Active Oxfordshire represents and supports key partners in providing sport and active recreation opportunities in Oxfordshire so that everyone can participate in sport and active recreation and reach their full potential. There are a range of volunteering opportunities, from helping at events, organising sporting activities or providing administration, IT fundraising or management skills.
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Oxford City Council website provides information about volunteering opportunities in a variety of settings such as parks and open spaces, conservation and Oxford museum.
Do-it is a national website that enables you to search for volunteering opportunities near you. You can search more than a million volunteering opportunities by interest, activity or location and then apply online.
The Open University helps people to fit study around their life and be their future self sooner with OU’s flexible career-boosting courses. They are the leading university for flexible, innovative teaching and world-leading research in the United Kingdom and in 157 countries worldwide. Uniquely placed to understand the needs of part-time students, combining their learning while earning, our innovative, award-winning distance teaching credentials have seen over 2 million students receive an education, otherwise denied to them at campus-based universities.
The UK’s largest provider of skills, training and employment services. Learn Direct have helped millions of people gain new skills and transform their lives. Every day people up and down the country are learning new skills with Learn Direct. Some want to improve their skills to get a job or get a better job, others want to be able to help their children at school or to use the internet and enter the digital world.
The UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education in England and Scotland. The WEA runs educational courses across the country and priorities the needs of learners who are socially, economically or educationally disadvantaged. Many courses offer national qualifications.
Ruskin College offers residential adult learning to people of all ages and backgrounds. The College aims to provide education and inclusion opportunities to adults, particularly those who may be excluded or disadvantaged.
City of Oxford College is a further education college in Oxford. It has two campuses – one in the city centre and one in Blackbird Leys to the south east of Oxford city. The College works with employers to design and teach programmes that are relevant for the jobs of today and tomorrow. The adult learning courses are varied and enable the learner to develop the skills, knowledge, resilience and confidence to succeed in their chosen subject.
Banbury and Bicester College (formerly Oxford and Cherwell Valley) has a wide variety of courses for adult learners who want to develop a new career path, go farther in their current field, or pursue a leisure interest.
Abingdon & Witney College now provides the Adult Learning courses for Oxfordshire that were previously under the auspices of Oxfordshire County Council. Some courses are free or at reduced cost for those on certain benefits.