Offshoot Foundation
Film making helps young people develop life skills
The Offshoot Foundation uses filmmaking to help disadvantaged young people develop life skills, raise their aspirations and reach their full potential. The young people they work with are often facing multiple barriers including poor mental health, additional needs including autism and ADHD, school refusal, caring responsibilities and living in areas of high deprivation.
The Axis Foundation was delighted to support Offshoot with an award of £5,396 to enable them to purchase 4 iMacs. These provide an all-in-one computer with screen which is perfect for young people to use for their filmmaking. Purchasing them means that more young people can reap the benefits that Offshoot provides.
Thanking the Foundation, Paul Press, CEO, said: “Thank you all for your wonderful donation to our charity. These iMacs will be able to help the many children we work with across East Anglia and London and, with our charity becoming bigger and more successful each year, it will mean they will be able to be used by even more young people as we grow.
“When I took these new iMacs to the Newmarket workshop and explained how we got them, the students could not believe that an organisation would do that for them, You could really see them feel that someone believes in them to make such a generous gesture and many of them said thank you. They were in awe of the gesture.
“I look forward to sharing the Macs across our three Christmas workshops and spreading the news about Axis Generosity. Thank you from Offshoot and all its young people.”
Here’s what one young film-maker said about their experience at Offshoot:
“It really helped improve my confidence and possibly give me some ideas for future interests such as jobs, college, GCSE choices. It really developed my social skills, and I made new friends.”
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