OPA is bidding for funding from the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme. Stronger Starts provides grant awards of up to £1,500 to local community projects, with a particular focus on children and young people. Three groups in every community have been shortlisted to receive grant awards and Tesco customers can vote with their Blue Tokens for […]
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We are Crowdfunding via WestHive to support our 2024 Playdays in West Oxfordshire in Witney, Carterton / RAF Brize Norton, Eynsham and Chipping Norton – Please support us to help deliver these amazing FREE Community Playday events https://www.spacehive.com/west-oxfordshire-playdays-2024
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We will be in Banbury for some half term Fun and Play at the Banbury Grimsbury Mini Playday at Banbury Community Garden on Wednesday 25th October from 11am until 2pm
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Our Faringdon Junior Youth Club has now restarted following the Summer break, come along and say Hello!
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Oxfordshire Play Association is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted as finalists for Northamptonshire Community Foundation’s Annual Awards 2023. We have been shortlisted for the ‘Building Better Communities Award’, for our FREE Community Playday events delivered in both Towcester and Brackley in 2022. The Annual Awards, hosted by Northampton Community Foundation, are a
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We are in the process of launching a Junior Youth Club for Wheatley and are looking for passionate staff to work with the Young People in the Village – Please e-mail [email protected] for a full job description / specification and an application form
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We are delighted to be working with our partners Oxford Hub / Parent Power and Peabody New Homes to deliver our new, FREE, Neighbour-Ley project for Parents and Carers of pre school Children in Blackbird Leys – See You on Tuesday 3rd October for our first session
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Why Play is Important in Oxfordshire This report brings together expertise from the Oxfordshire Play Association (OPA), the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University to summarise evidence and data from a wide range of sources, which demonstrate that play has a critical role in children’s development and wellbeing, as well as in the wellbeing of
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