Students Support Sports Relief

Students at Canterbury Christ Church University are collectively getting active to raise money for the Sports Relief. Across campus you will see members of the cricket team in uniform collecting for the cause and there are many other events going on around campus to raise money for the charity.

In the SU you will find students competing in a Guitar Hero competition, sponsored for by other students and staff. There will also be a 50-mile relay in the gym on the treadmills to raise some extra cash.

In Canterbury, locals will be participating in the Sainsbury’s Mile, starting at 11am on Saturday 21^st March from the University of Kent. Across the country, thousands of people will be doing the same.

Sports Relief was started in 2002 by the BBC and Comic Relief and runs every two years. People all over the country hold events to raise money from non-uniform and sports days in schools to people running whole marathons, swimming the channel a la David Walliams or climbing Mount Kilamanjaro a la Cheryl Cole.

The BBC feature a series of programmes every Sports Relief, getting lots of celebs to help out and raise awarness for the cause. As usual there will be the appeal show on BBC One on Friday 19^th March from 7pm-1.30am with a Strictly Come Special and several sketches from Gavin and Stacey’s James Corden and the England football team throughout the night.

We spoke to a Canterbury Christ Church University student about their fundraising: