RAG Against the Machine
In keeping with Cardiff's RAG week, we hosted another charity gig in local restaurant and bar, The North Star. We decided to make the event free of charge and raise money by selling cakes and delicious bakes to complement the drinks. The music proved to be very popular- we had a great mix of bands and acoustic artists that kindly volunteered their time to entertain us! The music sandwiched a short interim in which everybody watched the Rugby too! We sold out of cakes and raised a great amount of money to contribute towards RAG efforts (TBC); it was an all-around, fantastic evening. Many thanks to The North Star (http://www.thenorthstarcardiff.com/) for having us, the very talented musicians, as well as the lovely bunch of people who came to show their support!
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Friday 21st February 2014
Friday 4th July 2014
We welcomed potential medical and health care students today at Cardiff University's open day. We wish all the students that we met today success with their exams and applications to university. Hope to see you at the start of your studies at Cardiff.
Thank you all who donated in our bake sale today, we managed to raise £44.80 for Noah's Ark Children Hospital Charity. If you wish to find out more about the charity please visit their website at: http://www.noahs-ark-appeal.org/
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY OPEN DAY
£44.80
Monday 4th November
EPILEPSY SYMPOSIUM BAKE SALE
At every symposium we provide homebaked treats and goodies, in return for a small donation to a chosen children's charity. Our kind members bake for us, as well as the odd mum and our first event raised a very respectable £25 for Sparkle, who came to speak at the event! Well done everybody!
£25
BIG KIDS and BANDS
Well obviously we had to do something for CHILDREN IN NEED! It's a big event on our calender! We hosted a fantastic charity gig at Ten Feet Tall- Cardiff, aptly named 'BIG KIDS and BANDS' where five acts entertained our guests with music ranging from rock, jazz and pop, to ska. It was such a great night, the talented bands and musicians went down a treat and the 2-4-1 cocktails encouraged the audience to dance along. MOST IMPORTANTLY we raised an unbelievable £371 for Children in Need!!! A huge thanks to Ten Feet Tall (http://10feettall.co.uk/) for donating the venue and providing a brilliant sound guy, thank you to all the acts who didn't receive a penny and thank you to everyone who came to show their support!!!
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Thursday 14th November 2013
£371
Thursday 7th November 2013
As evidenced by numerous pictures of our members showing off their baking skills, in light of last year's popular BBC Great British Bake Off, we decided to host our own baking competition for last year's charity of the year, Sparkle. We chose the theme of 'Childhood Treats' and asked members to turn up to a local venue, The Vulcan Lounge, with their marvellous creations to be judged and sold all for charity! The winners would receive some small goodies, and you can check out the main article on our 'articles and press' page!
We had many delicious entries such as Kinder Bueno Brownies, Haribo Cupcakes and Peanut Butter and Jam sponge sandwiches. However two incredibly talented members, Manon Jenkins and Dina Fathoala, clinched the winning spot with a jaw-dropping giant Willy Wonka chocolate sponge. See the pictures- it's truly magnificent and tasted even better than it looked (which was no mean feat)! We also raised a respectable £80, with a generous donation received from The Vulcan Lounge itself!
Thankyou to all our entries and supporters who came along and thank you to The Vulcan Lounge (http://chameleongroupcardiff.com/the-vulcan-lounge/) for having us!
THE GREAT CUPS
BAKE OFF
£80
Monday 10th February
ASD and ADHD SYMPOSIUM BAKE SALE
At our Autism and ADHD symposium we raised money for Cardiff University's Raising and giving (RAG) week! (total unknown as it went straight to the RAG bucket!)
Tuesday 11th March 2014
ONCOLOGY SYMPOSIUM BAKE SALE
At our Oncology symposium we used our cakes to raise a brilliant £50 for Teenage Cancer Trust! Everyone dug deep and gave extremely generously, and our last speaker, who gave an incredible talk about her family's experience through the treatment of her son's cancer, very kindly provided us with delicious cakes to sell!
£50
Fundraising
Thursday 4th December 2014
ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SYMPOSIUM BAKE SALE
Our charity rep Rachel decided that inkeeping with our theme of adolescent mental health, YoungMinds would be the best charity to raise for! (http://www.youngminds.org.uk/) We sold cookies and cakes and managed to shift them for £57.20 in total!! How great!!!
£57.2
Friday 14th November 2014
BIG KIDS AND BANDS
£277
We hosted a charity gig at Koko Gorilaz, Cardiff to raise money for Children in Need! We collaborated with Live Music Society who helped us out with recruiting bands and the sound tech, and are so glad we did! Performing for us, we had:
Oli and Eugene
Cristain Perugino
The Broadcasts
In Bliss
Shrieking Violets
We charged £4 for entry and every penny went to charity, as the venue was kindly donated to us for free, and the photographs were taken for free also by budding photographer Reyhan Mir!
Everyone that attended had a great night and we raised a commendable £277!
Sunday 5th October 2014
CARDIFF HALF MARATHON
We got a team of members together and ran the Cardiff Half Marthon 2014 in aid of Sparkle Appeal. We raised a whopping £1125!!! A couple of runners earned PBs and everyone wore our special CUPS running vests to show off our society! HUGE WELL DONE. We also had an article in the Gair Rhydd to spread the word about this incredible achievement!
£1125
CHILDHOOD OBESITY SYMPOSIUM BAKE SALE
We decided to raise money for HENRY (ww.henry.org.uk) which targets very young children to encourage a healthy lifestyle. It's an evidence-based intervention that enables the best start for children regarding health, exercise and nutrition education. http://www.henry.org.uk/homepage/
£20
CYSTIC FIBROSIS SYMPOSIUM BAKE SALE
We raised money for the CF Trust for this bakesale! We had carrot cake cupcakes, chocolate cake, rice krispy marshmallow squares....all sorts! And Jeanette Tan a lovely member baked some divine cupcakes too! Thank you!! www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk
£27.84
Friday 13th March 2014
RED NOSE DAY HEALTHCARE QUIZ
We collaborated with a few other socities to put together a pub quiz in order to raise money for comic relief! We had an array of donated prizes (such as a dominoes meal for four, prosecco, chocolate, vouchers) and had an array or rounds and questions. The winners were a group of pharmacy members 'The drug dealers' who clinched the prizes in a tense tiebreaker with some 4th year medics. A great night was had all round, and a commendable £50 was raised :)
£50
