Another summer over, a mad rush around Wilkinsons and meeting loads of new people….yes Freshers Week is soon approaching! And this means Freshers Fair too. We will be manning our RAG stall on 7th and 8th October in the Great Hall to answer any questions you may have…or if you just fancy a chat! Freshers Fair is your chance to see all the different societies you can get involved with at Lancaster University, so what better way than to raise money for well deserved charities and have a wicked time along the way???
Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Stepping Stones Nigeria is deeply committed to defending and upholding the basic rights of every child and empowering them to achieve their absolute potential. Working in partnership with local community organisations, they deliver education, refuge, heathcare and hope for a brighter future to vulnerable and disadvantaged children such as street children and orphans. Through advocacy and research we passionately campaign at a local, national and international level to put a stop to the abuse of innocent children.

 As a cutting-edge child rights charity, their work focuses on some of the most challenging issues that children face today such as:

Lack of access to good quality education and resources, stigmatisation, abandonment and killings of so-called child ‘witches’, Child trafficking

Mencap is the voice of learning disability. Everything they do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability and their families and carers nationwide.

St. John’s Hospice care for terminally ill patients and their families and carers across north Lancashire, south Cumbria and parts of north Yorkshire.

Some very worthy causes, so let’s make this the best RAG week yet.

Very, very well actually!

Thanks to all your hard work Lancaster Rag has made a whooping £2,857.01 for Charity! So well done for braving the cold and selling cakes or shaking buckets, we couldn’t have done it without you. Charities that benefitted this term were Barnardos, Every Man, The Christies Trust , Mary’s Meals and Lancaster and District Homless shelter.

We also have a brand new shiny exec to run Rag starting from next term but they will still need your help so join in, get involved and be part of it!

It gone so fast but the RAG exec only have 3 weeks left in office so we need you to take our places! Elections will be held on Monday (6:30pm Furness Lecture Theatre two) and every is welcome to come and run for a position. If you want to know more about the various roles have a look at the ‘Exec’ page of this website. Even if you’re not running come down to help decide and sign up for our street collection for Lancaster and District Homeless Action on Wednesday.

See you then, the RAG Exec 2009

Thought you would all like to see the ‘official’ photos that Christies have sent us from our Manchester raid -Super Heros to the rescue!!

We were saving lives just in the slower less glamorous fashion…

RAG will be having a bake sale in Alex Square on Monday the 3rd of November (Week 5) to raise money for Everyman.

Everyman is a charity dedicated to irradicating male cancer particularly Prostate cancer which is hugely under funded in relation to its infection rate. For more information go to http://everyman-campaign.org/.

If you want to help out either baking on the day before or selling on the Tuesday give us an email for more details. Even if you havn’t helped out before it’s allways nice to see a new face!

We also have plans for a collection in Lancaster city center at the end of week 7 and ideas for an indian meal out in the near future.

See you soon, Emily x

(PS if you have a fail safe recipe let me know!)

Well done to everyone who came to Manchester on Saturday not only did you all look fab but between the 19 of us we raised £1,890.59 for Christies Cancer Hospital! This is AMAZING so give your selves a pat on the back!!

We also won paint balling tickets for being he most enthusiastic RAG so the exec will be sorting out a date to use these soon.

Don’t forget our meeting tonight to decide on the new RAG Mag editor and social on Thursday to Elements. The theme of the social will be announced at tonight’s meeting.

See you then! X

After our first collection we will be holding our first social, it starts at  8:30 in Trevor. No fancy dress this time although you will be required to wear an embaressing name tag as designated by our social secs! See you then X

Welcome back to the world of RAG. As usual we have a whole host of activities and events planned aiming to raise lots of money for charity but we still want to hear from you. Do you have a charity that you feel passionately about or an idea that you think will be a fun way to raise cash? Let us know!

Our first meeting of the term will be on Monday the 5^th of October (week one) at 6:30 in Furness Lecture Theatre two (if you’re a fresher that’s the lecture room past Furness Bar and above Pizzetta -two places I’m guessing you’ll be familiar with soon enough!) We will also be at Fresher’s Fair in the great hall so come over and sign up.

Our first event is a street collection in Lancaster on Saturday 10th October (end of week 1), where we hope to raise lots of money for ‘Mary’s Meals’ who aim to feed children in some of the most impoverished countries, chaeck out there website if you need any more motivation to support them http://www.marysmeals.org/.

See you soon, the RAG team

RAG week is finally over and so is the very long hang-over it induced (‘But we have to use ALL our RAG band deals…’).

It was a great week with every event making money for our worthy causes adding up to a grand total of over £3000 raised. So THANK YOU for taking part and helping out –we couldn’t have done it without you!

RAG also volunteered at this year’s Round Table Beer Fest in Week 8 where all the money made goes to local causes such as schools, youth groups, and charities. We received £500 to give to a charity of our choice and voted for Make A Wish Foundation which grants children with life threatening illnesses a chance to live their dreams.

http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/

RAG is now over for Easter but keep your eyes open for worthy causes and fundraising ideas as we always love to hear about them.

Happy holidays! RAG