Opportunities and Volunteering

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1. Raising and Giving (RAG)
Raising and Giving (RAG) is AUSA’s student-run fundraising group. Now in its 130th year, RAG aims to fundraise for local charities in and around Aberdeen. Fundraising both independently and alongside other student groups within Aberdeen, RAG also supports other charity groups within the university wherever possible. If you are interested in organising events and making a difference to the lives of many, please visit their page here.

2. Shared Planet/The Corner/The SwapShop/Veg Bag Co-Operative
The Shared Planet society run several great initiatives around campus, all with sustainability in mind. Learn more here.

3. Bookends
For over 30 years has the University’s second hand bookshop BookEnds been providing students not only a way to buy cheap textbooks, CDs and DVDs but also a way to make some money. We currently have over 6000 books in the shop, ranging from medical and science textbooks to literature and fiction. Find out more here.

4. Nightline
Nightline is a student run listening and information service based in the University of Aberdeen. They offer anonymous listening, information and support to all students at the University of Aberdeen. More information here.

5. Volunteering in the Students’ Association
There are loads of ways to get involved, from becoming a committee member for one of our many societies or sports clubs or becoming a class representative. You can also volunteer internally with us here at the Students Association by contributing to student media through GCTV, ASR Radio or our student newspaper the Gaudie. Learn more here.

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1. Map a disaster zone: Help make maps to infortipsm the relief efforts of organisations such as the Red Cross with Missing Maps. Volunteers use satellite images and a drawing tool to mark up buildings, rivers and roads in remote areas that may not have been mapped before. This helps organisations who are first to respond make more informed decisions about disaster relief.

2. Improve disabled access: Make your neighbourhood more accessible by ranking shops and restaurants for their disabled-friendly credentials. Enter your postcode on the AXS Map website to bring up a map and list of businesses. You can then rate these using a star system and leave reviews.

3. Lend someone your vision: Thanks to the brilliant Be My Eyes app, virtual volunteers can help a blind or low-vision person to go about their daily tasks. Through a live video call, you can help to solve problems like checking expiry dates, distinguishing colours, reading instructions or navigating new surroundings.

4. Birdwatching with a purpose: Track your bird sightings via the eBird website and become part of a worldwide network of birdwatchers. Your sightings contribute to hundreds of conservation decisions and peer-reviewed papers and help inform global bird research. And, you can explore birds and hotspots near you with dynamic maps that chart every species in the world.

5. Help expose human rights violations: Amnesty Decoders volunteers around the world use their devices to sift through pictures, information and documents and help expose human rights violations. Projects that volunteers have helped to decode include making oil companies accountable for devastating oil pollution in Nigeria, identifying Darfur’s most remote villages and exposing abuse that silences women on #ToxicTwitter.

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