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.
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Guidepost Trust exists to provide services to meet individual needs so that each person has the opportunity to fulfil their aspirations and maximise their potential. They seek to achieve excellence in their work and lead the way in researching, delivering and disseminating good practice.
To deliver their vision Guideposts mission is to:
- Break Barriers – Within society caused by misconceptions, prejudice, oversight or lack of provision.
- Build Bridges – With essential information, resource, services and therapeutic approaches to help people manage their needs and connect with their communities.
- Create Connections – So people have the opportunity to enjoy independence in all aspects of their lives – home, families, friends, leisure, learning and work so they can be an active member of society.
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.
Go For It (GFI) facilitate social opportunities and personal development to young people aged 16 years and over with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Aspergers in Oxfordshire. GFI are providers of fun, educational-quality support within your chosen environment and aim to recognise and develop every member’s potential. Working with their service users, parent/carers and professionals, they encourage them towards person centered challenges that are within their reach.
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.
Fringford Youth Club is for young people between the ages of 11 to 16 years old. It is held on alternate Thursdays (term time only) between 7pm and 8.30pm.
It is a chance for teenagers to meet and interact and take part in different activities.
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.
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.