Firstly, a huge welcome to all our new freshers! We hope that you enjoy being part of Stop AIDS… we’ve got a pretty eventful year lined up ahead!

1. Introduction Night/Social

   We are holding an Introductory Night on Monday 6th October at 6pm in the Union. You can find out about our Schools Project, an exciting project in Uganda, and many more ways to get involved with the society… afterwards we plan to head to Trent House for a few drinks.

2. Registration for Newcastle Stop AIDS

   PLEASE join Newcastle Stop AIDS through the Union Society website and follow the links through Activities and AU, Clubs and Societies Registration, and Log In. The smallest registration fee that the Union Society allows us to charge is £5, which is used for lots of things including:

   • Publicity, posters etc.
   • Campaigning
   • Prizes
   • Supporting charities
   • Events, with FREE food and drinks
   • FREE film nights

   For every member that registers and pays £5 by October 13th, the Union gives us another £7… so please sign up a.s.a.p.!

3. Speaker Night

   On Tuesday 14th October the 2008 Unite to Fight Speaker Tour is coming to Newcastle’s Hyena Comedy Club, bringing together young AIDS activists from Zambia, Ireland, Uganda and the USA. The speakers will share their powerful personal experiences of HIV and their roles in the fight to achieve universal access by 2010. This will be an incredible chance to get more informed, more involved and more inspired to Unite to Fight HIV. For more information see the Speaker Tour 2008 website.

That’s all for now! Hope to see as many of you as possible on Monday — old faces as well as new!

Harriet Quigley
Newcastle Stop AIDS President 08/09

Thanks for all your great ideas and now let’s implement them! The next meeting is on Monday 5th November at 7pm in the New MLK room (top floor of the Union next to Global). Don’t worry if you missed the last meeting, just get involved and help out with all the current ideas!

WHQ Club night (Wed 28th Nov) & World AIDS Day (Sat 1st Dec)

Publicity group

• Make Information leaflets — Mel and others
• Permission for Balloon Race, bands outside Union, break dancers — Andrew
• Need people to handout Flyers (Union, Med school, Castle Leazes cow field)
• Posters and tickets for Balloon Race — Sarah
• World AIDS Day poster — Tony and others
• Tickets for WHQ club night — Tony and others
• Need ideas for publicity stunt on Friday 30th Nov — email ku.ca.lcn@retxab.ynohtna if you have any suggestions
• Department shout outs and emails — Law (Imogen); Languages (Tony); Biology (Aimee & Emma); Business (Andrew); English (Caroline); Maths (Steve); Medicine (Mel)
• Film night on Monday — need to find out if we can have it in Global
• Need people to carry collection tins and hand out condoms in Solution on Friday 28th Nov
• Condom fairies for WHQ club night — Emily and Katie
• Column in The Courier
• Need to get freebies from companies/businesses — prizes for Balloon Race and WHQ Club night

We need people to hand out flyers on the weekend before World AIDS Day (23–25 Nov). Everyone in the publicity group should be aware of what they are doing, but if you have any queries or ideas then email ku.ca.lcn@retxab.ynohtna or ku.ca.lcn@izos.k.m.

• WHQ Club night: Everyone in the society will be given 5 tickets to sell to their friends. The selected bars are as follows:
  • Student Union
  • Bar Beyond/Players
  • Mushroom Bar
  • Basement
  • WHQ
• Dress code — whatever you want as long as something is red!

Preliminary Timetable for the week 26-30 November

• Flyers and tickets for WHQ — 26th, 27th & 29th Nov (Mon, Tues, Wed)
• Stalls (cakes, tickets, ribbons) — everyday (Mon-Fri) — 12-2pm
• Film night (Global) — 26th (Mon)
• Music Bands and break dancers — 28th (Wed)
• Balloon Race — 30th (Fri) — 1pm
• Publicity stunt — 30th (Fri)
• Collection tins at Solution — 30th (Fri)

Aims for the next meeting

• Coordinate posters and flyers
• Facebook group
• Billboard with balloon next to stalls
• Contents of Goodie bags
• Publicity stunt
• Layout of stalls and permission
• Finalised timetable of events

Sorry for the long post but we have a lot to get cracking with! See you all at the next meeting!

Mel (Stop Aids Secretary) xxx

It’s all kicking off at 7:30pm at the Hyena Café which is just off Percy Street. Click for a map.

It’s free to attend so bring your mates along too hear humbling stories from some truly inspirational people. More information about the tour and the speakers themselves can be found on the Stop AIDS Societies website.

Hopefully we’ll all see you tomorrow night!

1. WHQ Club Night

   Exciting news is that I have managed to get a date for our World Aids Day Club Night at WHQ! It is going to be on the 28th November.

   There is not very long to arrange things so we need to get moving fast. We need to organise bands to play, publicity and a name for the night. So if anyone is interested in helping out I am arranging a meeting for this Wednesday afternoon (17th) (after the Stand Up Speak Out Against Poverty event). If we meet at the reception in the Union at 4pm, it shouldn’t take more than about half an hour. Email me if you are coming so I know who to expect.

   If anyone knows any bands or any other suitable entertainment (like break dancers) please get in touch too.

2. Flyering for the Speaker Tour

   We have teamed up with the Stand Up Speak Out team who will be selling t-shirts for the event outside the Union on Tuesday about 12.30pm. They have agreed to let us put some flyers and posters on their stall and if people are still up for flyering at the same time that would be great. Just meet outside the stall.

   If anyone fancies doing it on Monday too outside the union that would also be amazing.

Ok, so it wasn’t that short but it was pretty sweet, I’m sure you’ll agree!

Love
The Committee x

Just a quick reminder to say that if you’re up for joining Stop AIDS get yourselves onto the Union Society website and do the deed!

It’s only a fiver and if you pay before 12th October the Union will double your money and that means more money for the society to run amazing events throughout the year!

If you want to find out more about us check out this website and for you Facebook fiends you can even join our all new Facebook group.

Don’t forget the first meeting Monday 8th October 7pm (old MLK in the union).

See you all there,

Much love,
The Committee

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