List of groups awarded Community Impact Fund grants

Below is a list of groups who have been awarded grants from the Oxford Community Impact Fund, starting with the most recent rounds of funding at the top of the page.

Big Ideas Transition (2022/23)

• Age UK Oxfordshire - To build capacity in our digital support service in Oxford City, to address digital exclusion in the older population, focussed in areas of the City where inequalities are most pronounced. www.ageuk.org.uk/oxfordshire/
• Archway Foundation - To support core costs including staff time, and associated telephone, IT and office costs. www.archwayfoundation.org.uk/
• Autism Family Support Oxfordshire - To work with and inspire autistic children and young people and their families, and support them to reach their educational, emotional and socio-economic needs and potential. www.afso.org.uk/
• Cutteslowe Community Association - To support provision of 6 weeks of activities in the summer school holidays for children in the age range 0-16. www.cutteslowecommunity.org.uk/
• Florence Park Festival (FloFest) - To support costs of the festival day - the infrastructure to create the Festival platform and to pay artists who perform, free activities and projects. www.flofest.uk
• Future Challenges - To support ICT training and support, incentive costs to offer internet connection/ wifi/broadband to vulnerable 45 identified older people who are not online/can’t afford broadband
• Hope Vineyard Church Oxford (Small Steps Project) - The project stocks donations of clothes and equipment for babies and children to help families who may struggle to afford these items, including giving ‘Baby Baskets’ to Oxford mums-to-be. Funds will be used to pay for staff and marketing costs, and website hosting. https://hopeoxford.org/
• In-Spire Sounds - Provides an affordable space for aspiring musicians and community activities while also providing youth work facilities to marginalised groups. www.inspiresounds.co.uk/
• Iraqi Women Art and War (IWAW) Museum - Empowers Iraqi and other women, who are the victims of war and trauma caused through conflict, by using art and creative workshops for self-expression, recording their stories of survival, and creating opportunities to share these experiences with the public.
• Magdalen College School Oxford Limited (Oxford Festival of the Arts) - Oxford Festival of the Arts is a festival across art forms, creating engagement projects, celebrating artistic excellence, whilst embracing the community as a whole. www.mcsoxford.org/
• North Wall Trust - Connects artists and audiences from Oxford to make, share and access art, support artists through residencies and mentorship, and encourage young people and communities to create and participate in the programme. www.thenorthwall.com
• One-Eighty - To support vulnerable children and young people transitioning from primary to secondary school, with their mental health, their thinking, their behaviour and emotions, in order to improve their well-being. 
• Open Door - To run a drop-in service for asylum seekers and refugees, offering a safe space at a convenient central hub to socialise, receive a free healthy hot meal and access to other agencies and sources of help, including health and housing.
• Oxford International Links - To create opportunities for events and programmes for people in Oxford and the 8 twin cities.
• Oxford North Africa Community (ONAC) - Support and caters for the needs of the North African Community as well as other communities in Oxford through programmes including health support, cultural, educational and social activities.
• Oxford Opera Trust - To encourage and give opportunity to the local talent of next generation singers, musicians, creatives to be involved in the opera
• Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Trust - The project aim was to use trained musicians to enable every young person in Oxford to access music and wherever possible participate in music-making
• Oxfordshire Chinese Community and Advice Centre (OCCAC) - To provide independent quality advice and services for the Chinese community in Oxford, enabling them to gain equal access to public resources, improve their quality of life and integrate into society. www.occac.org.uk/
• Oxfordshire Mind - To promote good mental health through high quality services and campaigning for positive change through therapy, benefits advice, a confidential and free information line, courses, physical activity, volunteering and peer-support groups. www.oxfordshiremind.org.uk/
• Peeple - To support parents to make the most of everyday learning opportunities at home and in the community through interventions including the Peep Learning Together Programme, delivering frontline services in Oxfordshire and practitioner training & support. www.peeple.org.uk/
• People, Place and Participation Ltd (Flo's the Place in the Park) - A community hub that generates and distributes community wealth through local employment and social enterprise, tackles social and environmental inequality, and supporting families with local services.
• Restore - To provide innovative therapeutic recovery programmes and coaching support to people with mental ill-health, whilst working with the whole community to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness. www.restore.org.uk/
• SAFE! Support for Young People Affected by Crime - Runs a Blueprint Project - a multi-strand diversionary and creative arts project benefitting young men at risk of exploitation or criminal behaviour in Oxford City, where they are empowered, giving them a voice and helping them and those around them to build protective communities where they can feel safe. www.safeproject.org.uk/
• South Oxford Adventure Playground (SOAP) - To provide free, open access sessions after-school, in school holidays, and a weekly youth club, focusing on physically active outdoor play and activities. https://soapoxford.org.uk/
• South Oxford Community Association (SOCA) - Provides reasonably priced facilities for recreation and social welfare at the South Oxford Community Centre to benefit local residents through education and outreach activities. https://southoxford.org/
• Syrian Community Oxford (SYRCOX) - Works with disadvantaged vulnerable members of the community and inspire them to engage in community work. https://syrcox.org/
• Syrian Family Development in Oxford and Oxfordshire - To support the Syrian community by hosting Eid festivals and providing Arabic education for children. www.facebook.com/SyrianBrothersandSisters/
• Yellow Submarine Holidays - Runs a 3 day programme working with people with learning disabilities and autism, delivering social activities, social enterprise and workplace training to develop confidence and independence. https://www.yellowsubmarine.org.uk/

