The 2013/14 Ethical Guide to Cambridge

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Welcome to the 2013/14 edition of the Cambridge Ethical Guide!

We want to encourage everyone to live more sustainably and ethically; we hope this guide provides a helping hand.

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We have created this guide to bring together informa-

tion for Cambridge dwellers who want to make a positive impact on their community.

We are aware that students face a pretty different living experience living within Cambridge and have therefore highlighted the student-specifi c sections in yellow. Cambridge is an amazing city to live in, full of enthusiastic, empowered people with great ideas, active initiatives and inspiring projects. Co-ordinated groups with a shared goal make much greater progress than even the most motivated individuals, so the second reason behind writing this guide is to link up all those great things going on and give an overall picture of what’s happening in Cambridge.

If you’re reading this online, click the links (in bold or in blue) for more info. Once you’ve had a read through, let us knowwhat you think using the following link: www.surveymonkey.com/s/DPS2VBC

Thanks for reading, Lucy, editor.

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Page 4: Top tips (from those in the know)

Page 6: Recycling in Cambridge

Page 7: Recycling at university

Page 8: Eating out

Page 9: Food shopping

Page 10: Buying second-hand

Page 11: Buying ethically

Page 12: Student shopping

Page 13: Stash and Things to do

Page 14: Getting around

Page 15 - 16: Green city living

Page 17: Inspired to do more?

Pages 18 - 19: Map of ethical Cambridge

Page 21: What is Cambridge Hub?

Page 22: The Ethical Network

Page 23: Campaigns

Page 24: Environment and sustainability

Pages 25 - 26: Local action

Pages 27 - 29: International development

Pages 30 - 31: Ethical careers

Page 33: Social enterprise

Page 35: And fi nally...

Page 36 - 37: How much do you know about The Big Issue?

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Top tips (from those in the know...)

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1 ‘Volunteering at small organisations and charities, not just big names, can be

rewarding - they often have more opportuni-ties to run your own events and take initia-tive.’ Rachael, recent Cambridge graduate

2 ‘To reduce sanitary waste the Moon Cup (www.mooncup.co.uk) is a cheap,

convenient and eco-friendly alternative totampons and pads.’ Lucy, Ethical Guide editor

3 ‘Omprakash (www.omprakash.org), a charity which connects volunteers to

grassroots organisations, is FANTASTIC for anyone who wants to make a difference to development initiatives.’ Ele, CambridgeHub Vice-President and student at Emma

4 ‘Loads of freshers manage to blag a second-hand bike by going on their

college’s Facebook® page where older students sell tons of stuff on cheaply, including bikes. Just search your College on Facebook®.’ Martha, student at Christ’s

5 ‘Emmaus Cambridge (www.emmauscambridge.org)

is out of town (in Landbeach, towards Ely) but if you cycle or have a car, it’s the best place to buy cheap second hand furniture - they even deliver for free! Local baked goods from the Daily Bread Cooperative are also amazing - they are one of the best in the county.’ Jesse, Cambridge resident

6 ‘Forget the supermarkets, Mill Road has independent greengrocers, health

and international food stores, delis, cafes, a butcher’s, a baker’s, beer and wine special-ists, and a wealth of produce and knowl-edge.’ Anne, Independent Cambridge editor

7 ‘Everything you need to know about recycling in Cambridge is on our website

at www.cambridge.gov.uk/waste - even post-ers in different languages.’ Vicky, recycling and waste, Cambridge City Council

8 ‘Cambridge has a thriving local jazz scene - support talented indie musicians

at the amazing Hot Numbers Coffee(www.hotnumberscoffee.co.uk) or getinvolved in The Cambridge Jazz Co-op (www.cambridgejazzcoop.org.uk).’ Kate, Cambridge craftsperson

9 ‘Stop by Paradise Nature Reserve on the way to the Orchard at Grantchester

for a scone and jam, topped off with a quick trip to Byron’s Pool to see if you can spot a Kingfi sher before winding your way back to the centre of town along the river’s edge - bliss!’ Emily, Cambridge charity worker

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SIf every adult in Cambridge spent just £5 per week in its independent shops instead of online or with the big chains, it would be worth an extra £24 million per year to the City’s economy.

