Oxford Hub | Annual Review | 2OO9-1O
Oxford Hub is the focal point for charity and volunteering at Oxford University. We act as a catalyst, empowering students to be socially aware and socially active in their local and global communities, both now and in the future.
03 Introduction 04 The Series 05 International Development 08 Community Volunteering 14 Members & Training 15 Our Members 16 Social Entrepreneurship
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17 Events 18 Vice Chancellor’s Civic Awards 19 Environment & Climate Change 20 Future & Student Hubs 20 Financial overview 21 Team 22 Thank you
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Dear Students and Supporters, In the three years since it was founded Oxford Hub has acted as the focal point for charitable activity at Oxford University and now plays a key role in inspiring students to get involved and make a difference both at home and abroad. It’s been another great year and we've many people to thank for making it such a success, from all of our funders and supporters to all the students who've been involved over the course of the year. We've increased our community volunteering from five projects last year to 18 placing over 500 students in the local community. Our conferences have continued to provide a unique opportunity for students to engage and debate with some of the leading experts in international development, social enterprise and climate change. We're already working and planning for the coming year, continuing to expand and improve our activities. Better support and training for our member groups, a greater focus on social enterprise, continuing to involve students in their local community and moving into a central venue will undoubtedly present new challenges as well as great opportunities in the year ahead. But we're confident that our committed team of students and staff will be able to improve and expand the organisation even further.
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Introduction
We hope that this review will give you an insight into the exciting and busy year we’ve had. As always, if you have any questions, suggestions or want to get involved with Oxford Hub, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Hub love,
Oxford Hub Our vision is of a flourishing community of socially aware and socially active students who make a positive difference at home and abroad, both during their time at university and in their future careers. Hannah MacDiarmid 2010 President, Oxford Hub president@oxfordhub.org
Our mission is to increase student engagement in social action and to ensure these efforts are effective and sustainable.
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The Series The Series is a weekly speaker event which acts as a platform for Oxford’s many studentled social and environmental groups. The Series this year has continued to be a great success, engaging students in debate and discussion on a range of different issues. Alongside the continuing variety and quality of speakers, we have seen some changes and innovations – including a new blog to accompany The Series on our website, allowing students who couldn’t make it to the event access to the debate, and allowing participants inspired by their experience to continue discussing the issues online. We have also recorded many of the Series talks to upload onto the website providing a valuable resource for the community of engaged students. Finally, for the first time we have trialled a pre-event dinner with guest speakers, to allow students to talk to these influential and inspiring individuals informally about their ideas and experiences. The topics covered this year have, as ever, been as wide-ranging as our member groups: from the local, with Homeless Action Group looking at homelessness in Oxford, and the national, with Anti-War Action investigating the University’s investments in arms manufacture, to the global, with Survival International hosting a discussion on the meaning of cultural identity, or UNICEF and Students Supporting Street Kids examining the (lack of) ethics in the international illegal drugs trade. We’ve hosted the people who were there, like Jean-Baptiste Kayigamba, a Rwandan genocide survivor; the campaigners, including Dan Vockins of the 10:10 campaign, and Tristram Stuart, freegan and author of Waste; the innovators, like Simon Berry, founder of ColaLife, and representatives from the Pennies Foundation; and the influential, with Clare Short MP coming to discuss the military shortcomings of the UN, amongst many other stimulating and inspiring speakers. The Series continues to be a unique opportunity for students to interact with the leading thinkers and actors of the activist world and we look forward to hosting another year of debates and discussions exploring key issues and challenging ideas.
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7 November 2009 The Introduction to International Development (IID) was a one-day conference designed to provide students with an introduction to key issues in International Development. The theme of this year’s IID was ‘Human Rights and Development.’ Robert Archer (International Council on Human Rights Policy) came to Oxford from Geneva to give his reflections on how much progress the development community has made in incorporating Human Rights into development practice. Dr Phil Clark (Oxford Transitional Justice Research) shared his expertise on the aftermath of devastating conflicts in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Corinne Lennox (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) argued for the need for a rights-based approach to development activities, whilst Andrew Williams (University of Warwick) shared some shocking and fascinating case studies which brought into serious question the commitment of the British Government to honouring human rights in their foreign policy. Peter Houtzager (Institute of Development Studies) summarised some of his recent research into socio-economic rights advocacy, discussing the relationship between advocacy and policy action on the ground, and Laura Rival (Anthropology Department, University of Oxford) spoke about the basic rights of indigenous people in South America to protect their own way of life. Jeff Riley (University of London Careers Service) followed with an overview of routes into the development sector. The event closed with a fiery and provocative presentation from Firoze Manji (Fahamu and Pambazuka News), who challenged the audience to a complex and thought-through critique of Western charitable aid and argued for an approach that allowed Africa to solve its own problems.
