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CFO Centenary Webinar Series – STARTS TONIGHT!!

ALL WELCOME – Please click the link below to join any of the  webinars as below:
https://zoom.us/j/95582386836?pwd=N0FHL3psbVFuQWtXWnN4SWdrWWs2UT09
Passcode: 139530

In celebration of  CFO’s 100th Birthday we are holding a series of free thought provoking webinars with special guests:  Anneliese Dodds MP, Will Hutton, and Dr Friederike Otto.

  • Tuesday 6th October Will Hutton, Writer and Broadcaster: Post COVID-19 Britain and Oxfordshire – what are the challenges and opportunities for our communities and the economy?
  • Wednesday 7th October – Dr Friederike Otto – Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford: The Climate Emergency: the role of communities in systemic change.
  • Thursday 8th October – Anneliese Dodds MP – Shadow Chancellor and MP for Oxford East: Making housing work for communities, locally and nationally.

All webinars will start at 19:00 and last for about an hour with the opportunity for Q&A at the end.

In 2020, communities face huge challenges in the face of COVID-19 and the Climate Emergency. Yet it is community energy and activism itself which must be harnessed and supported to drive the recovery from the pandemic and the transition to a Zero-Carbon world.

Our speakers will take us through their visions for meeting the key challenges of the present and creating truly sustainable future communities.

 

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CFO is 100! Read all about it in our Centenary publication

In 1920, amid the trauma and fallout from World War One, Community First Oxfordshire (then known as Oxfordshire Rural Community Council was founded.

One hundred years on, we’re still going strong. To mark this major milestone we have produced a Centenary Booklet.

This looks back at how CFO and communities in Oxfordshire have changed over the decades and the major changes that we have adapted to: from the Depression of the thirties, another World War,  the huge social changes of post-1945 Britain to 21st century austerity and COVID-19.

We hope that you enjoy it!

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