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Our recent events at the Oasis Family Centre included the running of Made of Money facilitated by Voluntary Action Elmbridge and a workshop running on the 28th March on local support available to those with drug or alcohol issues � Transform Housing and Support Forum. Made of money is a 12 week course that ran between January and March and covered topics such as understanding budgeting, credit, and debt and how to save money. Also, as importantly, how we can teach our children about money, and help them become adults who are more able to look after their money. The course was facilitated by Laura Tufnail from Voluntary Action Elmbridge and Justine Hogg from Elmbridge Housing Trust with funding from Surrey County Council and support from Elmbridge Borough Council. We also ran a Big Breakfast and Ladies night with the Love of Learning Team and had a Movie afternoon and lunch for the school aged children during February half term and held a Zumba class. We are continually grateful to our supporters and volunteers as without their help, this work would not be possible.
Oasis believes every child has a right to security, love and a stable environment in which they can develop to their full potential. It was the recognition that this was an impossible ideal in a great number of families that led to the formation of Oasis in 1996. The stress and pressures of living in today’s world always affects those least able to cope. Those in critically dysfunctional family situations, some single parent families, those with drug or alcohol addictions and those in severe financial hardship. And the casualties of all this pressure have always been children... the ones with the least voice, the least influence, the least choice and ultimately the least power to change the environment in which they live. Oasis works with families where the children's circumstance is often symptomatic of years of unresolved issues for the parents and the family unit as a whole. These families find themselves in a circle of abuse and hardship where the outcome is extremely low levels of self esteem and personal worth for all concerned but most of all for the children. |
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