Our youth clubs

We now provide four accessible and inclusive after school youth club sessions for all children and young people aged 5-16, living in and around Rose Hill.

Our free sessions provide safe, meaningful, creative and healthy activities which aim to improve self-confidence, socialization, and independence.

Our work with food

Rose Hill is in the 10% most deprived areas of the UK ( 2019 IDACI), with 48% of children living in poverty.

For some children, our youth club activities are the only enrichment activities they can access.

In response to this high percentage, we make sure that all children and young people who come to our youth club sessions have access to a hot and nutritional dinner.

The majority of the food that we serve is surplus, which means that we can save good quality food from landfill thanks to SOFEA and Oxford Food Hub.

We also utilize surplus food through cooking activities and clubs, teaching children practical skills, about where food comes from and its nutritional value.

Supporting families is another important part of our work, one of the ways we do this is through our family food bank.

Mentoring

We provide additional support for schools, social workers and care organisations through our mentoring service. We take referrals for children and young people and offer tailored one-to-one mentoring sessions with a qualified youth worker.

Our service aims to support vulnerable and disadvantaged youth, giving them a safe space to feel unburdened.

We help them to improve their mental well-being, to develop coping strategies, socialize with others, and gain tools to build resilience through a range of engaging and creative activities.

Our allotment

We set up our allotment space in 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, so that we could engage safely with children and young people.

This was a great success and the space has been used by hundreds of children and young people.

The space has been used to facilitate mentoring sessions, arts and crafts projects and a regular allotment club for young people.