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RAG Week 2010 is fast approaching us, kicking off on Sunday Week 4 (in 3 days!), and promises to be 7 days worth of excitement amidst fundraising.
This week, Nightline is holding its Annual Awareness Week, with events going on throughout the week. The aim is to increase people’s understanding of how the service works and how they can make use of it. Aaron Berry, one of Nightline's Public Faces, told us: "There is no point in the service if students don't know who we are and what we do!"
Nightline has been around in York since 1972. Since then, they have been providing listening, sexual health supplies and information service for students every night of term.
Volunteers are all anonymous and provide a service from 8pm to 8am, via phone, drop-in or email.
Nightline Awareness week is a national campaign, which runs across more than 40 different University Nightlines in the UK. It aims to highlight the services offered, as well as providing a chance for students to ask questions about the service, volunteering or any queries they have about Nightline.
Monday and Tuesday: 12pm - 2pm
Vanbrugh Stalls: Our public faces will be giving out condoms, cake and information about Nightline. Come along and ask any questions or book on to Thursday’s wellbeing workshop.
Thursday: 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Wellbeing workshop: Run by the Counselling Service, in YUSU’s Advice & Support Centre in the YUSU building in James College. The workshop will help teach you techniques for dealing with stress. No bookings needed, just pop along.
Friday:
Nightline’s 36 hour flat: Nightline will be opening the service during the daytime for one day only. Pop in for a chat, sexual health supplies, or even just a free cuppa and biscuits! A chance to come and find out what Nightline is all about.
Nighltine on the Radio: The Public Faces Aaron Berry and Lizi Cox will be joining Harriet and Sam on URY's Welfare Show to talk about Nightline and student issues.
Sunday: 8pm - late
The weekly quiz at The Courtyard: This will be in association with our Nightline Awareness Week, with a round of Nightline-orientated questions. Prizes include Nightline goodies and the chance to win a year's cinema tickets.
Berry told The Yorker he hopes that this year's awareness campagin "will be our biggest Awareness Week yet. Hopefully people will appreciate what we're doing and we will make an impact on campus."
Nightline is a student-run listening, information and sexual health supplies service, open every night of the university term from 8pm to 8am. You can contact Nightline by phone, on 01904 433735; by email at nightmail@yusu.org or by dropping into the flat in Langwith G Block.
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