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Introduction to International Development (IID)
Materials from the day including PowerPoint presentations and MP3s of most of the talks are available at www.oxfordhub.org/oxfid.
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Oxford Forum for International Development (OxFID)
Oxford Forum for International Development 2010
5 – 7 February 2010 This year’s OxFID focused on 'Development in Crisis and Conflict', and brought together an impressive range of speakers from across the world, attracting more than 400 participants to discuss development programmes in areas facing military conflict, humanitarian and social crisis and natural disaster. The conference launched with an evening of debate and discussion with Jon Snow (Channel 4) in conversation with John Holmes (UN UnderSecretary for Humanitarian Affairs) on the key humanitarian challenges of the 21st century followed by a panel discussion with key figures from Oxfam GB, Christian Aid and Human Rights Watch.
Development in Crisis and Conflict 5-7th February Friday launch event: £4 Early-bird weekend: £13
30+ influential, international speakers
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The rest of the weekend provided a great mix of high-profile, internationallyrecognised practitioners, journalists, politicians and academics who presented on a range of issues including promoting business in post-conflict areas, the psychology of conflict, women in war and the economies of postconflict states. Also represented were those working on a more specialised level, bringing new and innovative ideas to the field of development. The forum allowed the attendees a unique opportunity to engage with renowned experts working in development on some of the most pressing issues of the time and resulted in an informative and inspiring weekend of debate, discussion and discovery.
John Holmes United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs MP Andrew Mitchell UK Shadow Secretary for International Development Jon Snow UK Broadcaster, Channel 4 Kathleen Newland Director of Migration Policy Institute
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Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie co-Founder and Advisor to the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) Robin Cohen Professor of Development Studies and Director, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford Nicholas Van Hear Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford Sejal Parmar Senior Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression Duncan Green Head of Research for Oxfam GB Tom Porteous Director of Human Rights Watch UK Caroline Miller Director of Merlin Lindsey Hilsum International Editor for Channel 4 News Tim Finch Head of Migration, Equalities and Citizenship, Institute for Public Policy Research
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Community Volunteering Community volunteering has boomed in Oxford in the past year, demonstrated by our leap from running five projects this time last summer, to our current total of 18 at various stages of development. We now have over 500 students engaged in the local community, making a positive impact and gaining valuable experiences beyond their degree. We have smashed our targets and proven that a huge enthusiasm for volunteering exists within the Oxford student population, to the extent that we have been unable to satisfy every request for a voluntary placement which we have received. Much still remains to be done, however. We hope that, in the near future, volunteering will become part of the culture amongst Oxford students; that every student will see volunteering as an integral part of university life, alongside lectures, tutorials, sport and socialising. We are also looking to involve the community to an even greater extent at every level of our decision-making and planning process, and are currently working on a One Community Conference, designed to do just that, which will take place during 2011. In difficult economic times, students can make an even greater positive impact on small community organisations and charities, which often struggle to get the funding and recognition that they deserve. We hope that the University and the town will continue to benefit from the contribution that students make and will continue to support our efforts to make a difference in our adopted community.
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What does your project do? Kids Adventure is a project that aims to provide under-privileged children in the Oxford area with a fun and stimulating day out while also giving their parents a break for a few hours. We always make sure that there is a 1:1 ratio between children and volunteers to make sure the kids get all the attention they deserve. Who does it work with? We liaise with Social Services and aim to work with children aged between 8 and 11 who will most benefit from the work that we do. What’s the best aspect of your project? Everybody has fun!! The kids always seem really happy to have a day away from the TV doing new and exciting things with enthusiastic helpers. The volunteers also enjoy the opportunity to escape the Oxford bubble and find the interaction with the children really rewarding too.
