The Oasis Centre is a community day centre, which supports some of the most vulnerable adults in Gorton, East Manchester; an area ranked within the bottom 1% of all neighbourhoods in England and Wales, for 'total deprivation'. They act as a vital 'first rung on the ladder' for the most disadvantaged; and a route into mainstream services, education, and employment, which many are unable to access owing to distrust of statutory providers and a deficit in basic life-skills.

The funding will support the 'RE-START' project, which aims to support disadvantaged, marginalised and vulnerable adults to develop skills and aspirations through a Basic Adult Life-skills Training Programme and Basic Finance Skills Partnership Programme. The over-arching aim is to help people to become financially stable so that when they leave the service in a planned way, they can progress into education, training and employment.

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