Our home on Turl Street
Oxford Hub is based at 16-17 Turl Street. This venue is the first UK centre dedicated to student volunteering and is therefore a pretty special place.
We want everyone to feel welcome in the space, whether you've nipped in for a coffee from the Turl Street Kitchen, just had a meeting in the library, attended a film-screening in the events space or a workshop on green-roofing on the terrace. Here we have an unusual model but one which we are really excited to be a part of. This is a venue like no other in Oxford.
The space
On the ground floor is the fantastic Turl Street Kitchen - where good food actually does good. All the profits from this fab cafe/bar/restaurant will end up with Student Hubs and Oxford Hub. So you can tuck into your grub knowing you're creating social change at the same time. Pretty great right?!
Ok, if you manage to drag yourself out of the Turl Street Kitchen and make your way up the stairs on the first floor we have meeting rooms and an events space.
Also on this floor is a living room and library for student groups, community partners and friends of the hub to meet, learn, play, talk and create.
The rooms are completely free to use if you are an Oxford Hub member group and very reasonable indeed if you are local, charitable or both! If you would like to use the space for events, lectures, seminars, meetings or anything resembling any of the above either pop in to find Hannah or email bookings@oxfordhub.org
Travelling another floor up there are offices for student-facing charities and an incubation centre for social enterprise. Oxford Hub's own offices are on the second floor where we are joined by some other fantastic student-facing charities, including Student Run Self Help, KEEN,Jacari, Aegis Students and our national network Student Hubs. Just above us live People and Planet. Well done - you've reached the top!
The project
This venue has been a long time in the planning and we are really excited to finally be here. To read some of our trials and tribulations over the past year check out our blog history here.
Throughout the project we have been chatting to hundreds of volunteers about how they want the space to look, feel and act. Please come in, tell us what you think, and keep talking to us - we're excited to hear your ideas on how to make this space even more dynamic and accessible for now and for the future.
