Welcome to our interactive Advent calendar for 2011. Anyone can use it but there is money to be given to charity and prizes to be won if you register and login as well. Have a look at the main Advent page to find out more
The IS Oxford advent calendar is published in December. Anyone can visit it each day to see what is 'behind the flap' for that day, though we encourage you to register because...
We'll publish a list of the winners of the daily draws as they happen.
Registration requires you to give us a little information about yourself and to accept that we will send you occasional mailings about Heritage (usually no more than four a year). Your details will not be given to anyone else and you can request that we cease contacting you at any point.
If you were registered on the Heritage Support website on the 29th November then you will already be registered here. So you only need to login using your support email address and password. You will still need to choose your charity afterwards by clicking on none in the Account Details box on the right when you are logged in.
The charities that we have chosen for this year are:
Water Aid Clean water is essential for life, but one in eight of the world's population do not have access to it. By supporting us, your regular gift could help change the lives of millions of people, starting today.
Womankind is a UK-based charity providing support to girls and women who are willing to speak out against harmful traditional practices in many countries across East Africa and elsewhere.
Book Aid International increases access to books to support literacy, education and development in sub-Saharan Africa. We give around half a million books a year to school libraries, refugee camps, prisons, universities and more. We also support libraries in various ways.
See the terms and conditions page for full details of these.
Have you got some good photos with a story behind them suitable for Advent? We still have a few spaces to fill in our calendar and would be very pleased to be able to include some pictures from users. We obviously can't promise that they will be shown (our selection team is very picky!) but even so...
If you do have something that you think might be suitable and you are willing to share it, please email it plus a brief paragraph of information about it to advent@isoxford.com. Please could you ensure that your image is no larger than 1000 pixels on the longest side.
* Anyone can register and their visits will count towards the gift to charity. However, only registered users who are at a recognised institution and involved in the running of the library or similar will be eligible for the prize draws. IS Oxford reserve the right to exclude anyone who they consider does not, in their view, match these criteria.