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The Network was hosted in partnership with Student Adventures and Angela Mortimer Third Sector last week at the very cool venue of Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall, London. The Network was setup with the aim of bringing our key student partners, Rag Chairs, Adventure Leaders and other student leaders into direct contact with business and the third sector who were on the look out for the best talent from the current crop of young graduates.

The event was centered around Liz Jones from the Training Studio where she took an entertaining and informative look at the job market as it is today, how to get your CV under the nose of the right person and a few sage words for would-be employers in the room!

After this seminar from Liz it was off to network over a beer or glass of wine as young student leaders got to grips with working the room and meeting interested consultants, business and charities from a range of sectors.

Success was had on the night as two students confirmed internship offers with companies present and we're confident that in due course we will see more of our key student partners linked up with roles in industry as a result of The Network!

Studen Adventures proudly announces our working partnership with Angela Mortimer Third Sector. We have teamed up with Angela Mortimer because both partners recognise the importance of having more than 'just a degree' when it comes to developing young graduates as people and making them attractive to future employers.

Angela Mortimer believes passionately in what Student Adventures and Rags are aiming to do by encouraging students to undertake an adventure in aid of our charity partners. With their partnership they will be looking to support our key student partners and participants.

You can read more about their unique internship programme and how they will look to provide real world experience that is so critical to getting that all important first role. Not only that but they have been working on an exciting project with Student Adventures called 'The Network' which will bring Adventure Leaders, Rag Chairs and key volunteers together with key industry contacts in an exclusive Networking event in London this month. We'll report on the success of this event in due course.

 If you would like to gain internship experience, your first role in the third sector or have your CV sharpened up in preparation for the all important job hunt then get in touch with Angela Mortimer today! Student Adventures looks forward to a long and fruitful partnership with Angela Mortimer Third Sector for the benefit of our student partners and participants.

On Saturday 3^rd March Student Adventures in partnership with Nottingham Karnival got together to host the inaugural Choose a Charity event, which saw thirteen Rags and ten charities get together. The aim of Choose a Charity was to give charities the valuable opportunity to ‘pitch’ what they do as a charity to the student leaders, Rag Chairs and Presidents of these fundraising organisations and why it would be great to work together to help the charities further their aims.

We had a diverse group of charities that covered a spectrum of support from international development, medical research, education & awareness and children. It was a real opportunity to bring the less well known to the attention of Rags to engage with each other and the initial feedback seems to be that it has worked.

Ant Scott, outgoing Rag President at Warwick Rag said, “We’ve seen and heard about some amazing charities we would never have thought about supporting before, it has made us re-think about what we can do and who we can support.”

The charities were equally pleased with the outcome, Asthma UK a great charity who are looking to raise funds and awareness for their ‘Big Up Your Chest’ Facebook campaign aimed specifically at University students had 10 minutes to engage these key students and Talia Pobischan said, “I just wanted to say well done for organising a brilliant weekend, it was really good to meet so many RAGs and other charities with a chance to tell them what we do and how they could really make a difference.”

Of course where Rags are involved it’s not all work, after dinner and networking it was off to town to sample the delights of a Karni social and have a good time. We think we succeeded after Mary Perham, Exeter Rag Officer updated her status, “Jock you throw a cracking weekend!”

Thanks go to Barney Cornick and Karnival for all their hard work to help make the event happen and it looks like Choose a Charity was well received and could well become an annual opportunity to bring charities and Rags together to help raise awareness of the causes that can be supported outside the well-branded obvious.

It's been several months in the making but we can finally present our promo video for the London to Paris Bike Ride. Featuring footage taken from our 2011 adventure, the video gives an insight what life is like on the road and some of the beautiful countryside that the route takes participants through.

To find out more about London to Paris, click here.

Thanks to Mark and his team at Sparticle for the filming and editing.

Everyone at Student Adventures would like to wish all our participants, charity partners, Rags and people that we work with a very Happy Christmas. Together with the team of charities and student organisations we've had an incredible 2011 and we hope everyone enjoys a big serving of Christmas pudding!

Highlights of the year for Student Adventures have seen us grow and work with more charities and student organisations than ever before. As a team with our key partners we've seen more students get involved than ever before. All being well we will be able to help Rags and their students raise in the region of £1.6 million for charity in 2012! On that note we'll wish you a Happy New Year when it comes!