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Project Profile: Kids Adventure
Who gains most – students or the community? Both students and the community gain from the Kids Adventure experience but we’re mainly there to support the kids. In an ideal world, where would your project be in a year’s time? We’re hoping to get some funding from Oxfordshire County Council in the next couple of months and are thinking about setting up a more regular mentoring scheme for the children. This might include weekly or fortnightly meetings between a student ‘buddy’ and a child. This would mean that relationships can be built upon, providing the children with some stability that they may not have in their home life. We’re also considering organising a week ofsummer events for the children, either residential or non-residential this is dependent on funds. Favourite memory or anecdote? Ten-year-old Tai walking through Wadham College and saying “I really like this place, I might put in an application!” and lots of kids on one of the days we put on in February asking “Can we do this every Saturday?” Alice Mount, Wadham College
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Student-led Community Volunteering Projects
Connecting students with Oxford’s elderly population
English language lessons for staff at the University
Helping the local group Re-plenish redistribute unwanted food to charities
Coordinators: Seb Huempfer, Anna Tiley
Coordinators: Felix Flicker, Charles Jing, Adam Tyndall
Coordinators: Laura Christianson, Nicky Meyer
Fundraising and awareness raising for the local children and young adults’ hospice
Repairing and recycling abandoned bikes with local business Bainton Bikes
Environmentalism in action
Coordinators: Seb Byas, Alice Crawford
Coordinators: Natasha Malpani, Alice Thornton
Volunteering with Oxford’s homeless
Activity days for underprivileged local children
Coordinators: Marc Kusicka, Rachel Holden, Polly Ashmore, Catherine Hall
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Coordinators: Emma Bush, Stuart Williams, Alice Mount, Katie Round
Coordinators: Annabelle Gold-Caution, Doireann Lalor
Translating services for the local community Coordinators: Sarah West, Mariam Mashaal
Volunteering for the Museum of Oxford
Music workshops for local schools
Coordinators: Carys Roberts, Phil Cooke
Coordinators: Chloe Wellings, Jennie Williams, Sara Whittaker
Coordinator: John Mann
Sports sessions with young refugees and asylum seekers
Supporting students with mental health issues
One-to-one reading with local primary school children
Coordinators: Ellie Bates, Tom Kemp
Coordinators: Nicola Byrom, Hannah Tickle
Coordinators: Donna Clews, Emily Barker, Becky Hibbert
Connecting students’ talents with charities’ needs
Magdalen Young Carers: Giving Oxford’s young carers a break
Volunteering with local teenagers
Coordinator: Gen Laurier
Coordinators: David Boycott, Matt Bilton
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After-school maths tutoring for local kids
Coordinators: Rachel Astall, Siobhan Jolley, Bella Landymore
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Project Profile: Maths Plus What does your project do? Who does it work with? Maths Plus is a student volunteering project that provides one-to-one tuition in Maths to local GCSE students on the C/D grade borderline. The project began this year and has so far worked with Oxford Community School. We are hoping to expand Maths Plus next year to work in two schools on different days, to be more flexible for volunteers and to reach out and help more students. What’s the best aspect of your project? One of the best things about Maths Plus is the fact that it is such a simple and efficient project. It is incredibly cheap and easy to run, so can be sustained in the long term. It uses the specific skills of the volunteers, and so helps them work in a way they feel makes good use of their time and effort. This, and the very rewarding nature of tutoring, have made the project very popular with a base of dedicated volunteers. Who gains most – students or the community? Everybody involved gets something out of Maths Plus. Volunteers enjoy focusing their energy on something challenging yet different from academic work, and engaging with children. Some volunteers now hope to go on to teach; the project has both inspired them and provided experience. The students have seen their class work improve with the additional help, and the GCSE results have certainly reflected this: all of the students involved achieved a C grade, with one A and one B grade among the group as well! Volunteers have also reported increased engagement with the subject from their tutees. Oxford Community School has struggled to produce C-grade candidates at GCSE, with attainment below the national average, and Maths Plus has offered them valuable support this year. The partnership between the school and the project improves universitytown relations as well as the prospects of individuals in the community. Favourite memory or anecdote? One of the most rewarding moments of Maths Plus for me occurred when I was tutoring three boys who clearly did not want to be tutored, and said they didn't need to speak to me. Although they had started off both sullen and embarrassed, when the hour had finished they asked to stay longer because they had enjoyed it so much. I was even asked if I was coming back next week. It's moments like this, when it becomes clear that a single hour can inject so much enthusiasm for learning into a student, and help them overcome hurdles, that I'm most proud of the project and volunteers. Carys Roberts, University College
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Ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
College Hertford Worcester Christ Church Magdalen Mansfield Pembroke Balliol Wadham St. Hilda’s Exeter
Volunteers
% of college volunteering
Norrington Ranking
42 40 38 28 15 21 25 22 19 20
7.08 6.47 5.74 4.59 4.46 3.91 3.57 3.57 3.53 3.48
13 8 7 1 29 17 9 12 22 26
Measuring the success of Community Volunteering The scope of Oxford Hub’s community volunteering activities has developed hugely over the past year, with more than a 100% increase in the number of student volunteers, and a three-fold increase in the diversity of the projects operating in the local community.
