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11 Jun » DUCK Celebration Evening
The annual DUCK Celebration Evening was held on Sunday 6th June. DUCK celebrated our highest ever fundraising total, over £687,000 raised this year.
DUCK has had another fantastically successful term, helping Durham students raise £293,655.26 this academic year.
Apr
Download: DUCK Exec Positions 2010-2011 DUCK exec is one of the most exciting and important committees in the university. Not only will you take responsibility for huge scale projects and activities central to the running of DUCK, but you’ll be part of the group making decisions about where DUCK’s money goes, what we should [...]
Mar
Events are happening all over Durham for Fairtrade fortnight, running from the 22nd Feb to the 7th March. Find out what’s going on and how to get involved on Facebook here. Want to learn more about Fairtrade and the debate surrounding it? Check out this BBC Magazine article as a starting point. And read [...]
Feb
Congratulations to Mat Ladley, whose photograph of a DUCK purched precariously on a tree overlooking the cathedral won our Shoot a DUCK photography competition. And congratulations also to runner up Simon Jones, with his entry Chris P. Duck.
Feb
A first for DUCK – we’ve lent $750 to low income entrepreneurs through the microfinance website Kiva. You voted for who you wanted us to lend your money to, and we divided the money proportionally. Due to the huge popularity of Kiva and the rapid turnover of loans, three of the four loans we originally [...]
Feb
What is DUCK week? It’s a full 7 days of charitable mayhem between Feb 13th and 20th, and we’ll be pulling out all the stops to entertain you in as many ridiculous, exciting and profitable ways as possible. More info coming in the next email, but a sneak preview… Choose where we send £500 [...]
Feb
After last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, we want to do everything we can to raise money for the Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
Jan
Last term we donated a Michaelmas record of £76,961.77 to 60 local, national and international charities – check out all the details on the Charities section of the website!
Jan
Which charities do we support?
Where we can, we raise money which goes straight to a charity- rag raids usually have buckets marked with the name of the charity we're raising for, and events for specific charities will have their details on posters- money raised like this is 100% given straight to the charity.
Some events or buckets are just marked 'DUCK' - this money we collect until the end of year and invite charities to apply for gifts from it. DUCK's expenses are met out of this money.
We want to make DUCK as transparent as possible- read up on our allocation procedure, or get in touch.
- Are you a charity? Want to suggest a cause?
» Funding applications - Interested in the allocations of previous years?
» Check the list of beneficiaries
Did you know a school in Sri Lanka is named after DUCK?
DUCK is a great way to challenge yourself to achieve something, while helping charities raise money.
This is a quick guide to upcoming events and deadlines, click an event for more info.
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