Food, glorious food! Everybody has got a guilty pleasure for some kind of tasty treat, in my case it’s the unbelievable amounts of takeaway I get with the excuse that […]
SGO: Introducing our Edible Campus Coordinator
Hello everyone! My name is Linnet and I am the Edible Campus Coordinator. We might have met before at the ReFreshers Fayre or in Touchdown, but I thought I would […]
SGO: Fairtrade chocolate ‘Taste-Off’ event!
While Fairtrade products offer a wide range of benefits, one of the greatest things about choosing Fairtrade chocolate is ensuring a fair wage to the cocoa farmers and their employees, […]
SGO: New year, new events, new Communications Officer
Hello guys! My name is Irina and I am the new Communications Officer for the Student Green Office. This term we have exciting opportunities coming up and I will do […]
SGO: A student review of our Fairtrade ‘Divine’ Chocolate Tasting Evening
Erik, the resident Divine Chocolatier, a bubbly chocolate expert, who knew everything about chocolate, from the origins of hot chocolate in Mexico to the cool historical facts about the first modern wrapped chocolate bars (its origins were in Bristol, by the way) charmed the audience with his passion and excitement for chocolate.
Edible Campus: Introducing ‘Green Chapel Ale’
Freshly harvested hops have a very limited window, roughly 4-6 hours, before they become unsuitable to be used in brewing so it was a rather mad ‘race to the finish’ to get them collected and transported to the brewery in time!
SGO: Introducing Meg – Events Coordinator
It’s my great pleasure to run these events because sustainability is so important. Everything we do now has an impact on future generations and their quality of life. The food we eat, the clothes we buy, the hobbies we do.
SGO: Chris Bamber – The New Guy
With that in mind I packed up the family, after a serious discussion about practicalities and future possibilities, and moved over 300 miles from a tiny town near Manchester in order to attend CCCU where I am now happily enrolled in the first year, aiming for a BSc in Forensic Computing and so far, enjoying every minute of it.
For those of you who missed Michael Morpurgo at the WHOLE EARTH? launch…
The WHOLE EARTH? exhibition is only on the Canterbury campus for three more weeks, though, so pop over and see it while you still can! It will be spending November and December split between our Broadstairs and Medway campuses, before being shipped off to one of our partner organisations, Kerala State University in India!