The Sunshine Centre Community Hub offers support and signposting to families and residents in Banbury, particularly those living in the Ruscote and Neithrop areas of the town.
We offer a variety of activities and services to help overcome some of life’s challenges. If we can’t help ourselves, we can signpost you to charities and partners who can.
In addition to to our community hub, we are home to a full daycare nursery, providing childcare for children age 9 months to 5 years.
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The Parasol Project is an Oxford-based charity committed to redressing the balance for disabled and disadvantaged children and young people experiencing, or at risk of social exclusion. Their work with children and young people is split into services for children aged 5 to 12 years and services for young people aged 13 to 19 years.
Peeple is a charity whose main purpose is to support parents/carers, babies and children to learn together by valuing and building on what families already do. Peep practitioners and families share information and ideas from their evidence-based Peep Learning Together Programme about how to make the most of the learning opportunities that surround us in everyday life and play.
Peeple:
- train and support over 1,000 practitioners every year
- are also a delivery organisation, based in Oxford, where they work directly with local families
- run the Little Peeple Nursery for Oxfordshire families
- are involved in research through the evaluation of their programmes and projects, and they work to influence policy both locally and nationally.
The Oxford Foundation utilises theology, poetry, interfaith dialogue, drama, art, music, storytelling, successful role models and 1-2-1 mentoring to inspire young people to achieve and contribute in a meaningful way to British society.
Dovecote Easter and Summer Playschemes are for children aged 4 to 12 year old’s and run from 10am to 3pm.
The Children’s Allotment are a group of local parents and volunteers creating an inclusive outdoor education space for the local community. On the site of a disused old plant nursery in the East Ward Allotments on Cricket Road, they are bringing to life their vision for a new kind of ‘Nursery’ and children’s allotment. They are also trying out a new model that can provide affordable, cooperative childcare, outdoor learning and sustainable food-growing for children and families, all primarily outdoors year round.
Place2Be’s Art Room provision offers free art projects for primary aged children to make at home or school together with parents, carers or teachers. The creative projects can help adults and children to nurture their relationship whilst having fun making art together. Each project offers space to explore an engaging theme through stories, art and conversation. The activities provided can be adapted to a range of settings with children of different abilities and ages.
The Abingdon Bridge champions the wellbeing and mental health of young people aged 13-25 across the Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire. They support young people to have the resilience to help overcome life’s challenges.
They aim to:
• Support young people with timely interventions when they need it.
• Promote good mental health in young people and young adults through community and school partnerships.
• Inspire excellence and achieve integrated services.
• Develop outstanding services to build young people and young adults’ resilience.
• Deliver innovative programmes to meet the needs of vulnerable young people and young adults.
The 7C’s Foundation are essential life skills; Creativity, Communication, Confidence, Cooperation, Coordination, Commitment and Constructive Critical Thinking. They have a profound positive effect on individuals and families improving relationships at home, at work and at school.
Thame Youth Projects is a group of engaged volunteers that employed a full-time youth worker in September 2019. They exist with the express aim of supporting the young people of Thame. They meet on a regular basis and also communicate with the town council, school and other interested parties to ensure that the work they are doing is focused in the right areas and they are able to support as many young people as possible.