Oxfam Hertford Bookshop

Oxfam's GROW campaign

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GROW - Food Life Planet

It's not just drought. Or famine. Or a bad harvest. A whole host of interlinked factors are stopping Akiru – and nearly 1 billion people worldwide – from having enough to eat. The global food system is bust. It's time to fix it.

Click on this link to see who the System is letting down – and how.

Oxjam 2010

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October's here, and there are hundreds of extraordinary Oxjam gigs taking place across the country.

Local bands, DJs and performers coming together to raise money for Oxfam's life changing work - and it's all happening at a venue near you.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/Oxjam

Tickets are now on sale for Oxjam Hertford featuring Dogs, The Supernovas and The Carolines at Hertford Corn Exchange on Friday 29th October 2010 in aid of Oxfam.

Oxjam Hertford

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Tickets are now on sale for Oxjam Hertford featuring Dogs, The Supernovas and The Carolines at Hertford Corn Exchange on Friday 29th October 2010 in aid of Oxfam.

One of the Best underground bands and two hot new bands, fresh from appearances at Glastonbury Festival, the Camden Crawl and Wimbledon Calling play this intimate local venue for one night only, followed by indie floor-fillers till 2am.

Tickets will sell fast so get in quick for this night of great music for a great cause.

Please also bring along a book/CD to donate to Oxfam.

Thanks!

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86579

Quiz Winners!

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Find us on Facebook!

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Latest News - you can now find us on Facebook as well!

Just search for Oxfam Hertford Bookshop.

Why Germs Don't Make You Ill and Drugs Can't Cure You

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The authors of this book will be in the Oxfam Hertford Bookshop from 11:00 am on Saturday July 3rd.

Oxfam Bookfest July 3rd to July 17th

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Do you think you know Hertford well?

Yes? Then why not enter our Picture Quiz for the chance to win a prize. Entry forms cost just £1.00 each and are available from the Oxfam Hertford Bookshop in Maidenhead Street.

For those of you of a more literary persausion, there is also a literary competition for adults with entry forms also priced at just £1.00

We haven't forgotten our younger customers either with a wordsearch quiz for entrants under 12 years of age!

Bookfest 2010

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July 2009 saw the first ever Oxfam Bookfest – a fortnight packed with book events in Oxfam shops all over the country. It was so successful — with over 350 events, a 40% rise in book donations and hundreds of thousands of pounds of poverty-busting sales — that we are doing it again in 2010. We're adding even more events, and selling even more books to make even more money to fund our work.

This year the book-based fun will go far and wide, with activities, events and displays across hundreds of Oxfam shops, libraries, community centres and other venues around the country. From Inverness to Plymouth, Camarthen to Cambridge, Oxfam shops will host a myriad of book events, competitions, auctions and local family fun, celebrating all that the charity does with books.

From the Hertfordshire Mercury

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Charity shop cutting down on its waste

A HERTFORD charity store has started recycling most products that come to it.

Oxfam Hertford Bookshop in Maidenhead Street has its books, cardboard and plastic recycled by Choice, which sends some of the material to Africa and India.

Shop manager Pauline Wilby said: “We’re reducing waste costs by not having so many bins outside.

We did have five bins emptied three times a week. Now it’s one bin emptied once a week.”

The store receives 80p for every bag of recyclables and saves £150 a week.

James Mayhew

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James Mayhew, the well known illustrator and author of children's books will be visiting the Oxfam Hertford Bookshop on Thursday July 9th at 3.30 pm

Help Needed!

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We need volunteers to help on Thursdays - either mornings or afternoons. Call in to the shop for an aplication form!

We also need volunteers to help with our Gift Aid scheme as well as someone to help with the on-line sales on Wednesday and Thursday mornings

Again, if either of these positions would suit you then do pleae come in to the shop for an aplication form.

Welcome to the Oxfam Hertford Bookshop

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We are a specialist shop located in Maidenhead Street in the centre of Hertford and we sell a large range of quality, donated product.

We shall be using this news blog to keep everyone up to date with the latest news and requests for volunteers from Oxfam Hertford, to publicise any special events happening in the shop or locally and also to highlight any urgent appeals.