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Posted 4 months ago
Knitting for Oxfam
If you’re a dab hand with a set of needles, you could create a better future for people in poverty.
Clothes
Jumpers, cardies and scarves can all be sold in our high street shops. Your local shop manager will be able to tell you what they can sell and roughly how much money they’ll be able to make.
Blankets
6ft by 4ft Oxfam blankets go down a storm at music festivals, selling for anything up to £35. That’s enough to provide clean water for 60 people in an emergency.
Bunting
This festival season we’re hoping to use and sell bunting made from recycled fabrics in the Oxfam Festival Shop. If you’re handy with a sewing machine, why not run up some triangles of interesting fabrics on some lengths of ribbon or cord? We’d love any lengths, any style and any colour of homemade bunting but particularly those made from old textiles.
If you’ve knitted for us in the past, thank you. Every stitch and every turn means a better future for poor communities
Fighting for a fairer, safer, better world.Oxfam is a vibrant global movement of dedicated people fighting poverty and injustice. Together. Doing amazing work. Together. People power drives everything we do.
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Syria crisis
More than a million refugees have now fled violence in Syria and are in desperate need of shelter, food and water. Oxfam is aiming to reach 650,000 people in the coming months and calling for more international aid and a peaceful solution to the crisis.Enough Food for Everyone IF
The IF campaign is a huge coalition of UK-based organisations, including Oxfam, who share the vision of a world where everyone has enough to eat.Between now and the G8 in June, we're joining forces to petition David Cameron relentlessly and every which way to use his presidency of the G8 to take a lead on hunger.
Through our actions, and his leadership, we can persuade governments to act too, and when they do, everyone on this planet will have the chance of getting the food they need to live a healthy, happy life.
