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Bishop Grosseteste Students’ Union has a very well established RAG team who continue to break fundraising records each year. The team consists of five full time students who give much of their free time to fundraising for four chosen charities. RAG, standing for Raise and Give, has been running at Bishop Grosseteste for almost 40 years and their reputation at the institution and in the local community has never been stronger. Last year the team raised well over £10,500 with this years team hoping to raise even more!
Events
The team provide a variety of events aimed at raising money for their charities; these include regular weekly events and annual bigger events. RAG give students the opportunity to dress up in ridiculous costumes and act as stupid as possible all in the name of charity!
RAG Week
RAG Week is one of the biggest events on the Students’ Union calendar, for one week of the year RAG take of the Union for a week of fundraising madness! This is also when the team organise the annual RAG Parade, this involves students parading into town armed with RAG Mags to sell and collection tins and try to raise as much money as possible! Last year the team almost raised a massive £3,000 in one week!
Charities
Each year the team support four charities, which often include a variety of Lincolnshire based and national charities. Over the years we have supported charities such as the Teenage Cancer Trust, the Roald Dahl foundation, Lincolnshire’s Going for Gold Appeal, Kings Village Ghana, NSPCC, When you wish upon a star and the WWF. All money over the year is split equally between the chosen four.
This year’s charities are:
The British Heart Foundation is a charity organisation in the United Kingdom that funds research, education, care and awareness campaigns aimed to prevent heart diseases in humans. Their vision is of a world in which people do not die prematurely of heart disease. The Charity was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals who were concerned about the increasing death rate from cardiovascular disease.
The British Heart Foundation focus on three vital things:
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Investing in pioneering research - funding around 1,200 research projects investigating every aspect of heart disease - from causes and safer drugs to improving surgical techniques.
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Supporting and caring for heart patients - funding BHF Nurses who visit heart patients with all types of heart conditions in their homes. Providing defibrillators and echocardiograph machines for hospitals, emergency services and first-aiders.
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Providing information to help people reduce their own risk of dying prematurely from a heart or circulatory related illness. They produce publications, videos and other materials for health professionals and the public including children. They also tell people about how to improve the health of their heart through public information campaigns, advertising and the media.
Make-A-Wish grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses. This year the charity is celebrating 21 years of wish granting. Make-A-Wish was founded in the UK in June 1986 and, since then, we have granted over 4,800 wishes. At any given time, over 20,000 children in the UK are living with life-threatening conditions and our aim is to grant 21 wishes a week by the year 2010. Whether a wish is to be a princess or a policeman for a day, own the latest computer equipment, meet a favourite celebrity or just enjoy some special time away from home with their family, a wish come true brings so much to a child's life and provides memories for the family that last a lifetime.
St. Barnabas House is a local independent charitable hospice, first opened in 1973 by a local GP Dr. Francis Gusterson. The hospice cars for terminally ill people across Lincolnshire.
Their service includes:
Their service includes:
· A 15 bed inpatient ward
· Day Hospice
· Community Team
· Family Services Team
· Education Department
The hospice team consists of nurses, doctors, social workers, counselors, chaplain, physiotherapists, complementary therapists, artist-in-residence and volunteers.
Details of the Mayor of Lincolns’ charities will be available shortly.
RAG Committee
The RAG team believe very strongly in allowing students at BG to have as much input into fundraising ideas, it is for this reason that they developed their RAG Committee.
RAG Committee consists of a group of students who are able to give their input and suggestions for RAG events. The committee even get the opportunity to plan and present their own fundraising events throughout the year.
Anyone is able to apart of RAG Committee, just email uson su@bishopg.ac.uk, to find out more!
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