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BSU students show their heart for donation drive
Wednesday, 5 June, 2024Bath Spa University students moving out of their houses are raising money for people living with heart and circulatory diseases by donating their unwanted items to the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
Pioneered by the Student Community Partnership (SCP), a collaboration between Bath Spa University, the University of Bath, Bath College and their students’ unions, with Norland College and the council, the scheme is part of the Student Move Out Campaign.
Students are taking their unwanted items into the city where unmissable, bright red donation banks have been positioned in temporary sites across Bath. The BHF is accepting donations of ‘clothes, books and things’ until the end of July and will stock the Foundation’s charity shops nationwide.
The BHF relies heavily on donations to fund their lifesaving research, giving people living with heart conditions more time with their loved ones. Last year, the Bath campaign raised over £81,186 and, by donating instead of throwing things out, saved 46 tonnes of items from landfill.
Councillor Paul May, cabinet member for Children’s Services, said:
“Last year the campaign was a great success; we collected more than 5,000 bags of donations to support the British Heart Foundation in their work providing defibrillators and CPR training for local organisations.”
The initiative will also involve university staff and students teaming up with the SCP and officers from the Bath North East Somerset Council Waste Team to offer advice to local students' on managing their recycling.
Tim Reeves, the charity’s university account executive, said:
“The British Heart Foundation is proud to work side by side with Bath Student Community Partnership and Bath and North East Somerset Council. Donations given by both students and staff have done so much to help us fight the challenge of heart and circulatory diseases through life-changing research.”
Donation banks can be found at the following locations around Bath:
- Dartmouth Avenue, Southdown
- West Avenue, Westmoreland
- Canterbury Road, Oldfield Park
- Oldfield Lane, Oldfield Park
- Bridge Road, Southdown
- Widcombe Baptist Church, Widcombe and Lyncombe
- Beechen Cliff Villas, Widcombe & Lyncombe
- Victoria Road, Westmoreland
- Twerton High Street
- Holloway, Widcombe & Lyncombe