Oxford local activist resource centre to relaunch

Oxford Action Resource Cen­tre (OARC) has been a part of the local activist land­scape for more than 2 years, pro­vid­ing essen­tial meet­ing space, office facil­i­ties and a com­mu­nal library to grass­roots groups.

OARC relaunch flierOxford Action Resource Cen­tre (OARC) has been a part of the local activist land­scape for more than 2 years, pro­vid­ing essen­tial meet­ing space, office facil­i­ties and a com­mu­nal library to grass­roots groups.

The cen­tre is based at a local com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre on Cow­ley Rd and is entire­ly run by vol­un­teers.

But OARC is sur­pris­ing­ly under-used; many local cam­paign groups and com­mu­ni­ty organ­i­sa­tions sim­ply don’t know it exists. Mean­while, the grant which orig­i­nal­ly fund­ed the project has run out and OARC needs new sources of fund­ing to keep going.

Faced with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of OARC clos­ing, we’ve decid­ed it’s time for a big relaunch — a series of pub­lic events to intro­duce peo­ple to OARC and hope­ful­ly kick­start some local activ­i­ty — around the begin­ning of July to co-incide with the Cow­ley Rd car­ni­val.

Want to help? Come to our first event: ‘Love OARC’ — a meet, meal and tidy up 🙂
Mon­day 18th June, from 5:30pm if you want to help cook; food ready around 7:30pm.
Upstairs at East Oxford Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Cow­ley Rd, Oxford.

More about OARC:
http://www.theoarc.org.uk

Help fund OARC:
http://www.theoarc.org.uk/funding.php

Want to con­tact us?
oarc [at] lists.riseup.net