events held in 2006 and 2007
From September 2006 to May 2007, students at the University of Edinburgh organised a wide variety of events and activities that raised over £97,000 for local, national and international charities and worthy causes.
The list below contains detais of a selection of those events, and how much each of them raised for the relevent charities:
Date |
Event |
Total Raised |
| 23.09.2006 | Meningitis UK Street Collection (Edinburgh) |
£1,128 |
| 17.10.2006 | Barnardo's Tesco Store Collection (Edinburgh) |
£74 |
| 10.11.2006 to 17.11.2006 |
STAR Asylum Event For one week, members of STAR survived on the amount of money which an asylum seeker gets in a week, £31. This had to cover all food, travel, entertainment and all money raised in sponsorship went to the Edinburgh Refugee Drop-In Centre. |
£735 |
| 14.11.2006 | Fonelisco Sponsored Sleep-Out (in the Pleasance Courtyard) |
£2,094 |
| 15.11.2006 | ESCA Annual Duckrace One river, up to one thousand little yellow ducks and three very wet volunteers! |
£560 |
| 16.11.2006 | Charities Week Comedy Night in aid of EdUKaid. |
£159 |
| 17.11.2006 | Children in Need Street Collection (Edinburgh) |
£1,456 |
| 17.11.2006 | Children in Need Charity Ball Held in Teviot Union with all profits split between Children in Need, Childrens Holiday Venture, STAR, Medsin and SSSK. |
£2,750 |
| 18.11.2006 | CHV M&S Collection (Edinburgh) |
£537 |
| 21.11.2006 | Fresh Air FM Charity Auction In aid of Waverley Care Trust for World AIDS Day. |
£600 |
| 25.11.2006 | Fonelisco Street Collection (Edinburgh) |
£1,366 |
| 29.11.2006 | World AIDS Day Awareness Seminar In association with Waverley Care Trust, People and Planet and EU Politics Society. |
£68 |
| 30.11.2006 | Baby Tiger Live Music Night In aid of Waverley Care Trust for World AIDS Day. |
£66 |
| 30.11.2006 | Snatch Social Charity Club Night Held at the Liquid Room in aid of Waverley Care Trust for World AIDS Day. |
£301 |
| 01.12.2006 | World AIDS Day Street Collection Held in Edinburgh in aid of Waverley Care Trust |
£635 |
| 24.01.2007 | Catching Jokes Club Night In aid of the Princes Trust |
£100 |
| 10.02.2007 | CHV Six Nations Rugby Collection (Murrayfield, Edinburgh) |
£2,034 |
| 17.02.2007 | Fonelisco Charity Pub Crawl(Edinburgh) | £416 |
| 10.03.2007 | Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show (Edinburgh) |
£38,140 |
| 15.03.2007 | Comic Relief Live Music Night Held in the Chai Tea House, Edinburgh. |
£84 |
| 15.03.2007 | Comic Relief Snatch Social Club Night Held at the Liquid Room, Edinburgh. |
£291 |
| 16.03.2007 | Comic Relief Street Collection (Edinburgh) |
£1,101 |
| 16.03.2007 | Comic Relief Charity Bungee Jump Thirty Five students leapt from a 250ft crane in Inverleith Park, Edinburgh, attached only by a big rubber band... |
£3,500 |
| 17.03.2007 | Meadows Marathon 2007 Over four hundred people took to the Meadows to raise money for Comic Relief. |
£7,300 |
| 23.03.2007 | Jailbreak 2007 24 hrs to get as far away as you can from Edinburgh, with no money or help from friends or family... |
£266 |
| Various | Other donations, events and collections... | £28,765 |
TOTAL FOR 2006 - 2007 |
£94,526 |
