Charity Allocation Application Form

Carnival RAG and what it means to be a carnival charity.

Carnival RAG is the Raising and Giving society for the University of Birmingham. Established in 1880 we have been using our imaginations to come up with the most wild and wacky ways to raise money for charity. Carnival started its life as an actual Carnival through the community, and has now grown and evolved into University of Birmingham’s biggest society, putting on events all year round. Our passion is raising money for charity, and our Allocations is arguably the most important process of the year.

To be a Carnival Charity you are offered the unique opportunity to be involved with University of Birmingham students and the RAG committee. We hope charities will be keen to involve themselves with our committee and volunteers, and are encouraged to come and meet us at our Charity meet and greet.

Timeline

Charity Applications are opened / 29/09/14
Applications are shortlisted / 11/10/14
Charities are informed who has been shortlisted / 13/10/14
Shortlisted charities are requested to submit videos / 13/10/14
Videos go online for students to watch and vote which charities (4) to support / 24/10/14
Votes are counted / 31/10/14
Successful and unsuccessful charities are informed / 31/10/14
Charities are invited to come and meet committee, volunteers and interested parities / November
Fundraising throughout the year for the allocated charities / 2014/2015
Regular updates to charities on how fundraising is going / 2014/2015
Year-end total is calculated / August 2015
Charities are informed of amount that will be gifted to them / September 2015
Year report is published by Carnival committee / September 2015
Money is sent to the organizations / October/November 2015

Application Form

Name;
Organization;
Address;
Contact Number;
Charity Number;
Year established;
Email Address;
Please categorize your charities main focus?
Children’s charity
Medical
Educational
Other;
Please outline the aims and objectives of the charity;
What is the local effect of your charity on the west midlands (ie what local projects do you run);
We are very keen to get our charities more involved this year through visits to see their work or by having them come to some of our events. How can you facilitate this for us?
We are looking into future possibilities of volunteer opportunities for students, if we were to try and pursue this, give examples of potential things could you offer?
How would your charity benefit with increased student interaction?
Our fundraising base is students, what makes your charity stand out to students?
The last few years we have raised approx £2500 for each of our chosen charities. In less than 500 words, given an example of what that money could be spent on, how this could appeal to students and what it could achieve;
This year we are looking into changing our voting system, by using the new website and new facilities to gain more interaction with students and the charities. We will using an online platform voting system, which means charities will be required to submit a online video bid. We would need to confirm that the charities have the ability to do this.
Any other comments.

Thank you very much for applying to be one of Carnival RAG’s allocated charities 2014/15.

The deadline for application forms is 10/10/2014, please email completed forms to .

Hope to hear from you soon.

Stephanie Zeller

Vice-President / Treasurer

2014/2015

Carnival Rag