… it has been quite a long time coming. Oaktree started in 1993, as Church of England project to explore a new way of being a church. It has been meeting in a café at Twyford School for the last 5 years. “At last” says the Church’s minister Mark Aldridge, “Oaktree now has the base it needs to pursue the projects closest to its heart.”
Those include projects addressing some of Acton’s core social needs, like the Oaktree-based branch of CAP (Christians Against Poverty), a free debt-advice service which can negotiate with creditors, work out realistic budgets and sets itself the ambitious target to get even those in deep debt trouble out of debt within five years.