A family summer fun day is being hosted in Salford celebrating a national charities 40 years of supporting the local community.
The charity Oasis hubs, celebrated their 40th anniversary the MediaCity Hub this weekend, bringing people together for a fun day.
Oasis hubs are run across the country, providing a range of provisions for community engagement and enrichment with the Media City hub providing a youth club, food stores and family sessions.
Hub leader, Hannah Miller, outlined the importance of the hub for Salford locals and her drive to deliver for the community, as she said: “For me, it’s being able to give something back … to be able to help that community.”
The hub has a focus on community empowerment, running adult English classes with “proper Salfordian English” as well as a range of family activities that have proved to be immensely popular.
Feedback and engagement with the hub’s projects are encouraged, with an essential drive of the organisation being listening to residents’ feedback and meeting those needs to the best of their ability.
Projects also include undertaking their food store which provides low cost, high quality surplus food to locals, providing low-income families with affordable food as well as tackling food waste.
Hannah added: “It’s really important that children are coming to school and they’re fed, it helps them to learn.”
Organisations like Oasis hubs are now being championed and financially backed by the Government with the recent announcement of “Best Start” family hubs to expand family services, early-education and childcare.
Hannah highlighted how crucial investment in communities and local services is, as continued: “Within society, we are seeing the repercussions of not having that investment in our young people and in our youth.
“It’s about empowerment, it’s about health and wellbeing, it’s about advice and support, it’s offering all those services within one area, it’s so important.”
The community fun day is being hosted at the Media City hub on Sunday 13 July from 11am-2pm with activities such as creative crafts, live entertainment, Zumba demonstrations, face painting and bouncy castles, just to name a few.
Hannah said the purpose of the fun day is to “bring our community together” on what is expected to be a hot, glorious day.
She continued: “It’s absolutely suitable for everybody, whether you’ve been in Salford for a week, you’ve been here for a year or you’ve been here your whole life.
“We want to bring people together and know that what we’re trying to do is for everybody.”
Entrance to the community summer fun day can be found around the back of the Oasis Academy building, using an entrance on King William Street.
Listen below for an excerpt of Hannah’s interview:
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