Charity Week events soon to be announced
Feb
Charity Week is Coming, are you ready?
Charity Week (known as RAG Week in other colleges) is happening Week 6 in UL this year, February 27th to March 1st.
This year Charity Week will be raising funds for four great charities; Pieta House, The Brothers of Charity, TLC4CF, & the Midwest Rape Crisis Centre.
During the course of the week there will be a whole host of activities during the day including the night time events, with the end goal of making as much money as possible for Charity.
This year An Garda Siochana will be operating a zero tolerance policy for any students who are littering or engaged in antisocial behaviour and will hand out fines immediately.
This in particular pertains to drinking in the estates so please don’t do it. There are a lot of local residents with families who live in these areas so let’s try having some respect for them. If you are fined, it is a lot of money to have to hand over and could ruin your week.
The most important thing about Charity Week is raising money for good causes, and the best way to do that is if the students get involved.
Students around the countries have come up with some amazing ideas for tongue in cheek, clever ways of fundraising and there’s no reason UL students shouldn’t follow suit.
If you want to dress up as condom for a day, blindfold yourself for 48 hours, chain yourself and some mates together, do a fun run, shave or dye your hair, or even spend a day on campus working as a porter.
No idea is silly, in fact the sillier usually the better. If you wish to get involved with fundraising or have your own idea for a way you can fundraise personally, please drop me an email (events.su@ul.ie) for more information.
Charity Week is only as good as you, the students, make it.
With Regards to the events happening this year, we don’t want to spoil anything just yet but the Charity Week Lineup will be announced during Week 4. Listings will be printed in Issue 9 of An Focal (pick up your copy on Feb 21) and will also be available on www.anfocal.ie
Keith Quinlan, ULSU Events Manager