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We are run by students, for students. We are here for you and we live by our mission - to inspire and empower students to change the world. #GoldSU
Goldsmiths SU
Joined February 2009
Super proud of our SU President @joeleam talking about the climate emergency and @GoldsmithsUoL's Green New Deal.👏Have a listen!.
.@GoldsmithsUoL has banned the sale of beef products and put a 10p levy on single-use plastics in an effort to become carbon neutral by 2025. President of Goldsmiths Students’ Union Joe Leam tells #5LiveBreakfast “we need a huge intervention, outright change on a vast level”.
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Goldsmiths SU and @GoldsmithsUCU stand in full solidarity with the people of Palestine who endure horrific daily violence under Israel’s racist settler colonial project. We condemn the escalating violence committed by Israeli Occupation forces on Palestinian citizens of Gaza,
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A Goldsmiths alumni has given us a heads up about some upcoming free yoga & meditation workshops from the Isha Foundation; thanks to kind sponsorship from Southwark Council’s Covid-19 Community Fund. The first session is tonight! For more info: 🧘♀️
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT • Goldsmiths SMT have withdrawn student activists part of @GoldFeesStrike. We stand in full solidarity and power with @GoldFeesStrike, @GoldsmithsUCU and all members of our community against harmful decisions made by SMT & Council.
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Please support our urgent campaign #TakeSurvivorsSeriously, which we’ve launched in response to the Uni withdrawing funding for the SU Against Sexual Violence project (despite a public promise to protect students for 3 years. Pls sign & support: 🙌
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We're asking for student to join us in solidarity with the family of British-Egyptian activist, Alaa Abd El-Fatta who has been imprisoned in Egypt following attempts to silence his activism and has now been on hunger strike for 200+ days.✊🏽.@freedomforalaa #FreeAlaa
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Blatant intimidation tactic from the institution to disenfranchise student organising. We stand in full solidarity and power with @GoldFeesStrike, @GoldsmithsUCU and all members of Goldsmiths community affected by the harmful decisions made by SMT and Council. Full statement otw.
Despite repeated attempts to negotiate with @FCorner, and being told students are NOT ALLOWED to complain students are today being removed from their course.
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'We want to make incoming & returning students aware that Dr Fauzia Ahmad, one of the few British Muslim woman lecturing at Goldsmiths, is being made redundant. We ask Goldsmiths to rethink its decision.' Read our statement here: 🙌
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SMT are looking to make staff cuts of £4m this year, another £10m next year & £2m of job cuts to professional services. So what does this for you as a student and for the future of Goldsmiths? . Read our statement here:
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Free tomorrow afternoon at 4pm? There's a free yoga and meditation workshop from the Isha Foundation; thanks to kind sponsorship from Southwark Council’s Covid-19 Community Fund. For more info: 🧘♀️.
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Goldsmiths Students’ Union stands in full solidarity with UCU and their ballot. We need to protect education together ✊. Click on the link for more information about the UCU ballot.
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Hey @GoldsmithsUoL. 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗸𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱. Goldsmiths students deserve proper, timely compensation for the disruption to their education. And we deserve it sooner rather than later. 🧵. (1/11).
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We're supporting Irish Goldsmiths students to get #HomeToVote. Travel bursaries of up to £110 are available to anyone who is registered to vote:
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If you have Q's about the strike action which starts next Tuesday for 3 weeks, come to our online strike open meeting on Friday from 1pm! Goldsmiths UCU & our Sabbatical Officers will be keen to hear your thoughts & have a chat!
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We'd like to introduce your democratically elected Full-Time Officer Team - Sara, SU President, Niquella, Campaigns & Activities Officer, Hafsa, Welfare & Liberation Officer & Fowsia, Education Officer!
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The College’s centralisation has had disastrous impact. There has been no accountability, so here’s us spoon-feeding the College once again; this time, in the only language they can understand. Read now:
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Congrats to talented athelete @ReubenArthur who has been selected to represent team GB @ the European Athletics U23 Championships #GoldSport
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Here's your next Officer Team, taking the lead later in 2022:. President: Hafsa Haji.Welfare & Liberation: Islam Alkhatib.Campaigns & Activities: Tor Ayrton.Education: Victoria Chwa
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In honour of #TransDayOfVisibility, here's 'We Know Visibility Well' - a poem by the brilliant @travisalabanza ✊. Read it at ✨
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This is a rare opportunity to listen to acclaimed authors Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen in conversation about children’s literature! At 5:30-7pm on 21st May Pullman will be discussing his hugely popular series His Dark Materials. Book free tickets at
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Your Education Officer for 2018/19 is once again Taylor McGraa, back for another year! @taylormcgraa.
