Fun Day - Photos!

Thanks to everyone who came to the fun day!  We raised over £450 and had a lovely day in the sunshine.  Here are some photos from the day…

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello out there, we are an Oxfam charity shop in Didsbury Manchester and are having a Royal Celebration Event 30.04.11 in the car park at the back of our shop.

We DESPERATELY need a couple of outdoor games for the event. We are being quoted over £100 for hire of same and wondered if there is anyone out there who could help with a free loan of games.  We can collect and return if in the Manchester area. 

Funds raised will help to build a classroom overseas!

Wendy Elliott Manager: Tel. 0161 4345380

Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering Oxfam GB is a member of Oxfam International and a company limited by guarantee registered in England No. 612172.Registered office: Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2JY.A registered charity in England and Wales (no 202918) and Scotland (SC 039042)

Gazebos needed!

Yes that’s right! Gazebos!

We would like some shelter for our lovely stall-holders on the 30th April in case of April showers.  If you can loan us a gazebo for the day, we would be very very grateful for your support for Oxfam.  Please spread the word and contact oxfamdidsbury@gmail.com or ring 0161 434 5380if you have a gazebo (or more than one) for us!

Thank you very much indeed in advance!

Fun Day - 30th April @ Oxfam Didsbury!

Upcoming Events

Street Party/Fun Day

30th April 11-4pm

More bands, outdoor games and loans of gazebos needed! - 0161 434 5380 or Oxfamdidsbury@gmail.com

Craft stalls, Cake Stall, Homemade Lemonade, Music, Handmade Bunting, games lucky dip and more! 

In the car park behind Oxfam in Didsbury:  Here is a link to a google map for the shop: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=oxfam+didsbury&ie=UTF8&hq=oxfam+didsbury&hnear=&z=16&iwloc=A

Stalls:

Oxfam stalls - books, lemonade,games,lucky dip and more

www.zygotegifts.co.uk - newspaper yarn art and knitted brooches

with SumiArt, who is raising funds for final year art students to exhibit in London - http://thelinecontinuestoblur.blogspot.com/2011/04/making-stuff.html.

www.fancypantsfacepainting.co.uk - Facepainting

http://www.airyfairycupcakes.co.uk/  - handmade cupcakes 

Joanne Hearne - handmade bunting

Free Books at Oxfam Didsbury!

Murder, mystery and poetry on World Book Day

Saturday 5 March

Oxfam in Didsbury will celebrate World Book Day by giving away almost 100

free books on Saturday 5 March.

Customers at the charity bookshop will have the opportunity to take home

brand new copies of Carol Ann Duffy’s acclaimed poetry collection, The

World’s Wife, and C.J. Sansom’s bestseller, Dissolution, a murder mystery

novel set in Tudor times.

The free book giveaway will take place from 5 to 7 pm at a special late-night

opening at the Wilmslow Road store on 5 March.

Didsbury Oxfam Manager, Wendy Elliott, said: ‘We are really proud of our

wonderful bookshop. We have a fantastic range of reading material, from

children’s and adult fiction to history, science and biography. We also have

an impressive collection of rare books and obscure titles.

‘On World Book Day I’d like to thank our hard-working volunteers and local

people for their custom and their generous donations of books. With their

continued support our bookshop will just keep going from strength to strength!’

World Book Day, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of

books and reading, is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.

Suffragettes in Didsbury!

Just thought I would show you what is being put together from donations in the way of costumes for our International Women’s Day event!   One of our lovely volunteers will be getting “arrested”!  Come along on March 12th to support Oxfam Didsbury, eat cupcakes, listen to music and watch as the suffragettes chain themselves to the railings!