Charity lets kids stay on top of their game

Chloe Streeter, front left, and Ella Mitchell, front right, enjoying a computer game

1:00pm Thursday 14th June 2012

COMPUTER games sometimes get a bad press, but disabled youngsters Chloe Streeter and Ella Mitchell have a whole new world of fun open to them, thanks to charity SpecialEffect.

Twenty-one reasons to donate to the Jubilee Fund

12:20pm Tuesday 19th June 2012

IF YOU are still looking for a reason to donate to the Jubilee Fund for Oxfordshire, Gaynor Pollard can give you 21.

A gem of an offer

A gem of an offer

6:00pm Thursday 31st May 2012

DIAMONDS are forever, and as we prepare to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Bonhams of Oxford is donating thousands of pounds from its latest auction to help create a legacy for the county’s charities.

Tea with The Queen

Alex and Shane Raes

7:10pm Thursday 24th May 2012

Royal fans Alex and Shane Rae are hoping to meet the Queen over tea and cakes next month, after their names were drawn to attend a royal Jubilee Garden Party.

JUBILEE FUND: 'Help keep us in the game'

Keen in action

3:00pm Friday 18th May 2012

A CHARITY that opens up a world of sport and fun to disabled youngsters says Jubilee Fund cash would help keep them ‘in the game’.

Trust hopes fund will increase Thames trip

Lucy Herbert with home residents on the boat

12:30pm Thursday 10th May 2012

A charity that takes disabled children and adults river boating is hoping the Oxfordshire Jubilee Fund will help more groups enjoy the Thames.

Jubilee Fund offers chance to make mark

8:20am Thursday 10th May 2012

On May 6, 1954, Oxfordshire legend Roger Bannister became the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier at Iffley Road track in Oxford, and on the 50th anniversary of this great achievement a commemorative 50p coin was minted.

Now it's all systems go!

Jayne Woodley, Ian Hepburn, Neil Enock and Julie Allen

8:40pm Thursday 3rd May 2012

Since launching in January the Jubilee Fund for Oxfordshire has been bombarded with calls and offers of help at its central Oxford HQ – so many in fact that the outdated phone system was swamped.

Sweet way to mark Queen's Diamond Jubilee

Henriette Lundgren

7:00pm Thursday 19th April 2012

A COMMUNITY project which bakes birthday cakes for children who might otherwise miss out is hoping the Jubilee Fund for Oxfordshire will help put a ‘cherry on top’ of its service.

JUBILEE FUND: Foodbank needs help to feed the hungry

Jane Benyon at the foodbank store in Bladon

2:00pm Thursday 12th April 2012

AS many of us return to work following an Easter of excess, the Oxfordshire Community Foundation is urging people to help the county’s growing number of families and children who spend Easter, and every day, hungry.

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