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    • Action is a lovely section really, it's your opportunity to help benefit the local and wider community. Our wonderful volunteers do amazing things for people all around and are always well spoken of around the Loughborough area don't you know!

    There are eight areas of Action to get involved in:
    Community Outreach
    Sport
    International
    Overseas
    Young Persons
    Inclusivity
    A-Teams (Hall-led projects)
    D-Teams (Department-led projects)

    We specialise in weekly projects for the local community and make Loughborough an even better place to be!

    With over 50 individual projects for you to get involved in, you'll never run out of opportunities to earn good karma.

    Bragging Rights

    • Over the past four years, volunteers have donated over 57,000 hours to both local and far away international communities. Two of these years were during the COVID pandemic!
    • In 2017, we received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
    • In 2013, we received the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award
    Who you gonna call?
    Action Chair - Jodie Evans
    Action@lsu.co.uk
    Action Administrator - Anne Cato
    AnneCato@lsu.co.uk
    Vice Chair - Cengiz Khan
    ActionVice@lsu.co.uk
    A-Teams (Hall-led projects) - Emily Rigden
    ActionAteams@lsu.co.uk
    Collaborations - Ellie Southern
    ActionCollabs@lsu.co.uk
    Departments - Lot Burgstra
    ActionDepartments@lsu.co.uk
    Community Outreach - Eppie Gauste
    ActionCO@lsu.co.uk
    Inclusivity - Verity Howes-Yarlett
    ActionInclusivity@lsu.co.uk
    International - Ranuli Jayadewa
    ActionInternational@lsu.co.uk
    Media - Cheryl Choong
    ActionMultimedia@lsu.co.uk
    Overseas - Sam Salter
    ActionOverseas@lsu.co.uk
    Postgraduate - Safia Bahas
    ActionPostgrad@lsu.co.uk
    Sport - Adhiraj Thakur
    ActionSport@lsu.co.uk
    Young Persons - Njeri Njoe
    ActionYP@lsu.co.uk
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    You're in luck! There's no membership required for this section. So, go on! What are you waiting for?

    Action Alpaca Farm
    12 Dec 2021
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    The Action Alpaca Farm project is one of our most popular projects, but it is almost one that requires the most work. You'll meet us in the Action Office by 9:45am, so you can sign in and help us get all the tools needed for the day to the coach. The coach leaves promptly at 10am and will arrive at the farm between 10:30 and 10:45. 

    Volunteering on the farm will be from 11am to 3:30pm. The jobs previously have included shovelling and raking gravel to create a path, tree planting, painting, gardening and other general maintenance jobs. The volunteering on the day can be quite tiring, but it is very rewarding! The work we do in one day can take the staff on the farm 1 to 3 months to complete.

    To finish the day, we go into one of the alpaca fields where you can see, pet, feed and take as many selfies with the alpacas. This feels so rewarding after the hard days work, and the alpacas are always so welcoming.

    The only thing you will need to bring with you is a packed lunch! The rest of the trip is completely free ????

    Location: Off-Campus
    Time: 09:45am - 05:00pm
    MORE INFO
    Products
    Action Alpaca Farm
    £0.00
    Action Scrunchie
    £4.00
    Action Tie
    £5.00

    FAQ

    Contact your hall Action Rep or come into the Action office in the Student Union.

    Yes we log hours and we have a reward system for 10, 25, 50, 100 and 150 hours!

    Of course, you can either email the Action Chair or the project leaders of direct projects to get involved, or alternatively, come along to your department projects!

    You can run to be either one of our Hall representatives or Department Student Involvement Officers (SIO's) through the respective areas, or you can apply to be a Project Leader directly. If you really want to be involved, committee applications for next year will open after Easter.

    Jodie Evans
    Action Chair


    Hey, I’m Jodie and this will be my second year as your Action Chair. I was born and mainly raised in Lincoln, but I had a couple of years travelling around with my Dad as he was in the RAF. I have a Master’s degree in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, which stemmed from a life of wanting to help people and hopefully one day find a cure for Alzheimer’s. In the rare time I’m not at work or out volunteering, you’ll either find me cuddled up in bed, eating cheese and watching Grey’s Anatomy or doing something arty!

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