That’s because local independent businesses are more likely to employ local people and collaborate with other local businesses, meaning more of the money stays within the community rather than � owing into the bank accounts of big corporations’ shareholders.

Bursting with fascinating write-ups, clear maps and stunning photography, Independent Cambridge is your

essential guide to the � nest indie shops, cafés, restaurants, venues and events the City has to o� er. Plus, nestling within its 192 pages there are lots of special o� ers which can only be found in the book – they are worth the cover price several times over!

Start your new way of shopping by buying the book, we are a Cambridge independent too, so your purchase makes a di� erence straight away. Available from our website at www.independent-cambridge.co.uk and many of the local independent shops as well as Waterstone’s, He� ers and WH Smith.

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Recycling in Cambridge

Disposing correctly of your waste is an incredibly important thing an individu-

al can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Cambridge City Council collects a wide range of recycling - here is an easy guideto what goes where.

If you want to go further, you can create your own compost using paper and raw food waste in compost bins (but leave out the meat and cooked food or they’ll attract rats). The council subsidises composting bins, although they still aren’t cheap - get yours online for less than £20 at www.ccc.getcomposting.com.

It’s easy to forget how much harm you are doing by throwing things like laptops, appliances or broken mobile phones away - recycling them saves precious resources for future use. Websites like weeebuy.co.uk will recycle your old electrical appliances, smartphones and computers and even pay you if they are good quality - and if you have an old, broken phone to get rid of, Carphone Warehouse (there’s one on Mar-ket Street) will do the same, even donating money to charity when you hand it in.

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Recycling at university

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There are different systems in place for each of Cambridge’s 31 colleges, although

most of them have at least basic mixed recycling with a box or bin for each staircase or group of rooms. If you feel that recycling facilities could be improved, you can make it happen - huge improvements have been made in the past by students. There is usually a green or ethical offi cer (see the CUSU Green website) elected in each college who works to improve or maintain recycling systems. The council has also produced some guidelines at:www.cambridge.gov.uk/recycling-for-students. British Heart Foundation (bright red boxes) and Jimmy’s Night Shelter collection banks are found in many colleges and are an easy way to recycle household appliances and elec-tronics that might be left in colleges by the end of the year. Jimmy’s Night Shelter also runs collections of food and goods at the end of the year for those of you moving out. College Facebook® pages are increasinglybecoming a way for students to sell or pass on old books, clothes and appliances - make sure you’re part of yours so you don’t miss out on any bargains.

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Eating out

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Cambridge has a huge variety of local and independent bars, cafes and

restaurants, which can be found on Independent Cambridge (www.independent-cambridge.co.uk), a popular website and book containing a huge directory of all the independent businesses in the area, from tattoo parlours to baker-ies. A few of our personal favourites are listed here.

The delicious Rainbow Café on King’s Pa-rade is a magical underground vegetarian restaurant open for lunch through dinner and selling organic, ecologically produced veggie food - added excitement comes in the form of a rumoured ghost sighting there a few years ago. Sadly the ghost in question turned out to be nothing more than sketchy photography, but the mysterious scandal lingers. Portions are huge but it isn’t

cheap, so make sure you’re hungry! The Fair Shares Café on Trumpington Street offers affordable Fairtrade certified teas, coffees and cakes in a lovely church setting run by a cooperative, and the sociable, arty coffee shop The Indigo Café is a friendly and quirky place to enjoy some affordable homemade cakes and coffee (the owners have a great relationship with the brazilian co-op where their coffee is grown) whilst meeting like-minded people. Also well worth trying is Food4food Community Café, a social enterprise operated by Cambridge homeless charity Wintercomfort which does freshly made, tasty and inexpensive meals.

St John’s and The Cambridge Chop House both sell high quality afforable British grub, ethically sourced from local farms - the chefs will gladly answer any questions about where the meat comes from.

Food shopping

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There are plenty of ways around the ‘expensive’ tag that sometimes goes with

‘organic’, ‘independent’ or ‘local’. Mill Road is a little bit further away from most colleges, but it is a busy, cosmopolitan hub of independ-ent and multicultural businesses.

Arjuna Wholefoods, situated on Mill Road, is an awesome place to start if you’re looking for delicious, healthy, natural wholefoods and organic, gluten-free and vegan produce. It is run by a cooperative who are always very happy to help out with any questions about their shop and activities going on in the town in general.