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Eglantyne Jebb Community Volunteering Table
Volunteers’ engagement with the projects has been overwhelming, and in a recent survey over 95% of volunteers agreed they would recommend their project to their friends, whilst 91% said their project was welcoming. Such positive responses to the projects ensure that volunteers stay involved in the long term. To further engage more students and to measure the progress of the volunteering body, we launched the Eglantyne Jebb Table this year, to keep a track of different colleges’ contributions to local community volunteering projects. Named after Eglantyne Jebb, an Oxford alumna who founded the Save the Children movement, this table mimics the academic attainment ranking known as the Norrington Table. The results (above) show a range in the level of students engaged in the local community across the colleges, with Hertford College coming out on top. We hope to continue the Eglantyne Jebb table in the coming year, and see the numbers increase - there is definitely some room for competition for the top spot! Whilst measuring the range and depth of students’ volunteering, it is also crucial that we seek to measure the impact these activities have within the local community itself. We track the impact of the different projects through feedback from our community partners. “Your workshop for the children was fabulous - [they] were engaged throughout and learnt a great deal about musical instruments that they did not know before and also how music can be so much fun. I have one very difficult boy in my class and he concentrated for the whole time which was amazing.” - Sophie Kempton, St Aloysious School - Music Plus Project.
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Members Student-led groups working on social and environmental issues The activities of our many and varied member groups have also gone from strength to strength this year. With more and more students getting involved in volunteering, campaigning and fundraising there's been debates on everything from genocide denial to climate change. There's been club and comedy nights, jail breaks and collections to raise money, campaigns against the University’s investment in arms manufacture, calls for democratic reform and criticizing Shell's approach to oil production in the Niger Delta. The passion and commitment of the students involved in charity at Oxford means there's always something going on and this is a great source of energy and inspiration for the Hub team. We all look forward to seeing and supporting what they come up with over the next year.
Training Over the course of the year we've provided training for our members on many topics, from website design to fundraising. For the first time, at the start of Trinity Term, we held an afternoon of training and workshops for the committees of our member groups, covering meeting facilitation, public speaking and running an effective student society. We hope to continue these sessions next year and provide more workshops and training to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Oxford's student charity groups, as well as bringing them together to meet other students working on similar issues to increase collaboration across the societies.
