Oxfordshire Partnerships and Forums
Partnerships and forums are places that bring people together to share, discuss, learn, and collaborate.
We believe that good partnerships and forums are connected to and representative of people and communities. They should be open with their work, simple to navigate, and avoid duplication.
See below for our directory and your partnership and forum news, resources and events.
Oxfordshire Partnership and Forum Directory
We aim to maintain a full and up to date list of partnerships in Oxfordshire, sorted by areas of interest. Not listed or need to update your entry? Please use this form.
Voluntary and Community Sector
Oxfordshire All In Partnership
Description: The Oxfordshire All In (OAI) Partnership grew out of the cross sector response to coronavirus. The partnership was instrumental in supporting a coordinated and effective response from the voluntary, public and private sectors to support people and communities. It now operates to support joint leadership from partners in the continuing response to and recovery from coronavirus, and has extended this remit to include setting out a new vision for the Oxfordshire Voluntary Sector.
Website: www.oxfordshireallin.org/our-partners
Contact: info@oxfordshireallin.org
Key: Open membership | Leadership | Cross sector
OSCA
Description: Oxfordshire Stronger Communities Alliance is a partnership that represents the interests of the voluntary and community sector in Oxfordshire. It works to ensure that the voluntary and community sector has the support it needs, and is recognised for its contribution to life in the county. It is part of the Oxfordshire Compact. It brings together voluntary sector support providers, faith groups, and representatives of local councils, the NHS, military and police. It is chaired by the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester and Councillor Mark Gray, Cabinet member for the voluntary sector at Oxfordshire County Council.
Website: https://ocva.org.uk/core/networks-and-forums/
Contact: kathy.shaw@ocva.org.uk
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Oxfordshire VCS Alliance
Description: The Oxfordshire Voluntary and Community Sector Alliance was formed to encourage greater sector collaboration and innovation. It aspires to help create a stronger, more united, credible and well-respected sector, with a clear and cohesive vision.
Website: https://ocva.org.uk/2020/07/09/the-oxfordshire-vcs-alliance-bringing-the-voluntary-sector-together/
Contact: info@oxfordshirevcsa.org.uk
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Oxford Strategic Partnership
Description: The OSP seeks to facilitate, through effective collaboration between local agencies and partners, a thriving city and surrounding area where everyone enjoys a good quality of life - environmentally, economically and socially, and where long standing inequalities are addressed.
Website: https://www.oxford.gov.uk/oxsp/
Contact: https://www.oxford.gov.uk/oxsp/info/4/contact_us
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Black, Asian and minority ethnic
Oxford Coalition of Black Communities and Communities of Colour
Description: The Coalition consists of grassroots community and student advocacy groups, NGOs, trade unionists and allied partners commmitted to the self-determination of Black and minority ethnic communities, as well as securing the rights of all marginalised people in our city. Beginning with the Manifesto for the City, the Coalition will use its collective resources and energy to drive practical and policy measures for the city.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/OxCoalitionBlackCommunities/
Constact: Junie James - ackhi03@gmail.com 07542 976 470
Children and Young People
Children and Young People's Forum
Description: The Children and Young People’s Forum is a space for all voluntary organisations that work with children and young people to come together to form stronger relationships and a collective voice of influence.
Website: https://oxfordshireyouth.org/
Contact: 01865 767899
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VOXY - Voice Of Oxfordshire's Youth
Description: VOXY is a youth-led countywide forum which provides a voice for all young people in Oxfordshire (aged 11 – 18 and up to 25 with additional needs), so they can have their say about the issues that matter the most to them.
Website: https://oxme.info/cms/life/voxy-voice-oxfordshires-youth, 07919 298259.
Contact: VOXY@oxfordshire.gov.uk, 07919 298259
Key: Forum | Young People | Open membership
The Children's Trust
Description: The Children’s Trust Board brings together the public, private and voluntary sectors to improve outcomes for all children and young people who live in the county.
The board's objectives are to ensure that agencies work together effectively and strategically across children’s services.
We want to ensure that the voice of children, young people and their families contribute to these arrangements and to decision-making.
Contact: N/A
Key: Cross sector | Board | Young People | Closed membership
Oxfordshire Children's Safeguarding Board
Description: Representatives from the County Council, Thames Valley Police and the Clinical Commissionaing Group have agreed on ways to co-ordinate their safeguarding services; act as a strategic leadership group in supporting and engaging others; and implement local and national learning including from serious child safeguarding incidents. They work with other partners through the OCSB to ensure children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.
