OBS Donors & Supporters

Heartfelt thanks to the many donors, big and small, who have and who are still helping us to keep our sessions running since we lost our County Council funding. In addition to the donors listed below many families have made single and monthly donations via our Local Giving Page.  This list is not complete and we have had several significant anonymous donations. Many thanks to all of you!

For ways to donate and support us please see our Protect OBS page. If you have fundraising experience or have ideas on new funding sources, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. would love to hear from you.

Special thanks to:

Oxford Sling Library £350, April 2021

The National Lottery Covid Covid Response grant £9,903
, 2020

The Funding Network, Oxford Gives Event £1,400 in 2020-21, further £2,923 to be spent in 2021-22


Localgiving/UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Covid Response £1,451
, Autumn 2020

Donations from current service users and the community £8,318, 2020

Oxfordshire Community Foundation Covid response set-up costs grant £5,390, 2020

Midcounties Cooperative Community Fund £566 for peer supporter training, September 2020

Mr & Mrs J A Pye's Charitable Settlement £1000, March 2020

National Lottery Community Fund 5-Year Grant, February 2020

Tampon Tax Community Fund £6,480, January 2020 

Oxfordshire Community Foundation Friendship Grant £4,500, October 2019 

St Mary's Church, Iffley £500, May 2019

Raise Your Voice Choir  £209, May 2019

Employee Payroll Giving & Matched Employer Giving £791, to date for 2019-20

Acco Brands UK £500, April 2019

Oxfordshire County Council Councillor Priority Fund grants  £1,848 total for 2018-19

Employee Payroll Giving & Matched Employer Giving £2,374 total for 2018-19

Merton College, Oxford £100, March 2019

Wolfson College, Oxford £400, January 2019

Chamberlain Evans Estate Agents £200, November 2018

Comic Relief £2,147, June 2018