How You Can Help

Join the committee

We’re looking for a few more people to help run EA Oxford, for this term and beyond.

While we need help with the day-day running of our activities, we want this to be useful for you: a chance to build skills, test ideas, and develop initiatives you genuinely think are high-impact with support from the team.

We’d love to have help with the following areas. For some of these activities, such as publicity, we'd love to have some extra help now. For others, such as facilitating, we're keen to ensure we have facilitators for future terms. 

  • Publicity & outreach

    • Writing and sending the newsletter

    • Creating visuals for social media (Instagram, Facebook, Youni)

    • Advertising events across colleges

    • Designing, printing, and distributing posters

    • Posting talks and events on Oxford-wide platforms

  • Events

    • Ordering dinner and snacks

    • Welcoming attendees

    • Recruiting speakers

  • Community & facilitation

    • Having 1-to-1 conversations with people new to Effective Altruism

    • Helping facilitate discussions

You don’t need to do all of these; we’ll shape the role around your interests, strengths, and what you want to learn.

If this sounds interesting, please fill out this form (rolling deadline). We’d love to chat and see whether this could be a good fit.

Invest in your career

You might think that to most help the world you should start volunteering, but in the long-run your main resource for improving the world is your 80,000 hour career. So, the way you can help the world most is to invest in your career; to increase the chance that you can effectively use it to work on the world’s most pressing problems. This looks like learning about the problems and the tools Effective Altruists tend to use to think about them; seeking advice from the wider Effective Altruism community; and thinking deeply about these tools for yourself. Effective Altruism Oxford is a community to support you in this process, starting with our introductory Arete Fellowship, or a chat with our director, Alex.

 but what if you want impact now?

In Effective Altruism, we talk a lot about opportunities that mean you might help more people in future, but I want to tell you about something you can do today that will have a certain and very large impact: donating.


There are different ways to donate; some like to donate in a 1-off capacity but I (Alex) really like Giving What We Can's 10% pledge as a way to feel part of a global community that's doing a substantial amount of good. Through pledging to donate 10% of my income, I expect to save around one human life a year. To me, that doesn't sound like much until I remember that this person has hopes, dreams and fears like I do.


What did I do to deserve this power? Just by being an 'ordinary' person living in a high income country puts me in the top 1-5% of earners, and the average oxford graduate is in the richest 1.6% globally. I think it's really unfair that we have power over life and death in this way, so I like to do what I can to make it more fair. 

So, if this is something that interests you, I would love to chat (online or in person); please just book in with me here!


p.s. We're partnering with Giving What We Can to improve your pledge experience, so please consider pledging through this link. Don’t worry, we’re not asking you to donate to us and we don’t take a cut!