An entry for the mindguide
Christ Church Abingdon is a lively, diverse Anglican church meeting on Sundays and throughout the week.
They meet across two sites in North Abingdon: Northcourt Road and Long Furlong. Together they seek to flourish as a community practising the way of Jesus, growing as disciples and seeing their community and neighbourhoods transformed.
Didcot Baptist Church is a friendly, family church of around 140 people. Their main Sunday service is at 10.30am when people of various age, background and nationalities gather together. They support children, young people and their families. During the week they host baby and toddler groups and the Girls Brigade. Every Sunday morning they have Sunday School during the services for ages 3-16. Didcot Baptist Church exist to show and share the love of Jesus in our words and actions. All are welcome.
During the week, you’ll find the church serving the community in various ways – through the Didcot Foodbank that is based at the church, through baby and toddler groups, their various cafe or coffee groups (including the Youth Cafe, Coffee & Company and their International Cafe), or house groups that gather to study the Bible together, and a variety of other means. A number of communty groups use their premises.
Their mission statement is:
‘to be a welcoming community, following Jesus and making him known’
Cherwell Theatre Company (CTC) is a creative home for young theatre-makers in Banbury and the surrounding areas. They exist to give young people a sense of self-belief, wellbeing and value by bringing them together with professional artists. They are proud to welcome all young voices, regardless of background or experience. They hold no auditions, and as a registered charity with low overheads, are able to keep subscription fees low and offer bursary places to those that need them.
Local Youth club for young people (aged 11-19 years old) in Wood Farm. Meets on Wednesday 5.30-7.30pm at Wood Farm Youth Centre. The club is run by Oxford Youth Ambition.
Wesley Memorial is a busy church, with activities for all ages. They have a full programme for children and young people. Students – undergraduates and graduate students of both universities, and young adults are most welcome in their fellowship. The church gathers for worship every Sunday and meets in home groups and on Zoom during the week.
Local Youth Club for young people (11-19 year olds) in Rose Hill. Rose Hill Girls Youth Club – Thursdays, 5.30-7pm. Rose Hill Boys Youth Club – Wednesday 5.30-7pm. The club is based at Rose Hill Community Centre is run by Oxford Youth Ambition.
The Oxford Methodist Circuit consists of 11 Methodist churches and two ecumenical congregations located in and around Oxford. On their website you can find information about the churches themselves, their members of staff, details of their worship services, along with news of their activities, their noticeboard and diary of forthcoming events, and various articles that might be of interest.
Dovecote Voluntary Parent Committee is made up of local parents who came together as a constituted group in 1996 to help meet the needs of young children and families living in a new development known as Greater Leys. They provide various services with the aim of improving outcomes and life chances for young children, children with impairments and families experiencing multi deprivations and social exclusion.
Local Youth club for young people in Barton. Meets on Thursday 6-8pm for 12-16 yrs at Barton Neighbourhood Centre. The club is run by Oxford Youth Ambition.
‘Everything is known except how to live’: these words from the French Philosopher Jean Paul Sarte neatly sum what we most often struggle with: the living of life.
GCSEs, NVQs, Adult education classes, Trade Training on all topics are fairly straightforward. The living of life! Ah well that’s another matter and often complicated. There are no courses on the living of life as such; so we have to work it out or make it up as we go along.
This group is about working out how to live: that is to live life alongside our mental health issues however they’ve arisen and to maintain and or recover our will to fight and reclaim control of our lives.
Every Arena Group represents a library of experiences from which we can each take a page to help ourselves. Groups vary in size yet always enable each individual to express their current concerns and life issues in a supportive, safe and confidential space.
Our vision is to develop this open membership group into a peer support recovery group.
For those interested there will also be opportunities to develop skills as co-facilitators in the group.
