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Youth centre all smiles over Comic Relief cash
Follow link to our front page article in the Witney Gazette – Wed 11th January 2012 http://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/9463194.Youth_centre_all_smiles_over_Comic_Relief_cash/?ref=mr
Youth Alcohol and Support Worker Vacancy
Base 33 currently has a vacancy for a full time, Youth Alcohol and Support Worker (£17,697 – £18, 291 per annum), funded by Comic Relief this is a new and exciting post that will enable us to focus on providing alcohol education and support to young people aged 11-25 in Witney and areas across West Oxfordshire. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced youth worker with the ability to work both…
Vote for Base 33!
On Monday 26th September 2011 voting opened for the ‘NatWest Community Force Awards’. These awards are for charities and projects that make a big difference to their local communities.
Base 33 survives as funding campaign comes up trumps
A YOUTH centre in Witney has been saved thanks to support from Oxford Mail readers, businesses and the Prime Minister. Last month, Base 33 in High Street faced the prospect of cutting 75 per cent of its work within weeks. Support for teenage mothers, schemes to get young people into work and drop-in services were under threat after public donations dried up. But readers of the Oxford Mail and our sister paper the…
Vacancy for a Part Time Youth Worker – APPLY NOW (Closes 26th August ’11)
Base 33 currently has a vacancy for a Part Time Youth Worker, please see attached Job Description and Person Spec for further information. Interested applicants should apply by submitting a CV and a covering letter to Claire Dowan 4 Welch Way Witney Oxon OX28 6JF or e-mail to claire@base33.org The closing date for applications is Friday 26th August by 5pm. Interviews will be held at Base 33 w/c September 5th. Should candidates require…
Twitney visits Base 33
twitney is a Community Interest Company, committed to serving the community. It’s unique in the UK: a wide range of quality stories, focussed entirely on one location – West Oxfordshire. Twitney celebrates and explains the wonderful area we live in and the amazing people who give their time and energy to make it better. All their sponsors and advertisers are giving something back to the community by helping them to support local charities…
Base 33 needs funding
Article by Tom Jennings of the Witney Gazette A WITNEY youth centre could be forced to axe most of its work in the next few weeks if emergency funding is not found. Base 33, in High Street, has been hit by more than a 50 per cent drop in public donations in the last year, threatening 75 per cent of its work. Support for teenage mothers, health education for youngsters, schemes to get…
Young people and staff raise £100 for Haiti earthquake victims
Young people and staff at Base 33 invited Keith Crawford for the Rotary Club to show us the Shelter boxes sent to Haiti following the earthquake in January. Staff, volunteers and young people at Base 33 raised £100 towards the funding of a shelter box.
Rapping at Fat Lil’s
Five local rappers performed at Fat Lil’s in Witney as part of a course run by Base 33. They’d spent the afternoon working with members of hip hop band Queen’s English who’d given them help and advice about their songs and performance techniques. (l-r) “Decks Wallah” Tom Price from QE, Callum Smith from Oxford, Stuart bell, Chris Osbourne, Hass “Sherlock” Rauf from QE, Liam Rafferty, Rea Parker, Tom Baker and Steve Larkin the…