How to run A – Reason Week – Overview

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How to run A

Reason Week

Jessica Vautier - President, AHS & President, Soton Atheist Soc 2010/2011

Matthew Power, Treasurer AHSPresident, Soton Atheist Soc

Overview

Planning Funding Speakers Other Event Ideas Advertising

Planning

  • Plan early (no really!)
  • Spreadsheet
    • Google Docs Drive is great
    • Assign tasks, allow for delays
    • Collaboration
    • Feed your minutes into the doc

From experience - check for clashes 

with other socs. awareness weeks!

Funding

  • Don't let funding worries constrain your ideas
    • AHS Grants - 4 times a year
    • Other organisations eg. NUS grants
    • donors, local businesses
  • Speaker expenses
    • train times
    • fares
  • Get a gift as thanks (wine, pineapples, etc...)
  • Room hire

Funding

  • Ticketing
    • be realistic in event attendance
    • calculate how much you can make
    • discounts to members?
    • Facebook events
    • can always use a donation bucket
  • Posters and advertising, later!

Speakers

  • AHS Directory
  • SitP Speakers
  • BHA Local Groups
  • range of topics
  • theme

Other event ideas

Audience Participation time!

Tweets about "#AHSSouth"

ADVERTISING

  • Posters
    • generally expensive and a waste of time
    • B&W, simple, A4, no frills
  • Leaflets
    • Again, simple
    • keep them cheap
  • Try to find cheap(er) printing on campus

ADvertising

  • Facebook is crucial!
  • early and often
  • don't be afraid to remind people
  • students are lazy, when lazy, go to Facebook
  • mailing list
  • twitter
  • website

Advertising

  • Other societies:
    • LGBT
    • feminist
    • political
    • debating
    • philosophy
  • Student newspapers
  • Interfaith forums
  • SitP
  • Local Humanists and Secularists