Society Non-Prophet Week Plans
Non-Prophet Week 2011 was our most successful yet! We raised over £2,738.83 for charities including BBC Children in Need. Over 20 events were organised by 14 local societies during the week including cake baking, singing, hiking, drawing, quizzes, raffles, sponsored silences, blood donations, organ donation register joining, bucket shaking and t-shirt wearing!
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Monday 7th Nov |
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A Week as a Puritan | OxASH | Oxford | JustGiving | MyDonate | £146.29 raised! Ben lived as a puritan for a week. This meant he couldn’t eat meat, drink alcohol or swear for the entire week |
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Sponsored Silence | UoB AASS | Bristol | JustGiving | £260.84 raised!
From midnight Sunday 6th Nov to 8pm Friday 13th Nov, AASS Pres., Treas. & Ac. Sec. weren't be able to moan about anything for a whole week! |
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Movember | BAAH Soc | Bradford | JustGiving | £390 raised!
Bradford raised money for all of Movember - growing moustaches in support of prostate solidarity! |
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Quiz Night | Southampton Atheist Society | Southampton | £32 raised! Quiz night in the local pub, Highfields. |
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Personal Serenades | AHS | UK | JustGiving | £295 raised!
For a donation, Jess sang ANY song of your choice over Skype, Youtube and in person! |
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Raffle & Bake Sale | BAAH Soc | Bradford | Facebook | £181.58 raised!
All this week the Exec shoved raffle tickets under your nose and forced you to pay 20p for each one you accept. What did you win? Only time will tell... |
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Tuesday 8th Nov |
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Guerilla Bake Sale | UB:ASH | Birmingham | £97 raised! Lacking a stall, UB:ASH used guerilla tactics to sell their delicious baked goods on Tuesday and Wednesday. |
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Come and Sing! | BHA Choir & UCLASH | London | Facebook | £120 raised!
Ever wanted to sing with a choir who doesn't sing about God? Then come and experience the thrill of choral singing with the BHA Choir for a night! |
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Quiz & Games Night | Leeds Atheist Society | Leeds | JustGiving | £60 raised! Leeds Atheists’ annual charity quiz, games & raffle night. |
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Wednesday 9th Nov |
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Jenny Crayon | AHS | UK | JustGiving | £235 raised!
Jenny IS Jenny Crayon - you donated and in return you got to see into her inner psyche from the resulting doodle, constructed using all her artistic powers. |
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Thursday 10th Nov |
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Charity Film Screening - V for Vendetta | UCLASH | London | Facebook A belated celebration of Guy Fawkes night for the spectacularly awesome take on the spectacularly awesomer Alan Moore graphic novel. |
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Charity Quiz Night | UoB AASS | Bristol | Facebook | £27 raised! The AASS charity pub quiz (£1 per person) was in our usual haunt, the Colston Arms, for a merry evening of quizzing, fundraising and quiche . . . |
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Keith Porteous Wood Talk | CUAAS | Cambridge | Facebook | £97 raised! The Chief Executive of the National Secular Society gave a talk with all entry fees and membership fees collected on the night donated to BBC Children in Need. |
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Friday 11th Nov |
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Bucket Shaking! | Leeds Atheist Society | Leeds | £75 raised! Leeds Atheist Society shook buckets around Leeds Student Union and in or outside Fruity (the popular sticky-floor Cheese club night). |
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Egg an Atheist! | FLASH | Leicester | Facebook | 251.03 raised!
On Friday and Monday lunchtimes the charitable FLASHers engaged in the frivolous dispensing of poultry periods. |
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Saturday 12th Nov |
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100-Mile Bake Ride | AHS | West (Life is Peaceful There) | JustGiving | £139 raised!
Mike cycled over 100 miles from Bristol to Birmingham. A cake was presented to each AHS society on the route! |
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Charity Film Screening - The Room | UoB AASS | Bristol | Facebook "The Citizen Kane of bad movies". It really is dire. However, I still can't stand the tension, it's like sitting on an Atomic Bomb. |
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Wearing Shorts into the New Year | OxASH | Oxford | MyDonate | £25 raised (so far!) David Shorthouse will be wearing shorts from 12th November until the 1st of January - Any donations given will go directly to Children in Need. |
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Sunday 13th Nov |
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Car Boot Sale | BAAH Soc | Bradford | Facebook Give us your old stuff and we'll try to turn it into cash for charity at a local car boot sale. |
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Donut Selling | RAHS | Reading | £136.87 raised! Raised money for BBC Children in Need by selling donuts - nom! |
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Bake Sales & Collecting Donations | SkepSoc | Surrey | £95 raised!
Raised money running some tasty bake sales, collecting donations at their public events and even some spontaneous bawdy barding. |
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