Community Pledge
Supporting our Community
Community is at our heart
Oakfield are deeply rooted in the communities we work in, with our teams dedicated to making a difference within their areas. Giving back is in our backbone. We are driven to succeed, humbled by success and genuine about helping our local charities and community projects.
Showing our support
Over the years we are proud to have supported many schools fetes, local events, football teams to name just a few. We have also supported a number of individual team members in their personal endeavours to raise money for Charites with a marathon run and bungy jump most recently.
Our Charities
Warming up the Homeless
Warming up the Homeless mission is to relieve poverty among the homeless, throughout Hastings, St Leonards, Eastbourne and Bexhill, through the provision of items to support basic needs such as sleeping bags, ground sheets, survival sheets, blankets, clothing, food and toiletries. They also aim to improve the individual’s welfare through emotional support, even if it’s just a smile or by signposting them to other services.
Raystead Centre for Animal Welfare
Raystead Centre for animal welfare care for over 2,000 animals a year, rehoming over 1,000 animals across East Sussex and providing sanctuary to even more at their 43 Acre site in Ringmer. They are one of the most diverse rescue centres in the UK because they care for so many different species of animals.
They are also invested in educating pet owners of the future and aim to give young people an understanding and practical advice on how to love and care for animals. With free family friendly activities and interactive school programmes.
Running Space
Running Space is a local charity with a passion to see every life lived in all its fullness and not one to be lost to suicide.
They feel that every person they run with has treasure and riches within them, often buried deep under hurt and pain of abuse, abandonment, and rejection. Their purpose is to run shoulder to shoulder with you, and in running to help shake the dirt off each other’s lives and pull out the treasure. However, it’s not just about running the there are lots of other activities they do.
Holding Space
Holding Space is a volunteer-led organisation that supports families, parents and children across East Sussex struggling with their mental health. More people than ever are struggling with stress, anxiety and mental health issues as a result of the Covid pandemic, enforced lockdowns and the dramatic changes to our every-day lives.
The ethos of Holding Space is to provide a safe, non-judgmental, confidential space for parents and carers to come together; to be supported, to connect, chat and most importantly to know that they are not alone. The voice of the parent is paramount, and no parent should walk this journey alone.
Charity Blogs
Warming up the Homeless in need of support
As always with our monthly charity donations from our Community Pledge we aim to utilise the funds so that they can make the most difference. This month we reached out to Warming up the Homeless, one of our chosen charities very close to our hearts, regarding their...
Holding Space Christmas Wrapping Fundraiser
This week Izzy our Lettings Manager in our Eastbourne branch went along to Holding Space to help out with their Christmas Wrapping Fundraiser. These events are arranged over a number of days are an opportunity for people to bring in Christmas presents and for a...
Visit to Demelza Children’s Hospice to help them get ready for Christmas
Last week Charlotte and Kyla from our Bexhill branch had the pleasure of visiting Demelza Hospice centre for East Sussex, based in St Leonards on Sea. The ladies loved decorating the centre full of Christmas decorations, lights and trees. They also took a huge...
Oakfield have funded training for a new coach at RunningSpace
As part of our Community Pledge this month, we are delighted to have been able to fund the training for a new Volunteer Coach with RunningSpace. Their coaches really are the beating heart of their organisation – they’re almost always ‘home grown’ and have often been...
Team Building Volunteering Day at Raystede
On Friday 19th October a group of team members from across our branches and departments got together for a team building day, volunteering at Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare. This amazing charity was started over 70 years ago by Miss Raymond-Hawkins as a small set...
Charlotte and Zoe Smashed the Charity Walking Challenge in September
Charlotte Diamond and Zoe White both from our Lettings Accounts team took on the ‘Walk 30 Miles in September Challenge’ to raise money for Cancer Research UK! The challenge was to walk 30 miles each in September but between them they walked a huge 133 miles which was...
Midnight to Midnight Relay with Running Space for World Suicide Prevention Day
Yesterday some of our Sales team members went along to support one of our charities, Running Space on their ‘Midnight to Midnight Relay’ to raise awareness of World Prevention Suicide Day and to raise money for their amazing cause. The event started at midnight on...
Warming up the Homeless donations
With our donation from our Community Pledge to Warming up the homeless this month, Casey and Charlotte from our Bexhill office headed to the supermarket with a shopping list of essential items which the charity were in urgent need of. They Managed to fill two trolleys...
Our Visit to Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare
Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare in Lewes is one of the six amazing charities we support. They care for over 2,000 animals a year, rehoming over 1,000 animals across East Sussex and providing sanctuary to even more at their 43 Acre site. They also educate pet owners...
Community Pledge update – Donations reach £2500!
One year ago we created our Community Pledge to enable us to give something back to our local communities. Living and working in the local area this meant such a lot to us and our team, to be a part of something which can really benefit some extraordinary causes. If...
Community Pledge donations hits a fantastic £1500!
We are delighted that the monthly donations we are making to our charities is increasing each month with £450 being paid this month, bringing our overall total since we started making the donations four months ago, to a fantastic £1500! We introduced our Community...
Visit to Raystede Animal Sanctuary and January Donations
We are always so humbled when we get to visit the charities we support as we are blown away by the amount of work that goes into running these incredible organisations. This weekend Josh our Lettings Manager from Eastbourne visited Raystede Animal Sanctuary to deliver...
December Donations and Volunteering at Demelza Childrens Hospice
At this time of year our charities are working harder than ever, with the festive period being a difficult time for some and also with the extreme cold weather conditions making life so much harder for those in need, so we are pleased to have been able to make more...
November Community Pledge Donations
This Months Donations We have had another good month here at Oakfield with more completions taking place where the Vendors have signed up to our Community Pledge incentive, meaning we were able to make more donations on behalf of our Vendors. This month we paid:...
Community Pledge Donations Underway
In June this year we set up our Community Pledge where we choose 6 local charities who we could build strong relationships with to really help make a difference within our community. Making Moving Matter One of the ways we do this is for every property we sell, on...
Spotlight on Charities – Aspens – Roebuck Enterprises Centre
When we started researching local charities, we hadn’t come across the Aspens Roebuck Enterprises Centre before, but the aim of our Community Pledge was to support organisations that specifically help within our community, and we felt that this organisation does...
Spotlight on Charities – Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare
When deciding on the local charities that we would support, Raystede was a firm favourite for the team, with many of us having either visited their centre and even some of us adopting our much-loved family pets from them. This wonderful charity was set up 70 years ago...
Supporting Running Space on their Midnight to Midnight relay for World Suicide Prevention Day
Saturday 10th September is World Suicide Prevention Day and to mark the day Running Space held a Midnight to Midnight Relay and some of Bexhill team went along to join them and show our support for this amazing charity. On World Suicide Prevention Day every year,...
Spotlight on charities – Warming up the homeless
This is a wonderful charity which started off with a very humble beginnings, with a group of friends coming together in Hastings to try and make the lives of people sleeping rough a little more bearable. Since then, the charity has grown to an impressive size and has...