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Fundraising at Colleges and Universities

Photograph of GHT Bright Ideas pack
 
Fundraising for HIV at college or university is a way to get people talking about HIV and AIDS.  We’ve put some ideas and advice together in BRIght IDEAS, our DIY fundraising pack with free A3 DIY poster for your own event on the back.

 

 

 

 

Ideas for Student Fundraising

  • Many colleges and universities hold Rag Weeks – why not encourage your Rag organisers to pick George House Trust as one of the preferred charities?
  • A toga party. Everyone looks mighty fine in a sheet.
  • A beach or pyjama party
  • A pizza / curry / meal fundraiser
  • A bar crawl
  • A fundraiser for World AIDS Day, 1 December

 Don’t forget - we have lots of fundraising tools to help you with your fundraising event.

Stories from real people

Why not connect your fundraising with someone from George House Trust’s Positive Speakers programme? Our Positive Speakers programme provides people who are living with HIV to go out into colleges and universities to talk about the realities of living with HIV.

Coming from all walks of life, Positive Speakers talk about their experience of being HIV positive from day of diagnosis to the everyday realities of living as a positive person.
Positive Speakers raises awareness about HIV and the everyday stigma and discrimination that many people still face. Connecting fundraising with a Positive Speakers talk can make money raised even more meaningful and real.

How to book a Positive Speaker

‘"I learnt what HIV is and what AIDS is. It’s changed my opinion on it totally; I thought it was a dirty disease, now I understand that it is not’"

College student, Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale, 2008.