{"id":546535,"date":"2010-04-28T04:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T08:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2010-04-28T04:21:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T08:21:25","slug":"love-music-fancy-standing-up-for-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546535","title":{"rendered":"Love Music? Fancy standing up for Oxfam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Francesca Woodward wants you to join the Oxjam team and lead volunteer campaigners throughout 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Credit: Toby Adamson\/Oxfam<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Love music? Love going to gigs? Love changing the world? Hate injustice? Me too.<\/p>\n

In the past, Oxfam has campaigned at a number of band tours, some big, some small. We go along and hope to raise awareness about poverty and suffering through our campaigns, and try to inspire people to take action.<\/p>\n

With the summer fast approaching music gigs start to pick up audiences, so it’s an excellent time to campaign. Oxfam is looking to recruit motivated, happy-go-lucky people willing to donate a few hours of their time (sometimes at evenings and weekends) to help coordinate our campaigning presence in their local towns.<\/p>\n

We call them \u2018Local Events Campaign Coordinators’! We need you in over 30 major cities across the UK, to lead and manage teams of volunteer campaigners at numerous exciting events throughout 2010, and to help campaigning during our legendary Oxjam festival<\/a> in the autumn.<\/p>\n

It’s an excellent opportunity to gain some really useful experience of inspiring a team of volunteers, organising campaigning tactics at events, as well as a fantastic opportunity to see first hand how an organisation like Oxfam is run – all invaluable stuff you can put on your CV .\u00a0 Aside from the more practical benefits of getting work experience and learning new skills along the way (oh yes, we will train you too!), you will be supporting Oxfam in fighting the good fight against poverty and injustice (right on! Right?). Our motto is “do what you love doing, just change the world while you do it”, and this is just the chance for those of you that want to make a difference, and have loads of fun whilst you’re doing it.<\/p>\n

Oh, mentioning fun… I almost forgot the really good bit. Band tours. Some really rather lovely musicians have let us have a \u2018campaigning presence’ at their gigs… Ever heard of a band called Coldplay<\/a>? They’re our mates. We’ve been on tours with them, as well as Editors<\/a>, Just Jack<\/a>, Feeder <\/a>and Embrace<\/a> to name but a few, and in a couple of weeks we will be joining the lovely Florence and the Machine<\/a> on tour!!!<\/p>\n

Sooooo exciting! Oh yes. But we want more. We believe that music makes the world go round, it is a fantastic unifier of people and music events are a fantastic campaigning opportunity.<\/p>\n

As a Local Events Campaign Coordinator, your role would be to make sure that our campaign presence at events in your area is effective, well managed, and a good representative of what Oxfam stands for. If you think that you’re up for the challenge, if you stand for what we stand for, and if you love music and music events, this could be the start of a fantastic summer. Give us your time. We’ll give you our love.<\/p>\n

So if you’re interested email me on fwoodward@oxfam.org.uk<\/a> and we will send you an application form.<\/p>\n

I look forward to hearing from you!<\/p>\n

Frankie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Francesca Woodward wants you to join the Oxjam team and lead volunteer campaigners throughout 2010. Credit: Toby Adamson\/Oxfam Love music? Love going to gigs? Love changing the world? Hate injustice? Me too. In the past, Oxfam has campaigned at a number of band tours, some big, some small. We go along and hope to raise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546535","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\/6919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}