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Goldsmiths Senior Management committed to updating us on compensations by 'the end of March'. It's 1 April, and despite repeated pressure, we still don’t have answers. Here are our demands. We will continue pushing for action and keep everyone updated.
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We are delighted to announce that the #TakeSurvivorsSeriously campaign has successfully secured the full funding for the Against Sexual Violence project! But the fight is not over yet. Read our plans for the future of the project at
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We’re very excited to announce that SU President @EvaCrossanJory has just been elected @nusuk’s Vice President Welfare:
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Goldsmiths students!. If you have received an email saying you’re not eligible for compensations, please screenshot and keep records of both emails now just in case. (Thread, 1/3).
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Faith or no faith, you’re all welcome to join the #bigvirtualiftar events via YouTube Live! It's a space for non-Muslims to join Muslims for a Big Iftar Dinner to talk about interfaith matters and to eat together. Find out more at
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Congrats to our drama student Liam Charles who is in this year's #GreatBritishBakeOff The 1st episode aired last night, watch it on @4oD!
5 layers of cake 🍰.5 days to go 🌄.5. because I wanted another one😂.Get hyped for Bake Off night!.#GBBO #GreatBritishBakeOff
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Enough is enough. We are calling for an Emergency Student Forum. Join your sabbatical officers to discuss and take action on horrendous College failures from results and enrolment to compensations. Monday 26 Sept 2022.11am, Outside RHB
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The Students’ Union stands in full solidarity with our lecturers, academics and professional staff who have been forced to take the difficult but necessary step of striking this week. For more details on why we support the strike, have a read here:
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#WalkOutTeachIn with us towards a #NewVisionForEducation! ✊ . Meet with us tomorrow (2 March, Wed) at 10.30am outside RHB to commute to Torrington Square for the @nusuk #studentstrike in solidarity. See you there! 🔥.
@GoldsmithsSU @GoldsmithsCS @GoldFeesStrike .Meet tomorrow, 10.30am outside RHB to travel to the @nusuk Student Strike in solidarity!.Strike venue: Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX. #StudentVoicesMatter
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While the multifaith prayer room in RHB is closed for Easter, why not come and make use of the @GoldAntiRacism occupation prayer room space? The building is open from 9am-7pm with all students welcome to use it.
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The College’s Strike Assessment Scheme is inadequate and incompatible with students' lived realities. We are calling for a radical overhaul of the process and are in active discussions with the College about achieving this. 👉 Read our response:
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👀. What's that? An @officestudents investigation into a university because they're handling student strike compensation too slowly?. Fascinating. .
Congratulations! It’s a(n) @officestudents enquiry 👶🎉🎉. (A mini thread on student success & CB being put in the hot seat 1/6)
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worshippers at the holy site of Masjid Al-Aqsa & residents of Sheikh Jarrah. As the official Union of the Goldsmiths’ student body and the trade union representing large numbers of academic & academic-related professional staff at Goldsmiths, we stand together to demand an.
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🚨 Members of @GoldsmithsUCU will be taking strike action this month. If you're not sure what industrial action is, what is happening and when, and how you may need support. Take a look at our guide: We stand in solidarity with striking staff ✊
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"Break the Binary, Bring the Bytes" A day of talks celebrating non binary people in tech, 29 July w/ @hacksmiths
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Lots of support for @GoldAntiRacism (GARA) today at Deptford Town Hall from students, staff and local community 💥💥💥 This follows Goldsmiths’ senior management’s threat to pursue legal action against GARA if they did not vacate the premises by 8am this morning #GoldOccupy
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Your Sabbatical Officers - Lauren, Niquella, Fowsia and Sara - were on residential in Brighton this weekend. They planned their priorities for the year and worked out their areas of focus (socially distanced). Here they are having a little break at the beach!
