Community Hub

We offer opportunities for extended learning beyond the core Academy day. Our Youth and Community Team offer a range of holistic provision to build community, support wellbeing and help people of all ages to reach their God given potential. Oasis’ vision for community is explained in this video.

Oasis Southampton City Farm

Our city farm is at the heart of our community work. It is home to over 50 re-homed animals, a garden and woodland area. Here we offer a variety of inclusive, accessible, and wellbeing boosting activities that include a youth programmes, community programmes, and therapeutic education programmes. Academy students have access to these alongside the wider community offering a chance to learn new skills alongside building their own health and wellbeing. There are activities throughout the year, including in all school holidays. To find out more head to the farm’s website or come along and visit on a weekend afternoon. https://www.southamptoncityfarm.com

Youth Work

A range of activities delivered by youth staff in partnership with the academy:

• Holiday and after school activities including access to the academy pitch, farm activities, trips and youth clubs.
• Mentoring support focussed on wellbeing and confidence building.
• Youth leadership and voice, supporting young people to have agency and influence decision making about issues that affect their lives.

Family and Community Support

Working closely with the academy team our community team can offer support to families facing challenges. This includes:

• Help accessing support to meet basic needs, such as food provision, bills and household goods.
• Oasis Encounter, a course designed to offer a safe place to discuss the realities of parenting. With the aim to strengthen and protect relationships between parents and their children and focussing on improving the whole family’s mental health.
• Community Gardening, developing spaces for people to connect with nature and learn new skills across the local area.
• Community Fundays, a day of summer fun at the academy with opportunities to explore a range of activities that are available in the local community.

We work very closely with the academy but Oasis is here for our whole community so if you are interested in finding out more about any of our provision or have ideas of how you can get involved and help build a flourishing community in this area we would love to hear from you.