Youth Centre running youth clubs and outreach in the community. The Sweatbox venue consists of an American style diner space with a pool table, table football and a coffee bar selling snacks and drinks, along with a stage room featuring a lighting and sound system and a wide range of musical instruments. The stage room is used for live bands and Friday night Karaoke.
During Open Access sessions on Fridays Sweatbox puts on a range of activities such as Bouncy Castle, Gladiator Joust, Beanbag Cinema, Nintendo Switch gaming, Sumo Wrestling, Go Karts, and Portable Skate Ramps amongst other things.
Monday night Youth Club is based at Wantage Primary Academy on Kingsgrove, Wantage, and includes sports coaching, craft activities, board games and chill out area.
With experienced Youth Workers and Volunteer Youth Support Workers, we support young people in our community.
Standlake Youth Club offers lots of activities, including sports, art and crafts, swimming, ice-skating, water sports. Club activities include air hockey, games, quizzes, fundraising events, TUCK SHOP and lots more.
For further information and to arrange a visit please call.
The South Oxford Adventure Playground (SOAP) is a charity run by volunteers and play workers. It is free and open to everyone. SOAP is a place where children can play freely, meet new friends and have fun in a natural and physically challenging environment. It offers an indoor and outdoor space where children can express themselves creatively and test themselves physically. There is not a screen in sight! The outside space has a wooden fort, tower to climb, zip wire, football pitch, wobbly bridge, tyre and rope swings, slides, den making area, fire pit, and trees to climb. Come along and discover the fun of SOAP!
SOAP aims to provide inclusive, exciting and adventurous play for children aged 7 and over, within a supervised playground. All children are welcome. Those under 7 must be accompanied by an adult. Play workers are onsite after school and through the holidays to support and encourage children in their play.
SeeSaw provides grief support for children, young people and their families in Oxfordshire. Through appropriate and timely support, SeeSaw can help to reduce the emotional, psychological and mental health consequences of bereavement. Young people are then able to face the future with hope.
SAFE! works with young people who have been harmed by crime and bullying. SAFE! provides individually tailored support to help young people cope without responding physically or internalising their feelings; develop strategies to report incidents; and realise it is not their fault if they have been hurt. SAFE! uses protective behaviours and restorative approaches to aid recovery. Without timely support their experience can lead to further problems including absence from school or work.
South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance (SOFEA) work with young people to build their employability, whilst providing nutritious food for those in need. Programmes for young people to build up skills in a safe judgement free zone. SOFEA alleviates multiple social problems: the need for jobs and training for disadvantaged young people; the demand for nutritious food for vulnerable people; and the danger of supplies from the food industry going to waste.
SOFEA’S TRAINEES
Many young people who find their way to SOFEA have been affected by circumstances which have left them at a disadvantage. Aged 14-24, their common issues include:
- Physical and/or mental illness
- Learning disabilities and special needs
- Family breakdown and associated emotional fallout
- Experience of the care system
- Bereavement / general disengagement/ disillusionment
- Involvement with the criminal justice system
- Issues with drugs and alcohol
- Lack of support / lack of role models
Rose Hill Junior Youth Club is a responsive children’s charity supporting children, young people and families in and around Rose Hill in Oxford. They support children aged between 5-17 years old through free after-school youth clubs, holiday activity provision and a tailored one-to-one mentoring service. They also support families with weekly boxes of surplus food to support those who need additional help.
Rape Crisis England & Wales is the membership body for a network of Rape Crisis Centres across England and Wales.
We also deliver the 24/7 Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Line.
RAW produce high quality products, offer superb services and work with many corporate, education, local government and private customers. They employ, train and support people from our communities who face prejudice and barriers to work. Over 85% of their team will be striving to succeed in the face of issues such as physical or learning difficulties, mental health illness, recovery from addiction and criminal history. Every month they create over 1,400 hours of human social impact. That includes skills, training, employment, positive activity and life-skills. This reduces isolation, raises self-esteem, lowers the call on blue-light and NHS services, combats depression/mental health illness and gives people somewhere of which they are proud to be a part of.
Pegasus has an excellent track record of creating inspiring and high quality projects which engage children and young people embracing difference and a diverse range of backgrounds. They actively reach out, especially through their inclusion programme, to those who are most excluded and vulnerable within society. They strive to integrate the life experience of children and young people with the creative learning opportunities we provide, the professional performances which appear on our stage, productions they create and tour and the partner companies they work with in their building. The depth of their approach means the impact of what they achieve through their work is far-reaching and long-lasting.
