Dates for the next round of meetings
Projects funded so far this year (07/08) news article and full list
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Other sources of funding: Connexions Impact Funding
Projects already receiving funding: what's going on?
Attending a Divisional Young People's Forum: what's it like?
New page of hints and tips to help with winning Youth Opportunity Fund Grant Aid
Opportunity funds and Capital funds - what's the difference?
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For the 07/08 funding round you can read this news article about projects funded so far, or download the full list here.
Read on for groups supported and quotes from the young people involved in the previous funding round:
The grant will help Spurgeon's to develop additional holiday projects and other activities for young People in Oxford over a two year period, aiming to use currently undervalued facilities e.g. a Bowling Green.
The grant will help this busy youth club off the Cowley Road, in Oxford, purchase tables and chairs for the coffee bar to make it look "less like a dentist waiting room".
The Youth Support Service's one-on-one mentoring scheme will be providing guitar lessons for some of the young people using the service, leading to performance at community events!
The grant will help provide additional activities for young people in Barton who are at risk of offending. It will introduce Young People to games and activities they may not have come across before e.g. chess.
The extra funding will is project will allow SOAP to open at times it has been unable to before! The money will help provide an after-school activity five days a week for six months, as a pilot initiative.
About twenty-five young people will be involved in regular art and design sessions that will lead to the design of a website by the Young People.
The funding will provide money for local young people to design and produce four editions of a newsletter.
This Project will extend a very small underutilized room in the Youth Centre and create a purpose fitted music studio with hi-tech equipment.
Young Homeless People in Oxford will take part in the inbox project, to produce a newsletter about experiences of being homeless in Oxford
Young homeless people will work with the Bridge staff to design and maintain a secure notice board at The Bridge to keep up to date information on "services and stuff" going on in Oxford for Young People.
The Break Fund will allow young carers in Oxford to access leisure opportunities and social activities that they would not otherwise be able to afford.
The Tracks –Go karting Project will enable young people to learn mechanical skills and "improve team working".
The basketball project will now be able to train twice per week for a year with high level coaching and equipment.
The Drop In Project will provide a wide range of activities for young people in an area currently lacking services/facilities aimed at young people. Activities on offer will include sports, arts, workshops, assertiveness training, food technology, IT.
The Connexions TAP (Teenage and Pregnant) Project will provide a day-long health project for Young Pregnant Teenagers.
The Showtime project will provide dance sessions, instructors and costumes in a dance project leading to performances.
The organisation will provide a range of activities and a trip for young people during the school summer holidays.
Kennington Youth Club will use their grant to purchase a new sports, arts and cooking equipment to make the centre more fun for Young People.
Young People will take part in a four week planning and lead-up to a residential trip during school holidays.
The Youth Centre will improve its capacity for live gigs and music/stage projects by getting in a professional PA monitoring system and lighting rig.
This grant will subsidise young people from Faringdon, Grove and Wantage on a trip to Thorpe Park in the school holidays.
This funding will involve an initial group of twenty young people in the refurbishment of a run-down Youth Centre in Berinsfield. The aim is to re-establish the centre on a safe and vibrant place to go.
The Internet Café Project will enable young people in Berinsfield to access ICT, including the Internet where they will be able to access information for homework, jobs etc.
Wantage Youth Centre's Sweatbox does Sea Fishing will provide a sea fishing trip for young people from Wantage, Grove and Farringdon.
The Campus Youth Forum in Berinsfield will have an “away day” to fully establish and form the new youth forum.
Grant to support the "teenscheme" -- part of family support.
Local Youth Mentoring Abingdon and Kennington Venture Youth Club have both received grants to support participation in a Divisional Young Peopls' Forum.
A grant has been awarded to suppport the development of a recreation ground.
A grant for their play and leisure project.
A grant for refurbishment of the Grove Club.
A grant for the Noah's Ark project.
Grants for two projects: counterpart studio and "pimp my bus", a motorcycle project.
Two grants, one to refurbish the Cromwell centre and one for a paintballing trip.
A grant to set up a skate park in Abingdon.
This grant will fund eight young mums and their children heading out to Aston Tyrell for a three-day residential.
The summer activities programme provides a range of things for around one hundred young people during the school summer holidays. They say: "This money would mean we could do lots of activities that keep us busy and out of any trouble."
