Internationally active charity, ActionAid is calling for all students to have a yaD in aid of the nationwide competition, ‘Bollocks to Poverty’. The charity is offering the trip of a lifetime to South Africa to the Student Union that puts on the best yaD. If nothing else, we are a backwards university so we shouldn’t have too much trouble.
A yaD (backwards day, duh) can start with a three-course dinner party or a group curry, continue with some early bar hopping then a bit of daytime TV. As night falls, slip into those comfy pyjamas and slippers for the best breakfast party ever- have orange juice cocktails, vodka-laced cornflakes and a full English.
By getting together with your SU and turning your day upside down, you’ll be helping to put the world to rights. Whether it be though cereal-eating competitions, an English breakfast cook off or a pyjama-clad street collection, all the money and awareness raised from your yaD event will help ActionAid’s vital work fighting global poverty and injustice around the world.
As if any more excuse to party in your PJs was needed, ActionAid will be taking two students from the Union that puts on the best yaD to South Africa for the trip of a lifetime. The trip will involve working with a local community in a remote village to build a training centre and the students will see first hand just how the money raised changes lives forever.
Size doesn’t matter- it’s the best, not the biggest, yaD that will take first prize so the more original, creative and generally outrageous, the better. The only condition is that the yaD must be held by 31 January 2010.
Register at actionaid.org.uk/universities. ActionAid will provide a free yaD event pack, filled with themed games and fundraising ideas, decorations, banners and lots of prizes and freebies to give out – like limited edition mugs and pillowcases.
So, if you think Trent should take the Bollocks to Poverty crown (and you fancy winning a trip to South Africa), its time to find your Union Entertainment Officer, invest in some high quality nightwear and start planning.
For more information on the Bollocks to Poverty yaD or ActionAid, please contact Rebecca Barnes on 020 7561 7646 or rebecca.barnes@actionaid.org. ActionAid works in Africa, Asia and the Americas to end global poverty and injustice. Registered charity no. 274467.
Nick Charity
Tags: actionaid, africa, charity, fundraising, yad