Even further out of town but well worth a visit for their wholesale deals and amazing fresh bread is the Daily Bread Cooperative in King’s Hedges - recommended are their 5kg bags of muesli for everyone.

The Market Square is a lovely place to buy local and (on Sundays) organic fruit and veg including the famous Cambridge strawberries, cheap, abundant and deli-cious when they are in season. Check out www.eattheseasons.co.uk for tips on what British food to buy when for good quality and value for money as well as a lower carbon footprint.

For a very easy way to get fresh, delicious food all year round, try ordering a popular veg box from someone like the Cambridge Organic Food Company (or Scoop for stu-dents - see page 12) who will deliver local, organic food from £10.50 a week. If you are a meat lover, you could head down to Northrop Butchers on Mill Roador Burleigh Street for local, high quality meat.

Buying second-hand

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Buying second-hand products reduces the impact both of producing new stuff and

disposing of what you buy - and it saves you money.

There are an abundance of great charity shops, centred around Burleigh Street near the Grafton centre and on Mill Road, where you can often find cheap books in the Amnesty Bookshop. Burleigh Street also boasts a tiny but funky vintage clothes shop, Jemporium Vintage. There are many beautiful second-hand bookshops around the tiny side streets that are worth a look, if only for that lovely bookshop smell and to marvel at the ancient hardbacks on sale.

A good place to start is St Edward’s Pas-sage, where you can find The Haunted Bookshop, G. David Bookseller (and the Indigo Cafe for a well earned rest).

One of the most active groups of it’s kind in the country, Cambridge Freecycle is an online Yahoo!® group and Facebook® forum dedicated to finding homes for unwanted stuff - some amazing things can be found for free if you check the group regularly and are willing to pick it up, although be warned - you have to wade through a lot of emails!

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Buying ethically

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Most of the following shops, cafes and restaurants and many more can be

found on Independent Cambridge, a book and online directory of independent retailers. Another great way to find out about special deals and new places is localsecrets.co.uk, a national website dedicated to improving access to local shops and businesses - you can often find great money-saving deals on there, so keep an eye out! Wandering around town you will find your own favourites and there are plenty of fairtrade cooperatives, local, organic shops and independently owned stores to choose from. Clothes shopping has been made much easier with the advent of the web. Once you know your budget and what you want to buy - whether you want your shoes to be vegan, your cotton fairtrade, or your clothes UK-made - it’s pretty easy. The Guardian has made an interactive web tool called the Ethical Fashion Directory which can be used to find companies which stock ethical clothes, shoes and homeware. It is rarely updated but still seems to be the best online tool of its kind available. A few good places to start are PeopleTree (www.peopletree.co.uk) for fashionable clothes with an ethical slant, Amnesty Interna-tional online shop for good quality basics raising money for a good cause and The Natural Store (www.thenaturalstore.co.uk)

for a huge variety of different products. For cosmetics, few companies in the mar-ket have greener or more ethical creden-tials than Lush; their work has changed the industry standard in so many fields, from working with peace cooperatives to source products to using their profile to lobby against unethical governmental practices. They have a store in the Lion Yard, next to the Grand Arcade. If you are unsure of the ethical credentials of something you are about to buy, you can download a free app such as GoodGuide enabling you to scan the barcode of many products, giving in-formation about health environmental and ethical concerns related to the product. After the horrific 2013 factory fire and subsequent building collapse at a garment factory in Bangladesh, many big clothing manufacturers including Primark and Marks and Spencer signed an internation-ally legally binding agreement on structural building integrity in their factories - sure to be a step, albeit small, in the right direction. Walmart (ASDA), Gap, and Topshop are notably yet to sign up as of August 2013.

there are plenty of fairtrade cooperatives, local, organic shops and independently owned stores to choose from

Student shopping

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Too busy with uni to look for organic, local produce? Luckily, Scoop, a

society dedicated to getting cheap, local, organic veg to students, is here to help. They currently run a veg box scheme and are looking to expand into a cooperative shop and more. Check out their website at http://scoop.soc.srcf.net/ for more details and to get a bag of your own! The lovely and well-stocked Oxfam book-shop is found on Sidney Street, and there are often cheap textbooks to be found there. Ask older students or your college parents if they have text books to sell on. Heffers bookshop that has been there for 130 years and is now run by Blackwells,

also has a selection of very good quality second-hand textbooks. When exams are over and it’s time to cel-ebrate in style during Cambridge’s famous May Week, don’t fall into the trap of buying all those fancy suits and dresses new - there are usually clothes swapping and renting events advertised on Facebook® and Twitter® in the weeks preceding the balls where you can get the same clothes for a fraction of the price and in a less wasteful way!

