Our new website's been up for a couple of weeks, and we've been reading all your feedback. Most of it is really positive, which is great. Inevitably some of you prefer the old site, particularly those of you who were familiar with it. Hopefully in time you'll come to love the new site as much as we do!
For this redesign, we've focused on helping people find content quickly and efficiently. We tested the new design with... Read more
Today is an exciting day, because we're launching a brand new competition with our friends at Isle of Wight to win two free tickets to this year's festival.... I know! With headline acts including Jessie J, Example , and my personal hero Bruce Springsteen, as well as Primal Scream kicking things of on Thursday at the big top (GET YOUR ROCKS OFF!) this year's three-dayer has arguably the best line-up of the entire 2012 festival season.
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What would you do with £63,000 worth of goats? Oxfam puts them to good use, producing milk to drink and sell, fertiliser for crops, and kids to take to market.
It's all thanks to a pair of video fundraisers called "The Yogscast". Their ingenious video advent calendar prompted Oxfam supporters to donate nearly £64,000 for us to spend on goats!
The Yogscast - Simon and Lewis from Bristol - posted silly but brilliant... Read more
I am in Nepal on my first Oxfam field visit. We are here to see two of the Enterprise Development Programme projects - both are agricultural cooperatives designed to boost farmers livelihoods, particularly through introducing higher margin seed crops to the farmers, and increase women's economic leadership. Three visitors - myself as an Oxfam supporter, Kyle from Oxfam GB and Akiko, who heads Oxfam Japan. All... Read more
Oxfam's Birth Rights campaign has been demonstrating the vital difference that aid spending can have on the lives of mothers and their children in Ghana. Motivated by this, thousands of you have been writing to your MPs to support the Government's promise to invest 0.7% of national income in lifesaving aid. The Government had also promised to introduce a law on development spending to safeguard this commitment in the future.
Today... Read more
More than one person dies every minute from armed violence.
An Arms Trade Treaty would control the shamefully unregulated small weapons trade, but only if it's as robust as possible.
Students and Leeds residents have been campaigning at their MPs to get David Cameron to show stronger support for arms regulation. Recently they held a flashmob at Leeds University Union to highlight this hugely important issue. It was 'eye-catching'... Read more