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 100^th 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.

Community First Oxfordshire stands in solidarity with those fighting racism across the world, including here in the UK.

CFO is a community development organisation – our values and practice are rooted in human rights, social justice, and respect for diversity. In our projects we seek to achieve inclusion, remove barriers to involvement, and challenge racism and discrimination. However, being an effective ally in the fight against racism means recognising where we – as individuals and organisations- need to do more. Solidarity must also mean action.

For CFO, this means understanding more about the diversity of lived experiences, challenges, and needs of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities and individuals. This means making our projects and practices more inclusive by finding out how we can specifically respond to those needs.

We will do this by: developing a Diversity Action Plan; evaluating our recruitment practices to make them more inclusive; collecting better diversity data from our activity; working more with BAME communities to understand their needs; and critically evaluating our approach to equality, inclusion and diversity within the working environment.

Equality and inclusion create strong, creative, and dynamic places to live and work – we believe that an ongoing appraisal of how we can further those values is at the heart of CFO’s mission.