Front and Centre of our community efforts is our outreach programme with local schools, where we provide a wide range of services to local schools from Student Mentoring at North Oxfordshire Academy to the standard Lunch time and after school clubs.
We currently work with
- Hanwell Field Primary School
-Hill View Primary School
-Orchard Fields Primary School
-William Morris primary school
- North Oxfordshire Academy
- Cropredy Primary School
- Hornton Primary School
- St Johns RC Primary School
We receive funding from The National League Trust in order to provide sessions to schools like our Student Mentoring at North Oxfordshire Academy. The session involves working with students on a 1:1 basis to help support learning but also to, Plan and deliver a social action project based around the school, Club or local area. In June 2024 two of the students looked at designing a club a new football stadium with all the facilities we would need, the students also looked at why the club may need to move and what areas of the club we could improve with a move.
The Assistant head at NOA, Sophie McFarlane said this about our session with the school. 'I have been impressed with Ryan's professionalism and his ability to ensure he puts the students first - The students are really happy to have sessions with Banbury United and Ryan has built a great relationship with each student. I am keen on this continuing and developing further links with the club. I have been really pleased to see the marked engagement improve for the students Ryan is working with, the impact has been positive.'
Pictured above are some children from our Friday football club at Hanwell Fields Primary School. They were guests of the Club, as mascots, at our Vanarama National League North match against Scarborough (which we won!).
Schools interested in learning more about working with Banbury United on their physical education offer should contact communitycoach@banburyunitedfc.co.uk