Comedy Night!

Oh what a night…on Friday 14^th November UNICEF on Campus and the Birmingham Footnotes Comedy Society held a joint venture that combined both comedy and charity!

Laughs-a-plenty could be heard from the Beorma Bar as 6 comedians entertained a big crowd, all to fundraise for relief efforts against the Ebola outbreak. There will be an upcoming blog post about the current situation on Ebola, so don’t miss it!

Well done to Ludo Cinelli, our charismatic compere, and also to performers Chris Austin, Kola Adegbola, Richard Baker, Sam Arrowsmith, David Ayland, Bobbie-Ann Jones and Benedict Churchus for really tickling us, everyone was genuinely really funny! There’s always that awkward moment when you worry whether comedians are going actually be funny or not, but thankfully you guys made us all snort, a lot.

Ludo, our compere

Kola, one of the fab comedians

Thank yous go out to all the performers mentioned, everyone who bought a ticket, Ruth and Leonie for buying the snacks (a v. important job) and the UNICEF committee for making it all happen!

All together now…FUCK EBOLA!

Emergency Plan

At our last meeting, UNICEF on campus UoB came up with our emergency plan!

When emergencies strike, we desperately need money to get out fast to those in need. Therefore we need to be ready to raise the essential funds as soon as we hear word of a breaking emergency. We plan to ensure that: 
- We have a system in place to spread the word fast to our university community.
- We are the first society on campus visibly fundraising.
- UNICEF is the first charity the public sees and responds to in an emergency.

 And this is what we came up with! 

Timeline	Action	UNICEF to provide
Day 1 – emergency strikes	-          UNICEF on campus society meeting -          Create a # for twitter and Facebook -          Set up a text to give code -          Generate an awareness of the disaster on social media, post in society and fresher’s groups -          Ask redbrick (campus newspaper) to run an article about the emergency and planned fundraising events	Initial statistics and fundraising goal
Day 2	-          Bucket shake on campus -          Bucket shake in the city centre – tell people about the emergency -          Lecture shout outs -          Put posters up around campus	Give us a pdf A3 poster summarising emergency, what UNICEF is doing to help and how people can donate
Day 3	-          Bake cakes (YES MORE CAKES!) -          Bag packing in Harborne – M&S or Sainsbury’s	Pdf of a flyer summarising emergency which we can print off and give out to people
Day 4	-          Bake sale -          Pub quiz -          Create a UNICEF on campus video update -          Ask local press to get involved	Have some pub quiz questions based on the emergency or on UNICEF in general
Day 5	-          Hopefully there will be an online video/celebrity video which we can share to increase social media awareness -          Obstacle course, 3-legged race, kids games on campus. Pay per go.	Email update on which celebrity UNICEF ambassadors are  involved and what the social media plan is
Day 6	-          Flash mob on campus -          Sports tournament: pay per team or per person and have a prize (donated for free) for the winner, with potential to add a charity auction.	Ask any companies that you work with to donate prizes for raffles, tournaments etc.
Day 7	-          Fundraiser event: comedy night, talent show, karaoke night -          UNICEF dinner: members cook a meal for friends who donate money to UNICEF Society dinner to recount how the weeks fundraising has gone	A thank you email summarising what all the UNICEF on campus groups have done and how much UNICEF has raised.

Buzzing for when I can show my inner Beyonce at the karaoke night...

Well done to everyone who attended the meeting and contributed ideas, I think we are well set up to respond effectively to a crisis. Let's just hope we won't need it.

Lets Get Quizzical

On Monday was our first social of the year - and we decided to embark on the great and noble quest that is winning The Soak pub quiz!

About 3 teams pledged their allegiance to the cause of winning the quiz, with their promise of donating the winnings to UNICEF if the quest proved successful. Little did we know how challenging our quest would be...

The quiz was Halloween themed, it being the week leading up to Halloween and all. And oh my god, it was so hard! Unless you had a superior knowledge of horror films and creepy trivia (I am not about that life), it was bloody difficult. Only one team ended up staying til the end (YOU GO QUIZTICAL!) - a valiant effort.

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I hope everyone had fun regardless, and we'll see you at the next social!