Oasis Villages

Oasis Villages are being developed to offer children, young people and their families support, opportunity, and the skills they need for lifelong success. The Village model brings together local people, voluntary organisations, businesses, health and public services to serve and support local schools, and to deliver better outcomes for local communities.

Beginning in September 2024, Oasis has already successfully transformed the former St-Martin’s-in-the-Field High School for Girls in south London into a thriving community resource, dedicated to childhood and adolescent inclusion, education, health and wellbeing, as well as support for parents and carers.

Recently, we were pleased to announce a partnership with Wirral Council, granting a long-term lease on a redundant Council property in Wallasey to create Oasis Village Wirral. We aim to develop five Villages by the end of this Parliament, to serve as a working and nationally scalable unofficial response to the Government’s ambition to launch Young Futures Hubs.

Oasis Founder Steve Chalke MBE says, “It takes a village to raise a child. We are grateful to all those charities, businesses, schools and others who have made themselves part of that village so far. A Village is more than co-location or even partnership. It is the complete coming together and integration of our energy and resources – a new civil society covenant to create the opportunity for children and young people to raise their aspirations, set ambitious goals, and unlock their potential. It’s time to think like a forest rather than a group of individual trees. That is the only way we will get the job done!”