Charity
Over its last ten years of broadcasting, Fox FM raised thousands of pounds each year for their chosen charities in Help An Oxfordshire Child. In 2008, over £48,000 was distributed out to many children's charities raised by its listeners, staff and partners. In the past, Oxford Children's Hospital, The Oxfordshire Playbus and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society have benefited. Events held towards the campaign included the very first Oxford Santa Run, raising over £30000, the Oxford Moonlight Stroll, an online auction and a charity football tournament held in Abingdon, as well as a team of Fox presenters take on the stars from teen soap Hollyoaks in a celebrity football match at Oxford United's Kassam Stadium in June 2008, as well as a greyhound race night, buggy trek and a charity premiere.
Help An Oxfordshire Child pledged £40,000 to name the Fox FM Outpatients Department in Oxford's New Children's Hospital, this was completed in 2008.
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Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”
—Bible: New Testament 1 Corinthians 8:1-2.
“When a sparrow sips in the river, the water doesn’t recede. Giving charity does not deplete wealth. Saint Kabir says so.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.