Olly Belcher

In this episode, hear Olly Belcher, Immediate Past President of the St Edmund Hall Association, in conversation with Bob Gaffey, the Association’s North American Representative.  Bob speaks to Olly about her time at Oxford when she came up to the Hall in 1999 to read Geography.   She talks about how her Gap year and Geography dissertation all led to what she does today - Shivia, the charity she founded to help very poor families in India create livelihoods and earn with dignity.  Olly loved Teddy Hall and is always grateful for the opportunities that it gave her hence wanting to give back to the College today in any way she can. Spirit of the Hall podcast is produced by the St Edmund Hall Association, the voluntary alumni body independent which represents all Aularians. The views and opinions expressed in the podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Association, St Edmund Hall or the University of Oxford.