# Livia Firth becomes Oxfam Global Ambassador

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/07/24/livia-firth-becomes-oxfam-global-ambassador/
- Published: 2012-07-24T13:01:01+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Film producer and environmental activist Olivia Firth is Oxfam’s latest Global Ambassador.
She joins other high-profile people including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Scarlett 
Johansson, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and her husband actor Colin Firth who publicly
support the charity in its campaigning and fundraising work.

She has supported Oxfam for many years, helping it to raise funds in the UK, America
and in her native Italy. She has also encouraged other influential women to join
her in supporting Oxfam’s work.

She often supports Oxfam’s fundraising auctions. Previous donations cinldue the 
jewelry she wore to the 2011 BAFTAs, and to the 2011 Oscar Ceremony, and four dresses
by Armani, Valentino, Gucci and Prada which she had worn on the red carpet.

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Firth said: “I’m also a big supporter of Oxfam’s shops – not just because I have
many Oxfam purchases in my wardrobe but because Oxfam encourages reuse rather than
throwaway fashion, helping others in the process. This seems to me to be the ideal
way to shop.”

Claire Lewis, Oxfam Global Ambassador Programme Manager said: ‘Livia is a wonderful
ambassador to welcome into the organization. She is always so generous with her 
time, her ideas and her amazing donations such as the wonderful Green Carpet Challenge
dresses. She has a huge amount of energy and is passionate and committed in her 
support of Oxfam’s work.”

www.oxfam.org/en/ambassadors

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