Big Ideas (2022/23 to 2024/25)

• African Families in the UK (AFiUK) - To develop and establish a cross cultural parenting hub for families of African and other ethnic minority families in the UK to deliver cross cultural parenting programmes.  www.afiuk.org
• Ark-T Centre - To run monthly Community Hub Days with intergenerational programming activity for 0-100 year olds and community focus groups to feedback on local services and how to improve them. www.ark-t.org
• Arts at the Old Fire Station (the Old Fire Station) - To contribute towards the development of a new programme of creative workshops (including a new Creative Engagement and Learning post) and explore how to develop the project’s digital capacity. oldfirestation.org.uk
• Aspire Oxfordshire - To help expand the social impact of Aspire’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) in Oxford City to benefit many more residents, and to continue providing self-employment advice for vulnerable adults and expand towards areas of greater deprivation through ‘pop-up hubs’ in community venues. www.aspireoxfordshire.org
• Asylum Welcome - To engage, support and work with refugee community organisations across the city. www.asylum-welcome.org
• Barton Community Association - To expand the work already being done by the Association and expand the volunteer base who will, in turn, provide activities and events for the benefit of all the residents. www.bartoncommunityassociation.com
• Blackbird Leys Adventure Playground (BLAP) - To run an after school programme to enable the children to have fun, enjoy being children and in the process discover how much better it is to listen, to reflect and to build bridges rather than to be destructive in their relationships. blap.org.uk
• Cowley Road Works - To build bridges between communities facing divides and narrow the gap between pockets of disadvantage and privilege in Oxford. www.cowleyroadworks.org
• Donnington Doorstep Family Centre - To provide opportunities for families with children under 5 to access activities that focus on development and growth through play and family support through peer networks and connection. www.donnington-doorstep.org.uk
• Elmore Community Services - To support women affected by domestic abuse by providing seamless and bespoke support to people seeking to overcome barriers to accessing services. elmorecommunityservices.org.uk
• EMBS Community College - To work with other youth organisations to provide youth activities for vulnerable young people to counteract the challenges faced post lockdown.  www.embs.ac.uk
• Film Oxford - To deliver targeted creative activities to those from most marginalised communities through the iCreative, BFI Academy and Shadowlight platforms to help them develop skills, build confidence, offer new pathways, create a sense of place and improve health and well-being. www.filmoxford.org/
• Fusion Arts - To support, create, facilitate and develop arts and educational opportunities across Oxford’s diverse communities to bring about social and climate justice, reduce isolation and increase community cohesion. https://fusion-arts.org/
• Good Food Oxfordshire - To evaluate the Community Wealth Building pilot of OX4 Food Crew as a vehicle to reduce social and economic inequality and build a roadmap for food-based and other services and enterprises. goodfoodoxford.org/
• Home-Start Oxford - To support volunteers to conduct home-visit support for parents with babies and children under five homestartoxford.org.uk
• Justice in Motion - To deliver community engagement work, including setting up a new Youth Panel and developing creative residency programmes for schools, colleges and youth organisations. www.justiceinmotion.co.uk
• Leys Community Development Initiative (Leys CDI) - To develop and deliver projects to benefit the community of the Leys including the Youth Project and the over 50s Clockhouse Project to improve mental and physical health, and reduce isolation in young people and older people. https://leyscdi.co.uk/
