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.
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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.
Big Brothers Big Sisters creates long term mentoring friendships that support children to thrive in life. They match volunteer mentors with local children aged 7-11. These positive relationships have a lasting influence on young people’s lives, boosting their self-esteem and helping them to achieve their goals. It’s also loads of fun!
Big Brothers Big Sisters is a project based in Oxfordshire, and run in partnership between Oxfordshire County Council Children’s Services and Oxford Hub.
‘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.
Free debt advice and personal support in your community.
We have centres in Witney, Chipping Norton, Thame, Wheatley, Oxford, Wallingford & Didcot to provide full long-term support to all, regardless of faith, background, size and nature of debt.
Clients get to meet a friendly local debt coach in their own home, can benefit from the emotional and practical support of a befriender, and will be given practical options for getting out of debt tailored to them by a well-established national charity.
Nai’s House CIO is unique, user led suicide prevention and mental health support service for under 30s.
We provide an easy to access, flexible and consistent support service that is tailored to meet the needs of each individual guest, in a non-clinical, non-judgemental, confidential setting.
A blend of youth and well being services, our holistic approach helps our guests manage their emotional and mental well being.
We offer 1-2-1 ongoing support, crisis support and suicide intervention and prevention through our trained Supporter Team of volunteers; Counselling is delivered by student and qualified counsellors; Our caregiver and bereavement support is offered through our trained volunteer family team; and qualified practitioners offer holistic treatments and activities.
Enrych Oxfordshire is a charity that supports adults with a physical disability to enjoy the most active and independent lives possible.
We need volunteers of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to create partnerships and share in a leisure or learning activity with our members.
We deliver PA services in Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Oxfordshire.
We also run a calendar of online social groups.
Please contact us for free Therapy and Life Coaching sessions by BACP-approved Counsellors and Oxford University Qualified Life Coach.
Sessions for now will be via online video service due to the Covid-19 restrictions but its safe and non-invasive.
Register now. Spaces are limited!
We are a women’s charitable company, working with Black, Asian, African, Caribbean, Hispanic Ethnic Minority women in Oxford and Oxfordshire: who have been through Domestic Abuse, trauma or Covid related grief, providing free online counselling and coaching services.
Rehab 4 Addiction is a free helpline run by people who’ve beaten drug and alcohol rehab themselves.
Rehab 4 Addiction works closely with rehabilitation centres and outpatient clinics throughout the United Kingdom and the admissions team match a patients’ addiction with an appropriately placed rehabilitation centre.
Care2Talk offers support to female and male victims of domestic violence.
Care2Talk have been running a Change Behaviour Programme and Partner Support Service in Uxbridge since 2011 and in Feltham since 2014.
We are a non-funded community service offering support to men, women and children in the community.
We currently offer the following services:
- A Change Behaviour (Domestic Violence Intervention) programme for men and women who use/have used Domestic Violence/abuse in their intimate partner relationships.
- A Nationwide Change Behaviour Programme for women who use Intimate Partner Violence/ Abuse.
- A partner support service for men and women who are attending the programme
- A Counselling Service for women and men who have suffered from or who are suffering from Domestic Violence/Abuse
- 10 week You & Me, Mum programme for mothers who are living with or have lived with domestic violence/abuse. AND support for their children.
- A general low cost Counselling service for anyone needing counselling and support.
- Mindfulness programme and sessions.