{"id":529535,"date":"2010-04-16T07:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2010-04-16T07:02:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T11:02:55","slug":"community-fundraising-taking-off-in-the-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529535","title":{"rendered":"Community Fundraising Taking off in the South East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/04\/collectors1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/generationwhy\/cgi\/process_comp\/photos\/2010\/04\/collectors1-180x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t have to do it all day; it can be a couple of hours here, or a lunch hour there. It&#8217;s totally flexible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As community fundraising is a totally new dimension to the Oxfam way of fundraising it&#8217;s so exciting being a part of it, at it&#8217;s beginning. If anyone else want to get involved just get in touch by giving me an e-mail on <a href=\"mailto:ajinnah@oxfam.ac.uk\"><span style=\"underline;\">ajinnah@oxfam.ac.uk<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The collections are on the:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> April at Kings Cross Station<\/p>\n<p>Friday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> &#8211; Sunday 25<sup>th<\/sup> April at Camden Morrison&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome, so get in touch!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be aware, be moved, be involved. Be Humankind.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0 We all got to know each other a bit, spoke about possible fundraising ideas and talked about some cash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}