Other Activities
Community Partnerships
Introduction
Helping the community has always played a large part in the ethos of Radley. The highly successful Wednesday Activities programme in which all fifth formers (unless they continue with CCF) help with projects useful to the local community continues to go from strength to strength.
Projects currently include:
- Concert Parties (several groups of musicians visit residential homes for the elderly to perform music and chat over a cup of tea)
- Visiting local elderly residents for company and odd jobs
- Working as volunteers at local schools:
- Oxford Academy (Latin teaching)
- Radley Primary School (learning support & outside projects)
- St Swithuns Primary School (learning support)
- Appleton Primary School (reading support)
- St Nicholas Primary School (chess club)
- Rush Common Primary School (chess club)
- Thomas Reade Primary School (after school sports)
- Kingfisher School (specialist school for learning difficulties)
- Mary Hare (school for the deaf)
- Gardening (Littlemore Church & Radley Church)
- Dog walking (at Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary & for local residents)
- Abingdon Wellbeing Resource Centre (Day Centre - visiting their elderly clients & producing their monthly newsletter and offering IT help for the elderly)
In addition there are two long running overseas projects. In Romania groups of 6.1 boys teach underprivileged children and in Kerala, South India, those in 6.2 have the opportunity to work on house building projects. As well as being extremely valuable to the boys who go on them they are of genuine and considerable help to the communities with which we are working.
Radley College is establishing a partnership with Gehandu School in Mbulu, Tanzania which will involve 6th form visits in the future.