West Oxfordshire Forum in Carterton

Kelly Gardiner

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Age Concern
Ruth Swift

"Age Concern is the Uk's largest charity working with and for older people. Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern and Help the Aged. We will be known by our new name from Spring 2010"

Clare Crossland with Melanie Bushnell

Carterton Town Council
Janet Eustace

Citizens Advice Bureau
Barbara Shaw
"Citizens Advice provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. "

Communities of Carterton & Brize Norton
Dr Phil Holmes
"The Communities of Brize Norton & Carterton" is a website created
specifically to bring together information to inform and serve the local
community.  Formed in 2003 and funded jointly by St John the
Evangelist Church in Carterton and St Britius Church in Brize Norton,
its aim is to bring disparate information together.  Amongst other
things the website hosts two primary school websites and the
Brize Norton Parish Newsletter, as well as church newsheets.  It
links to a variety of external website providing a portal and it
carries a number of capabilities (the street index covering Shilton
Park, an A-Z index, Out & About with tourist and other attractions,
and an online diary).  The website is run on  a voluntary basis and
we are constantly looking for new sources of information.  Finally,
the site gets a good deal of traffic through the major search engines."
 

Cottsway-Housing

Kate Clemmow

"Cottsway Housing is the largest local Registered Social Landlord (RSL) operating within the West Oxfordshire District. We own and manage over 3,700 homes and provide services to 135 leaseholders and 40 part-owners in our shared ownership schemes. We pride ourselves on an excellent track record in both serving and contributing to the West Oxfordshire local community."

Jane Davies

"Welcome to Dementia Web, an all-age dementia information resource for Oxfordshire. We aim to help people with dementia, their carers and health professionals find information about dementia and the support and care services available to them in Oxfordshire"

NHS Oxfordshire and West Oxfordshire District Council to hold a Health and wellbeing stall with materials and advice on healthy eating, stop smoking, sun safety, drugs and alcohol, sexual health, carers issues, access service info, healthy walks, older people etc.  We will also make copies of West’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy which guides the health promotion and wellbeing work in West."

"As many as 1 in 4 of us in Oxfordshire will experience a mental health problem at some time in our lives. Oxfordshire Mind provides help, support and information in your local community."

"Nexus Community’s vision is to be a credible and sustainable social enterprise at the centre of strong, healthy and active communities. With our partners, Nexus Community’s mission is to manage and provide a range of accessible leisure activities and facilities to increase participation and create healthy lifestyles within our local communities. Our passion to deliver social benefit is our motivation to succeed.
 
Nexus Community is a non-profit distributing independent company that returns any surpluses to the facilities and services we manage in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
 
We work in partnership to bring additional services, such as exercise referral, and a wide range of community based activities which contribute to wider social objectives such as improving health, creating stronger communities, workforce development and supporting children and young people."

ORCC
Aimee Evans

"Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (ORCC) is one of 38 rural community councils (RCCs) in England.  Each is an independent, county-based organisation. The basic aim of every RCC is to promote thriving, sustainable rural communities and to alleviate the disadvantage experienced by many people who live in them."

Grant Hayward

"OCVA is the main umbrella body for the Oxfordshire voluntary and community sector. We provide advice, information and training, act as advocates and representatives, and build partnerships."  Responsible Oxfordshire Business Involvement Network (ROBIN) was launched on 24 March  ROBIN aims to match-make companies and community groups for the benefit of both parties and is administered through OCVA"

"Carterton U3A (University of the Third Age) was formed in September 2008. We are committed to promoting lifelong education, creative and leisure activities by drawing upon knowledge, experience and skills of our members. We organise study and activity groups in accordance with the wishes of the membership."

Pat Chirgwin

"Volunteer Linkup enables people to do voluntary work offering an advice and placement service to people who are interested in becoming volunteers and advice, training and support to organisations who seek volunteer help. In this way we try to ensure that volunteers are not discriminated against and that volunteers are supported in their voluntary activity. We contact local organisations who involve volunteers and collect information on these organisations and the volunteering opportunities available. also working with these organisations to develop new volunteering opportunities."

 

"The Women’s Institute was formed in 1915 with two clear aims: to revitalise rural communities and to encourage women to become more involved in producing food during the First World War. Since then our aims have broadened and we are now the largest women’s organisation in the UK. We celebrated our 90th anniversary in 2005 and currently have 205,000 members in 6,500 WIs.  We play a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities.

Wychwood V
Nick Mottram

"A project which provides opportunities for young people aged 16 - 25 to get involved in volunteering outdoors.  Work benefits the wider Wychwood Project which aims to combine history, conservation and local communities within the former Royal Forest of Wychwood."