Tag: Oxfam

Celebrities raise more than £7000 for Oxfam’s coronavirus appeal after donating some of their favourite possessions to auction on eBay UK

Stuart Mitchell

More than £7000 was raised for Oxfam’s coronavirus response after donations from celebrities and artists Arizona Muse, Basement Jaxx, Deborah Meaden, Michael and Emily Eavis, Fatboy Slim, Dame Helen Mirren, Katya Jones, Liam Gallagher, Paloma Faith, Rankin and Simon Pegg were auctioned on eBay. Liam Gallagher’s tambourine went under the hammer for £2,650, Simon Pegg’s Star Wars cufflinks, which he wore to the UK premiere of The Force Awakens, sold for £620, Basement Jaxx’s signed artwork went for £822 and Fatboy Slim’s amplifier netted £770. The total amount for all…

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Oxfam launches a home and gift rainbow range to send a message of hope as the world battles Covid-19

Stuart Mitchell

Oxfam has launched a new home and gift rainbow range to raise funds for its coronavirus emergency appeal and give hope to people fighting Covid-19. The limited edition Sourced By Oxfam collection, which is available to buy online, includes reusable lunchboxes and coffee cups, made from bamboo, featuring rainbow artwork. The items are ethically and sustainably sourced from craftspeople around the world, who are paid a fair wage for their work. The Glastonbury Festival website is also selling some of the rainbow range, helping to spread the message of hope.…

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Shell makes major step toward tax transparency, combating oil sector secrecy says Oxfam

Stuart Mitchell

Oxfam welcomes new disclosures from Royal Dutch Shell Plc (“Shell”), the British-Dutch oil and gas company, that are part of a broader move toward corporate tax transparency. Global tax dodging by multinational corporations fuels economic inequality and undermines investments in poverty-reducing social services. Tax transparency can help shine a light on whether companies are paying what they should. Oxfam encourages governments to require publication of companies’ country-by-country tax reports and for companies to disclose their profit and tax payments. In a new report recently released, Shell went beyond its legal…

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Customers go ethical as Oxfam high street shops’ Christmas sales ring up an eight-year high

Stuart Mitchell

Oxfam shops bucked the high street slump with in-store Christmas sales climbing by seven per cent, as shoppers sought ethical and second-hand products that protect the planet and raise money for the world’s poorest people. High street sales in the week before Christmas (15-21 December) were the highest since 2011, and sales of donated items on the Oxfam Online Shop during the nine-week festive trading period rose by 11 per cent. Overall, this Christmas marked Oxfam’s best performance in eight years. In a challenging year for retailers, Oxfam’s total sales…

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Average Brit will emit more carbon by 12 January than residents of seven African countries do in a year

Stuart Mitchell

The average Brit will emit more carbon in first two weeks of 2020 than the citizens of seven African nations emit in an entire year, Oxfam revealed today as it called on the UK government to lead the way in addressing the staggering injustice at the heart of the climate emergency. Researchers found that someone in the UK will take just five days to emit the same carbon as someone in Rwanda does in an entire year. By 12 January, the average Brit’s emissions will have overtaken the annual per…

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