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Member Profile: Oxford University Amnesty International Why did you join Amnesty? I've always been involved with Amnesty since setting up a group at school. It does such valuable work campaigning for people's basic human rights. I feel it’s incredibly important, as members of the human family, that we all do what we can, whatever that may be, to stand up for the persecuted, the voiceless and the oppressed wherever they are. Working with Amnesty is particularly good from a volunteer's point of view because you learn about a wide variety of human rights issues in many different countries, including our own. What does your society do? Oxford University Amnesty International (OUAI) organises creative demonstrations, runs workshops and host lots of great speakers and film screenings to raise awareness about and campaign against human rights abuses occurring throughout the world. Plus, of course, we write loads of letters for individuals at risk - at our weekly lunches as well as during our huge termly letter-writing weeks in all the colleges. We also fundraise for Amnesty, from bucket shaking to comedy gigs, and have some great socials too! What has been the highlight of your work with Amnesty this year? I had a fantastic time at the amazing Secret Policeman's Ball and I was really inspired at the AI UK's 'Action for Change' conference, but the best part of working with Amnesty is when you see how ordinary people acting together around the world can actually make a difference. This year it was brilliant to hear that the Indian government had rejected a bauxite mine project in an area where it would have destroyed the lives and threatened the human rights of the indigenous people. OUAI had campaigned on this issue and hundreds of students had sent letters about it earlier in the year. What has been Amnesty's involvement with Oxford Hub? Amnesty has been quite involved with Oxford Hub this year. We hosted many of Oxford Hub's Series on issues such as corporate responsibility and forgotten genocides. Our committee members received Oxford Hub's training and being able to publicise our events on the 'The Week' mailout is undoubtedly invaluable! Habiba Islam, Somerville College
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Our members Social and environmental groups in the Oxford Hub network
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Social Entrepreneurship Jan Matern, Social Entrepreneurship President Social enterprise in Oxford kicked off 2009-10 with the Skoll:Emerge conference, an event organised by Student Hubs (Oxford Hub’s parent network) in partnership with Oxford University’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. The conference incorporated sessions on global challenges, careers and start-up social ventures, as well as launching the Emerge Ideas Competition, which distributed £15,000 to student social entrepreneurs. The greater awareness and enthusiasm for social entrepreneurship that grew out of the conference resulted in an increased focus on this area in the work of the Oxford Hub, with a new committee working to raise awareness and interest whilst providing support to budding social entrepreneurs in Oxford. Oxford Hub organised a half-day introductory conference 'Inspiring Changemakers Through Business' and a panel discussion on social finance entitled 'How Can Finance Create Social Good?' in May 2010. In three sessions, 'Inspiring Changemakers' offered participants an insight into the inspirational work of six social enterprises, an ideas generation workshop and lessons from the battleground given by three established social entrepreneurs. The event brought together practitioners, students and budding social entrepreneurs and allowed participants the opportunity to ask veterans in the field, like Eastside consultant Tim Hartley, practical questions about setting up their own businesses and receive ample advice and assurances of support. “How Can Finance Create Social Good?” brought together a highly accomplished panel of social finance experts, including Jonathan Lewis, Geoff Burnand and Tris Lumley. Chaired by Oxford Hub co-founder Adam O’Boyle, the panelists debated core issues such as the role of social finance in creating lasting change, challenges and the future of the sector. It has been an extremely exciting year for social entrepreneurship in Oxford. We look forward to building on these successes and are already hard at work on next year’s host of projects to encourage and support the growing student interest in social enterprise.
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During the course of the year, Oxford Hub organised socials, training and one-off events for its members. Our socials give students the opportunity to mix with like-minded people and are always great fun. We've had Christmas parties, cocktails, live music, dancing and picnics. Spring Fling May Day eve provided us with the perfect excuse for a party and to raise some funds for Oxford Hub’s varied work. Hosted in St Antony's College, our 'Spring Fling', with live music and an appearance by Oxford's troop of gumboot dancers, was a great success and much enjoyed by all who attended - and the party carried on well into May morning! Oxford East Hustings A week before the 2010 General Election, Oxford Hub hosted a Hustings event giving students the chance to question the candidates for Oxford East on ethical issues ranging from child poverty to the environment The presence of candidates from six different parties created a diverse and lively forum for debate of the audience’s questions, which were submitted upon arrival in a question-time format. The debate was skillfully chaired by Laura Payne, Head of Campaigns at Barnardo's, allowing the audience to examine their prospective representatives’ stance on issues of concern to Oxford Hub and its members.
