Despite a slow start, new research from Oxfam says that the number of people considering buying their Christmas gifts from a charity shop is up by over a third compared to those that did last year. ...

Glasgow 'takeover' is part of the UK's biggest charity music festival, Oxjam Today Hot Chip continued their DJ 'takeover' of Oxfam shops with an intimate gig at the Oxfam shop on Byres Road shop in Glasgow. The Oxfam shop gave up its floor space to become an exclusive Oxjam shop for a one-off gig, whilst simultaneously selling great second-hand music and clothing. The shop was...

A vast labyrinth of 250,000 books, entitled aMAZEme, has been installed on The Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall, London between 31 July - 25 August, as part of Southbank Centre's Festival of the World with Mastercard. The project has been created by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, in collaboration with production company HungryMan. Inspired by the writer and educator JL Borges, the maze forms...

Bestselling author Dan Brown has topped Oxfam's 'most donated' list for the fourth year in a row. Thriller and crime writers dominate the annual list from the charity's secondhand shops, with Ian Rankin at number two and James Patterson, famous for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross, third. Meanwhile, the annual survey found cult author Stieg Larsson, who penned the Millennium series, at the top of its bestseller...

King and Queen of comedy, Stephen Fry and Ruby Wax, celebrated the launch of Oxfam's biggest ever call for book donations with a Great British tea party at Hay Festival today. With book donations to Oxfam shops down, the charity is asking the nation to donate more than half a million additional books to raise money for Oxfam's vital work fighting global poverty. The appeal will run until 21 June and the public can donate their books...