Website: https://www.oscb.org.uk/
Contact: oscb@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Oxfordshire Youth
Description: Oxfordshire Youth work with a range of organisations from the voluntary, public and education sectors, all who strive to make Oxfordshire a great place for young people to live and grow up. They offer a variety of support for youth organisations who partner with them and help bring together the youth sector in Oxfordshire
Website: https://oxfordshireyouth.org/
Contact: https://oxfordshireyouth.org/contact-us/, 01865 767899
Crime and rehabilitation
Safer Oxfordshire Partnership
Description: The partnership's focus is to make the county a safer place to live, work and visit.
The Safer Oxfordshire Partnership (‘Safer Oxfordshire’) is a county-wide partnership that provides strategic oversight and direction for preventing crime and anti-social behaviour across Oxfordshire.
The Partnership supports collaboration on shared community safety priorities across the four district-led Community Safety Partnerships and acts as the single point of contact for the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Safer Oxfordshire consists of an elected member-led Oversight Committee which provides support and challenge to an officer-led Co-ordination Group, which delivers the statutory community safety requirements at the county level.
Website: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/community-and-living/our-work-communities/oxfordshire-partnership/safer-oxfordshire-partnership?utm_term=nil&utm_content=#:~:text=The%20Safer%20Oxfordshire%20Partnership%20('Safer,anti%2Dsocial%20behaviour%20across%20Oxfordshire.
Contact: N/A
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Oxford City Crime Partnership
Description: Oxford City Crime Partnership is a non-profit making organisation working closely with Thames Valley Police, local authorities and other partner agencies. It offers a range of crime reduction tools in order to combat shoplifting, disorderly behaviour and other crimes in both Retail & Licensed Premises. By working together in partnership, OCCP members play a part in helping each other make businesses and the City a safer place for customers to shop, visit and socialise.
Website: https://www.oxfordcitycrimepartnership.co.uk/
Contact: info@oxfordcitycrimepartnership.co.uk
Disability and Inclusion
Oxfordshire Additional Needs Partnership
Description: Supporting organisations working with disabled people to connect, share and collaborate at a strategic level, to effectively tackle systemic issues.
Website: N/A
Contact: rupert@keenuk.org (Chair)
Key: Cross sector | Open membership |
The Oxfordshire Autism Partnership Board
Description: The Oxfordshire Autism Partnership Board is made up of a group of people who work together to help make the lives of children,young people and adults with an Autism Spectrum Condition and their families better
Website: N/A
Contact: john.dixon@oxfordshire.gov.uk (Deputy Director for Social Care for Adults)
Oxfordshire Parent Carers Forum
Description: Oxfordshire Parent Carers Forum is a forum for parents of disabled children and those with SEN and additional needs in Oxfordshire. They consult and gather views from parents and carers, groups and individuals, on the services available to children and young people with SEN and/or disabilities and their families and share this with the council.
Website: https://www.oxpcf.org.uk/
Contact: info@oxpcf.org.uk / 07394 735666
Education, employment, and business
Oxford City + North Oxfordshire Local Cultural Education Partnerships
Description: Formed initially in collaboration with Artswork, Oxfordshire County Council and arts and cultural organisations in the city, the OXCEP is a response to Arts Council England’s Cultural Education Challenge calling for a more coherent and visible delivery of cultural education.
Website: N/A
Contact: edaley2@oxford.gov.uk
Key: oxford.gov.uk
Oxfordshire Music Education Partnership
Description: The Music Education Hub for Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire County Music Service is the lead partner of the Oxfordshire Music Education Partnership (OMEP - the Music Education Hub for Oxfordshire) which provides and signposts a wide range of music services and tuition to young people (and some adults) in Oxfordshire.
Website: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/music-service/oxfordshire-music-partnership
Contact: N/A
Key: Music | Open membership | Members listed on website
ROBIN Network
Description: The Responsible Oxfordshire Business Involvement Network is Oxfordshire’s CSR network. It brings together voluntary, community, charity and social enterprise groups with local businesses keen to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR); with an unusual emphasis on sharing rather than one-way dialogue.
Website: http://www.robinoxford.org.uk/
Contact: Grant Hayward, info@robinoxford.org.uk
Key: Oxford City | Open membership |
Oxford Local Enterprise Partnership
Description: Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP), champions Oxfordshire’s economic potential, acting as a catalyst and convener to drive a dynamic, sustainable and growing economy. It provides support for hundreds of businesses in the county, supporting their desire to grow, innovate and attract the best talent locally, nationally and internationally.
Website: https://www.oxfordshirelep.com/
Contact: info@oxfordshirelep.com
Oxfordshire Voice
Description: Oxfordshire Voice is a partnership of business people, elected officials, legislators and budget holders working together to promote Oxfordshire’s vibrant and dynamic business community. It aims build a collaborative business forum to inform and influence policies and decisions with a view to finding solutions to the key issues threatening the future economic performance and growth of Oxfordshire in four key areas: Housing – commercial and residential, Workforce / Skills, Transport & Communication, Social & Environmental issues, Workplace Wellbeinger.
