Posbury St Francis Annual Lecture 2025: Where There's Ruin, There's Hope

August 3, 2025 • Revd Steve Chalke

6:30pm Monday 6th October, University of Exeter

(drinks from 6pm)

Steve Chalke MBE is the founder of the Oasis Trust, which has wide experience in youth work, housing, healthcare and educational projects in Britain and across Europe, Asia and Africa.

Oasis Restore is a new UK-based project working to improve the life chances of young people in custody, developing a therapeutic model of care and education with a strong focus on restoration. Oasis is working with the Ministry of Justice to create the UK’s first secure school, a replacement for youth jail, in the biggest move forward in youth justice in living memory.

Its focus will be on restoration and re-integration into society. Oasis Restore will develop a safe environment with a holistic and integrated approach to education, care and health which will improve the life chances of some of the country’s most vulnerable young people.

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