How do we do the most good?
We meet, read something short, and talk about how we can really help others the most - with our careers, our time and our money.
The Giving Game
Wednesday 18 November, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. Our first meeting! In small groups, you read about three charities and decide how to split a pot of money between them. Then we look at what the evidence says.
Doing good on purpose
Wednesday 25 November, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. Session 1 of the programme.
Comparing ways of helping
Wednesday 3 February, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. Session 2 of the programme.
Who should we care about?
Wednesday 17 February, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. Session 3 of the programme.
The biggest risks
Wednesday 3 March, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. Session 4 of the programme.
Is effective altruism wrong?
Wednesday 17 March, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. Session 5 of the programme. We run it as a debate.
What can I actually do?
Wednesday 14 April, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. Session 6 of the programme.
Talking to people who do this work
Wednesday 28 April, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. We call someone working on one of these problems in Africa and ask them everything we want to know.
The Giving Game, round two
Wednesday 12 May, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. We play again, this time with everything we have learned during the year.
Last meeting of the year
Wednesday 26 May, 9 to 9:30 pm, LC Foyer. We look back at the year and hand the club over to the Year 1s.
Some of us will become doctors who fight malaria in Nigeria.
This club is about figuring out what your version of that sentence is.
A lot of the world's biggest problems that we can actually fix are here in Africa.
people died of malaria in 2024. About 95% of them lived in Africa, and most were children under five.
WHO World Malaria Report 2025of the world's children living in extreme poverty live in sub-Saharan Africa.
World Bank and UNICEF, 2025is roughly what the most cost-effective charities spend to save one life.
GiveWell estimates, which vary by programme