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‘I’m striking because our working conditions are your learning conditions. We, staff and students, need to stand together to fight against the marketisation of higher education.'. - Anna Grant, Lecturer in Education at Goldsmiths ✊
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'The uni see this as an easy cut. They didn't think we'd care, and we're showing them we do care and we WILL fight this!'. Our Campaigns & Activities Officer @bethloweyy speaks at today's Protest Workout in response to the closure of Club Pulse 👊🏼📢. #dissolvinggoldsmiths
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Pick up a copy of our new self-care zine at reception! Here's a taster of what's inside incl. how to master the art of napping #BeWellDoWell
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We urge all students & staff to sign the Student Statement: get involved in BDS (the boycott, divestment & sanctions movement),Apartheid Off Campus, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, join the March to the Israeli Embassy on 22nd May:
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Congrats to Reuben Arthur who came 1st in the Men's 100m at the @BUCSsport outdoor championships! Watch him win here
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HAPPENING NOW: @NUS_UK #StudentStrike - Listen to students from @GoldFeesStrike speak, plus speakers from @nus_uk! 🔥✊ Let’s do this! A #NewVisionForEducation is possible NOW. @GoldFeesStrike @GoldsmithsUCU .
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Huge congrats to @RachelShelley, @Al_Riddell, and @MediaComGold grads for huge wins at the @BJTC_UK Awards 🎉 🍾 🏆
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⚠️ Calling all students affected by @GoldsmithsUoL delays, compensations, etc.: COME TO THE EMERGENCY STUDENT FORUM . ‼️ TOMORROW 11am OUTSIDE RHB ‼️
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🎧🍴🍷Tickets to the SU Awards Dinner have now SOLD OUT. To everyone with a ticket, we look forward to seeing you tomorrow night! #GoldSU 🍷🍴🎧
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This week @goldrentstrike & @GoldFeesStrike have been holding a week of action which will finish with a rally on the Goldsmiths Green this Sunday. (1/2)
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(1/4) What a year it’s been! Our 2020/21 Officer team - Lauren, Sara, Fowsia and Niquella - have faced unprecedented challenges including the pandemic, the move to online working and the recent SU restructure.
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Congrats to @ReubenArthur for his Silver Medal in the 100m at the Under 23 Team Trials! And with a personal best of 10.18 #GoldSport #GoldSU
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Great to have @nusuk National President @MaliaBouattia here today too #1DayWithoutUs #students4migrants
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Congratulations @taramariwany - highly commended for the Anti-Racism Award at @nusuk Black Students’ Conference! #NUSBlack18
brief intermission to say thanks for this @nusBSC sorry I was uhhhh busy watching eurovision and couldn't accept it on time
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We’re literally meeting College about this right now. We are looking for answers and will be in touch with all members soon. (Thread, 3/3).
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and protests happening across the country in solidarity with the Palestinian uprising and general strike. It is our duty to stand firm against injustice and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Our silence will not protect us, it will only serve the oppressor.
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Eva Crossan Jory @EvaCrossanJory is elected and will spend another year in @GoldsmithsSU as President! Congratulations! #GoldDecides.
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⚡️⚡️⚡️Our student radio station @wiredgold are @Bestival and were on @sohoradio with @Goldierocks! Sweet! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Fun @bestival FM breakfast show this morning on @sohoradio feat ivs w Disney Rascal & @wiredgold speaking to late night revellers from Thur
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Join the strike rally outside the library today at 11am! Check out our FAQS about the strike here: @GoldsmithsUCU @GoldsmithsLib
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'On the 4th of January GUCU (Goldsmiths University and College Union) called for industrial action, specifically action short of a strike (ASOS), which includes an assessment boycott.'. Read your Sabbatical Officers' statement on the UCU marking boycott at
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Goldsmiths Students are demonstrating NOW outside Deptford Town Hall demanding that management do NOT raise fees #QualityDoesntGrowOnFees
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It's #InternationalCatDay !! To honour this occasion, we'd like to revisit the Brockley 'Sainsbury's cat' originally papped by our very own SU President JT @J_Tema #southlondon
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❗️WE’VE REACHED 1501 VOTES ❗️..Well done Goldsmiths you’ve beat last year’s number 🎉 ..Here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for slide right to see your current SU president get a massive pie to the face 😂 #goldsmithssuelections
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In 5 days of the campaign, we’ve had… .- 641 signatures including 50 Sabbatical Officers around the UK.- 84 written statements of support.- Charity/organisational support from the likes of Survivors UK, Good Night out & 1752 Group. The fight continues! #TakeSurvivorsSeriously
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Liberation is within our reach! Full power and solidarity, Goldsmiths Students' Union and GUCU.co-signed: @GoldAntiRacism, @CleanersFor, @GoldFeesStrike & @goldrentstrike🙌.
