UCL students set up and run dozens of their own projects across London - you’ll find the full lust below. To find out more about any of our projects, email us at volunteering@ucl.ac.uk
| Who They Are | What They Do |
|---|---|
| Baking Project | Baking with older and young people in local community based organisations. Also baking for fundraising causes. |
| Free Hype | Creative students offering their skills to enable local charities and organisations to better promote and market themselves. |
| Language Clubs | Modern language clubs for primary school children. |
| Let’s Get Out There | Improving the skills of experienced adventurer students in leading groups of young people in outward bound activity. Run in conjunction with Camden Council’s Open Award Centre. |
| Schools Book Club | Reading groups in secondary schools. |
| SUFA Project | Asthma awareness project run in secondary schools. |
| Synthetic Biology | Introducing secondary school students to this specialist branch of bio-chemical engineering through workshops and major international competitions |
| Think Big | Building self esteem and educational attainment through inspirational workshops and talks given by those who have achieved success in their field |
| Schools Out | Workshops at Acland Burghley Secondary School to encourage incorporation of LGBT+ education into a wide variety of subjects; celebrate the diversity of genders, sexualities and relationship types and reduce homophobic bullying. |
| Scrubs and Scalpels | Mock medical school interviews session for students at JFS school, including a talk with Q&A time |
| Acamedics | Placing medical students with health research projects |
| Citizenship & Crime | Running workshops for 10/11 year olds on the criminal justice system. |
| FoodCycle | UCL branch of food re-use charity. |
| Grassroots Human Rights Outreach | Schools workshops on human rights. |
| UCL Marrow | Student group linked with Anthony Nolan Trust, encouraging UCL students to sign up for bone marrow register. |
| One | Student group campaigning on international development issues |
| Oxfam UCL | UCL student chapter of Oxfam, doing both fundraising and campaigning |
| READ | UCL branch of charity collecting books for Tanzania. |
| Save A Baby’s Life | Basic First Aid awareness for parents, working with community centres across Camden |
| UCL SIFE / Enactus | UCL student social enterprise group |
| Spectrum | Long-established UCL student-run charity offering befriending for children with special needs. |
| Team Up (formerly Yelp) | UCL branch of London-based mentoring charity. |
| The Life You Can Save | UCL group organising talks and awareness of charity giving. |
| Bentham Farm Project | UCL students set up organic vegetable garden in disused tennis court at the UCL residences, Ifor Evans and Max Rayne Halls |
| Junk In The Trunk | Recycling project with volunteers and Student Accommodation to reduce the waste left in halls via ‘recycle points’ in Halls also occasional ‘Swap Shops’ |
| Kenya Penpal Project | UCL students raise awareness of primary school pupils about becoming a pen pal of orphanage in Kenya |
| Mathomaniac | UCL students deliver Maths workshops in 2 primary schools |
| MEDucate | UCL students deliver interactive workshops in primary schools about the human body |
| Next Top Doctor | UCL students deliver four week programme to secondary school pupils interested in science, health or medicine with practical information about the steps required to become a doctor in the UK |
| Pearl | UCL students run weekly after-school club in specialist primary school for pupils with autism |
| Roads to Higher Education | UCL students deliver presentations and talks to 6th form pupils about A level choices and applying to University and what to expect |
| Roots & Shoots | UCL students deliver workshops in primary schools on environmental issues |
| St Mungo’s IT training | UCL Students from Hawkridge Hall deliver IT training to adults residing at St Mungo’s Hostel |
| Student Run Self Help | UCL students run self-help groups for adults with eating disorders |
| Teddy Bear Clinic | UCL students deliver workshops in primary schools of health related topics |
| UCL Academy Green Space | UCL students engage with UCL Academy to get pupils to develop/maintain a local green space |
| UNICEF at UCL | UCL students deliver awareness raising and fundraising events e.g. Prof. Anthony Costello ,ICH, gives talk in T2 |
