Owned by Oxford is a partnership between African Families in the UK, Aspire, CAG Oxfordshire, Oxford Community Action, Oxford City Council, Makespace Oxford, Mothers 4 Justice Ubuntu, Solidarity Economy Association, Syrian Sisters and Damascus Rose Kitchen, Transition Lighthouse and Cooperative Futures.
We are using grass-roots Community Wealth Building to address our City’s inequality.
Community Wealth Building is a people-centred approach to local economic development. It reorganises local economies to be fairer. It stops wealth flowing out of our communities, towns and cities. Instead, it places control of this wealth into the hands of local people.
At Owned by Oxford, we support locally led, community-owned businesses that meet local needs and tackle Oxford’s inequalities.
We do this by integrating community-led economic development with the purchasing power and assets of larger organisations. We have an Assets Based Community Development approach, the focus is on relationship building and authentic community engagement.
Our Oxford communities are already buzzing with ideas, skills and passion. Owned by Oxford is all about being led by the community – so we go where the energy is. We’re collaborating with a range of grass-roots projects, bringing investment, resources and development support where needed. We’re really excited by cooperative business models and growing the coop sector in Oxford.
Our Partnership
Owned by Oxford’s work is overseen by a Steering Group including representatives from many grass-roots community-anchor projects in the City.
CAG Oxfordshire are a network of over 120 community action groups working across Oxfordshire to make it a safer, fairer, greener, more sustainable place to live, work and visit.
African Families in the UK(AFiUK) was formed to support African diaspora families and any other migrant families in the UK that may need support to understand how to parent and live their family life in a country with different laws and social systems from those in their country of origin.
Oxford Community Action (OCA) supports new and emerging Black, and racially Minoritised Communities alongside more established Multi-ethnic communities to tackle and overcome barriers created by structural inequalities
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