Check out Alora for tailor-made dresses that fund women’s education in Vietnam.

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Nights out can support local businesses too;many pubs in the area stock local/organic

beers. See www.pocketpubs.co.uk for a compre-hensive Cambridge pub guide which also raises money for charity. The Arts Picture House (list-ings here) on St Andrew’s Street shows classic films, old manga, documentaries and foreign-language film, supporting independent cinema. The National Trust has several properties in the area - the 13th century Anglesey Abbey, which is a pleasant 35 minute cycle away, Wimpole Hall (complete with working farm), and the Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, one of the most important wetlands in Europe. Some of the area’s best bird-watching and conservation programmes go on at Fen Drayton Lakes, an RSPB nature reserve in Huntingdon, acces-sible by the Guided Busway. Closer to home is the impressive Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, where beautiful collections of British and non-British plants are showcased.

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An area of student life where ethics is often forgotten in favour of value of

money and aesthetics is Club/Society Stash - the clothes and accessories branded with university logos produced by many societies and colleges. If you want use good quality,

fairly traded products and avoid sweatshop labour, you will have to pay a premium but it should be worth it. Acorn Printing (www.acorn-printing.com) is one website which stocks a wide range of Fairtrade/organic products with student discounts.

Getting around

Public transport

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If you hadn’t noticed, the way to get around this flat, compact city

by bike. Cycling is a fun, healthy way to save money on bus fares and help save the planet while doing it

There are two National Cycle Net-work routes going through Cam-bridge, 11 and 51. Check out www.sustrans.org.uk for more information - and all-important road safety advice - and watch out for the blue bicycle signs to follow the routes. There are cycle shops on every corner selling various combinations of new, used, mountain, town, vintage, fixed wheel and BMX bikes - but freshers week is the only time of year where all the cheap ones seem to get snapped up, so get in there early! If you miss the rush and are stuck without a bike, it’s possible to rent one from City

Cycle Hire on Newnham Road. Recommend-ed are The Bike Man on Market Square and, for truly ethical credentials, Papworth Trusts’s OWL Bikes. OWL Bikes is situated in Pampisford (Citi 7 bus from Emmanuel Street in the city centre) and employs disa-bled or disadvantaged people to refurbish and sell old bikes.

Most places aren’t far away enough to merit taking the (expensive) public

buses, but local timetables can be found on-line on the Cambridgeshire County Council website. The University heavily subsidises the Uni4 bus service linking the town centre, the Sidgwick site and most colleges - check out the route online, and show your University card to ride for 70p. There

is also a free city centre bus called the City Circle Bus, which follows a circular route passing Downing Street, the Grafton Centre, Jesus Lane, Trinity Street, Market Square and Corpus Christi College. Also of interest is the Cambridge Guided Busway, an off road bus route linking Cambridge with Huntingdon and St Ives. It is designed to ease traffic congestion on the busy A14.

Green city living

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A s well as being a gorgeous city to live in, there are so many groups

in the area that are working to make Cambridge even greener. The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of initiatives to get involved with.

Wildlife Trust Greenways project runs twice weekly volunteer conservation sessions, fixing up the city to improve bio-diversity. Email Iain ([email protected]) if you think you can get stuck in on Tuesdays or Wednesdays.

Transition Cambridge is a community group dedicated to creating a resilientfuture in the face of climate change and rising energy prices. Current activities include a community garden, energy fo-rums, farm days, nature walks, grow your own sessions, café nights, skillshares and permaculture gatherings.

Cambridge Carbon Footprint is a cam-paigning and practical action group who work to reduce the carbon footprint of individuals in the area. Get involved with <

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their work on climate change friendly homes and the environment, sign up for Carbon Conversations course, or attend ‘swishing’ events to swap your old clothes for new ones.

