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15 Aug 2015

º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Students’ Union Rag raises more than £1 million for charity… again!

º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Students’ Union Rag raised over £1m to help support local and national charities for the sixth time running this year.

The students managed to raise an impressive £1,393,847.08 through a wide range of fundraising activities including a poppy appeal raising more than £72,000, a charity cycle from London to Paris and a charity trek to China for the first time.

The money raised went towards helping and supporting charities such as Dementia UK, Make a Wish and Meningitis Research Foundation as well as local charities Minnie’s Friends, Peter Le Marchant Trust and the Second Chance Youth Shelter. 

Rag Vice President for the past year, Danni Hitchins, said: “I am so proud of everyone involved in º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Students Rag this year. It has been a tough year for us but the team has handled it all so well and the total they have raised is truly incredible.

“I would like to thank the Rag committee in particular for their hard work and dedication this year, I could not have asked for a better team.”

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It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, putting it among the best universities in the world, and was named University of the Year in the What Uni Student Choice Awards 2015. º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’ and is in the top 10 in England for research intensity. It was 2nd in the 2015 THE Student Experience Survey and was named Sports University of the Year 2013-14 by The Times and Sunday Times. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes.

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