COMPARING CADBURYS AND OXFAM

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1         Introduction                                                        

2        Oxfam’s history                                                 

2        Oxfam’s Legal status                                                

3        Oxfam’s Suitability to being a registered charity                

4        Oxfam’s stakeholders/ how the influence them                 

        

5        Reason Cadburys are in business                                

6        Cadburys Aim and Objectives                                

7        Evaluations                                                         

Introduction

For this next part in comparing two contrasting business I have chosen to write about Oxfam which is a world known registered charity. I will be finding looking at all the aspects that influences Oxfam.

Oxfam History

According to Oxfam’s website throughout the Second World War, Greece was occupied by the Nazis. In 1941, the Allies imposed a naval blockade, and barely any food or medical supplies could get through, even to civilians. Famine rapidly took grip the Greek nation. Due to this in May 1942 a nations Famine Relief Committee was set up, as well as support groups were formed throughout the UK. Their core purpose was to persuade the British government to allow essential supplies through the blockade. In the series of the national relief effort, a number of people came together to form the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief.

In the midst of its founding members were Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, Canon T R Milford of the University Church and Professor Gilbert Murray, a member of the national Committee and former. Also with theirs members was the commitment of a London business man named Cecil Jackson-Cole who was appointed Honorary Secretary in December 1942. As time progressed committee saw a continuing need and enlarged its objectives to include ‘the relief of suffering in consequence of the war’.  With the committee’s enlargement of their objectives enabled them to centre their activities on the prevention on food parcels and clothing to Europe as they were granted funds in 1948 for projects in Europe and elsewhere. The Committee progressively became known by its abbreviated telegraph address, as Oxfam. This name was formally adopted in 1965.

In 1951 Leslie Kirkley was selected as Oxfam’s General Secretary. The years he spent with Oxfam in disaster situations and the swift response of his organisation and his work as Chairman of the UK Publicity Committee for the UN World Refugee Year in 1959-60 brought Oxfam to the attention of a wide audience.

There are three main types of businesses (organisations), these are: Public Sector Organisations, Private Sector Organisations, Voluntary Sector Organisations. With my chosen charity Oxfam they belong to the Voluntary Sector. Voluntary groups are not owned by any individual people.  However, someone will be responsible for ensuring that it sets targets and budgets and does what it is set up to do. In most instances they try to help particular types of people, e.g. guide dogs for the blind. Voluntary groups are not owned by any individual people. However, someone will be responsible for ensuring that it sets targets and budgets and does what it is set up to do. In their survive charities normally must at least break-even (i.e. spend no more than they take in through fundraising, grants and donations etc) Oxfam operate as a global charitable organisation seeing that they operate in over 100 countries worldwide working with local partners to alleviate poverty and injustice. Oxfam GB is a member of Oxfam International, a confederation of 12 independent organizations working together in countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.

Oxfam’s core business activities are workings with poor people, influence powerful people, stick together hands with all people. Firstly on working with a poor people, Oxfam seeks out to assist people in order to gain better admission to chances they need to improve their livelihoods as well as govern their own lives. They also work with people in danger by humanitarian disasters, to help put in place preventive measures, better attentiveness, as well as working to provide emergency relief and reconstruction in the aftermath of disaster. Secondly in influence powerful people, due to Oxfam’s  experience of the real issue confronting with poor people, combined with high-level research enables us to lobby for change in international policies and practices that should ensure that poor people have the rights, opportunities and resources they need to improve and control their lives. And lastly joining hands with all people, Oxfam uses campaign media work and building up of groups allows them to raise awareness among the public of the real solutions to global poverty, this enables and motivate people to play an active role in the progress for change, and to foster a sense of global citizenship, as well as to advance senses of global citizenship.

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Legal status

Different businesses attempt to do different things, different types of people are responsible for starting them in the first place. In all there are three main types of businesses (organisations).  These are Public Sector Organisations, Private Sector Organisations, and Voluntary Sector Organisations. As Oxfam belongs to the Voluntary Sector for the next part of this booklet I will be looking all the aspects that are contained in this sector as well as the advantages and disadvantages.

What is a Voluntary Sector?

The voluntary sector of a nation's economy consists of those entities which are not for ...

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