Oasis Community Hub North Bristol

Oasis is committed to working in an inclusive, integrated, empowering and comprehensive way so that all people experience wholeness and fullness of life.
Oasis Ends (‘ends’ is another way of saying the end/ultimate point)
1. Local communities that are characterised by trust, safety, cohesion, mutual support, vibrancy, health and opportunity, and have increasing capacity to address their own issues.
2. People who are excluded from community brought back into community and finding wholeness and fullness of life.
3. The replication of models that effectively contribute to community transformation or bring the excluded into community.

As you can see, Oasis Ends are outcomes statements. In other words, they describe what life should look like where Oasis is operating.
Oasis Hubs
Oasis Hubs are the means to achieve Oasis Ends – in other words, a hub is a vehicle to enable us to achieve our end purpose.
Definition of an Oasis Hub
Oasis Hubs are local places of activity that provide integrated, high quality and diverse services to benefit the whole person and the whole community.

This is achieved by bringing together the Oasis ethos and values, local and national resources and expertise and working together in and with local partnerships, to meet the needs and build on existing strengths and assets in the local community.
The Hub is more than the Academy, but the Hub includes the Academy

We find that sometimes people think that the Hub is simply the community work that goes on around the academy but does not actually include the academy. This is not true.
An Oasis Hub is the joining together of ALL the work Oasis does in any one place – including the academy. The academy is part of the hub – one facet of its work.
The purpose of the Hub, as the Ends Statements indicate, is to serve the whole person and the whole community. A whole person is someone who is flourishing: socially, physically, emotionally, spiritually, educationally, environmentally, morally etc.
Therefore, the ultimate aim of an Oasis Hub is to achieve our purpose through the provision of a wide range of activities which work together in an integrated way to provide holistic support.

The North Bristol Hub is fast developing and now includes the following activities:

- Domestic Abuse campaign (review of PSHE across the 3 academies and running campaigns to raise awareness and develop appropriate support services)
- Community Arts Project at Long Cross to revamp the front entrance to the site
- Oasis Grows- Growing project across the 3 academies culminating in a “Big Picnic” in June 2015.
- Friends of Oasis – a joint parent committee for the 3 Oasis academies in North Bristol.
- Pop up Events – including coffee mornings, Bingo and games nights and big screen events
- Schools Mentoring Project- partnership with Bristol University to provide mentoring support to Year 8 and Year 9 students.
- Community action group- taking groups of students out into the community to help address community issues such as vandalism, litter and loneliness.
- Volunteer Project- developing the volunteer support network and volunteer opportunities across the 4 villages.
- Chaplaincy Support- pastoral support to students, parents and staff across the 3 academies
- Christmas food hampers to support the most vulnerable families