5/12/2023 9:13:21 PM It was The Big Help Out - so why didn’t I help out? By Kate Parrinder So the coronation weekend has been and gone, and it was lovely to have an extra bank holiday Monday - especially when I got to...
12/17/2020 12:00:00 AM Looking to 2021 By Adrian Sell As we get closer to Christmas and the end of what has been a tumultuous year my thoughts, along with many others, turn to the year ahead,...
11/3/2020 12:00:00 AM Christmas is Coming: connection, companionship and community in a time of COVID By Adrian Sell I don’t normally like thinking about Christmas until much closer to the day. My son’s birthday is mid November and we have a rule about...
7/16/2019 3:26:25 PM How does Oxfordshire's drug death rate compare? By Simon Barnard Today it was announced that Scotland's drug-related deaths increased to 1,187 last year. This takes Scotland to 218 deaths per million...
6/7/2019 2:36:00 PM Is the rise in self-harm linked to deprivation? By Simon Barnard Many news articles this week reported on the dramatic rise in self-harm as published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal....
5/17/2019 4:21:52 PM Inequality in Oxfordshire By Simon Barnard The thoughts of the IFS and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton on inequality in the UK are similar to ours on inequality in Oxfordshire. Sir...
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...
6/18/2015 11:30:07 AM House of Lords debate: "who is my neighbour?" By Oxfordshire Community Foundation It's not every day the organisation you work for gets a rallying call in the House of Lords, but then again not everyone has the...
2/19/2015 7:58:11 AM Moral compass - tax avoidance / living wage where do you stand on these By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Something we often discuss when making coffee in the office is where do we individually draw the line over what is acceptable... The...
12/11/2014 12:00:00 AM Donor Advised Funds not all are the same By Oxfordshire Community Foundation Some interesting observations today in the New York Times about Donor Advised Funds and how they are operating in the USA. In the UK, ...