All night bar, food from Gardies, comedy from ex-footlights, spoken word poetry, free cupcakes for first 200 through the door, music from Lorelai, Rival Skies and Fitz Barbershop, a panel discussion on homelessness, and a film screening starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s HubNight @ the Union.
Near impossibly extensive brilliant things will be within the doors of The Cambridge Union Society this Sunday, 20:00 – 02:00.
Just £5 entry – fundraising for local charities
Get in touch with the Cambridge Homeless Outreach Program! They’re a registered CUSU organisation aiming to harness the energy and passion of Cambridge students to fight homelessness in Cambridge by partnering with local organisations like Jimmy’s, Wintercomfort, and Cambridge Cyrenians.
Please contact us at chop@cusu.cam.ac.uk for more information!
Cook a Simple Supper! Trade in your takeaway or give up your garlic bread – serve a simple supper to friends, family and colleagues and donate the money you saved to Wintercomfort.
Find out more about Wintercomfort at www.wintercomfort.org.uk
Sign up to The Week! The Hub’s weekly e-mail that reaches over 3000 Cambridge University students and brings you news about all there is to know about the social action you can take in Cambridge and beyond.
Visit http://www.cambridgehub.org to sign up.
Join the Hub Committee! The Cambridge Hub is recruiting. We have a number of positions on offer and we are always looking for enthusiastic and committed members for our fantastic committee.
Watch our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeHub?fref=ts and website http://www.cambridgehub.org/ for more info
Join next term’s Art Fair Committee! Trying to find a way to use your skills and creativity to support a fantastic cause as well as gaining committee experience? Look no further. The Cambridge Air Fair next term will raise money for the Hub so that it can continue to mount campaigns in the future like its homelessness focus this term.
Email jecm4@cam.ac.uk by the 8th March with name, year, and college.
Donate leftover food to the Hub’s end of term Food Collection! Coordinated by college green officers and college reps, this collection will be donated to Jimmy’s Night Shelter at the end of this term. Don’t just throw away that unwanted packet of rice, that can of beans, or that unopened bar of chocolate – give it to someone who need it.
Find out more about Jimmy’s here: www.jimmyscambridge.org.uk.
Many thanks to Antony Carpen for this write-up on the Cambridge Skillsfest organised by The Cambridge Hub
The concept seems to work, and several environmental groups that had previously not heard of each other met for the first time. But the challenge of encouraging three quite distinctive communities in Cambridge to turn up in numbers to the same event remains.
Francesca Rust, President of Anglia Ruskin Students Union hosted the Cambridge Skillsfest at the university’s campus on East Road, co-organised with Anna McIvor or Transition Cambridge and Emily Dunning of the Cambridge Hub. In not much more than six weeks from the first coffee together (see the second half of this blogpost). That they were able to bring on board so many community groups and organisations to the event is testament to their hard work and talents. It’s certainly not something I could have done myself. So a ****big thank you**** from me to them and their teams of organisers – in particular…
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The 30 Day Challenge – do something small every day to make the world a better place. Great, I thought, that sounds like something I would love to do. And then I remembered that sinister mountain of essays I seem to be tackling this term, and my continual struggle to fit in eating and sleeping, let alone grappling with serious social issues. Although some finalists on the challenge are competently managing this juggling (I take my hat off to Judith!), I decided to do something arguably extremely self-centred with my Challenge: to figure out what I specifically want from life.
The Challenge was set at an inspiring careers workshop, run by Cambridge Hub, where careers advisor Neil Prem offered us an alternative way of looking at our futures: don’t focus first on the skills you have picked up, but look back and work out what you have loved doing, what you have disliked doing, and which world issues you feel most passionate about. (You might be great at ironing, but you don’t necessarily want to spend the next fifty years in the laundry!) From here, it should be a series of simple steps to figuring out what kind of career might suit you best, focussing first on skills and then on sector. Thus, armed with this advice, I decided simply to keep a diary, noting down each day one of these things that I have discovered about myself. I admit, I’m not feeding the homeless, or fundraising thousands for orphans, but I’m hopefully making steps towards a future in which I might be able to do such things for a living. It’s an adventure I would recommend to anyone struggling to identify what it is they would be happy to do every day, while also feeling like they are doing something worthwhile with their time.