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2O1O Winners Niel Bowerman Linacre College Xin Hui Chan Lincoln College Rachel Dedman St. John’s College Adam Grodecki St. Peter’s College Carys Roberts University College Suzie Sheehy Lady Margaret Hall
Vice-Chancellor’s Civic Awards In partnership with the University of Oxford, Oxford Hub delivered the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Civic Awards in the summer of 2010. This scheme was set up to recognise students who show exceptional commitment to improving the state of society and the wider world. The first six winners of the ViceChancellor’s Civic Awards were presented with their awards as part of the Encaenia ceremony at Rhodes House. The Vice-Chancellor’s Civic Awards recognise and promote the positive impact of Oxford students on the local, national, and international community. This year’s winners were chosen by a panel made up of representatives from both the University and the community, after Oxford Hub worked to promote the scheme as widely as possible among both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton presented the awards, saying: “The reach and range of University community engagement is hugely impressive [...] One way we might think about these awards is as the equivalent in the realm of volunteering to an Oxford blue in sport.” See above left for a list of this year’s winners and visit www.oxfordhub.org/vcaward for their profiles.
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12-13 February 2010 The Oxford Climate Forum brought together 100 young leaders from 25 UK universities to start the critical process of building a vibrant student leadership who are equipped to drive the UK to a sustainable future. The selected students were drawn from a variety of backgrounds (including student politics, entrepreneurship and climate activism) and were given access to some of the leading global thinkers and doers on climate change. OCF aimed to help them develop the skills needed to build an effective and sustainable transition to a low carbon and sustainable economy. Timed to respond to the UN's Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, the conference launched with an opening address from Lord Anthony Giddens on the Politics of Climate Change in the Oxford Union’s historic Debating Chamber. Lord Giddens was followed by a host of leading climate change experts participating in workshops and seminars at Magdalen College, Oxford. OCF was held in association with James Martin 21st Century School and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
Key Speakers - Oxford Climate Forum Lord Anthony Giddens former Director of the LSE and the most widely-read social theorist of his generation
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Oxford Climate Forum (OCF)
Pam Giddy Director of Power2010 and a Director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Jeremy Leggett Founder of SolarCentury – the UK’s largest solar energy company – and of New Energies Invest AG, the world's first private equity investment fund for renewables Professor Dieter Helm CBE Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Oxford and Chairman of the Academic Panel at DEFRA Scott Poynton Executive Director of The Forest Trust Kresse Wesling Founder of E&KO and serial social entrepreneur Sam Clarke Chairman of Ethical Property Company and the New Economics Foundation
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Student Hubs Oxford Hub’s parent network, Student Hubs, has also gone from strength to strength this year, with Hubs in Bristol, Cambridge and Southampton working alongside Oxford Hub to engage students through a range of activities. Student Hubs has run conferences, training, ethical internships and more. Highlights of the year included Skoll:Emerge, the inaugural student conference on social entrepreneurship, and the Ethical Internships scheme, which placed students in local charities and social enterprises during university holidays. For more information about Student Hubs, contact info@studenthubs.org.
Finances Our headline income and expenditure for 2009-10 is set out below. For a full annual report, or for more financial information, please contact manager@oxfordhub.org. INCOME
Future Although its been an overwhelmingly successful year for Oxford Hub we've no intention of sitting back and relaxing just yet! We want to increase our engagement with and support of our member groups, with better training, support and networking events to help them get the most out of their involvement in charity at Oxford. We intend to reach out to even more students, and to engage with colleges and other student societies to embed volunteering and social action into the culture of Oxford University. We'll also be working on our website to better connect students with internships, jobs and volunteering opportunities in local organisations. The end of this academic year also saw Oxford Hub’s sister social enterprise go under offer on a building in the centre of Oxford. The new premises will act as a physical Hub for our activities, including speaker events and film screenings as well as office space and meeting rooms. Having a central location will enable Oxford Hub to become a central part of Oxford's community, whilst providing a space dedicated to facilitating more students doing more good.
