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.
Remix is an exciting Youth Club for young people in school Years 7-11 and it is free entry. Remix is a place for young people to come and relax and mix it up with their friends.
There is an exciting cafe where you can create your own milkshake, chocolate bars, cakes, toast, coffee etc. They have lots of games, pool, table tennis, sports, xbox one, nail painting, craft etc.
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.
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.
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.
OXPIP clinical team are specialists in parent-infant work. They focus on the relationship between parent and baby, observing the interaction to encourage the development of a strong and loving attachment. Parents get in touch for a variety of reasons which may include post natal depression, a baby that struggles to sleep or feed, anxieties about parenthood or a difficult birth experience. There may also be issues from the parent’s past or from the transition to parenthood which affects the relationships now they are parents themselves.
OXPIP also offer training and consultancy to professionals on attachment theory and infant mental health, and work with others locally and nationally to promote the importance of very early intervention within policy and practice.