Cambridge Conservation Forum is an umbrella group for more than 50 conserva-tion organisations and a founding member of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (who knew that Cambridge is home to the largest cluster of conservation organisations in the world?). Get involved to see what they are up to and see if you can lend a hand.

Whether you want to share your own skills or pick up new ones the Greeniversity (www.greeniversity.org.uk/cambridge)allows people to donate their time to train-ing interested parties in things like garden-ing, making clothes and even beehive build-ing - there’s a timetable on their website where you can find out what’s coming up.

The Cambridge Edible Garden Project is a collaboration between the University and the town to utilise land in Murray Edwards College garden to grow veg and have fun.

Inspired to do more?

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I f you have a few hours spare, use them to help out in your community - there

are many more opportunities than there is space for here, so look out for posters and social media posts advertising events from other groups too.

The Cambridge and Districts Volunteer Centre at www.cam-volunteer.org.uk is a service dedicated to matching volunteers and projects. Another such group is the Cambridge Volunteer Service (www.cambridgecvs.org.uk). Many national sites can also help you with this aim - for

starters try www.do-it.org.uk and www.vinspired.com - exclusively for young people. If you have time to donate but also want to benefit from the work you do, join a time bank such as CamLETS (www.cam.letslink.org), CitiVillage (www.citivillage.net) or Freedom Club Timebank (www.freedomclubtimebank.org.uk) and get paid in other people’s time!

For student volunteering opportunities have a look at pages 25-26.

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What is Cambridge Hub?

Whether it’s international development, the environment, community volun-

teering or social enterprise that inspires you, Cambridge Hub can point you at all sorts of exciting events and opportunities going on around Cambridge.

We run weekly talks with high profi le speakers throughout term, put on train-ing sessions for societies and individu-als, organise careers and volunteering networking events, support student social enterprises, run the Ethical Internships scheme, promote opportunities, events and

initiatives through our weekly e-bulletin The Week, help run the International Development Conference and the Climate and Sustainability Forum, and coordinate the Ethical Network of societies (see over) - phew! A dedicated committee of student volunteers is supported by full-time staff. Visit: www.cambridgehub.org for more information.

To fi nd out how you can get involved, email the committee president([email protected]).

The Ethical Network

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The Ethical Network links together societies at Cambridge University that

aim to make a positive difference. The Ethi-cal Network Societies Fair in the second week of Michaelmas term is a great way to get involved with any of these societies and meet like-minded people (particularly if you miss them at the main Freshers Fair at Kelsey Kerridge) - ‘like’ the Cambridge Hub Facebook® page and/or sign up to the weekly e-bulletin to be sure of getting the details. Otherwise, contact details for all of them can be found at:www.cambridgehub.org/ethicalnetwork.

And towards the end of the year, why not come along to the garden party to help celebrate all the amazing stuff that’s gone on during the year. Keep an eye on the Cambridge Hub Facebook® page around May for details. Check out for the Cambridge Calender of Social Action for upcoming events.

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Campaigns

CUSU (Cambridge University Students’ Union) represents you

and runs large autonomous campaigns. These include the Womens’, Access, LGBT or the BME (Black & Minor-ity Ethnic) Campaigns. You can get involved at college level, through your JCR or MCR, your Environment and Ethical Affairs officer, or your presi-dent who will be involved in many of the initiatives going on at college and university level.

The CUSU Ethical Affairs committee lob-bies to change university policy and make sure Environment and Ethical Affairs of-ficers have the resources they need to run college level campaigns including Ethical Consumerism (incorporates Fairtrade) and the popular Student Switch Off campaign. From 2013 CUSU-EA and Cambridge Hub are running the first ever Cam-bridge Ethical Festival, taking place at the end of October. This is part of an ini-tiative to unite all the ethical bodies and charities in Cambridge. The festival will see second hand clothes sales, themed talks, movie and cocktail nights, careers events and much more!

Get in touch by emailing [email protected] and watch out forEthical Festival publicity and their Facebook® event!

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Environment andsustainability

Many environmental campaigns are run through the CUSU ethical affairs committee.

