Author: Ali Jinnah

We have a really exciting cash collection coming up on Friday at South Kensington Station.

Cash collections are a really useful way to raise money as the collectors have a great time outside (certainly preferable to my desk- especially in this weather) and people donate their spare change into buckets. Another thing is you don’t have to do it all day; it can be a couple of hours here, or a lunch hour there. It’s totally flexible.

So if anyone wants to get involved and do something really worth while with their spare time on Friday don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Ali Jinnah

0207 802 9980

[email protected]

Last nights fundraising group meeting proved to be a great success. With nibbles, wine and a great talk from John Cropper about what Oxfam is currently doing about gender inequality the meeting was big hit.

We all got to know each other a bit, spoke about possible fundraising ideas and talked about some cash collections that are coming up from next week.

Cash collections are a really useful way to raise money as the collectors have a great time outside (certainly preferable to my desk) and people donate their spare change into buckets. Another thing is you don’t have to do it all day; it can be a couple of hours here, or a lunch hour there. It’s totally flexible.

As community fundraising is a totally new dimension to the Oxfam way of fundraising it’s so exciting being a part of it, at it’s beginning. If anyone else want to get involved just get in touch by giving me an e-mail on [email protected].

The collections are on the:

Thursday 22^nd April at Kings Cross Station

Friday 23^rd – Sunday 25^th April at Camden Morrison’s

All are welcome, so get in touch!

Be aware, be moved, be involved. Be Humankind.

Great news everyone, the London fundraising group’s first meeting has confirmed the speaker. John Cropper, Global Programme Coordinator will be speaking on Oxfam’s campaign for global gender equality.

Global gender equality is becoming increasingly important, with inadequacies in health care causing over 529,000 women die of pregnancy related complications every year not to mention the 8 million (same population as Greater London) to 20 million a year that suffer serious injury or disability from the same causes. The problems unfortunately stretch further than health care, in South Asia alone at least 50 million women are ‘missing’ due to violence and discrimination. Oxfam is working with women and men all over the world to try to aim for a world with more gender equity.

If you are interested in this issue, like cheese or wine, want to meet people with a similar passion about what Oxfam does, or just want to find out more about Oxfam, it’s internal politics, and how it brings security and dignity to some of the most treacherous parts of the world, do pop along to the London group’s first meeting.

For more information get in touch with Ali Jinnah on [email protected]