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Work Experience Awards

Oxygen recently received an award from the Schools Vocational Development Service in Kingston for offering excellent post-16 work experience. The award was for a media work experience placement offered to two sixth form students from Southborough High School in June 2011. Charlie Bamford and John Trend attended the awards ceremony which celebrated the achievements of young people on their work experience placements and recognised the important role that employers play in offering placements. Pictured are Charlie and John receiving the award from RBK's post-16 work experience co-ordinator, Sharon Pratt.

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New Reading

Just started a new book by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Having read his two books on Stalin, I now am pouring my attention into his biography of Jerusalem.
There's something quite special about sitting in a comfy chair in the summer sun indulging in a fascinating read.

New Reading

Just started a new book by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Having read his two books on Stalin, I now am pouring my attention into his biography of Jerusalem.
There's something quite special about sitting in a comfy chair in the summer sun indulging in a fascinating read.

Oxygen 2011 Commissioning: Saturday 1st October

Our 2011 commissioning service is to be held on Saturday 1st October at 3pm at New Malden Baptist Church. See this invitation for further details.

Oxygen AGM

We will be holding our annual general meeting on Tuesday 31st May at 7:30pm at St John the Divine, New Malden. If you wish to attend please contact the Oxygen office so that we can gauge numbers.

Staffing positions

Oxygen will be looking at recruiting some new staff and would like to hear of anyone who might be interested in working for us; we will soon be advertising vacancies in administration fundraising and youth work. So please watch this space.

John Trend

An award for work experience

We have quite a nice update today as I am able to inform you all that Oxygen has recently been given an award for the work experience we have done with some students from Coombe Boys' / Girls'. Which is a great complement to a small part of what goes on here at Oxygen.

staffing updates

As you may well have noticed this blog hasn't been updated in quite some time so first things first we are no longer looking for a new director as John Trend has taken up this baton and has been director since the 1st of October 2010. He has really got stuck in to the workings of oxygen visiting the projects talking with the leaders and many other key people.

Part of his job is to see that Oxygen stays alined with it's vision “to give all young people in Kingston the opportunity to know and follow Jesus” and build on the great work of Richard and the previous gap years teams and supporters.

We have also found a replacement for Ash as RM1 Co-ordinator in the form of Beth(Jay) Goddard who took over at the beginning of this half term, but is establishing herself very well.

And of course our new gap year team has begun this year we have four workers Ayrika, Jack, Jasmine and Libby they began in september and have all settled into the flow of Oxygen well.

Sarah shares the struggles of faith

Its been a while since i last wrote. I trust that you are all well, I am. A lot has been happening in my life and I'll try share as much as i can for now. I am a christian doing youth work with a christian organisation. Oxygen’s vision being to give young people an opportunity to discover and follow Jesus, by serving, building relationships and relying on God. Why am i saying all this you must be wondering? Well, i don't even know how to say it but like for the past 2months or so God hasn't seemed real to me. Which brings some irony to the equation because of the kind of work I'm involved in. That's why i have been really silent because how do you share this? How do i tell someone/anyone i have faith that God will seem real to me again in future but He just doesn't seem real to me today?

Am i losing my faith? Am i falling away from God? Why do we Christians go through the same problems, make the same mistakes, harbour the same doubts and indulge in the same vices time and time again? ...

Read the rest of what Sarah thinks here

Waitrose supports the basement

the basement project that Oxygen is involved in has been chosen as the focus for April’s Community Cares scheme at Waitrose Kingston. Throughout the month everyone visiting the stores will be given a token which they can use to vote for their favourite project. If you are popping by Waitrose (in the basement of John Lewis in the town centre) then why not use your opportunity to vote for Oxygen and provide support for the basement in the process.