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Approximately £150,000 is donated from common rooms to worthwhile causes each year. This OUSU working group was set up to look into how money donated from common rooms to social, environmental and ethical causes can be done in the most effective ways both by engaging the common room in the decision process and by responding to the needs of the worthwhile causes supported.
There are numerous models currently used across Oxford. Some common rooms donate to registered charities through a common-room wide vote; others accept motions through common rooms meetings and discuss then donate accordingly. This paper argues that there are strong positives with both these approaches and that a ’Duel-Pot Model’ in which the charity money is split so that a yearly common room vote can be in place alongside a system whereby motions can be brought in one designated common-room meeting each term.
The paper also contains a range of more general best-practice recommendations for any common room to adopt.
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