Is green your favourite colour? Do you call your friends your ‘merry men’? Do you see yourself as something of a heroic outlaw? Do you enjoy a nice bit of archery on a weekend? Are you passionate about eradicating poverty? Oxfam needs you!
Come and join our Robin Hood Tax Treasure Hunt and utilise your benevolent bandit skills to raise awareness of the Robin Hood Tax and compete to win tickets for top summer festivals.
On Sunday 2nd May Oxfam is providing a unique opportunity to partake in a multimedia treasure hunt around East London disguised as Robin Hood. Teams of six will dress as the famous outlaw and tweet and blog their way around challenges across East London to try and collect the most points. The winning team will win tickets to either Latitude Festival, Winterwell Festival, or the Secret Garden Party (where Robin Hood dress will be optional).
The event is part of the Robin Hood Tax Campaign which aims to put a tiny tax on banks to raise billions for poverty in the UK and abroad. The campaign was launched in February and proposes an average of 0.05% to be levied on bank-to-bank transactions. The plan sees 50% of the proceeds being used to address domestic poverty, with the other 50% being divided between helping countries abroad reduce poverty and adapt to the effects of climate change.
Within the UK the money raised by Robin Hood could be used to avoid cuts to vital public services such as schools or hospitals, or to contribute to meeting the government’s target to halve child poverty.
In the rest of the world the Robin Hood Tax could help achieve the Millennium Development Goals; cutting child deaths by two-thirds, reducing the numbers of women dying in childbirth and helping countries such as Bangladesh adapt to deal with extreme flooding.
Its not just Robin Hood who is a fan of the campaign, celeb support has come from Jamie Winstone, Bill Nighy and Sienna Miller (perhaps compelled by the similarity between the ‘indie’ look she inspired a few seasons ago and the clothing worn by Robin Hood and his Merry Men).
So brush the dust from your bow and arrow, don your cape and red-rimmed hat and come and have some fun with Oxfam!
The treasure hunt will run from 1pm – 6pm, starting outside the Richmix Cultural Centre at 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA. Tickets are £2.00, donations to Oxfam. Places can be booked at www.robinhoodgame.wordpress.com