Rob Brydon – nothing to do with us!
Of course we are – that’s what PUGS do isn’t it? So what are you doing I hear you say. A few things to be honest (so the title of this post should have been “we are doing some funny things for money” if you want to be a pedant about it, please don’t be though or we’ll send Big Dave around to SORT YOU OUT!).
Before I tell you what we are doing I want to tell you who we are doing it for.
Last year Porthampton officially became twinned with a place called Portswana, which is a small village in the wilds of South Sudesia in the East African Rift Valley. The Uni have been quite actively involved with various things Portswana flavoured since then and we thought we’d like to get more involved too. There is a group out there called the Portswana Community Group who we have been in discussion with for some months now (have a look at their blog site which we helped them setup too). They are so amazing, really happy and friendly people which is incredible once you understand how hard life is out there for them.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, they need a new school desperately (the kids currently have lessons in the one and only teacher’s house). We are raising money, as part of red nose day, for this school.
So what are we doing? Two main things.
1. We are making and selling limited edition PUGS red nose t-shirts (this will of course feature our Brian the Pug logo with a red nose on it. We are nothing if not predictable!).
2. We are arranging a 24 hour hockey match between PUGS members and anyone who want’s to challenge us. This will of course be in fancy dress – our theme this year being countries of the world (we are geography students remember!). So, if you pick Denmark from the hat – you could come dressed as a piece of gouda cheese for example (I dare you!).
The t-shirts are ready for sale and will be distributed to members for selling to family and friends at next weeks meeting. The hockey match will happen on Red Nose Day itself, the 15th March. Sign-up and get your sponsorship forms from Elly or Claire (before they get too drunk) on Wednesday.
We need to make as much money as we can so please give all your help and support.
Rach
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Porthampton University Geography Society - PUGS 