1.1 What, in your view, makes Oxfam’s operations so complex? Oxfam is a major international development, relief and campaigning organisation dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. Oxfam GB, which is affiliated to Oxfam International (an alliance of 11 organisations), works closely with communities through a network of local partners to help provide safety, dignity and opportunity for many disadvantaged people around the world.

The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief began as one of many relief agencies that sprang up during the Second World War. It continued after the war and extended its remit to provide for the relief of suffering, whatever the cause might be.

Oxfam, as it soon became known, set up collection points for donations and opened its first charity shop in 1948.