Website: oxvoice.co.uk/ov-overview/
Contact: info@oxvoice.co.uk
Oxfordshire Growth Board
Description: The Growth Board is a joint committee of the six councils of Oxfordshire together with key strategic partners. It has been set up to facilitate and enable joint working on economic development, strategic planning and growth. It does this by overseeing the delivery of projects that the councils of Oxfordshire are seeking to deliver collaboratively in the fields of economic development and strategic planning.
Website: https://www.oxfordshiregrowthboard.org/
Contact: democratic.services@oxfordshiregrowthboard.org
Thame Business Forum
Description: Thame Business Forum is an independent group with Thame Town Council support. It aims to fulfil the role of the now largely defunct local Chambers of Commerce in relation to the non-retail sector. The Forum meets every 8/10 weeks and is hosted in turn by members.
Website: https://www.thametowncouncil.gov.uk/business/business-forums-networks/
Contact: mike.dyer@thametowncouncil.gov.uk
Food
Good Food Oxford Network
Description: If your business or organisation shares the values of the Oxford Good Food Charter and is taking steps to work towards a better food system for Oxford, you can sign the Charter and be listed as a Good Food Oxford Network member.
Website: https://goodfoodoxford.org/network/
Contact: mail@goodfoodoxford.org
Key: Oxford City | Open membership |
Geographic focus
Social and health care (Physical and Mental)
Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership
Description: The Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership is an exciting partnership that formally brings together six local mental health organisations from the NHS and the charity sector: Connection Floating Support, Elmore Community Services, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxfordshire Mind, Response and Restore. We are signing up to working much more closely with each other and with people who have mental health problems to make it easier for people to get the best possible support when they need it.
Website: http://omhp.org.uk/
Contact: http://omhp.org.uk/contact/
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Homelessness
Oxford Homeless Movement
Description: Oxford Homeless Movement is a partnership of the many organisations working to ensure that nobody has to sleep rough on the streets of Oxford.
We aim to bring greater visibility to all Oxford’s work in this area, guiding volunteers, supporters and homeless people alike to the actions or services they’re looking for.
Oxford Homeless Movement makes a difference by enabling you to make a difference.
Website: www.oxfordhomelessmovement.org.uk
Contact: info@oxfordhomelessmovement.co.uk
Key: Oxford City | Open membership |
Leadership
Oxfordshire Leaders Forum
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LGBT+ groups
Physical Activity
Active Oxfordshire Leadership Forum
Description: Stay informed with Active Oxfordshire by reading the latest information published by their Physical Activity leadership forum. This page has the latest presentations and meeting notes from the leadership forums. Keep an eye out for upcoming leadership events.
Website: https://www.activeoxfordshire.org/partner-forum
Contact: Paulbrivio@activeoxfordshire.org
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North Oxfordshire School Sport Partnership
Description: North Oxfordshire School Sport Partnership is a non-profit making organisation that works in partnership with 57 schools from across North Oxfordshire. We have well established links with Youth Sport Trust, Cherwell District Council Recreation & Health, Active Oxfordshire, National Governing Bodies of Sport and numerous community sports clubs and leisure providers from across the Cherwell district.
Website: https://www.northoxfordshiressp.co.uk
Contact: https://www.northoxfordshiressp.co.uk/contact-us
Rural Communities
Rural Oxfordshire Network (RON)
Description: The Rural Oxfordshire Network began in April 2017 is for those living and working in rural Oxfordshire. The event is organised by OCVA and partners including Community First Oxfordshire, the Diocese of Oxford, Volunteer Link Up and the Oxfordshire Association of Local Councils. This event focusses on reducing rural isolation and promoting mental health wellbeing.
Website: N/A
Contact: kathy.shaw@ocva.org.uk
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Refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants
Refugee and Asylum Coordination Group (RASCG)
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Our work with Partnerships
Support
Partnerships and forums do essential work and deserve to be supported and valued too. We support them by:
Sharing their news and best practice (see news, resources, and events below)
Supporting partnerships and forums to diversify and be representative, and work together to create a simpler landscape of meetings and events to navigate. Are you a member of a partnership? Give your feedback here.
Supporting connections across partnerships and forums
Surveying communities to find out how much they know about the work partnerships and forums do.
Sharing universal themes
We encourage all partnerships working in Oxfordshire to ensure that the universal issues and rights of marginalised and minority groups are reflected in their work, including black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, the LGBT community, and women .
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