BYHP

Who we are

We are a charity supporting young people aged between 13 and 25. BYHP covers the areas of Banbury, Bicester, Brackley, Chipping Norton and the surrounding villages. We offer services in three core areas supporting between 200 and 300 young people annually:

Health and Wellbeing
BYHP offers free Counselling  and Family Mediation sessions. Referrals can be made online via our website. The team runs a Peer Support Group offering a hot, home cooked meal, every Wednesday evening to its service users.

BYHP runs a CAMHS project, in partnership with Response Organisation and Oxfordshire Health, working with children and young people who it is deemed would benefit from some light-touch Mental Health intervention.

BYHP’s latest partnership delivers the Mental Wealth Academy service, offering  one to One focused interventions, for 18 to 25 year olds, using evidence based therapies, emotional literacy and self-management tools. 

Training and Employability
Back on Track, in partnership with Activate learning and other Oxfordshire based charities, aims to transform the lives of young people aged 15-17 who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET.

Unlocking Potential for Oxfordshire, in Partnership with Aspire and Oxford City Council, along with other Oxfordshire based charities, helps young people aged 17-19 who are NEET to discover their potential.  Through 1-2-1 mentoring and coaching young people will quickly develop self-confidence, self-esteem, work readiness and employability.

Housing and Homelessness Advice

Although we aren’t able to offer accommodation, we are able to support young people who present to us as homeless. We can help by signposting them to the right people to get them on the housing pathway and help them to fill in any forms and make calls to the necessary people. Unfortunately before emergency accommodation is given, young people have to be verified as street sleeping and so we can provide them with a tent, sleeping bag and access to food whilst they are waiting for this to happen.

Foodbank

BYHP provides a Foodbank to its services user and their families whenever they are in need.

We currently have a team of 11 paid employees (5 F/T & 6 P/T) and the charity costs about £300,000 a year to run, all of which we have to obtain through fundraising, applying to large funding organisations or through donations. We have 8 volunteer Trustees and about 20 regular volunteers who help us run the organisation.