It's been a brilliant first semester with some great student led initiatives and community activities taking place!
A massive thank you to all of our volunteer groups and those who took part in the fantastic events that have taken place over this semester. Here is a summary of all of the amazing things we have made happen so far! We hope you all enjoy a well deserved break and we are looking forward to all of the projects planned for 2024.
- The total amount from fundraising activity since Septemmber has been £50,112
- RAG have raised £5,562 for the Big 4 - Wicked Weather Watch, St Mungos, Heswell Disabled Children's Holiday Fund and Action for Children
- Movember raised a record breaking £33,816
- V Run organised a successful Santa Dash which raised £360 for RAG's Big 4
- V Clean have run 2 local litter picks with the Student Comminuty Partnership
- V Kind held a badgemaking stall to spread kindness on campus
- V Aware ran an online campaign raising awareness on domestic abuse, healthy relationships and how to get support.
- V Nature worked with Your Parks to lead 4 sessions of park maintenance and tree care
- V Collect are supporting an on-campus food collection for Genesis Trust until 18th Dec
- V Eco have been setting up eco-education sessions for students. To join a session email am4226@bath.ac.uk
- V Repair held it's first Repair Café in November where volunteer repairers helped students and staff by fixing their clothing and electrical items for free
- V Schools' volunteers cleared and weeded beds at Twerton Primary School
- V Wildlife ran a session making bug houses to be distributed around campus to improve biodiversity
- BUBT (Bath University Boob Team) have had a great run of activity including ‘bustamove’ with Dance Soc, a beginners jazz class, a collaboration with BUST, BUSMs & Backstage for TITs for Boobs, Pink Week with Bath Rugby, and a Life Drawing Class.
- STAR (Student Action for Refugees) ran a Walkathon in collaboration with BUGS (Bath University Guides & Scouts) with 20 people, raising £185 for the charity Young Roots
- Be Well Week – in collaboration with the University's Wellbeing Team, SU Volunteering helped host charities stalls, and promoted green activities at ‘Taking Action at Bath’ event
- The SU have connected 15 groups of students with local charity partners for the School of Management Rotork challenge
- BANES community Awards – last years V Team committee received an award for Young Volunteer Team of the Year for their amazing work during 2022-23
- Congratulations to all our Volunteer of The Month winners
- We have advertised 60 activities for our charity and community partners, with 526 students expressing interest in the roles