{"id":31121,"date":"2023-08-07T21:17:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31121"},"modified":"2023-08-07T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:17:47","slug":"roger-bakers-54-years-of-volunteering-with-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31121","title":{"rendered":"Roger Baker’s 54 Years of Volunteering with Oxfam"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRoger Baker has been volunteering for 54 Years at Abingdon’s Oxfam Shop. He is probably the charity’s longest-serving volunteer.<\/p>\n

Roger first started volunteering in May 1969, when he was inspired by a talk given by Joe Mitty, the manager of the first Oxfam shop. Mitty had secured the use of the former Boots premises in Abingdon’s high street rent-free and wanted to start a shop there. Baker was one of the first volunteers to sign up.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Roger has seen many changes at the Abingdon Oxfam shop. The shop moved to Stert Street in 1971 and to its larger premises in 30-32 Stert Street in 1986. At the start everybody was a volunteer, but now there is a paid manager.<\/p>\n

His particular job is treasurer, but being on the end of the phone and being retired – he was a Physics teacher, he will go down and do anything if he is free. He can work on the till, sort new Oxfam goods, do the washing up, or anything.<\/p>\n

“It’s still a great place to volunteer, and very varied” he says. “It’s a chance to make a difference to the lives of others.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Baker has been volunteering for 54 Years at Abingdon’s Oxfam Shop. He is probably the charity’s longest-serving volunteer. Roger first started volunteering in May 1969, when he was inspired by a talk given by Joe Mitty, the manager of the first Oxfam shop. Mitty had secured the use of the former Boots premises in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}