Blanaid Hennessy and her Shutterbug team, Ciúin Tracey, Mary Kate Lanagan, Síomha Connolly and Laura Hughes recently created visual displays in Oxfamhome’s new store on Kings Inn Street in Dublin to showcase the wide selection of furniture and homeware on sale in the store. Blanaid Hennessy also sourced clothes from Oxfam shops and styled a live shoot that was featured on TV3’s Xposé.

Photo credit: Ciúin Tracey http://ciuintracey.com/

Author Kate Kerrigan in the Cork Shop pictured with shop manager Guillaume Cousson, Marie Beatriz Bensperger and Marie Huyghe

Best-selling author Kate Kerrigan recently opened Cork’s first ever Oxfambooks shop at 18A French Church, Street, Cork.

Lucky customers on the day heard Kate read from her new book ‘City of Hope’ to mark the official opening.

Kate said: “I’ve always been a supporter of Oxfam’s and I am thrilled to be part of the first ever Oxfambooks shop in Cork. Book shops are special places but Oxfambooks is extra special because every purchase means a positive change in the life of someone who really needs it overseas. If you spend just €10 in an Oxfam bookshop, Oxfam can buy six buckets to help families get access to water.”

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Oxfam Ireland Christmas Cards are now available in the Republic of Ireland from Oxfam stores as well as good stationers and bookshops.

Christmas is the time to stay (or get back!) in touch with family and friends both near and far. And what better way to do that than with an Oxfam Ireland Christmas card. Our cards are a key source of funds, raising over €70,000 for our important work overseas – all the more necessary this year with the food crisis in East Africa, including famine in Somalia.

We have a wide range of exclusive designs on our cards, enough to suit everyone on your list – from religious or cute to traditional or modern. And our cards are printed on the highest quality FSC-certified part-recycled board, and come with 100% recycled envelopes. Cards are available in cello packs (8 cards of 1 design) or boxes (20 cards, 10 each of 2 designs) and prices start at only €.175 per card!

Oxfam Ireland Christmas cards also have an impact here at home, as we print and pack our cards in Ireland, helping secure Irish jobs.

Oxfam Ireland has launched a new campaign called Make Space for Oxfam to highlight Oxfam’s shops urgent need for donations. Over the past year donations to Oxfam shops have reduced by up to 40% and stock levels are now critical in many shops.

Musician Sharon Corr and broadcasters Miriam O’Callaghan and Tom Dunne have teamed up with Oxfam to support the campaign and they each have donated an item that means something special to them. The Make Space for Oxfam campaign asks the public to donate items to Oxfam that are taking up space in people’s wardrobes, shelves and homes.

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Friday 23rd September 7pm – 10pm at the Oxfam Shop on Parliament St (beside temple bar) and best of all it a FREE event

Music

Pearse McGloughlin
Enda Reilly
Della Mannion
Garret Wall
Dermot Kennedy
Donnacha and Diarmuid Bolger

Comedy

Trevor Browne
Timie James

Poetry

Colm Keegan
Sarah Griffin

Loads of new items have just been added to the Fair Trade 50% off sale – check out your closest shop now (Dublin, Belfast, Galway or Cork) for the best selection.  Check out just some of the items now reduced:

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Want to help raise funds for Oxfam?

We need quality pre-owned furniture for our new furniture outlet based in the Dublin area.

Collection service available, please contact Noel on 086 8147174 or email noel.cassidy@oxfamireland.org

Don’t be late for that very important date as Oxfam’s Newry shop is throwing a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party on Thursday 11th August.

Margaret Mathers, Oxfam Newry shop manager, said: “The fun will start at 10.30am – join us for a cuppa and festivities with some fantastical friends. As well as the Mad Hatter, the Tea Party will see Alice accompanied by the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. Special thanks to Louis Boyd’s for dressing our Hatter.

“It will be a fab treat for kids of all ages and will prove a brilliant way of keeping the young ones entertained during the summer holidays, so parents are sure to be in Wonderland too!

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Oxfam Ireland comes to Tullamore

Oxfam Ireland is extremely proud to welcome shoppers to its new Tullamore shop at: 3 Patrick Street, Tullamore. Oxfam’s official opening will commence at 11:00am on Friday July 15th when the opening ceremony will be performed by Niall McNamee, Offaly Football Captain.

The new shop stocks donated items ranging from clothes, books and music to accessories and homewares. Donating helps Oxfam Ireland with its aid efforts overseas in countries like Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia that are currently suffering the worst drought in over half a century. Oxfam is working in these countries, where 12 million people (double the population of Ireland) are facing starvation because of severe shortages of food and water. Donations in Tullamore will provide vital support for Oxfam’s current appeal for that region.

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Calling all Students!

Can you give some hours of your time to Oxfam this summer?
Please join the team & volunteer in our Bray shop.

Whatever time you can spare is valuable & will support our efforts for a poverty free world

If you are interested please contact Noel Cassisy at 01 635 0424 or email noel.cassidy@oxfamireland.org