The Oxygen Summer Scheme

School holidays are amongst the hardest times for parents who often run out of ideas on how to entertain and keep safe their sons and daughters. As summer temperatures rise so do tempers as parents become frustrated and children and young people get bored.

Now in response to an approach from the local Extended Schools Group, Oxygen has developed a summer scheme is to counter this by creating fun, engaging, learning and adventurous opportunities for some of the most vulnerable young people in Kingston Borough between the ages of 11-16 during the school holidays. Through a combination of sports, creative arts (film & music) against a backdrop of adventure and teamwork, the Oxygen Summer scheme aims to give parents in each neighborhood in the Borough the assurance that their children are involved in something safe and positive.

This exciting development marks the start of a new thrust in Oxygen’s work whereby we in partnership with the Extended Schools Group, Local Authority and Children and Family Services run schemes for some of the most at risk and needy young people in the Borough.

However to do this effectively we need your help, therefore would you consider.

1.     Being involved: During this, a pilot year we are running this scheme for 3 days in each part of the Borough. We will be in Chessington on the week commencing 30th July, Kingston week commencing 6th August, New Malden week commencing 13th August and Surbiton week commencing 20th August.

Would you consider giving up 3 days of your summer holidays to help us with up to 25 young people in each location, you could play some games, make some lunches, or just be around to chat to young people

2.     Praying for us: We need your prayer support, especially as this is a scheme that is being piloted this year and is set to expand during the year to come. Summer is also a difficult time to get people to help all summer, so obtaining consistency over the locations is going to be hard

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