List of groups awarded Community Impact Fund grants

Below is a list of groups who have been awarded grants from the Oxford Community Impact Fund:

• Ark-T Centre - Ark-T is a welcoming and inclusive arts and community centre dedicated to enhancing mental health and emotional wellbeing through creativity and the arts. We aim to reduce social isolation, unlock individual potential, empower underserved and marginalised groups, support residents to make long-term positive change and build resilient, connected communities.
• Arts At the Old Fire Station - We are an arts centre in Oxford with theatre, galleries, studios, and a café. We share a building, deep relationship, and ongoing projects with homelessness charity Crisis. We use our building and creativity to support people experiencing disadvantage to thrive.
• Aspire Oxfordshire Community Enterprise Limited - Established in 2001, Aspire has been tackling the most complex social issues in Oxfordshire for over 20 years. We support local people into and towards employment and housing, as the most powerful way to break complex cycles of homelessness, re-offending, and poverty. We support over 1,700 people a year.
• Asylum Welcome - Our mission at Asylum Welcome is simple. We work every day to ensure that refugees and asylum seekers can be safe, feel welcome, and become thriving members of our Oxfordshire community, by catering to their immediate and long-term needs and integration.
• Be Free Young Carers Ltd - Be Free Young Carers is the only independent charity in Oxfordshire working exclusively with young cares aged between 8-17 years old. Our mission is to improve the emotional and social health, resilience and development of young carers by broadening their life options and empowering them to reach their full potential.
• Blackbird Leys Adventure Playground - BLAP exists to provide a safe place where children can play, enjoy each other's company, and learn to interact positively.
• Cowley Road Works - Cowley Road Works engages Oxfordshire’s diverse communities through arts and culture, using the annual Cowley Road Carnival as our primary vehicle. We deliver outreach, nurture local talent, and promote inclusion year-round. Our work fosters creativity, builds community cohesion, and provides meaningful cultural and social impact across the county.
• Cutteslowe Greenhouse Limited - Cutteslowe Greenhouse in Cutteslowe Park is a community hub comprising greenhouses, allotment, community orchard and woodland. Our vision is to be a local place of belonging and wellbeing for the local community and wider Oxford to connect with nature and each other, learn new skills, relax, and grow food together.
• Donnington Doorstep - Our Vision: Children, young people and families are safe, happy and thriving as part of their local community. Our Mission: Donnington Doorstep provides holistic support that is co-created with children, young people and families through building relationships, creating safe spaces and opportunities for development and growth.
• EMBS Community College Limited - We seek to provide young people and adults with the education and skills needed to achieve qualifications, progress into employment and enhance their wellbeing. We value relationships, inclusive community, and aim to make life changing differences, learning from evidence-based practice.
• Emmaus Oxford - Emmaus Oxford helps people out of homelessness for good. We do that by providing a safe place to live, work experience, training and long-term wellbeing support. We call our service users, Emmaus companions.
• Fusion-Oxford's Community Arts Agency Limited - Arts and Social Justice Charity. Equality for all through creativity, access to the arts, skills and resources.
• Home-Start Oxford - Home-Start Oxford provides non-judgmental, compassionate support to families with young children facing challenging times. We are there for parents when they need us most, enabling children to have the opportunity to thrive. We keep children at the heart of everything we do – because childhood can’t wait.
• IF Oxford - IF Oxford is a trusted, impartial way for people to develop meaningful access to the positive impacts of innovation across a broad range of ‘science and ideas’ topics. Its educational
• activities – projects and the Festival – connect organisations and ideas in creative ways, developing individual skills, enhancing resources and enriching society.
• In-Spire Sounds CIC - In-Spire Sounds is a community focused recording studio and youth work facility supporting young people and aspiring musicians in Oxford. The Award winning ‘Inspiring Change Through Music’ project, offers bespoke music and mentoring services to some of the most marginalised, vulnerable young people in Oxfordshire.
• Justice In Motion - We use the performing arts, to illuminate and stir people, to have a positive impact on the world. We do this the following ways: By creating quality work across art forms. By raising awareness about social justice By engaging, inspiring and connecting communities By providing skills development in performing arts
• Leys Community Development Initiative - Leys CDI aims to serve its local community's needs. Working with youths, seniors and intergenerational groups, the work of the charity addresses the areas of deprivation and social inclusion through a variety of health, wellbeing and 'life enhancing' activities aiming to 'enrich the lives of all ages'.
• Makespace Oxford CIC - Makespace's vision is to see thriving community, creativity and innovation, in Oxford’s once empty and underused spaces. Our mission is to revive, repurpose and transform empty and underused spaces in Oxfordshire, into affordable, community driven workspaces / work hubs; nurturing connection and support for social enterprises, creatives, makers and doers, committed to positive social change.
• Museum of Modern Art Limited - Modern Art Oxford (MAO) is a charity and pioneering contemporary art space presenting 3 major exhibitions annually complemented by participatory activity on/off site and online. Through local partnerships MAO ensures a representative artistic programme grounded in education, inclusion, internationalism and excellence, engaging local audiences and delivering social change.
• My Life My Choice - Our mission: 1. Ensuring independent support for people with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire to have their say, claim their rights and to take control of their own lives. 2. Ensuring that their views are taken seriously. 3. “Power Up” people to make a positive contribution to society.
• OVADA (Oxfordshire Visual Arts Development Agency) - OVADA is an inclusive arts space in Central Oxford, engaging with underrepresented communities to participate with the arts for positive social effect. We want to ensure that everyone feels welcome.
• Oxford Community Action - OCA is a Black and racially minoritised led grass-roots community organisation that exists to tackle racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in Oxford. We promote community development, social inclusion, and social justice. We tackle health, educational and socioeconomic inequalities. We also run a social enterprise (OCA Kitchen) and conduct community research.
