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IS Oxford staff spend £200 each on Good Gifts

Thu, 04/12/2014 - 3:35pm

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This is the eleventh year that IS Oxford have donated to charity through the Good Gifts Catalogue. 

Every Christmas, all IS Oxford staff are given £200 each to spend at www.goodgifts.org.

The most popular choice this year was close to home, with twelve people choosing the gift to let no child go hungry - this supplies the food banks which are a lifeline for some families in the UK.

A new gift this year to protect rag pickers was also very popular, with ten of us choosing to protect the children from Indian slums who are forced to scavenge on huge waste dumps. On the theme of education we supplied a year’s schooling for six children in Africa, girl-friendly schooling for four girls in South Sudan, taught three mothers from war-torn areas of Africa to read and trained a teacher in Africa. We chose to supply eight villagers in Africa with solar lamps which are healthier than kerosene lamps, thus saving lives and money, and we also gave the gift of sight for five children. We supported nine Afghan girls who have been abandoned by their families and transformed the life of three Indian street children.

Closer to home we chose to supply two cats and a dog for comfort, care for three abandoned pets, supply five children who would otherwise get nothing with a toy and provided footballs to poor children to enable them to have some fun.

We did not forget the elderly, and we supplied help with heating bills, a gift for a patient in hospital and two Christmas hampers. We also supplied five hospital kits which help make a stay in hospital for an elderly patient more comfortable.  

In addition to the above, as a company we have sponsored a School Library in a poor neighbourhood in India. Our donation will establish the library, including a termite roof, and supply cupboards and books. 

 

£30 raised for Movember!

Wed, 05/11/2014 - 11:26am

Our monthly 'dress down' day raised funds on their behalf.

On the first Monday of each month IS staff can come to the Chapel in their casual clothes in return for a donation of £2 to the charity being supported. Staff can nominate any good cause they feel deserves a bit of extra help. This month we decided to support Movember, the leading global organisation committed to changing the face of men’s health.

 

Free EBSCO Discovery & JSTOR search widgets

Thu, 30/10/2014 - 8:14am

Contact sales@isoxford.com for details

We have created additional search widgets for Heritage Online where your users can enter search terms for EBSCO Discovery and JSTOR (should you subscribe to these providers). The search term will be passed across to EBSCO or JSTOR and the results displayed in their interface.

 

Our Advent Calendar for Charity returns!

Thu, 30/10/2014 - 9:55am

Join in by penning a review or submitting a festive photograph. Details at advent.isoxford.com

For the fifth year running we are celebrating the run-up to Christmas with our online charity Advent Calendar. Last year we raised £1,023 for a variety of charitable causes and we hope to do just as well this year. The Advent Calendar has its own website - http://advent.isoxford.com.

 

Cirqular newsletter issue 2

Tue, 28/10/2014 - 3:47pm

The second issue of our e-newsletter is now available for download!

 

£30 raised for Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Wed, 08/10/2014 - 9:12am

Our monthly 'dress down' day raised funds on their behalf.

On the first Monday of each month IS staff can come to the Chapel in their casual clothes in return for a donation of £2 to the charity being supported. Staff can nominate any good cause they feel deserves a bit of extra help. This month's charity was nominated by Debbie Bailey, our Finance and HR Officer.

 

Supporting 'Hands up for Action'

Thu, 04/09/2014 - 2:02pm

Our monthly 'dress down' day raised £24 on their behalf.

On the first Monday of each month IS staff can come to the Chapel in their casual clothes in return for a donation of £2 to the charity being supported. Staff can nominate any good cause they feel deserves a bit of extra help. This month we are supporting Hands Up For Action, a small but effective charity working with vulnerable children and adults in a range of settings in Kenya, as nominated by Lizzie Dean in our Development team.

 

Supporting Local Children

Mon, 01/09/2014 - 1:30pm

Our monthly 'dress down' day raised £26 for Wheatley Summer Kids Club.

On the first Monday of each month IS staff can come to the Chapel in their casual clothes in return for a donation of £2 to the charity being supported. Staff can nominate any good cause they feel deserves a bit of extra help. This month we are sponsoring Wheatley Summer Kid's Club, this year called MegaMakers. It’s run by a local group of volunteers, headed up by our own Dan Evenhuis, under an organisation called Fusion Youth & Community UK.

A note from Dan: 

A huge thanks for your £26 of donations from August’s dress-down day.

Over the last week I’ve been running a kids club for 150 kids (148 turned up) and 96 volunteers (36 of those teenagers). It’s been such a fantastic week.

We live by the old African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child”. Bringing up kids is a lot of work, and as they progress through life, the kids are trying to work out the answers to the questions, “Who am I, What am I like, What are my values”. It is helpful for them to have positive role-models outside of the immediate family whom they can aspire to, and this week was such a great success in respect to this. We’ve been running for 11 years now, many teens and young adults have grown up through this work and are developing beautifully (I’m still growing and developing as I engage with this work as well).

So thanks again for your support. We don’t charge for this event (but ask for donations) as we want to encourage families that might be a bit tight financially, so your donation really helped.

 

 
 

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