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We're getting lost under the mountain of Freshers' goodies we have lined up for you! #hellogoldsmiths
http://t.co/KXJe2zP24R.
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Tomorrow join a workshop-lecture on Sexual Harassment Culture in Higher Education with a great range of speakers
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.@taramariwany giving her acceptance speech. Loads of thanks to her campaigners! #GoldDecides
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Congradulations to everyone graduating today and tomorrow - it's been such an honour to celebrate with you all! 🎓 🍾 #GoldGrad
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Our Welfare and Diversity Officer @taramariwany at the meeting for students wanting to talk about the BME attainment gap and the experience of BME students at @GoldsmithsUoL today #bmestudents #attainmentgap
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We and @GoldsmithsUCU would like to invite you to a Staff-Student Assembly this Thursday: We'll answer questions about the current industrial action, hear from student campaigns AKA @goldrentstrike & discuss how we can direct our anger/frustration at SMT.
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It's SO important that universities encourage political engagement among their students. Yassss Goldsmiths!!.
Loud applause also to @GoldsmithsUoL for putting this *exemplary* notice out to its staff this morning. 👏🏿👏🏻👏🏽👏 #GeneralElection2019 #GeneralElection #GE2019
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The sun's out, @Bestival at @GoldsmithsUoL has been announced. We've got a bad case of that #FridayFeeling.
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.@GoldsmithsUoL student and SU Talented Athelete @ReubenArthur takes to the international stage running for @TeamEngland in the 4x100m relay at the Commonwealth Games tomorrow: #GC2018.
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Tweet #SaveGoldsmiths and join the Solidarity Rally to show your support for Goldsmiths workers fighting for their livelihoods and students' learning conditions against senior management cuts!.
#SaveGoldsmiths solidarity rally, Fri March 5, 5pm. This dispute is crucial: if @GoldsmithsUoL management can make huge job cuts during a pandemic other institutions are at risk. Join @johnmcdonnellMP, @Gargi_at_home, @zenscara, @MichaelRosenYes @SaraBafo1.
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Goldsmiths take on the London Institute in Paris tonight in University Challenge! Fingers crossed and good luck to our team!.
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#GoldSU showing some #pride ahead of tonight's outdoor screening - free entry, free popcorn! #Goldsmiths2016
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Tickets now on sale for @bignarstie, @izzieGibbs and @ohemaxofficial on Saturday for the Official #Nov19 AfterParty!
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The motion passed unanimously and no student wanted to speak against. To read more go to our FAQs here : #ucustrike @taylormcgraa @taramariwany @EvaCrossanJory.
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@DavidJeffery_ @GoldsmithsUoL We have taken action on the tweets. Please see the statement on our website:
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The New X & Deptford Free Film Festival launches this Friday with a sensory overload of film, food & music @nxdfff
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Introducing our new @GoldsmithsSU full-time Sabbatical Officers for the 2019/20 academic year. 🙌 From left to right, we've got Beth, Mona, Lauren and Joe - they're all buzzing to get stuck in and are looking forward to representing YOU throughout the year!
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Sabb Update On The No Detriment Policy (Safety Nets): .'We know students have been screwed over in every possible way and ignored by the Government and Universities. We've been working closely with @GoldsmithsUOL to ensure that a new No detriment Policy.
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How can you show support? We're hosting a banner making session on Wednesday and will show our support for Alaa's family in Westminster on Thursday.
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BEHOLD THE PICKET LINE MAP!! ✊. If you're not sure where the picket is and where the alternative entrances are during today's strike, take a look at this ASAP. #UCUstrike #UCUstrikesback #FourFights.@GoldsmithsUCU. (credit: Georgie Hodges)
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1/2 The 2nd award of the day goes to Dr John Price for 'Outstanding Use of Research in Teaching' #studentledteachingawards2017 #goldgrad
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EXCITING NEWS! 📣The GARA Black Annual Fund - a fund of £20,000 won by the GARA occupation - is now open! 🎉 To read more about the funding criteria & how you could use this money to put on events or fund projects, click here:
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