Kennington Youth Club is a self-funded youth club that provides a range of activities, including pool, table tennis, Wii and computers, table football, darts, cooking, air hockey, and various board games. Kennington Youth Club also have a tuck shop serving a range of drinks, crisps, healthy snacks, fruit, 5p and 10p sweets and chocolate bars.
Most sessions are open access but they often get together at the end for any notices and a team game. Additionally some weeks they organise themed events and parties. Kennington Youth Club also talk about relevant issues such as knife crime, healthy eating, mental health, etc and also run a free book swap.
Jacari is a charity providing free tutoring to children aged 7 – 16 who speak English as an additional language.
Jennie’s Children’s Trust provides a place where children who have suffered medical trauma or bereavement can recover, recharge and enjoy quality time together with their families. Families can escape the difficulties that they face on a daily basis, relax and have fun in the peaceful surroundings of the Pembrokeshire countryside and coastline.
Host Abingdon is a volunteer-run local organisation providing a warm welcome and support to refugees and asylum seekers in Abingdon and the local area.
Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire is a voluntary home-visiting scheme, which supports families with at least one child aged five or under in the southern area of Oxfordshire. It is managed locally, but supported by Home-Start UK, the national organisation which offers training, information and guidance to Home-Start schemes to ensure consistent and quality support for parents and children wherever they are.
Guideposts Trust supports people who are isolated, excluded, and invisible to society, particularly those with mental health conditions, learning disabilities, dementia, and their carers, to live fulfilling, connected lives.
They empower people to recover, connect, and grow, through personalised, community-based support, enabling them to navigate challenges, away from crisis and towards an included and purposeful life.
To deliver their vision, Guideposts aims to increase:
- Visibility: Make the invisible or overlooked seen
- Access: Open doors to opportunity and participation
- Belonging: Create space for connection and community
- Empowerment: Supporting confidence, independence, and purpose.
Gobo Theatre Foundation is a charity created to help support, mentor and inspire young people in the theatrical arts with a focus on ensuring that opportunities are not only available to those who can afford it. Be part of classes and a production run by a professional theatre company with a love of fostering young talent. You can learn how to act, sing and dance, as well helping with costumes, set and props.
Fusion Art’s projects reach across Oxfordshire and beyond, working within communities in public and environmental art, participatory art projects and high profile public events such as Cowley Road Carnival, Christmas Light Festival and In-tent-city. Through the transformation power of the arts, Fusion Arts respond to challenging social circumstances by delivering meaningful and inclusive artistic experiences.
A community-owned hub for people to meet, work, play, create, learn, eat and connect. Flo’s – The Place in the Park is a non-profit community-run organisation and is almost entirely run by volunteers.
The CoderDojo movement believes that an understanding of programming languages is increasingly important in the modern world, that it is both better and easier to learn these skills early, and that nobody should be denied the opportunity to do so.
To that end, they have built a global network of free, volunteer-led, community-based programming clubs for young people. Anyone aged seven to seventeen can visit a Dojo where they can learn to code, build a website, create an app or a game, and explore technology in an informal, creative, and social environment.
The CoderDojo is currently open to children in Years 5 to 11: Provides laptops, but you can bring your own if you have one, teaches Scratch and Snap from beginner to more advanced, and also offers other coding opportunities and support depending on what the group wants.
