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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.

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.

Faringdon Town Council provides information for Faringdon residents and visitors to the town about Town Council services and business, as well as news and other local services.

We are a national charity (formerly Family Links) and the home of The Nurturing Programme. Our vision is for everyone to live an emotionally healthy life.

We provide training courses and resources that develop understanding, skills and the ability to support good emotional health. We work to raise awareness of what Emotional Health is and why it is important and we aim to influence policy to create a more emotionally healthy society. Most of our work takes place in the parenting, education and workplace sectors – as well as on a wider community basis.