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Boroughthon 2008

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It started at 10.30 and finished just before 6pm, it lasted around 20 miles and involved many sore feet and sweaty people.

It was the the Oxygen 2008 Boroughthon involved the Oxygen team, volunteers and young people spanning the entire length, breadth and width of the Borough to visit the site of each of the Oxygen projects in Kingston Borough. This video gives you snapshots of some of our walk, without any shots of developing blisters

Borough-thon 27th May

To mark the first seven successful years of their work with young people and to help fund work in the next seven, myself and a group of Oxygen staff, gap workers and volunteers are going to undertake the mammoth task of visiting each of the 18 Oxygen projects in just 7 hours.

Leaving the Oxygen centre at 10am,we will head out to the Cambridge Estate, Kingsnympton Estate, Richmond Park, Kingston Vale, North Kingston, Kingston town Centre, Surbiton town centre, the Alpha Estate, Tolworth Girls School, Hook’s Devon Way Youth Centre, Chessington Methodist Church, Venner Youth Centre, Coombe Boys School, New Malden High Street, Kingston Road, before arriving back at Oxygen by 5pm . Altogether we will cover around 20 miles as they span the entire width of Kingston Borough.

Would you consider making a donation towards our sponsored efforts via:
http://www.justgiving.com/boroughthon

All donations are secure and sent electronically to Oxygen. If you are a UK taxpayer, Justgiving will automatically reclaim 28% Gift Aid on your behalf, so your donation is worth even more. 

Thanks and best wishes,

Richard

The 2008 Borough Community Road Shows

The Kingston Borough Community Road Shows are RBK organised events intended to reach out to the local community to promote services and important issues and they are looking for groups to come along and be involved. They are looking for a wide range of services and organizations for families with children and young people aged 0-19 to be available with activities, goodies and details about their service.

Following the great success of last years Road Show events across the borough, the Extended School Managers are pleased to announce details of the 2008 Road Shows. The details of the dates and venues for this years road shows are:

• Tuesday 24th June 2008, Alexandra Recreation Ground, Surbiton
• Friday 27th June 2008, Dinton Fields, St Agatha’s Drive, Kingston
• Wednesday 2nd July 2008, Dickerage Adventure Playground, Dickerage Lane, New Malden
• Thursday 3rd July 2008, Churchfields, off Compton Crescent, Chessington

The road shows will run after school, 3.00-6.00pm with set up from 1.30pm. There is no cost for being involved. It would be great for us as Oxygen to work with churches in each area to promote the work underway in that location. In addition to working with Oxygen, any group who wish to run their own stall would find themselves coming into contact with children, young people and families from across the community.

For more information on this great event and Oxygen's input contact Richard James on 020 8547 0566 or email richard@oxygen-online.org

Oxygen is now on Facebook

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Oxygen towards 2012!

You are invited to the evening launch of the Oxygen 2008-12 Strategic Plan due to be held at St Peters Church, London Road, Kingston at 8pm on Thursday April 24th 2008. It was in 2001 when the churches of the Royal Borough of Kingston came together through their young people to launch a new local charity that they subsequently named Oxygen. Now just six years after it was launched Oxygen has run over thirty different projects, has been in contact with over 4,500 young people and has been the springboard for many new and exciting initiatives around the Borough including Rm1, Street Pastors and Sacred Space Kingston.

Building on the great foundation established in the last few years the staff and trustees of Oxygen have conducted a comprehensive consultation and review of Oxygen, its work, its role and the opportunities that there are to make a long term difference in the lives of those young people who need the greatest support. The results of this review and the subsequent exciting plans for Oxygen’s work over the next 4 years are going to be unveiled for the first time at this special launch event which we hope you are able to come to. Our event will last for 1½ hours and will start with a review of Oxygen up to followed by the Oxygen 2006-7 AGM and a time of thankful worship. After this review of the past, we will move onto the future by giving a presentation summarising the plans and strategic aims for the next 4 years. The issues raised in the presentation will be used then for a time of prayer. Following this and over coffee there will then be a chance for questions and an opportunity to look around various displays and meet different people involved in Oxygen's work in different areas including the Borough wide detached youthwork project Urban Nites, the Extended School club Rm1 and the town centre initiative Street Pastors.

We do hope you are able to join us at this unique day, please feel free to invite anyone you think would benefit from coming as we are excited about what God is doing amongst young people in this area and as such what are our plans to respond to that in the years ahead.

