To create stronger, healthier communities and to ensure that everyone living in poverty and disadvantage can achieve their full potential and make a difference to their community.
Our Mission:
We use the powers of creativity and community to tackle inequality and transform lives.
We use creativity to tackle the inequality in our community, through transformative programmes that unlock people’s potential and strengthen communities. People of all ages come here to make art, make friendships and make change in their own lives, and the world around them.
Despite being in one of the richest cities in the country, many people who live in the surrounding area experience multiple inequalities.
When we say the word inequality we mean two things:
- People are not having their basic needs met in housing, education, employment, and health
- People are marginalised by class, gender, sexuality, disability, and race.
These multiple, complex disadvantages lead to poor mental and physical health, barriers to education and employment, less chance to be heard, and reduced opportunity to come together and celebrate.
Our vision is for the communities in this area to become recognised for their creative talent and leadership. And for them to no longer be labelled as victims of a system of inequality, but are instead celebrated as powerful makers of creativity and community-led change.
Our impact
Children
in oxford are living below the poverty line (Indices of Deprivation 2019)
Increase
in young people seeking support from mental health service within the last 2 years
LGBTQ
communities have experienced depression within the last year
200
children and young people have taken part in our workshops every week throughout the pandemic
100%
of children and young people leave or workshops and 1-2-1 sessions with improved mental health.
11,000+
meals have been delivered to deprived households in OX4 from March 2020 – March 2021
