Community

Extended Services

All Oasis Academies offer opportunities for extended learning beyond the core Academy day. Extended community use is part of the Academy vision. We aim to provide integrated care for all students and, currently, we are working with Birbeck University, offering 'Higher Education Introductory Studies' as well as a number of other providers who are offering vocational courses for our parents/carers and other community members.

Development Partners

We have partnerships with many local organisations including St Mildreds Church, Rotary Club of Croydon, Home Start Croydon, Lifeline Croydon, Churches in Action, Three Faiths Forum and national organisations such as National Citizenship Service.

Global Links - Oasis Zimbabwe and Oasis Belgium

Staff and students are forging strong links with Oasis staff who work in preschools, health projects, education, IT and skills programmes, and directly with the children and young people who they work so tirelessly for. Current project links include:

• 'Tanaka' - Shirley Park students have fundraised for this project which improves the life chances of street girls by supporting them residentially through education, health and safety. Our support is ongoing.
   
• Pre-Schools - Shirley Park Children's centre shares good practice and resources with several Oasis trained pre-schools in Harare.
• We are working, together with Oasis Belgium, on projects which will bring together students from our Academy and young people from Belgium in the fight against human trafficking.

STOP THE TRAFFIK

Each Oasis Academy supports and fundraises for STOP THE TRAFFIK - a global coalition of more than 1,000 member organisations in 50 countries and tens of thousands of activists all over the world.

STOP THE TRAFFIK exists to PREVENT the sale of people, PROTECT the trafficked and PROSECUTE the traffickers.

Find out more at www.stopthetraffik.org