‘Make a Difference’ day - Saturday 25th October.
Paul Twigger | 21.10.2003 13:13 | Education | Indymedia | Social Struggles | Liverpool
On Saturday 25th October, Liverpool Students' Union, liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool City Council are coming together for the National Make a Difference Day.
Involving students, staff and local residents and businesses, the Make a Difference Day will help promote unity between the local community and students.
Focussing on the environment the order of the day will be to clean up the area; ranging from litter-picking to graffiti removal and a general social day.
If you would like to get involved get down to St.Andrews Gardens at the top of Copperas Hill for 2 o'clock on Saturday... help us to help 'Make a Difference'.
Involving students, staff and local residents and businesses, the Make a Difference Day will help promote unity between the local community and students.
Focussing on the environment the order of the day will be to clean up the area; ranging from litter-picking to graffiti removal and a general social day.
If you would like to get involved get down to St.Andrews Gardens at the top of Copperas Hill for 2 o'clock on Saturday... help us to help 'Make a Difference'.
St. Andrews Gardens
Lliverpool Students' Union and JMU’s 'Partnerships and Widening Participation' department are inviting both staff and students from JMU as well as local residents to come and help us with a ‘Community Clean-Up Day’ focusing around the area of St Andrew’s Gardens. This is your opportunity to give something back to the local community and to make a positive difference in the local environment.
The event is taking place in partnership with Liverpool City Council who will be helping out on the day by removing graffiti and fly-posters. If you would like to get involved all you have to do is turn up on the day. Registration will take place at St Andrew’s Gardens Halls (top of Copperas Hill) at 2pm.
Anyone who takes part in the day will receive a certificate of attendance and will be invited back to the Haigh for a free buffet and wine!
For more info please contact Paul Twigger on (0151) 231 4903 or Jill Metcalfe on (0151) 231 3126.
The event is taking place in partnership with Liverpool City Council who will be helping out on the day by removing graffiti and fly-posters. If you would like to get involved all you have to do is turn up on the day. Registration will take place at St Andrew’s Gardens Halls (top of Copperas Hill) at 2pm.
Anyone who takes part in the day will receive a certificate of attendance and will be invited back to the Haigh for a free buffet and wine!
For more info please contact Paul Twigger on (0151) 231 4903 or Jill Metcalfe on (0151) 231 3126.
Paul Twigger
e-mail:
lsuptwig@livjm.ac.uk
Homepage:
http://www.l-s-u.com
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Just a quick note to let you all know that the event went really well.
29.10.2003 15:36
As part of National Make a Difference Day on Saturday 25th October, students from across Liverpool took part in a community clean-up day around St Andrew’s Garden. Twenty staff and students from John Moores, Liverpool University and Liverpool Hope attended the event and between them they collected 20 bags of rubbish from the streets surrounding St Andrew’s Garden.
Louise Keeler, a student from JMU said “It’s been a great day. When we arrived it was really sad to see the amount of rubbish blowing around on the streets but in just a couple of hours it looked like a different place”
Liverpool City Council supported the event by providing all the safety equipment and also joined in on the day with a demonstration of graffiti cleaning in the area.
Paul Twigger from Liverpool Students’ Union who helped to organise the event said “Liverpool is a great city to be a student and we wanted to show that not only are we part of the community, but also that we want to give something back. As this is an area where students live so closely side by side other local residents, we wanted to organise an event that would have a direct benefit for everyone in the area.”
It is hoped that this will be the start of more events around Liverpool, which will encourage students to be more aware of urban environmental issues and also give everyone a chance to get involved and really make a difference in their local community.
Paul Twigger
e-mail:
lsuptwig@livjm.ac.uk
Homepage:
http://www.l-s-u.com