Student Volunteering Week – 10 - 16 February
From 10th - 16th February, get ready to volunteer
Student Volunteering Week, brought to you by the NUS and your very own Imperial Hub is a week aimed at celebrating, inspiring and supporting student volunteering.
Sunday 10th
If you’ve been waiting for the right time to get involved with Soup Run…here it is! We hope this will be the biggest Soup Run Imperial’s Soup Run society has ever done.
Monday 11th
Flash mob of kindness! Keep an eye open for extremely lovely and happy people making kind and generous gestures throughout the day… there will be dance, there will be music… there will be free hugs and more.
Tuesday 12th
Pancake day!! There will be lots of delicious pancake-oriented volunteering opportunities – pancake party for elderly people in Kensington Olympia, UNICEF’s pancake flipping competition…
Wednesday 13th
Problem post-its! We are student community filled with intelligent, generous people with a massive capacity to help each other before we head out to save London and the world… post your problem on the problem board, and solve someone else’s!
Thursday 14th
Spread the love on Valentine’s Day… and come to our International Volunteering Opportunity Fair! Find out about all the great summer projects run by Imperial students, and hear form some external volunteering organisations too…
Friday 15th
Become a Step Change Ambassador – join Imperial Hub’s exciting new scheme and make a difference by championing environmental causes on campus!
And come and celebrate with us at Zoo Bar – free entry, free cloakroom and free shot to all Imperial volunteers!!
Saturday 16th
Imperial runs the Love Run! On Saturday 16th February, an Imperial team is running a 10K in Finsbury Park for a charity called Action Duchenne – funding research and campaigning for a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a severe genetic muscular wasting disease affecting. Join the team or volunteer as a marshal on the day!
On top of this, the amazing volunteering societies at Imperial will be opening their doors for taster sessions throughout the week, with one off volunteering opportunities, informal chats and more…
External charities in London are also getting involved!
London Youth, one of the oldest and best-established youth charities in London is holding a session EVERY DAY for Imperial students to attend one of their Urban Nature projects in youth centres across London. Fancy getting your hands dirty and digging up some veg? Or tending to some lovely urban chickens? Want to meet some great young people excited about making a difference in their community?
There will also be offers available…
A great new charity, International Women’s Institute is donating ten 40% discounted tickets to a brilliant talk on Friday 15th February on the sex trade and objectification of Women. Mingle with activists, businesspeople and other students in a gallery space at the Tate…
And this isn’t even everything…
WATCH THIS SPACE! More coming next week. If you register for six of our wonderful events, and fill up your SVW loyalty card with beautiful stamps, you will get discounts at some of South Ken’s finest restaurants and cafés (Nando’s, Café Deco and La Patisserie to name just a few…)
Find out more and register for one or all of our events here: www.imperialhub.org/svw2013. Please e-mail us with any questions!
