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A CAMPAIGN calling on people to help the homeless in Oxfordshire this winter has raised a grand total of £60,000. The Oxfordshire Homeless Movement has run a winter campaign for the last three years, backed by the Oxford Mail. This year, the charity which co-ordinates efforts to help rough sleepers find a home received £40,000 in donations from people across the county, topped up by a further £20,000 of match funding from the Oxfordshire Community Foundation. Among those who have helped include web design agency Versantus, which donated money it would usually spend on Christmas festivities, and local residents who gave at community celebrations such as a Christmas lights event in Besselsleigh.
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Thursday, 28th January 2021, 9:34 am
Banbury Mayor John Colegrave has invited representatives of more than 100 local charities and charitable organisations to a virtual speakers evening on Thursday February 4.
The on-line event will encourage and support collaboration between local good causes and will include advice for future charity funding.
Many charitable groups have suffered fundraising problems during the coronavirus pandemic.
The event will be hosted by Sir Tony Baldry with speakers including Tim Stevenson OBE (Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire), Amanda Ponsonby (High Sheriff of Oxfordshire), Angela Cristofoli (Oxfordshire Community and Voluntary Action), Adrian Sells (Oxfordshire Community Foundation), Keith Davies (Citizens Advice), Bee Myson (Age Friendly Banbury), and Tim Tarby-Donald (Charity Ninja).
The organisation said charities were reporting increased demand for support during the coronavirus pandemic. In its latest Oxfordshire Needs Analysis report, focused on mental health, OCF argues that the Covid-19 pandemic and repeated lockdowns are in danger of creating an ‘epidemic of loneliness’ across the county. The report highlights that around 6,000 people across Oxfordshire are claiming Personal Independence Payments as a result of mental health struggles, and this evidence is likely to be hiding a much larger issue, during a crisis that demands self-isolation and social distancing. The report also revealed that 30,000 pensioners in Oxfordshire lived alone, and that the majority of areas across the county are more isolated than average from services such as supermarkets, GP surgeries and Post Offices.