The National Trust Society runs talks, fun days out and volunteering opportunities with the National Trust. CU Nature Society organises trips to nature reserves, talks on biodiversity and other activities for nature-lovers at CU.

Energise Cambridge is a student campaign to engage students on issues of climate change and renewable energy, and to persuade the university to change its energy supply to more renewable options. They have held major rallies that have been covered by the local news, and have also had successful meetings with both the Environmental Strategy Commit-tee and the Vice Chancellor to discuss some of their proposals.’ GreenBRIDGE is an interdisciplinary society of graduate researchers at the University of Cambridge interested in the sustainability of the built environment. They host lectures and sessions on environmental sustainability.

The Zero Carbon Society aims to promote discussion and action that will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy, both on local and national levels. They run academic workshops and talks on climate change and collect information on green internships. CUECS (Environmental Consulting Society) run a range of projects throughout the year which have a positive impact on environ-mental issues in Cambridge, including: A Green League Table ranking colleges by their sustainability, the College Ball Sustainability Project, a Student Carbon Calculator, and an Ecology with Schools project. They also run a research division, which provides the expertise and knowledge to sup-port their projects and develop them further. The University’s Environment and Energy Section (www.admin.cam.ac.uk/environment)has several ways in which you can get involved. The Living Laboratory for Sustainability aims to improve the overall environmental impact of the University and involves students through paid internships, grants and research support. Green Impact audits and awards colleges and depart-ments based on their sustainability and encourages direct action in the workplace. You could sign up to the NetPositive tool to explore your individual and college impact on the environment.

:Local action

There are so many opportunities for local volunteering in Cambridge with

societies focusing on social problems in the area. If you have an idea for a new project that isn’t covered here, all it needs is one enthusiastic person to make it and it could become reality, so don’t be afraid to set up something new. SCA (Student Community Action) is your one-stop shop if you want to find a volun-teering placement in Cambridge, whether you’re at Cambridge or Anglia Ruskin Uni-versity. It exists to encourage the involve-ment of students in valuable voluntary community work. They can set you up with a volunteering placement in schools

or as a ‘big sib’ to a disadvantaged child, or helping elderly people. A full list can be found on their website at www.cambridgesca.org.uk. Projects vary hugely in terms of time and effort needed, so even if you only have time for a minimal commitment, get in touch!

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An easy way to help out in the community is through the University’s Widening Participa-tion programme - help students from diverse backgrounds get into university and dispel the myths that prevent some potential stu-dents from applying. Contact the admissions service of your college or the CUSU Access officer at [email protected] for more information.

If you want to help out in local schools, check out STIMULUS, a programme that matches students with schools to help out in class. STEM Ambassadors and SEEK (Science and Engineering Experiments for Kids) also work with local kids in STEM subjects.

Streetbite volunteers wander round town in pairs or small groups, taking a thermos of coffee and some sandwiches to offer the homeless people they meet. Streetbite also help organise end-of-term food collections for Jimmy’s Night Shelter, a local home-less charity.

Linkline is a listening support and infor-mation service for Cambridge and Anglia

Ruskin Universities, run by students for students, every night of Cambridge Univer-sity full term. Foodcycle takes surplus food that would otherwise be thrown out by retailers, and creates a delicious 3-course meal free for vulnerable people in the local community each week. RAG (Raising and Giving) are the FUNd-raising society that put on some of the big-gest events in Cambridge, helping you find love through Blind Date, getting you Lost, breaking you out of the Cambridge bubble in Jailbreak and much, much more. Each year RAG raises around £180,000 for various local, national and international charitable causes. You can help RAG to top this figure by becoming a RAG rep in your college, coming along to their events, or taking part in bucket collections (a.k.a. raids). RAG has also recently launched the Student Voluntary Grant Scheme, which provides student societies engaged in chari-table work in Cambridgeshire with grants of up to £200 towards their running costs.