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Incoming resources from generated funds Corporate grants Charitable foundation grants, private donations and gifts in kind Colleges and University donations Incoming resources from charitable activities Conferences Speaker events, networking and misc
Total Income
£ 10,000 50,201 28,323 6,351 1,209
96,084
EXPENDITURE Salaries and benefits Office rent and charges Website, brand and publicity Conferences and speaker meetings Office supplies and resources Launch publicity Local volunteering expenses Staff cost (recruitment, training, travel)
Total Expenditure CURRENT FUNDS
48,450 5,345 4,643 20,640 2,209 261 2,729 1,654
85,931 __ _10,153
Executive Committee President Series Coordinators Social Enterprise Coordinators Training Coordinators Events Coordinators
Jake Leeper (2009) Alice Thornton Yeo Xin Wei Abigail Kent Richard Appell David Lawson Sebastian Huempfer Ben Connery
Hannah MacDiarmid (2010) James Ghaffari Marvin Lee
Jo Evans Harry Aldwinckle Paul Archer Zoe Burgess Clara Chung Florian Feder Joanne Lau
Archie Davies
Jan Matern Poppy Sharp Ruth Simister Hannah MacDiarmid
OxFID Organising Committee Presidents Vice-President Committee
Rose Manley Ollie Nash Chloe Noonan Kasia Punovuori
Oxford Climate Forum Organising Committee President Committee
Community Volunteering Coordinator Secretary Treasurer/Fundraiser Publicity and Outreach Projects Support One-off Events Coordinator
Staff
General Manager Projects Officer Volunteer Manager Office Volunteers
Advisory Board Chair Members
Julia Koskella Scarlett du Tilleul Isabel Instone Ching Hu Emily Bennett Barr Evans
Claire Wright (2009) Ruth Bush Lukas Wallrich Genevieve Laurier Nicky Meyer Mai Yamaguchi
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Team 2009-10
Xiao Cai Rachel Reynolds Rebecca Ratcliffe Eloise Stevens Sophie Lewis Alice Thornton (2010)
Araddhya Mettha Sara Fernandez Andrew Bartley Sarah West Annabelle Gold-Caution Peter Eccles
Jennifer Allen Nithya Natarajan Alan Beverly
Jack Wellby Eorann Lean, OUSU Miriam Laurence, Jacari Ritu Patwari
Councillor Mark Mills Emma Molena, ODA Will Horwitz
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Thank you To all our wonderful supporters - without you we couldn’t hub. Age UK, Oxfordshire | All Souls College | Peter Allen, Ethical Property Company | Dr. Roger Allen, St Peter's College | Prof. David Anderson, Centre for African Studies | Bainton Bikes | Daniel Baltzer, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment | Barclays Capital | Stefan Baskerville, OUSU President 2009-10 | Alison Baxter, OCVA | Drew Brammer | Tony Brett, Oxford City Councillor | The Bridging Project | Stephen Brown, Oxford City Councillor | Jim Campbell, Oxford City Councillor | Careers Advisory Service, University of Oxford | Will Chamberlain | Jane Chanaa, University of Oxford Careers Service | Community Emergency Foodbank | Clifford Chance | Ian Curtis, Environmental Change Institute | Dean Court Youth Club | Jamie Dear, OxFizz | Julie Dearden, Hertford College | Dr Faisal Devji, St Antony's College | Andrew Dilnot, St Hugh’s College | Alison Edwards, Alumni Office, University of Oxford | Eric Eve, Assessor 2010, University of Oxford | Exeter College | Tish Francis, Story Museum | Wendy Fuggles, University of Oxford | Dr Karl Gerth, Merton College | Dr Robert Gilbert | Dr Gabriel Glickman | Patrick Gould, Gould Surveyors | Hana Graham, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship | Professor Andrew Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford | Professor John Hammock | Pamela Hartigan, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship | Tim Hartley, Eastside Consulting | Jamie Hartzell, Ethical Property Company | Helen & Douglas House Children's Hospice | Andrew Higson, Ethical Property Company | Mark Hill, MDH Ventures | Richard Jarman, University of Oxford | John Watson School | Dr. Paul Joyce, St Peter's College | Lady Nancy Kenny, Alumni Office, University of Oxford | Matt Knopp, Eastside Consulting | David Langer, Groupspaces | Larkrise Primary School | Eorann Lean, OUSU VP (Charities & Community) 2009-10 | Man Group plc Charitable Trust | Dr. Julie Maxton, Registrar, University of Oxford | Linda McDowell, St John's