Over the past nine months the University of Manchester Athletic Union sports clubs have showed an incredible amount of initiative by running various virtual fundraising campaigns for Charity. Social Responsibility is one of the Universities key strategic goals and time and time again over lockdown our clubs have showed they display all the values we hope to find in a University of Manchester graduate. Overall, 21 different clubs, approximately 700 students have raised a spectacular £33,754 for 18 different charities. You can see the table below for the full club by club breakdown of the fundraising efforts.
| University of Manchester Sport Club Fundraising | |||
| Club | Amount | Charity | What they did |
| Rowing | £1,200.00 | NHS | Erg challenge |
| Rowing | £1,386.00 | Mind | Virtual Varsity Competition |
| Rowing | £1,359.00 | Movember | Movember |
| Women’s Hockey | £2,000.00 | Mind | Ran Virtual Purple Wave 10k |
| Women’s Hockey | £735.00 | Student Minds | Ran 1000k in September |
| Women’s Hockey | £600.00 | FareShare | Running/Walking & Advent Calendar fitness |
| Men’s Rugby Union | £2,700.00 | Manchester Royal infirmary | Run/Cycled virtually to all 6 nations cities within 1 week |
| Men’s Rugby Union | £5,100.00 | Movember | Grew Tache |
| Canoe | £1,345.00 | Manchester Central Foodbank | Ran Virtual Purple Wave 10k |
| Men’s Hockey | £1,200.00 | NHS | Ran Virtual Purple Wave 10k |
| Men’s Hockey | £1,070.00 | Impact Lebanon | Virtually cycled distance to Beirut (4920km) over 10 days for those affected by the explosion |
| Cricket | £400.00 | Mind | Ran Virtual Purple Wave 10k |
| Tennis | 320 | Mind | Run/cycle 2000km |
| Judo | £410.00 | Barnabus | Uchikomi Challenge |
| Fencing | £200.00 | 42nd Street Charity | Run/Cycle 1000km |
| Korfball | £1,000.00 | Mind | Ran virtual Purple Wave 10k |
| Women’s + Men’s Football | £2,290.00 | Show Racism The Red Card | 60 members virtually ran from the UoM Sport pitched to all Premier league grounds |
| M Football | £169.00 | Movember | Movember |
| Basketball | £305.00 | Streetgames UK | 40 members ran/cycled 535km |
| Cycling | £765.00 | Maggie’s Centre | 20 Members cycled 10,000km in a month |
| Volleyball | £595.00 | International Rescue Committee | 50 Members run/cycled 1700km for refugees fleeing war |
| Men’s + Women’s Rugby League | £695.00 | Local Business in Manchester | 50 Members ran 10k |
| Rugby League | £2,680.00 | Movember | Movember |
| American Football | £1,800.00 | Yemen Crisis | 50 squat per day challenge, 12,350 total squats |
| American Football | £500.00 | Movember | Movember |
| Men’s Water Polo | £1,750.00 | Movember | Walked/Ran 1581km + grew moustache, x2 ran a marathon |
| Karate | £300.00 | Rewrite Cancer | Virtual Purple Wave |
| Cricket | £1,200.00 | CALM | Ran 60k a day (Across the club) throughout November |
| Total: 21 Clubs | £34,074.00 | 18 Charities | |
A huge well done and Thank You to all of the clubs and each student who took part.