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We are in the magazines!
Hi again! While battling with my last readings and deadlines, our ladies from the University of Nottingham Equestrian were putting hard work to promote the inclusive sessions for disabled students that they have been organising his year -making the disabled students happy and grateful. The article, featuring on two British magazines on activities for the disabled PosAbility and ONTRACK has the title “Inclusive Riding Sessions: Engaging Mind and Body”, highlights the positive impact of our equine therapy sessions on students’ long-term physical and mental conditions in higher education. And if you like my face, you’ll see it on one of the featured pictures -haha. But even if you don’t like my…
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UoN RDA reach their minimum goal on Jumpstart!
On our way back from Scropton yard, we learn terrific news! The University of Nottingham RDA group have reached their minimum target amount on Jumpstart, the university’s first crowdfunding platform. This means that they will be granted all the money they have raised at the end of the campaign, and this is exciting! As a Jumpstart Co-ordinator, I feel particularly proud of them, because their project is actually our first-ever one! I would like to thank everyone who donated or spread the word. Let’s give the team a final push to their main target, 1,000 British pounds, of which they have secured 30%. Let’s get as many cute volunteers as possible to RDA…
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Urgent pledge for the University of Nottingham RDA group
Hi! It is my honor to have been chosen to coordinate Jumpstart, the first platform that raises awareness about the student-run projects of the University of Nottingham, which are at the core of our University’s engagement in the local communities in all three countries where UoN has campuses (United Kingdom, Malaysia, China). It was to my excitement to be informed that our first-ever campaign belongs to the University’s RDA group, of which I am a member! Our group is part of the University of Nottingham Equestrian Club and is amongst the most active volunteering groups of the University at the moment. RDA stands for Riding for the Disabled Association, a…
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Back to Trent Valley
Most students hate autumn. But I love this season. So many beginnings; new people, new modules, new notebooks, and for the equestrian society of the University of Nottingham, a new year of subsidized lessons in Trent Valley! The committee say that this year the members are over 500, the highest number ever, and of course all those people want to learn how to ride and volunteer for RDA yards! So, imagine, what it takes for a member to secure a lesson, and how hard it is for the committee members to organize everything! So here we go, it was my turn to show up in Trent Valley for my first…
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Urgent funding plea: Let’s help one of the University of Nottingham riding clubs
The equestrian club of the Sutton Bonington campus of the University of Nottingham has been involved in the Mars (the brand, not the planet!) Milk Play Fund, in order to fund its horseball activities and represent the university in British national university championships. The club is in urgent need of equipment and money to fund their lessons and horse training and have entered the scheme for a small grant. One thousand pounds might not sound enough for the size of their project, but “every little helps”, as the motto of a British supermarket chain says. Sutton Bonington is an isolated campus hosting a number of agronomic, veterinarian and food science…
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Walking across a beautiful campus
Spring is here and The University of Nottingham community know exactly what that means; lively colors everywhere! The massive variety of flora on the University Park Campus has woken up to welcome the warmer days! Colourful flowers, all-green trees, everything looks different under the spring British sun (yes, I love this seldom sunshine)! Clear paths leading to fountains and pieces of art, trees devoted to important people, students’ halls and research centres showing themselves through all these leaves! On the main campus there is a plethora of gardens. In them stand benches and tables, where students discuss, eat or study. With wi-fi everywhere, excellent lending services and thousands of digitized…