Port Meadow Sponsored Walk - 30th May - calling for walkers and helpers!

Join us for our 10 mile hike through glorious riverside and canalside scenery. Starting from 10am to 1pm at Lake Street Community Centre.

If you want to walk and help us raise funds for Oxfam, start by downloading a sponsorship form.

We also need OOG members who will staff the Walk Office at the South Oxford Community Centre – the job is to sit in the office to greet and register walkers as they start out, and later in the day to sign their forms and offer them some tea or coffee as they return. We need to have the office open from 10 am to 5pm.

And finally, we need OOG members to be “First Walker” and “Last Walker”. First Walker walks the route ahead of everyone else (Friday, or early on Saturday), putting up the route signs as they go. Last Walker goes around Saturday evening or Sunday to take the signs down again. Both First and Last get to walk the route – so you can both be a sponsored walker and help out in this way!

For more information or to let us know you want to walk / help out on the day, email volunteer@oxfordoxfamgroup.org.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Book fair result

Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the book fair, whether you priced, donated, drove the van, lifted and shifted books, or helped on the day placarding or working on the till or door. We raised a massive £2952 for Oxfam's education project in Zambia.

If you're interested in helping out at the next fair, please contact volunteer@oxfordoxfamgroup.org.uk. 

G20 blogging - well worth a quick look!

You will be seeing the news about the G20 over the next couple of days, but you may not know that Oxfam has helped to put together a global blogging group called G20 voice, who are bringing their own perspectives to the debate. You can follow it here, and use the feeds to get up-to-the-minute coverage of what the world leaders are up to - and lots more. Our Head of Research, Duncan Green, is one of the bloggers.