| VIBE | UCL students provide assistance to blind & partially sighted adults in engaging in activities |
| Neurodiversity | UCL students link up with specialist primary school for pupils with autism/ADHD as well as UCLU Campaigns to effect change in perceptions of working with neurodiverse individuals |
| Handball Club | Weekly afterschool handball skills sessions at UCL Academy. |
| Quicksticks | RUMS Womens Hockey Club skills sessions with primary School children. School TBC. |
| RUMS Women’s Football | Weekly coaching with Access to Sport. |
| Snowsports Society | Monthly activity assistance at Snowsports Disability UK |
| Women’s Basketball | One-off at Kentish Town City Farm. |
| Women’s Football Club | One-Off at Leonard Cheshire Disability. |
| Women’s Hockey | Easter Tea Party at UCL for 45 older people from Millman Street Resource Centre, The Third Age Project and Marchmont Community Centre. Fortnightly drop in sessions at Millman Street Resource Centre. One-off assistance with Christmas Pantomime at Millman Street Resource Centre. |
| Women’s Netball | Weekly afterschool skills sessions at St Michael’s Primary School and UCL Academy. |
| Women’s Rugby | Richard House Children’s Hospice Half-term Sports Day. |
| African Caribbean Society Books for Africa | Second hand book collection for the charity, Books for Africa. |
| Amnesty International Outreach | One-off workshops about Human Rights in secondary Schools delivered by UCLU Amnesty International Society |
| Art Club | Weekly after-school art workshops at St Aiden’s Primary school delivered by UCLU Art Society. |
| Bangla Society Mentoring Programme | 6 week mentoring programme at Tower Hamlets College for Bangladeshi students delivered by students from the UCLU Bangla Society |
| Dance it! | Weekly afterschool dance workshops delivered by UCLU Dance Society at Haverstock Secondary School and Quintin Kynaston Community Academy teaching a variety of styles including Hip Hop, Jazz, Street and Contemporary. Programme will finish with a performance at UCL with both schools. |
| Debating Society | Debating Workshops at Hampstead and St Charles’ Secondary Schools. Interschool Debating competition to be held at UCL in March. |
| Engineers without Borders Outreach | Delivering schools workshops around international development and engineering. |
| German Society | One-Off Language/Cultural activities with at UCL for students from Westminster Academy. Activities themed around German Christmas traditions, German sport (including the Bundesliga and Handball), German music, Austrian and Swiss food and German slang. |
| Model United Nations - Schools Project | Workshops and conferences centred round learning about the United Nations. |
| Musical Theatre | Weekly afterschool musical theatre workshops at St George the Martyr Primary School. |
| RaspberryPython | Afterschool tutorials on how to use RaspberryPi computers, how to use Linux and how to program in Python. Delivered by UCLU TechSoc at Frederick Bremer School, Walthamstow. |
| Salsa Society Dance Project | One-off dance sessions in secondary schools. |
| Sew Fair, Modo Society | 6 weekly sessions at Primary Schools to educate children about ethical fashion initiatives. |
| Stage Crew Community Project | Assisted Castlehaven Community Centre with their Christmas Production. |
| The Big One | The Big One, Hairspray musical theatre production with UCL Academy and Regent High School to be performed in March. UCLU Musical Theatre Society project. |
| Football Fundraising Project | Fundraising five aside competition raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Fundraising - Action on Hearing Loss | Fundraising for Action on Hearing Loss through fundraising events and cake sales |
| Fundraising - Charity Valentine Roses | Fundraising for AsWeGrow (a UK-based charity supporting new schools in East Africa) by running a Valentine’s Day roses gift scheme in UCL departments |
| Fundraising - London to Paris Bike Ride | Completed in August – money raised (£180) given to Marie Curie |
| Fundraising - OCSCF | Overseas Chinese Students Children’s Fund – UCL arm of international charity fundraising for Chinese children in deprived areas |
| Fundraising - RNIB | Fundraising for the RNIB through events – cake sale taking place all week in mid February (18-22 in the Lower South Hall) |
| Medic to Medic | Fundraising group raising funds to help keep Malawian medics in school long enough to qualify. |
