New Alumni Award Is Grand Goal for Sports Teams
21 March 2013
Alumni Relations maintains contact with, and offers support and advice to the University's graduates.
A £1,000 grant for University of Derby sports teams and clubs is being offered by its Alumni Relations office.
Any University of Derby sports team or club, based at any of its sites, can apply for the one-off £1,000 Alumni Sports Award; which is being offered for the first time by Alumni Relations, in association with sports initiative Team Derby and the Students' Union Athletics Union.
Alumni Relations maintains contact with, and offers support and advice to the University's graduates.
The money will aim to assist sports teams in their development while also addressing Team Derby's priority areas of:
• engaging a wider student demographic through sport
• increasing female participation in sport
• promoting Team Derby in the community
• improving the performance of the University in British Universities and Colleges Sport.
To compete for the cash all teams need to do is say, in no more than 500 words, how the Alumni Sports Award would make a difference to them and how they intend to spend the £1,000.
In their application teams should also try and explain how they would acknowledge, promote and raise the profile of the University's Alumni Relations office amongst current students.
Completed entries should be emailed by Friday April 5, 2013, to: teamderby@derby.ac.uk
Shortlisted teams will be notified and invited to attend a panel meeting on Thursday April 11, where they will have the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in full.
The winning team will be announced at the annual Athletics Union Sports Dinner on Wednesday April 17.
