12/13/2017 12:00:00 AM Private jets... whatever next?! By Oxfordshire Community Foundation I wonder if anyone else reading this article was struck by a thought has the world gone mad. How much longer can we as humans go along...
11/26/2017 9:48:52 AM Prevention has to be the Big Picture By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Delighted to read Lord John Bird, founder of the Big Issue has commented on this week's budget. I remember meeting him in Bristol a few...
10/25/2017 9:33:30 PM Because it matters By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Something always matters to someone, but I sense there is a growing need for a civic movement that looks beyond our individual needs to...
10/15/2017 2:23:26 PM Field Catalysts: The Unseen Agents That Galvanize Social Change By Oxfordshire Community Foundation One of my trustees often reads the New York Times and last week they shared a link to a report which seemed to support our evolving...
9/15/2017 12:00:00 AM Housing in crisis By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Yet another article highlighting the reality behind our current housing crisis. I think more people should be questioning how we can...
9/8/2017 12:52:57 PM A week that sees a generation of Brexit Children start school By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Well so says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) who choose this week to also launch a new a five-point plan to solve poverty by 2030. ...
7/11/2017 12:00:00 AM A load of cobblers By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Delighted to read the use of words in a recent article I spotted which included 'profit with purpose' - exact same words I used for a...
7/3/2017 12:00:00 AM Future reimagined By Oxfordshire Community Foundation The below is nothing we haven't actually already considered - co-locating services in an intergenerational setting, which has such...
6/11/2017 12:00:00 AM Greater diversity on charity boards can only be a good thing By Oxfordshire Community Foundation I spent most of yesterday at RSA Motivate - a first of its kind event that offered anyone in Oxfordshire with a slight inkling towards...
5/29/2017 8:22:01 AM Belonging - finding your tribe By Oxfordshire Community Foundation About two years ago I joined the RSA and became one of more than 27,000 fellows worldwide. However, given we've a global population of...
5/3/2017 12:00:00 AM Finding Neo By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Last week I attended a Housing and Homelessness workshop, organised as a day of 'Continuing Ministerial Development' for clergy in the...
4/21/2017 11:19:35 AM How a little investment of money and attention can get the best out of deprived youngsters By Kate Parrinder This project by Thrive is an exemplar of the sort of investment OCF is making in children and families. As we revealed in our Oxfordshire...
4/12/2017 10:16:40 AM The case for the tried and tested over the flashy and new By Kate Parrinder It's not just footballers whose first philanthropic instinct is to set up a trust or foundation in their own name. This is the legal...
3/5/2017 9:34:20 PM From Nimby to Yimby? By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Good to see the expansion of Bicester getting a mention in today's Sunday Times. Interesting to read too that in a recent YouGov poll...
2/20/2017 9:05:29 AM For the Common Good By Oxfordshire Community Foundation I have just spent my weekend reading not a work of fiction on the latest best sellers list but a book I'd like to think definitely...
1/25/2017 6:29:00 PM WHY I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO BREAKFAST WITH ANDY STREET By Oxfordshire Community Foundation We are expecting to welcome around 200 business leaders to an inspiring and thought-provoking breakfast event featuring the former...