College | Merton College | Mark Mills, Oxford City Councillor | Dr. John Muddiman, Assessor 2009, University of Oxford | Museum of Oxford | Diana Naumann, University of Oxford Events Office | Tim del Nevo | Ian Nolan | Michael Norton | Oriel College | OUSU | Oxford Carers Centre | Oxford Cherwell and Valley College | Oxford Community School | Oxford County Council Social Services | Oxford Homeless Pathways | The Oxford Union | The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor, University of Oxford | Conrad Peaberdy, Ethical Property Company | Daisy Peat | People and Planet | Will Pouget, Vaults & Gardens | Sir Curtis Price, New College | Re-plenish | Said Business School | Margaret Sands, Critchley's | Savills, Oxford | Sir Michael Scholar, St John's College | SE2 | Jamie Grainger Smith | Social Enterprise Oxford Business Network | Social Finance Oxford Business Network | Somerville College | St Antony’s College | St Nicholas Primary School | St Peter’s College JCR | Ian Stephenson, Darling & Stephenson Solicitors | Tim Stevenson OBE, Lord Lieutenant for Oxfordshire | Stone King Sewell Solicitors | Peter Thompson, Oxford Civic Society | TILT | University College | University of Oxford | UnLtd | v | Venturesome | William Whyte, St John's College | Brooke Williams, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship | Andy Young, Groupspaces
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Photo credits All images listed clockwise from top left. 02 Oxford Hub staff and volunteers work at the 2009 Freshers Fair [OH] 03 Hannah MacDiarmid, Oxford Hub’s Student President [OH] 04 Toby Ord, of Giving What We Can, addresses students at The Series [OH]; All photos: the Oxford Hub Series [OH] 05 Delegates at OxFID check the schedule [Giulio Morello & Sonia Andolz]; OxFID delegates attend a session [Giulio Morello & Sonia Andolz] 06 An audience member of OxFID’s opening session, hosted by Jon Snow [Giulio Morello & Sonia Andolz]; OxFID delegates applaud a speaker [Alessandra Pigni]; The poster for OxFID 2010 07 OxFID panelists Andrew Mitchell MP (left) and Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (right) with OxFID co-president Archie Davies [Giulio Morello & Sonia Andolz]; John Holmes, the UN’s UnderSecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, is filmed during OxFID’s opening session, with Channel 4 broadcaster Jon Snow [Alessandra Pigni] 08 A happy customer of community volunteering project Kids Adventure [OH]; Alice Thornton, President of Oxford Hub Community Volunteering [OH]; Volunteers with the AgeAid project [OH]; Project Coordinators with Sara Fernandez, Oxford Hub’s Project Officer (left), in a training session 09 All photos: Kids Adventure project, with student volunteers [OH] 12 Carys Roberts, Maths Plus Coordinator [OH]; Oxford Community School [Google images] 13 A student volunteer with a young carer, baking together on the Magdalen Young Carers project [OH]; The Big Give project packs, ready for college representatives [OH] 14 Member groups work together at an Oxford Hub training session [OH]; 16 Facilitated networking at Skoll:Emerge 2009, the student conference on social entrepreneurship run by Student Hubs, Oxford Hub’s parent network [Tom Bradley] 17 Oxford Hub Executive Committee members at Spring Fling; Spring Fling poster; Oxford Hub’s Hustings event held before the 2010 General Election [OH] 18 Oxford University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, presenting the Civic Awards [Rob Judges]; Professor Hamilton with the Awardees (from left to right): Niel Bowerman, Xin Hui Chan, Rachel Dedman, Adam Grodecki, Carys Roberts and Suzie Sheehy [Rob Judges]; Poster for the Vice Chancellor’s Civic Awards; Suzie Sheehy is presented with her Vice Chancellor’s Civic Award [Rob Judges] 19 All photos: the inaugural Oxford Climate Forum [OH] 20 Student Volunteers from Food Justice help out with the Community Emergency Foodbank drive in the Westgate Centre [OH] 21 An Oxford Hub student volunteer promotes the Magdalen Young Carers Project at the Volunteering Fair [OH]; 23 OxFID delegates in the Nelson Mandela lecture theatre in Oxford University’s Said Business School [Giulio Morello & Sonia Andolz]
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