Oxygen Dec 2007 Prayer Letter

The 2007 prayer letter, written by the GAP Team, aims to keep you up to date with what is happening in the different areas around the Borough where Oxygen is working. We hope that it inspires you to continue to pray for us and for the work amongst young people.

Download it from here

Update from Tim Worth...

Hi Guys, this is Tim from the Oxygen team. I wanted to send you a short story about some of what we are doing....

Room in Surbiton is going really well. We've spent the past couple of weeks getting to know the boys (and the couple of girls who occasionally come) and we are meeting today (monday) to begin planning some proper activities for the sessions.

We've been constantly praying for oppurtunities to talk to the lads about beliefs and faith and those oppurtunities have been presenting themselves in some of the most unlikely situations such as when we're trying to calm some of them down after fights. a couple of the boys seem to understand more about faith than I do and could already be developing a relationship with God.

Hopefully we'll be able to provide them with oppurtunities for this faith to grow and for the others to start seeing more of what God is really like.

Tim
tim.worth@oxygen-online.org

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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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The Oxygen Sites

In addition to its own website (www.oxygen-online.org) and its galleries, forums and events, Oxygen host and helps with a number of local websites. Through these we hope to be able to inform people not only what Oxygen is doing, but as to what the local and Christian news is. Oxygen also offers website design, hosting and updating services for various local charities and services, for more information contact us on oxygenmedia@oxygen-online.org

Oxygen News: Up to date news, prayer requests

The latest from the Oxygen office, news, stories from the front line and much more!

www.oxygen-online.org/oxygennews

the latest postings on this site are:

• ACCOMODATION Needed!
• Great Quote
• Urban Nites and Days
• Space for a little more Oxygen on the three Peaks
• Diary of a Prayer Pastor (could this be you?????)

INFUSEnews: Church events, local events, Christian news

Alongside Oxygen News we run a service with news on local events, Christian News as well as job vacancies we know about. This can be found at:

www.oxygen-online.org/infusenews

the latest postings on this site are:

• ACCOMODATION Needed!forthcoming events and activities: April. May and June 2007
• 7th Malden Scouts, based in Green Lane New Malden, need you!
• Facefacts, its facebook
• Britain's new cultural divide
• Accomodation wanted for a young couple
• JOB VACANCY: Missional Development Worker

WANTACHURCH

Wantachurch was set up for the Kingston University Freshers Fayre and provides a place for people, especially students to find churches and Christian events in Kingston Borough

www.wantachurch.org.uk

Sponsored Oxygen events

Are you doing an event for which you are planning on being sponsored. Would you consider being sponsored to raise money for Oxygen. If so you can find out more information from here

www.oxygen-online.org/sponsor

As well as there own websites, Oxygen also runs websites for other local organisations and churches, here are a couple of examples....

St Peters Norbiton: Where our office is based

www.stpetersnorbiton.org.uk

Johnny Bravo

Funnies, news and stories from Richard James the Oxygen Director

www.johnnybravo.org.uk

New Oxygen Job Possibility: Coombe Club

Oxygen is soon hoping to be able to recruit a half time extended school clubs worker for a new project we are looking to launch in partnership with the Local Extended Schools Network and Coombe Boys School in New Malden.

This coombe school after school club proposal has been developed in response to the needs raised by year 7&8 parents in a recent parent/ pupil consultation by Coombe Extended Schools Manager Emma Turner. In this consultation 79% of pupils consulted said they liked the place of somewhere to go after school, and 80% of parents said that although they were working they had not arranged care for their child when they returned from school.

Developing the results of this consultation Oxygen proposes running the combe club, a safe, relaxed place for up to 40 pupils in years 7 & 8 to go after school. In coombe club they would be given a place to (1) relax with friends (2) undertake their homework and (3) engage in creative and participative activities, such as drama, craft workshops, video making, and art.

We are proposing that the coombe club would run five nights a week in the old craft block on the school site. Here a Senior Oxygen worker, supported by two oxygen gap year workers, local volunteers and parents would run a session that would comprise: play, study and chill.

Should you, or anyone you know be interested in applying for this 22 hour per week job then see the enclosed job description and application form. Once we have confirmed that this project will be taking place we will be making an appointment.

Coombe Room Project Leader.doc

Application Form.doc

 

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