October 2009

Oxjam
This is a festival with a difference: hundreds of events throughout October, organised by ordinary people, taking pubs, clubs and front rooms across the UK by storm.
Oxjam 2009

Fundraise for Oxfam
Change what you wear, change what you do, or collect loose change. This October, help Oxfam raise money to prevent further disasters resulting from climate change.
October fundraising

69 today!
On 5 October 1942, the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (soon after to become 'Oxfam') met for the first time.
Take the Oxfam quiz

World Teachers Day
The aim of World Teachers' Day is to emphasise the role of teachers worldwide as well as to convince teachers themselves of the crucial importance of the role they play in society.
Development Education at Oxfam

Tory party conference (5–8 Oct)

World Habitat Day

World Bank Meeting (Istanbul, 6–7 Oct)

UK government holds emissions trading auction
A regular auction of carbon trading allowances - under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). The EU ETS sets a cap on the total emissions from the main industrial sectors across Europe.
Take action on climate change

Oxjam Takeover (Newcastle and Oxford)
As part of Oxfam's month-long music festival, a number of venues in each city are hosting Oxjam events on the same night. One wristband gets you in to them all. Come along and help raise money for Oxfam and fight climate change.
Oxjam music festival

Oxjam Takeover (Cardiff)
As part of Oxfam's month-long music festival, a number of venues in each city are hosting Oxjam events on the same night. One wristband gets you in to them all. Come along and help raise money for Oxfam and fight climate change.
Oxjam music festival

Oxfam Unwrapped's Christmas gift range launched
These gifts benefit the people Oxfam works with around the world. This year the range will include 4 gifts with gift cards illustrated by a celebrity guest...watch this space.
Oxfam Unwrapped

International Day for Disaster Reduction
Climate change is causing increasingly severe and unpredictable weather. Oxfam seeks to reduce communities' vulnerability to 'natural' and man-made disasters through training and awareness-raising. For example:
Oxfam in Haiti

World Food Day
Spiralling food prices in 2008 have brought the issue of food security to the world's attention. Oxfam employs a variety of flexible solutions to food crises and shortages around the world.
Global Food Crisis: view map

The 'Great Persuasion' (16–18 Oct)
To coincide with World Food Day (today) and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (tomorrow), Oxfam is taking part in a weekend of lobbying. This is your chance to talk to your MPs and prospective parliamentary candidates, and ask them to pledge to work for a massive cut in CO2 emissions and to take action on global poverty.
Take action on climate change

World Poverty Day
1.3 billion people still live in absolute poverty. Poverty shapes our world more dramatically than you might think.
Poverty map

Diwali, Hindu festival of light
Give an Oxfam Unwrapped gift this Diwali.
Browse gifts

Oxjam Takeover (Edinburgh)
As part of Oxfam's month-long music festival, a number of venues are hosting Oxjam events on the same night. One wristband gets you in to them all. Come along and help raise money for Oxfam and fight climate change.
Oxjam music festival

International Day of Climate Action
350.org and TckTckTck partners, including Oxfam, are calling on people around the world to organize an action incorporating the number 350.
350.org’s International Day of Climate Action

Oxjam Takeover (Birmingham)
As part of Oxfam's month-long music festival, a number of venues are hosting Oxjam events on the same night. One wristband gets you in to them all. Come along and help raise money for Oxfam and fight climate change.
Oxjam music festival