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Cambridge Hub can support you by chat-ting through your idea, connecting you to others working in your area of interest or helping you get it off the ground

International development

The Humanitarian Centre is one such network for a growing number of smaller international development charities. They take on several part- and full-time student interns throughout the year - follow them on Twitter® or Facebook® to keep informed. Jointly with Cambridge Hub they support a student committee to run an annual International Development Conference with events and talks designed for students and others who want to know more. ELST (English Language Studies for Tibetans) is closely related to a Cambridge charity of the same name and sends volunteers to teach English in Tibetan and Buddhist communities. It’s a great way to

make a difference whilst exploring a fasci-nating region and immersing yourself in a completely different culture. CU-ELST gives teaching and travel advice and subsidises your costs, while giving you the flexibility to choose where and when to volunteer. Amnesty International runs university-wide campaigns on various Amnesty issues and events highlighting human rights cases around the world. Afrinspire, set up as a student society to support the work of the eponymous char-ity, supports indigenous African initiatives in community development and poverty reduction.

'an individual can make an impact even from a distance by taking part in inter-national campaigns, choosing ethical consumerism, or being part of a wider network of people

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The UNICEF on Campus Society aims to promote the rights of children, to sup-port UNICEF’s international work and campaigns to pursue that goal, and to help children meet their basic needs and expand their opportunities by avoiding the threats of childhood poverty. If you want to join the society, or want to find out more about our work/UNICEF/children’s rights, head to their Facebook® page to keep informed about events and talks.

Moving Mountains @ Cambridge Uni-versity is a non-profit development NGO dedicated to long-term sustainability, supporting people in ways that help them not only today, but into the future. MoMAC

aims to raise funds, organise expeditions, and put on events in Cambridge that will assist these organisations in achieving their goals. CU Student Action for Refugees (STAR) works to support refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, and in the local area. They run events and campaigns through-out the year that aim to raise awareness about refugee issues and to challenge prejudices. We also offer practical sup-port to refugees via fundraising, and through hands on voluntary work with those living in the local area, such as running conversation classes.

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CU Student Advocates International is a student-based society aiming to promote the rule of law across the world. Students can get involved in their social events, fundraising, research groups or overseas volunteering trips.

SOS Childrens Villages is the world’s largest orphan charity, caring directly for 78000 children in 124 countries world-wide. The charity’s UK headquarters is based right here in Cambridge and CUSOS, the University of Cambridge Supporters of SOS, works alongside the charity raising awareness, holding fundraising events and contributing to its work. CUiD (Cambridge University International Develoment) is dedicated to the promotion of international development as an area for intellectual engagement and active involve-ment. They hold regular talks by big names such as Rowan Williams, panel debates and interesting film screenings. CUiD also produces the biannual magazine, Vision. Engineers Without Borders raise aware-ness and educate those interested in international development, especially engi-neers, about projects/technologies/options available to them.

Giving What We Can organises talks and interactive events on most effectively fight-ing extreme poverty; encourages regular giving to bring about huge amounts of good in the world with little cost to yourself; andhosts social events as a hub for people interested in effective charity.

The Save the Children Society raises money and awareness in support of chil-dren in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. Education Partnerships Africa works in direct partnership with rural African sec-ondary schools by sending UK university students from Cambridge, Oxford and Lon-don to work in these schools and investing directly into resources aimed at improving the quality of education. The Cambridge Development Initiative seeks to use entrepreneurship to overcome divisions between slums and the city in which they are situated, focusing on Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. A new model for student-led development, it aims to create a healthy framework to train, educate and invest in poor social entrepreneurs.

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Ethical careers

Having an ‘ethical career’ can mean a huge amount of different things and

there are a growing number of resources available to those who want to make a difference. Your working life will span decades: don’t let it go to waste!

The Careers Service www.careers.cam.ac.uk have dedicated ethical careers advi-sors you can chat to about going into thenot-for-profit sector. Look out for their leaf-let ‘I don’t want to work in the city!’ and their popular ‘Work to Change the World’ careers event, usually held in February. They also provide bursaries for summerinternships and organise sessions for stu-dents interested in ethical careers.

Student Hubs www.studenthubs.org run an Internship Scheme and place around 100 students throughout England with various charities for internships lasting up to three months during the summer. They also provide training and support. Applications open in January. Sign up (www.groupspac-es.com/cambridgehub/external/subscribe) to the Cambridge Hub mailing list - there’ll be information, talks and emails sent out about the scheme.

Take part in the Social Leadership Award, a structured scheme that allows you to get diverse experiences and be recognised for your dedication to social action. Go to www.studenthubs.org/leadershipaward for more info.

