Hi there,

I am far too old to have done ActionAid's Student Event Managers role but do know that I started my career in the voluntary sector by doing a volunteer role first. After graduating, it seemed impossible to break into the sector, without any experience, but after 3 months part time volunteering at Friends of the Earth Press Office (back in the day) I've never looked back...

Think this experience would look great on a CV and may make all the difference in getting that first interview.

This isn't directly related to the original topic of the thread, but I've recently been made Student Events Manager for ActionAid at Durham University for next year, so I just thought I'd say hello!

My name is Jo, and I'm about to go in to my second year at Durham, studying Anthropology. I'm both excited and slightly nervous about being Student Events Manager next year, but it sounds like it's going to be awesome fun!

Is anyone else out there looking forwards to being a Student Events Manager next year?

I have just joined as a Students Events Manager for the University of Bradford, I am as well looking forward to events that We as a team with other volunteer students will be doing.  I can't wait.  I have send an email to all Postgraduate students under our department and I received an awesome response.   Since we are studying International Development Management, many students share the same feeling that this will benefit them and will build their CVs very well.

Ronicah Matende

i have also recentley become a students event manger, i find it very intereting , i have done varies fund raise in the past so , that one of the reason i wanted to do it becuase i enjoyed doin them. i am also stated my introdcution to youth work . Which is simar but u dotn raise money you work with young people becuase i am doin at bentley west end youth club. I have come up with a few ideas for action aid , which i hope to carry out soon , which hopefuly will be a sucess

hello morally minded people,

I'm a student events manager at Bristol, and I just wanted to see if anyone was interested in signing this petition, which works along side and supports all effective treatment of poverty, but also calls for awareness that as long as only such small minorities are motivated into sufficient action to fight the suffering, and only target such relatively small causes of it, we will never get far enough in fundraising or other means; we may never be able to elimate poverty until, and will not be able to eliminate all human induced suffering till all people unite in the goal to fully apply our moral and rational potentials to fulfilling our objective moral obligation to ensure the well-being of everyone and eliminate the human induced disgusting injustice in the world.  It is illogical to live immorally as the most effective way of satisfying our egoism is through moral behaviour or helping others, and egoism can be fully harnessed to maximise morality.  Until we make this the ethical orientation of society and everyone's absolute priority to 'make immorality history', people will always harm each other and all on the planet unnecessarily.  This petition is a call for all people to unite in this goal, and for the full intention to maximise benefit for all and benefit others at least as much as the self, which requires the full actualisation of rational potential and reflexivity about means to achieve this.  You cannot dismiss this by claiming that everyone already knows and strives for all of what it advocates as the fact is, not everyone does.  In this 'democracy' it seems the way to give a movement a voice is to illustrate there are enough numbers behind it.  A petition seems an obvious place to start, but if you have any ideas that could help, please email them to the address below.  No one should feel threatened by this as its purpose is to benefit everyone as much as possible.

To sign the petition, email your name to petition@peopleunite.org.uk.

For more information, go to www.peopleunite.org.uk.