The idea of gift-buying from Oxfam Unwrapped has really taken off with our corporate partners. Here are a few of their stories to inspire you.

• Bathstore
• Zibrant
• Leo Abse & Cohen

If your company has raised money through Oxfam Unwrapped, why not tell us what you’ve done – email: companies@oxfam.org.uk

Bathstore is the largest bathroom specialist in the UK, with more than 100 stores nationally. Bathstore contacted us after seeing the Oxfam Unwrapped catalogue – they thought the ‘Buy a bog’ gift would be great for their customers.

Certainly NOT money down the pan!

During their Spring sale, for every toilet purchased from a particular range, Bathstore bought a ‘bog’ from Oxfam Unwrapped. Each customer received a card with a message from the company, explaining the scheme and how Oxfam Unwrapped gifts helped poor communities.

The offer was emailed to customers and leaflets distributed in the press. This partnership raised £54,000 for Oxfam’s water and sanitation work around the world. So the company can feel quite rightly ‘flushed’ with their great success!

When John Kelly, of events servicing company Zibrant, was brought an Oxfam Unwrapped gift he wanted to know more. How had the goat helped and where it had gone? So he got in touch with us.

We sent him wonderful stories from people all over the worked who have received goats and other gifts from Oxfam Unwrapped. John shared this information with his colleagues who, he said, were all amazed at the difference the gifts were making to so many people’s lives.

No kidding?

John and his colleagues decided for every ‘pitch’ they secured with a client, they, too, would buy a goat from Oxfam Unwrapped. To promote the idea, they mailed all of their clients, but the best bit was when they went to a conference and had someone dressed up as a goat, directing people to the Zibrant stand!

To get all the staff involved, each of them was given a small toy goat, and now they run a monthly competition for the best picture of a goat ‘on its travels’. Each month’s winner gets their own Oxfam Unwrapped goat.

Zibrant has given out 20 goats through Oxfam Unwrapped and the campaign recently won one of ‘Meetings & Incentives’ magazine’s Best Integrated Marketing Campaign awards.

Law firm, Leo Abse & Cohen, decided that instead of sending out Christmas cards, they would buy their clients gifts from Oxfam Unwrapped.

The firm spent more than £1,000 on camels, donkeys, goats and a share in a mango plantation, and received great feedback from their clients.

So why not surprise your customers and clients with an Oxfam Unwrapped gift or two – click here to order the companies pack.