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  • 3rd December 2023
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Entertainment
·24th November 2011

Not ANOTHER Voluntourist…?

Sakina Haider wonders whether volunteering abroad is in fact damaging communities rather than helping them
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Features
·7th February 2017

Oxhub Spotlight: Project Soup

Anna Klaptocz
Project Soup saw in 2nd week with a lot of crusty bread and yummy social action (did I mention the...
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Features
·12th February 2018

The voluntourism that is turning orphanages into tourist attractions

Rachel Kevern
In 2016, J.K. Rowling tweeted a series of responses to a request to share an appeal from a charity which...
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Features
·25th January 2019

KEEN: students making Oxford a more inclusive place

Naomi Hirst
Oxford is definitely a city of contrasts. Architecturally, the old and the modern co-exist side by side, generally in happy...
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Pink
·11th October 2019

Just Like Us: why you should consider volunteering

Charlotte Hughes
Image description: a shelf of several textbooks arranged according to colour, creating an appearance resembling a rainbow. It’s Michaelmas term,...
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Science and Technology
·11th May 2020

Volunteering during COVID-19 – the work of Vennture

William Roberts
COVID-19 poses a unique challenge to the lives of all people, but the effect on each individual is not the...
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News
·3rd March 2022

Latest Statistics Show Significant Increase in Youth Volunteers

Dania Kamal Aryf
Image description: Emily Wright, a fair-skinned youth with dark hair, clad in a purple jacket, smiling.    The British Heart...
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News
·23rd April 2016

Oxford students volunteer in Calais Jungle

Neha Shah
Over Easter, almost 50 students from a number of different colleges travelled to the migrant camp in Calais to offer...
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Comment
·5th May 2017

Volunteering for change: identifying responsible overseas charity work

Joe MacConnell
Much has been published criticising the phenomenon of ‘voluntourism’, whereby individuals (often students) mix foreign holidays with voluntary work for...
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Profile
·26th October 2018

Transformations at Turl Street Kitchen: Oxford Hub president Sofya Sudets on student engagement and community values

Saanjh Gupta
Image Credit: Sofya Sudets There is a Boston Consulting Group recruiting event in full swing on Turl Street Kitchen’s compact...
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Features
·22nd April 2019

Seeking refuge in Oxford – in conversation with Asylum Welcome

Clotilde de Maricourt
“you have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land”...
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·27th October 2019

The misadventures of a charity concierge

Hannah Patient
When I first heard of Charity Concierge, I couldn’t believe my ears. Free tickets to the Latitude Festival in exchange...
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Comment
·26th February 2021

I am a Crankstart scholar, and I am proud of it. 

Jade Calder
I am a Crankstart scholar, and I am proud of it. For those who are unaware, the Crankstart scholarship is...
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·2nd March 2023

How volunteering can save your soul

Ali Khosravi
The mere idea of working for free may sound counter-intuitive to all the assumptions of the market economy in which...
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