Funding was awarded to the centre for a Football project.
This money will help buy some computer games that will encourage young people to take part in different activities.
This grant will set up a group that will offer Young Women in the area the opportunity to play football and improve their skills in a structured way.
A grant has been awarded for staffing and equipment.
Funding will go to refurbish and expand the current youth space and increase the hours of opening.
Disability group L.I.S.T.E.N. will now be able to provide computer facilities for Young People with disabilities.
Two separate grants for a major project to set up a kitchen area in the Centre, and a smaller grabt for a trip for young people.
Grants awarded for equipment and staffing for this youth club.
In South OxfordshireSummer Screen will provide animation workshops for young people at the Youth Centre, then the final film will be shown at a cinema in Oxford as part of the Summer Screen Festival.
The project will fund a variety of indoor sports equipment to provide more "things to do" at the centre.
The refurbishment project will improve the Youth Centre environment and building. "We would benefit from having a nicer environment to chill in".
DISC will organise a skate park competition to promote/increase access to skating to a wider range of young people.
The Vibe will purchase computers and provide young people with access to the Internet for a homework club and project work.
The Youth Club will purchase a new pool table and other equipment to attract more of the local young people to the club.
The Fuse Project will enable young people with disabilities in the Didcot area to have a residential experience and spend time doing things other young people have access to more easily.
The Wallingford youth Forum will have a residential project which will focus on consolidating the forum, team building, and understanding roles and responsibilities.
"Much needed equipment" will be purchased for Wheatley Youth Centre including a pool table and Playstation games. The "running group" (young people's committee) have been asking for this equipment for the last three years.
This project will provide space and equipment for computer courses, homework, clubs and media projects.
The healthy eating programme will introduce different ways of healthy eating and help to stimulate young people to reflect on their current diet.
The Little Milton Film Club will enable young people in a rural isolated area to have a place to meet and watch films.
The cookery and kitchen project will complement the Healthy Eating Programme by providing up to date equipment and kitchen refurbishment for young people to learn about preparing and cooking food.
The Bike Shack will use/adapt existing space to develop a workshop and run bike repair workshops for 50+ local young people.
This Art Project will provide sessions and workshops for c. 60 young people in the rural areas of Woodcote, Cholsey and Goring.
This re-energised voluntary club will purchase much needed equipment including Board Games, Sports Equipment, Play station games so that the young people have "something to do".
The very run down Arts and Crafts area will be refurbished and renovated and provide arts/crafts equipment for the young people who use the centre.
The ‘Photo’ Project will provide young people with an opportunity to develop photographic skills and display their work.
The OX14 Mentoring Project will extend its service to support work with individuals and groups of young people in the Abingdon area.
The Information Project will purchase computers for use by young people at the centre to replace old ones (currently described as, "not working well – rubbish!")
The Images Project is a photography project for young women working on self-esteem and identity.
The grant will allow the Youth Centre to build a music studio in the youth centre, for use by current users and to provide facilities for other young people in Banbury.
The project will develop additional holiday projects and other activities for young people in targeted areas of the Cherwell district.
The Asian History Project will enable young people to research Asian history and culture in the area.
A grant has been awarded to allow the club to buy a wheel-away net.
A grant has been awarded to help Spurgeons continue their work with young people who have been bereaved.
A grant has been awarded to help refurbish and equip the band (music) room.
A small grant to help buy a computer.
A grant to support creation of m aterials and publicity for a festival of new drama.
A grant to provide equipment and materials to support work with young offenders.
A small grant has been awarded to the local mentoring service.
A grant has been awarded to support the Banbury Young Homeless Project's "Have your cake and eat it" project.
A grant has been awarded to help make a better sports area.
Development of the music studio, including staffing and other costs.
A grant to support the Bicester Bus Project.
A film will be made by deaf and hard of hearing young people on the subject of "life as a deaf or hard of hearing Young Person".
This funding will contribute to the overall funding for the Summer Arts Project involving 70 young people from the Looked After system to take part in an extensive summer arts project.
Over the next few weeks bids will be being considered from Cherwell, South Oxford and for the Countywide projects, so keep checking back to find out more about what's being funded for young people around Oxfordshire.
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Right: Oxford Divisional Young People's Forum considers the applications for funding at the summer 2006 meeting
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