Students and staff from Bath Spa University have raised nearly £3000 for the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal by hosting a concert at Komedia Bath.
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Those in the Commercial Music course department had just one week to organise the event, which raised a total of £2,847.
Komedia helped organise the event and offered to host the concert at their venue.
Thirty volunteers from the course contacted fellow Commercial Music student Olivia Carey to help plan the fundraiser.
Olivia left Belarus eight years ago and was motivated to find a way to help those in need.
After receiving messages from friends in Ukraine and Belarus explaining their situations, she reached out to Chris Blanden and Jim Dickinson, Commercial Music staff members and then teamed up with other students to plan the fundraising concert.
Generous businesses also offered their assistance by sponsoring a raffle as part of the event and donating prizes.
Louis Juckes, a first year student on the course, had the task of finding bands to play on the main stage at the venue as well as the electric bar.
They managed to secure bands including The John Martyn Project, Pentire, Tangled Oaks, Dempsey, Connor McLeod and Gracie Grinter.
Bath Spa University Students’ Unions Amnesty International society also set up a stand on the night. They provided people with more information on the ongoing war in Ukraine and shared how the money donated would impact individual lives.
Commenting on the event’s success, Olivia said: “The concert was a demonstration of the whole community coming together to create such a special event for such an important cause.”
