Our impact

 

At Oxford Hub, we have four key approaches to build an Oxford that is better for everyone:

 

Our Annual Review showcases our achievements towards these objectives in 2023-24 – read it here!

Highlights include:

  • Opening our Windale Community Hub, a space we’re co-creating with and for the local community. We’ve had nearly 5000 visits through the door already! We’ve facilitated 22 different types of community activities and hosted 23 different types of activities delivered by partners - including 21 types of learning opportunity and 3 food larders. 

  • Enabling volunteer Big Siblings to support 63 Little Siblings, building positive, long-term mentoring relationships and accessing opportunities that help them fulfil their potential. Together our pairs went on 631 outings.

  • Matching 104 Oxfordshire children with volunteer tutors, supporting them to fulfil their academic potential. Together, they clocked up 1,107 lessons!

  • Our Twinning Programme facilitated the “twinning” of eight Oxford University colleges with a local primary school, with the aim of tackling the attainment gap and improving access to extracurricular activities. Twinning has given over 1,000 local schoolchildren opportunities they might not otherwise have had access to.

  • Our Participatory Grant Making panel have supported 13 successful projects from a fund of £50,000, including ideas to provide robotics courses, fitness for minoritised groups, family summer holidays, and cricket academies. We’ve supported these groups to put their ideas into action, including connecting them to resources, experience, and offering them free space at our Windale Community Hub.

  • Our social prescribing team have supported 201 social prescribing referrals and created and supported wellbeing spaces such as swimming and nutrition groups, a wellbeing group, and a walking group.

  • Our Parent Power team saw 2,316 attendances at events and activities across the year, and ran 104 sessions of 1:1 peer support.

  • FELLOW free English language provision set up and ran 8 new classes at our own Windale Community Hub and in various community spaces.

  • We developed 13 partnerships with local charities to connect Crankstart Scholars from the University of Oxford with community volunteering opportunities. 

    … and much more!