• Makespace Oxford CIC - To help fund a Community Development Coordinator to support purpose-led organisations and individuals delivering positive impact to their communities to occupy underused spaces in the city at an affordable rent. https://makespaceoxford.org/
• Mandala Theatre Company - To use the power of performance to change young lives, build communities and foster social justice working with young people from ethnically diverse and White working-class backgrounds, including care experienced, care leavers and young people seeking asylum and refugees. www.mandalatheatre.co.uk
• My Life My Choice (MLMC) - To provide social activities, training and skills development, volunteering, paid work and leadership roles for people with learning disabilities in Oxford www.mylifemychoice.org.uk/
• OVADA - To support the delivery of artistic activities in Oxford by using approaches that are cross disciplinary, collaborative, exciting, experimental, thoughtful, inclusive, innovative and socially engaging. www.ovada.org.uk/
• Oxford Contemporary Music (OCM) - To deliver a programme of live music events, learning and community cultural interaction that addresses the inequalities in access to cultural, creative and learning experiences in Oxford. www.ocmevents.org/
• Oxford Hub - To develop a pilot peer-to-peer programme, Parent Power, and increase its reach and impact in the city. www.oxfordhub.org/
• Oxford Pride Group Ltd - To deliver a Pride event in Oxford which will include a number of community stalls offering information and advice relevant to the LGBTIQ+ community
• Oxford Youth Enterprise Ltd  (Name It Youth Project) - To continue and expand current youth work engagement programmes - detached work, open access provision and mentoring/training project
• Oxfordshire Science Festival (IF Oxford) - To deliver an annual science and ideas Festival that brings together hundreds of contributors with thousands of audience members through a huge range of projects, events and long-term activities. https://if-oxford.com/
• Parasol Project - To run a Community Volunteering Project and empower young people of all abilities to make a positive local difference by delivering an inclusive training, mentoring and placement programme in Northway and beyond. www.parasolproject.org/
• Pegasus Theatre Trust - To provide subsidised free access across all shows, classes and cultural activities for young people and their families for whom socio-economic factors are a barrier to taking part. https://pegasustheatre.org.uk/
• Refugee Resource - To support refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants with a wide range of issues. www.refugeeresource.org.uk/
• Sanctuary Hosting - To provide temporary accommodation for refugees, asylum seekers or other vulnerable migrants at risk of homelessness in the homes of volunteer hosts
• Tandem Oxford - To explore/develop a Tandem Collective membership scheme and develop the Tandem participatory network through outreach work as part of their existing projects. www.tandembefriending.org.uk/
• The Oxford Playhouse Trust - To co-create immersive theatre with young people and community groups from across Oxford www.oxfordplayhouse.com/
• The Story Museum - To enable children and families to celebrate all forms of stories and provide opportunities for creative practitioners to reach a wider audience www.storymuseum.org.uk/
• Wood Farm Youth Centre - To support sessional staff and volunteers as they engage with BAME young people, young people who have special needs and developing partnership work with other agencies. www.facebook.com/events/titup-hall-drive-oxford-ox3-8-united-kingdom/wood-farm-youth-club/129068804479198/
• Young Women's Music Project - To provide free regular workshops, gigs, socials, talks and music skills courses alongside mentoring opportunities, in partnership with trained freelance practitioners to young women, non-binary and trans people. www.ywmp.org.uk/