This Summer the Oxfam Festival Shop will be touring the nation's festivals bringing the best of our unique and vintage items, plus festival essentials such as wellies and waterproofs to keep you warm and dry. Managed by Lisa Morris and Fran Tutt, the Oxfam Festival Shop is staffed by a team of volunteers from across Oxfam's high street shop network. In 2012, the team managed seven shops, traded...

Acclaimed Finnish sculptor, Kaarina Kaikkonen, has returned to this year's Brighton Festival with The Blue Route, a striking installation currently being exhibited at the city's Fabrica gallery.  Kaikkonen is well-known for her large-scale, dramatic installations assembled from objects that form part of the fabric of our everyday lives - ladies shoes, men's jackets and even toilet rolls have...

Once upon a time, the Oxfam Festival Shop got a very special invitation to have a pop up shop at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. They knew Windsor was a very special place as that is where the Queen lives so the team enthusiastically accepted the invitation and started to sort for the very best in gentlemen's and ladies' finery.  They searched high and low through accessories donated to Oxfam to find high quality...

From Whistles to Mulberry, Daks to Paul Smith - the Oxfam shop at Royal Windsor was bursting with fashion gems for women and men. Set amongst an array of equestrian wear and artisan craft stalls the Oxfam shop stood out with its bright Hermes scarves and quirky displays. So, what was the first thing to do? Get mooching around the rails of course! I firstly had a look at some of the men's clothes on offer, getting shop...

Dig out those coats and rifle through your loft - because we need your clothes for the One Day Wardrobe Clear Out. ...

Spring is here and yet we are still waking up to grey skies and an absence of light and colour.  But do not despair, there is at least one place in London where you can get a quick colour fix as well as some creative inspiration. In the heart of Bermondsey, standing amidst the Dickensian labyrinth of streets, is a colourful building more reminiscent of Mexico or Miami than London: the wonderful Fashion and...

WRITTEN BY: EMMA STEPHENSON // @emmastephenson // FASHION INTERN AT WASTESAVER After hours of sorting, weeks of organising, hundreds of flowers, eight models, 16 outfits and lots of helping hands - Oxfam's floral fashion show and pop-up shop made its mark on Huddersfield. The event was a great success in raising awareness for International Women's Day whilst giving guests a chance to purchase some vintage as well...

WRITTEN BY: EMMA STEPHENSON, FASHION INTERN AT WASTESAVER.  We all love clothes and fashion here at Oxfam, so we thought what better excuse than to hold a fashion show. For weeks the team has been busy sorting through hundreds of clothes and collecting items for sale in our pop-up shop. We have embraced the Spring/Summer trend of floral pattern with skirts, tops, jackets and dresses covered in flowers and prints. This theme...

Hands up who's been swishing before?! Swishing is the practice of swapping clothes, often at a swishing party (I'm sure this definition will soon be in the Oxford English Dictionary). Swapping clothes that you don't wear anymore for a wardrobe update courtesy of someone else is win-win.  It's free, it's sustainable and its fun.  With thousands of students on campus every day, the University of Southampton...

Oxfam Fashion has been keeping up to date with some of the brilliant ideas for Get Together in the UK. Whatever you love doing, baking to biking, fashion to flapjacks Oxfam is encouraging you to host an event to celebrate International Women's Day on 8 March.  The aim is to raise money to help women worldwide live life without poverty. The 2013 celebrations launched with an event in London hosted by broadcaster and writer Lauren...