If you’re interested in getting some ethical-ly centred work experience as part of your degree, the Cambridge University Public Engagement team runs a programme called the Cambridge Community KnowledgeExchange (www.cam.ac.uk/ccke). This ‘research matchmaking programme’ part-nering external organisations and students is designed to allow dissertation-level and above research to pinpoint specific areas of need in the community.

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‘Work to Change the World’

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80000 Hours (their name suggests how much time an average individual donates to their career) is a national society with a Cambridge base for people who want to use their careers to make the world a better place in any way possible - joining them would be a good place to start! They have a great website at www.80000hours.org.

Getting Into International Development is a very active Facebook® page and blog dedicated to bringing news about jobs and internships in this sector to the attention of students and recent graduates. It is run by the University of London but is of use to everyone.

Watch out for careers talks and informa-tion from Cambridge Hub and advertised on their weekly newsletter The Week.

For more internships and jobs with not-for profits and NGOs, have a browse through www.charityjob.co.uk, www.bond.org.uk, www.environmentjob.co.uk and www.charitypeople.co.uk. www.w4mpjobs.org also have a wide range of jobs and intern-ships, most with a political slant - not all ethical jobs are with NGOs!"

Your working life will spandecades: don’t let it go to waste!

One size doesn’t fit all…

We are committed to helping you find the career path that’s right for you, and to realise your aspirations – wherever they take you.

Our expertise goes way beyond City and business careers - publishing, teaching, environment, arts & heritage, media, academia, international development, science, engineering, public policy, charities....

Our searchable Vacancies & Opportunities system (for vacation work & grad jobs) reflects this variety

We run careers fairs, briefings, panel discussions, skills sessions – many offering an opportunity to meet people working in the areas that interest you

We provide one-to-one guidance, whether or not you know what you want to do

Find out more at: www.careers.cam.ac.uk Where to find us: For bookings & enquiries call: 01223 338283 / 338286 Careers Service Opening hours Stuart House 6 Mill Lane During term time Outside full term Cambridge CB2 IXE Mon-Fri 9.15 – 5.15 Mon – Fri 9.15 – 1.00

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We know many Cambridge students want a working life that

helps them feel they’re… working for a greater good or

giving something back.

Social enterprise

An increasingly numerous and high-profile group of people, social entrepreneurs try

and enact social change. If you have an idea for a business that could bring about positive change, some of the initiatives below could help. There are also many funds that invest in social enterprise that might accept your ap-plication - for example, The Big Issue Invest fund, set up by successful social entrepre-neur John Bird to provide support for emerg-ing social enterprises. Cambridge University has produced its share of successful social businesses - for example Andes Crafts(www.andescrafts.com), set up by a PHD student and selling local handicrafts from communities in the Andes.

There is help available from student soci-etes to get you started. Beyond Profit are a well established society focusing on train-ing and development of potential social entrepreneurs within the university. They run talks, training events and competitions and can sometimes provide funding.

Cambridge University Technology and Enter-prise Club is a student-run entrepreneurship organisation. Their mission is to nurture and enhance entrepreneurial spirit and connect the great minds of Cambridge University to the external business community.

Enactus and Cambridge University Entre-preneurs (CUE) are two other ways to gain

a business edge while still at university - the former provides training and support to realise your bright idea for a positive impact business, and the latter is a successful business competi-tion that fosters student entrepreneurship.

Keen on social enterprise but haven’t quite figured out your big idea yet? The Social Innovation Programme is a programme that gives you the chance to address real challenges and issues with local organisa-tions whilst developing your consultancy and research skills and gaining experience of implementing strategies and solutions.

social entrepreneurs

‘must combine abusiness school brainwith a social worker’s

heart’ Thomas Friedmann

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Look out for HubWorks, an intensive half-day’s train-

ing run by Cambridge Hub which covers everything from

writing your mission and vision to building a team and project

management.

Well, that’s it. We hope that this

information has been useful to you as aholistic introduction to Cambridge life -

there’s so much more available online and from any of the organisations mentioned,

so don’t hesitate to delve deeper!

We would absolutely love to hear fromanyone who has read this guide - drop

Cambridge Hub a quick email ([email protected]) if you’re not quite

sure where to start, to share what you’ve been inspired by, or to give us your feedback.

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