While at studying at university I often felt strapped for cash. Despite receiving a student loan and doing sporadic shifts at a local restaurant, I struggled to make it to the end of the term in the black. After graduating, my perception of what it meant to be hard up changed completely; working a minimum wage job I regularly questioned that any person could live comfortably on what was clearly not a living wage. ...

Over the next 3 weeks politicians and political party members will be gathering for their annual party conferences.  Party conferences are a fantastic opportunity to influence decision makers and have your voice heard on important issues.  This year we are inviting Oxfam activists and constituency campaigners to get involved in our campaigning at the three main UK party conferences.   The good news is that one of these...

Robin Hood Tax campaigners in Oxford have taken to the streets to stage some very unusual theatre. Joella Lynch reports on a day spent surprising strangers and chasing bankers around the town! ...

It was a scorching morning, the sun bearing down on our squinting faces as we posed for photos, fake knocking on the famous door of Number 10. I was representing Oxfam, along with other activists from Concern, ONE, Action Aid, Unicef and Save the Children, delivering a huge box of names - more than 600,0000 people calling for immediate action on hunger in the Sahel area. The Prime Minster is holding a summit with all the VIPs in town...

Amongst wiggling babies and between sips of tea a group of mums came together to share their stories of pregnancy. A few days before, Shirley Gain, the mama of Sunflower Mama mums and babies yoga group, came across Oxfam's Birth Right's exhibition, hosted by a local café in Worthing. The exhibition follows two women's journeys through pregnancy and childbirth in Ghana. 'As a mother of two,' Shirley comments,...

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas recently joined Oxfam staff and volunteers in Brighton to champion charity shopping and donating to Oxfam. In the run-up of Rio+20, the UN conference on sustainable development, she emphasised the importance of working together for a better future for everyone. She said: "The money that you are raising by passing over your clothes to a charity shop makes a massive difference in terms of enabling...

Mum bloggers from across South England have been writing about Oxfam's Birth Rights campaign, helping us step by step to ensure women in Ghana receive better maternal health care. Click on the links to their blogs below to see the fantastic work they have been doing. ...