Hitch Registration Fee

Guidelines and Conditions

The hitch registration fee is made up of three parts: RAGmin, emergency

expenses and t-shirts. Together these make up the hitch registration fee of

£25.

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Hitch Registration Fee Guidelines and

Conditions 2012/13.

1. T-Shirts £8 As part of your registration fee you will receive a hitch t-shirt. This

will feature the charity’s logo and will be designed by your hitch

leaders. They will be great to wear when you are doing any

fundraising activities and of course when you are taking part in the

hitch!

2) Emergency Expenses £4 RAG hitches require a dedicated team of leaders who are your

first point of contact both throughout the year and whilst on the

hitch. At the end of each day and in the unlikely case of

emergency we require our hitchers to make contact with the

leaders. This is usually done in the form of texting and Facebook.

The Hitch Expenses fee accounts for the money the leaders spend

on phone bills ensuring out hitchers are safe. Any expenses not

spent will go directly to the chosen charity.

3) RAGmin £13 Leeds RAG, as the official fundraising body of LUU has a full-time

coordinator to help with the administration and organisation of all

their projects and events. The coordinator is accountable to the

RAG committee. In order to fund this position, and to cover the

running costs of the office (printing, telephone, collection buckets

etc) RAG must raise this money itself. This is what we call RAGmin.

Please see the pie chart overleaf for the breakdown of RAGmin.

In order to maximise the amount of money donated to charity,

RAG raises the majority of its RAGmin through a registration fee

process. This means that we are honestly able to say that all the

money raised for a charity through a RAG event goes directly to

that charity (unless stated otherwise).

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Membership t-shirts - something which makes RAG members distinctive around

campus.

Publicity and Advertising - RAG mags, flyers and posters are some of the ways

RAG captures student attention.

RAG’s running costs - our day-to-day expenses - bill for the office phone,

stationary and printing. Dull stuff!

Salary for RAG's full-time Coordinator - as the elected committee are all students,

they do not have the time to run every aspect of an organisation that raises over

a quarter of a million pounds for charity. Therefore, RAG has a full-time member

of staff which is paid for out of part of the registration fees.

Team leader and committee training – The president and committee organise

days of team building exercises, leadership training and the handover of

information and advice from old to new leaders and committee.

Registration Fee Terms & Conditions

i) Under no circumstances will registration fees for hitches be refunded or

transferred to another person.

ii) All money fundraised must be donated to the chosen charity for the

event, as specified by RAG.

iii) Fundraising cannot be returned to participants; nor may participants

put fundraising towards a future year of the event.

iv) RAG has no responsibility for, or access to, money raised through

online fundraising sites such as Justgiving. However, money raised on

these websites (excluding GiftAid) will contribute to your fundraising

total. Participants will give online fundraising links once set up to event

organisers.

v) The fundraising total must be reached by the given deadline. Failure to

reach the total by the deadline will result in refusal to participate in the

event.

Bucket and Tin Rental

i) Deposits for buckets are £10 and for tins £5. The deposit will not be

returned if the bucket is lost or broken.

ii) Rentals are for one week only.

iii) Collections in the union will only be made at times specified in the RAG

bucket timetable. Collectors must be booked into a time slot to make

collections.

iv) If buckets or tins are returned late, 50p will be deducted from the

deposit return for every day late (including weekends).

v) Deposits will not be returned without the receipt given out at the time

of renting.

For the most recent terms and conditions and notifications of any changes, please

visit our website www.leedsrag.org.uk

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