By
The University of York
York
Get your teammates on video call and settle in - The Big York Pub Quiz is here! Let us know where in the world you’re playing by using #BigYorkPubQuiz.
You’ll be supporting students like Nicholas. This is what he told us about the difference an Emergency Student Support Fund award has made to him…
"With this, I’ve been able to not only purchase food and toiletries for myself, but I’ve been able to help my mother and my four year old brother. The residual has also allowed me to purchase learning material for my course, as well as materials for my brother in order to teach him things he will be missing out on as he cannot attend nursery. I feel that it’s important to recognise that no matter how hard some individuals work, if you’re not from a privileged background a reduction in pay or loss of just one pay cheque can mean going hungry, missing rent/mortgage payments and payments for other necessities. The fund has directly assisted myself and my family in this occasion as my mother’s hours have been reduced.This has been such a wonderful and unexpected help - it has given us the opportunity to ensure we can stock up on foods and other essentials. My family and I could not be more grateful for this assistance and are all extremely thankful to the fund donors. Having benefited from this myself, I hope that I’m in a position to do something similar in future.”
Anything you can donate or raise will go directly towards ensuring that coronavirus has minimal disruption on students' learning by supporting students facing unexpected financial challenges due to the escalating response to the virus. Please donate today to support students like Nicholas. Your support will go to the students most affected by coronavirus, including care leavers, estranged students, medical and nursing students, and students with children or caring responsibilities.
Giving is easy, just click the ‘Sponsor’ button at the top of the page!
We're hoping that The Big York Pub Quiz will be the first in a series of events for the global York community to take part in to keep connected and to raise funds to support our students through this immense period of change.
If you'd like to host a virtual event to help our students - whether it's a cook-a-long, a sing-a-long, a panel talk or discussion, or something entirely different - get in touch! Just email yustart@york.ac.uk.