In a time of escalating social and environmental crises, community space is essential to build local community resilience. In Oxford, young people desperately need space to meet and socialise without financial barriers. This is especially true of young black and asian people. By meeting the local communities’ needs, we can also make environmental education and activities available to more people, which the 2019 Citizens Assembly on Climate Change identified as a gap in Oxford. We believe in the power of young people to make change, and so the project is youth-led.

Our first priority will be making a space available to young people so that they can work, pray, or hang out for free. Further along, we’d like to set up the following: a pay-as-you-can veggie cafe, environmental education, self-defence classes….