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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

Oxygen is now on Facebook. Here we have posted the pictures from thevent as well as news of forthcoming events. Become our friend by clicking here:  

   

 

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.

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

Thevent thend

Saturday 2^nd December 2006 will go down in history as the last ever Oxygen bands night, thevent. After nearly 50 shows, promoting over 100 bands the Oxygen monthly band night coming to an end.

Filling the last night of thevent will be an all star cast of bands (available to view via the Oxygen myspace www.myspace.com/thevent) along with prizes and videos. Promoter of thevent and Oxygen worker Chris Wheeler said; “ we want thevent to finish on a real high, and a great party night. Thevent has been a great night out for young people but the time has come time to draw it to and end”.

The end of thevent is not the end of live music at Oxygen however, for replacing thevent in 2007 will be an all new live show, offering places for soloists, comedians as well as the large number of bands in and around Kingston Borough. Anyone interested in performing at the new live show should contact the office on info@oxygen-online.org or 020 8547 0566

Anyone wishing to buy tickets for thevent should go online to www.oxygen-online.org/tickets

Oxygen :: Urban :: Gallery

Street Pastor Prayer Letter 24th Sept 2006

Our Street Pastor Team that was out this past Friday was Brenda Tyrell, Alison, Amanda, Gordon and Estrella, prayer team was Dave and Helen Priest and Sukin. It was a fairly quiet evening with many new students/freshers out in town. With regards to those we met on Friday and the situations we saw while out, please could you pray for the following people

• Please pray for the many young people who we come into contact with who ask us what we do and why, they are usually supportive and we hope we are changing their view of The Church.
• Please thank God for the great time that we had at fresher fayre, good contacts made and pray that the students would remember us on the streets.
•  For the next three weeks the clubs are saying it will be busy in Kingston because of the freshers coming up, please pray for the new people coming to Kingston Uni.
• Please pray for the young lady who thought her drink had been spiked and pray that if it does happen that those responsible would be caught.
• Please pray for the homeless man that we have met again, that he would find peace and Jesus.
• Please pray for the young man who had been assaulted and for the witness of the street pastors to the paramedic attending him.
• Please pray for the Street Pastors that are going out this Friday Louis, Tracy, Ximena, Brenda and Phil Crump, Prayer pastors are Shervin, Helen and,Soo lin and you if you would care to join us

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