• Oxford Contemporary Music - OCM’s vision is for a resilient society nourished and bonded by music and sound. We believe in music’s ability to empower communities and people through self-expression, to allow people to question, imagine and dream. We bring artists, audiences and participants together to create memorable and meaningful experiences for all.
• Oxford Film and Video Makers Limited - Film Oxford, a community arts charity in East Oxford, has 40 years of experience delivering creative arts and training projects. Our mission is to ignite creativity through accessible programs, workshops, events, and socially impactful activities that benefit all communities, particularly the most disadvantaged.
• Oxford Hub - Our vision: Everyone in Oxford has the opportunity to achieve their full potential in life. Our mission: To support, equip and empower people to tackle inequalities of health, education and opportunity, with a focus on where the need and opportunity to make a difference is greatest.
• Oxford Mutual Aid - Mutual aid through community empowerment and emergency food provision; supporting the enhancement of Oxford’s aid infrastructure in response to growing cost of living and
• food poverty. We deliver weekly and emergency food parcels to vulnerable members of the community facing food insecurity.
• Oxford Pride Group Ltd - Oxford Pride is the voice of the LGBTQIA+ community across Oxfordshire, bridging social inequalities, and delivering inclusive cultural experiences. Through events, advocacy, and community engagement, we empower diverse voices to thrive in a vibrant, equitable Oxford, ensuring everyone can participate, belong, and celebrate inclusion year-round.
• Oxford Youth Enterprise Limited - Specialists in the design, development and delivery of unique, anti-oppressive youth and community projects. Our aim is to ensure that we bridge gaps of marginalisation and deprivation that already exist, and those that are newly identified within pockets of communities in Oxford.
• Oxfordshire Chinese Community and Advice Centre - “Oxfordshire Chinese Community & Advice Centre (OCCAC) exists to serve the Chinese community in Oxfordshire by providing independent quality advice and services, enabling them to gain equal access to public resources, improve their quality of life and integrate into society.”
• Oxfordshire Play Association - The Oxfordshire Play Association is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Registered Charity Number 1160320) and has been offering a Countywide Service across Oxfordshire since 1974. Our Vision is to ‘Improve Lives Through Play’ Our Mission Statement is to ‘Champion and to support the rights of all Children and Young People to have access to high quality, inclusive, play opportunities to improve their Physical, Mental and Spiritual wellbeing’.
• Peeple - Peeple exists to help parents improve their children’s life chances, particularly in less affluent areas, by making the most of everyday learning opportunities at home and in the community.
• Pegasus Theatre Trust - Pegasus is an inclusive beacon of creativity for young people and communities. We are a place where children, young people and their families and the wider community can connect, be creative, share stories and have fun. Our cultural offer is the gateway to more fulfilled lives.
• Refugee Resource - Our mission is for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and vulnerable migrants to build meaningful lives as part of the community. We relive mental and emotional stress by offering counselling support, mentoring, social inclusion activities, advice and advocacy and training.
• Rose Hill Junior Youth Club - Our Mission: To support children aged 5 -17 years living in Rose Hill to engage in safe, meaningful, creative and healthy activities that build their positive language, social skills, raise their self-esteem, self-confidence and independence and develop a sense of their own worth and capability.
• Sobell House Hospice Charity Limited - Vision: We aim to make excellent palliative and end of life care available to everybody in our community who needs it. Mission: It is our mission to enrich the lives of our patients and those who love and care for them.
• Survivor Space Oxfordshire - To support survivors of sexual violence across Oxfordshire, promote and advocate for their needs and work towards the elimination of sexual violence by: 1. Providing a range of services that meet the needs of survivors. 2. Raising awareness of the impact of sexual violence and the need for specialist services. 3. Challenging attitudes about sexual violence.
• T(ART) Productions CIC - T(ART) creates fun and accessible Queer arts and social events in Oxfordshire. Known for our safer space policy, we strive to make our events inclusive and accessible. We are by the community, for the community, and our work tackles social isolation and addresses social stigma in the community.
• The Oxford Playhouse Trust - A Playhouse for Everyone. Oxford Playhouse, in the heart of our city, is a welcoming and inclusive organisation where world-class theatre is produced and presented for many thousands of audience members each year, and enriching creative opportunities are shared and enjoyed by all ages and communities.
• The Parasol Project - The Parasol Project is a small Oxford based inclusion charity based on the belief that our community is stronger if everyone has the opportunity to be included regardless of ability, background, gender, race or religion.
• The Story Museum - Our mission is to enrich young lives through stories. Through immersive galleries, events, and exhibitions, we celebrate stories in every form and their enduring power to change lives. Our outreach programme supports Oxford's least served communities, building creativity, literacy, and wellbeing for children and young people.
• Waste2Taste CIC - Waste2Taste is an Oxford based CIC committed to working towards a vibrant, healthy, and sustainable food culture. We work to tackle food waste and climate change by making use of high-quality food surplus ingredients to prepare delicious and healthy meals for the community. Primarily a catering service, Waste2Taste works with food as a tool to ensure everyone in the community has access to enough food in order to thrive.
• Yellow Submarine Holidays - We believe people with learning disabilities and autism deserve to live life to the full! To build confidence, friendships and independence, for 11-18s and for adults we run social clubs, activity days and trips, and residential holidays/respite breaks. For adults we also deliver daytime personal development and workplace training.
• Young Women's Music Project - An inclusive, supportive space for young women, trans and non-binary people to get together to make music, learn new skills, express themselves, and grow in confidence. Based in Oxford, we focus on working with 14 - 25-year-olds. We’re more than a charity, or music project: we’re a supportive community.