively. It had been envisaged that the Alef Trust would take over the financing of these roles from September 2019. However, due to the following circumstances, we are not yet in a position to finance the positions without outside support. Over the past year, the Alef Trust has re-aligned itself to offer postgraduate awards that are validated by Liverpool John Moores University. During this transition year, we are paying to both LJMU (year 1 students) and to the Professional Development Foundation (PDF) in order to run a degree validated by Middlesex University (year 2 students). The burden of paying to both means that we are not currently able to sustain the scholarships and administrative support without input from Sankalpa. Projections show that in future years (when we will need to pay only to LJMU, saving us some £35,000 pa) we should become more financially independent |
| 07/05/2019 |
£35,000 |
£1,630,538 |
ACCESS SPORT CIO |
Access Sport has been working in Oxford with High Sheriff RV and former High Sheriff TS since 2014. RV has committed to raise £100,000 for Access Sport with the support of our Ambassadors and fundraising team as a donation towards the next phase of our work. Access Sport will spend these funds on developing local community sports clubs in Oxford to be able to engage with thousands more of the most vulnerable and deprived local young people. Using our proven model of up-skilling local volunteers and providing volunteering pathways for local young people, we will work with fifteen community sports clubs over a minimum 2-year period to increase their impact in their local communities. In particular we will enable them to become more inclusive and welcoming towards local disabled young people and their families, to become more sustainable and better equipped to become long-term contributors to their local communities, and to reach more excluded community groups such as local ethnic groups and those living in poverty. We will employ a locally based staff member who will work directly with each of the fifteen clubs for a sustained period, providing training, support, marketing assistance and access to grants for the purchase of new equipment or training. We will also provide additional staff resource during the course of the three years both locally and from within our small team in London. We are also in the process of developing national movements in sports such as youth cycling and inclusive hockey and we will bring these projects into the community sport scene in Oxford including with the addition of additional funding that we envisage accessing from major funders of those projects. |
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