Our students at the heart of Hud
Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:44:00 GMT
This week sees the launch of Huddersfield Students’ Union’s biggest ever Student Volunteering Week. Throughout the week, they will be showcasing some of the fantastic effort our students make in the local community, and letting students try something new to get involved in some of the amazing local charities across Kirklees.
Our students will be partnering up with, amongst others:
- Mencap in Kirklees
- Yorkshire Children’s Centre
- Huddersfield Round Table
- Forget-me-not Children’s Hospice
- Victim Support
- Age UK
- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
- The Welcome Centre
- Growing Newsome / Stirley Farm
- St John’s the Baptist Church, Kirkheaton
- Oxfam Wastesaver
- Options Centre, Dewsbury
Some of the great events taking place include a careers session for existing volunteers, a film night to recruit volunteer zombies for the Huddersfield Round Table ‘State of Decay’ zombie 5k run in Beaumont Park, and ‘Throwback Thursday’ – a vintage tea party and celebration of all things retro in aid of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
They will also be showcasing some of the fantastic student-led projects at Huddersfield Students’ Union, such as the HarvestHud allotment project, which grows fresh produce and collects dry good for The Welcome Centre food bank, and Knitter Natter, a befriending and knitting group in partnership with Age UK.
The culmination of the week is the ‘Students at the <3 of Hud’ event on Saturday 1 March. They are aiming to get 100 student volunteers on 5 different projects across Kirklees, from painting the Options Centre in Dewsbury, to supporting the Oxfam online shop in Batley, and clearing a churchyard in Kirkheaton.
How can staff get involved
You can get involved by directing your students to www.huddersfield.su/volunteeringweek to find out about what’s going on, and to sign up to the various events going on. Please bring a donation for our HarvestHud project with you to work on Friday 28 February, when our volunteers will be collecting them in the Students’ Union, and at various departments across campus.
Current shortages at The Welcome Centre are:
Food - fish paste, meat paste, packets of soup, stock cubes, Sugar, tinned cooked meat, tinned fish, tinned meat meals, vegetable oil
Household - tin Openers, towels, quilts/duvets
Clothing - men's jeans 30-34", men's T-shirts (small), men's jumpers (small), men’s boots/trainers size 8-10
Toiletries – sanitary products, toilet rolls
