JCR doubles charity budget

9 March 2014

A JCR meeting has unanimously endorsed Treasurer James Chawner’s proposal to allocate more of the budget to charities in the next financial year. The new budget will double the current charitable allocation:

Before the motion JCR members paid an optional amount of £2 a term to charity on their battels, generating roughly £800 a term. My motion ‘matches’ that as a contribution from the JCR budget, meaning that the undergraduate body is effectively giving £1600 a term to charities, before initiatives organised by our charity reps and individuals in the JCR are even taken into account.