At first, it was hard to note something down each day: not surprisingly, finding anything which seemed particularly thrilling in a library-bound day of essay-writing wasn’t easy. But little things can be telling: I like planning and writing, I like meeting deadlines, scheduling my week, ticking boxes and managing other people. I’ll be the first to admit this is all pretty mundane, but they’re things which are easy to forget, and what I’m perhaps finding most telling is what isn’t on the list.
The next step was to look through my list and act on those things. I pieced ideas together like parts of a puzzle and worked out that I would love write in my career, or help manage events or fundraisers, building these things into work in the charity sector, perhaps specifically within education. As a result of this, I’ve done some research and sent out some emails regarding summer work doing one or more of these things, but more exciting than this, I’ve got an interview to be a summer school tutor at Action Tutoring, and I’ve written my first official blog post for Development in Action. I know these are tiny steps, but they are steps that I wouldn’t have made had I not taken two minutes each day to identify my interests, just in two weeks of busy term-time!
For anyone who feels frustrated with their career aspirations, knowing they want to do something worthwhile but unsure where to turn when bombarded with information, options and talks, or for anyone whose friends all seem to be completely sure where they are headed, I’d recommend this, if nothing else, as a 30 Day Challenge. I already feel much happier with the path I’m now following, having dropped certain career options, begun to consider new possibilities, and having acted on those ideas. Who knows what insights the next fifteen days will bring, for me, or perhaps for you!
–Connie Fisher–
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A wonderful world of entertainment, in the rooms of the Cambridge Union on Sunday 9 March @20:00-02:00
Event is OPEN TO ALL, tickets £5 on the door
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/252181518296904/?fref=ts
Under the streetlights and strobe lights, join us to raise money for homelessness ft…
*All night bar: 20:00 – 02:00
*Live music from:
– Lorelai
– The Fitz Barbershop
– Wuthering Wuthering
– Rival Skies
– Actaeon (tbc)
*DJ sets
*Spoken Word Poetry
*Comedy from:
– Pierre Novellie
– Phil Wang
– and many more…
*Benedict Cumberbatch film showing: “Stuart: A Life Backwards”
*Panel discussion on homelessness
A night of fun but not frivolity, featuring more information about what you can do to take on homelessness in Cambridge and fundraising for the valuable causes of:
– Jimmy’s Night Shelter: http://www.jimmyscambridge.org.uk/
– Cambridge Cyrenians: http://www.cambridgecyrenians.org.uk/
– Cambridge Hub: social and environmental student network
This event will be followed by a SLEEPOUT, outside the Union, come along and raise money for homelessness yourself!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/587598827982420/?fref=ts
Cambridge Hub is calling on Cambridge students to sleep rough for one night as part of Lent Term’s homelessness focus. More here: Hub Takes on Homelessness
*Bring warm clothes and a sleeping bag or blanket.
*We’ll be kicking things off with a Treasure Hunt run by Jimmy’s Night Shelter!
*£4 contribution to join the sleep out: £2 will go to Cambridge Hub, and £2 to Wintercomfort. *We’ll also be selling hot chocolate and cookies to fundraise a little more for Wintercomfort!
Think you can do even better? GET SPONSORED! Set up your own Just Giving page here: https://www.justgiving.com/
You’ll be surprised how quickly you can together raise enough money to make a real difference to people’s lives
Sign up to The Week!
The Hub’s weekly e-mail that reaches over 3000 Cambridge University students and brings you news about all there is to know about the social action you can take in Cambridge and beyond.
Visit http://www.cambridgehub.org to sign up.
Join the Hub Committee!
The Cambridge Hub is recruiting. We have a number of positions on offer and we are always looking for enthusiastic and committed members for our fantastic committee.
Watch our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeHub?fref=ts and website http://www.cambridgehub.org/ for more info
Donate leftover food to the Hub’s end of term Food Collection!
Coordinated by college green officers and college reps, this collection will be donated to Jimmy’s Night Shelter at the end of this term.
Don’t just throw away that unwanted packet of rice, that can of beans, or that unopened bar of chocolate – give it to someone who need it.
Find out more about Jimmy’s here: www.jimmyscambridge.org.uk.
Incredibly thought provoking blog post about the new volunteering/gap year culture among privileged school-age students. 
Cambridge Hub 