Here at Kent Union, we believe that our sports clubs and societies are amazing; they provide our members with vital career and life skills, maintain and improve their physical and mental health, and improve their employment prospects after graduation. The Access to Activities Fund provides support to students who wish to participate, but are unable to financially. This academic year, £7000 has already been made available, enabling our members to pay membership fees, purchase essential equipment and contribute toward competitions, amongst other things.

Although this amount is fantastic, the demand from students is higher than we are able to cater for at the moment; this year the fund was oversubscribed by over £15,000. In light of this, we have set ourselves an ambitious target – by next academic year, we want to be able to double the funding available to our members, to enable more students to take part in our sports clubs and societies.

The Campus to Campus Challenge will see our club members run between University of Kent campuses; Canterbury to Brussels, and then on to Paris over 5 days, covering nearly 70 miles per day – that’s 350 miles in total!

Not only will this challenge raise money for Access to Activities, but it will also highlight our European connections, both as a university and students’ union. Please support our challenge and our journey, to help ensure no student misses out on an amazing experience at Kent.