Students can sign up for event funding thanks to the re-launch of the Diversity Milkround Fund.

Diversity Milkround is celebrating the upcoming start of a new academic term with the return of its student sponsorship fund championing student and corporate equality.

The Fund contributes to the best diversity events at UK universities, with more than £3,000 already donated to events including Surrey's Mental Health Week and Sheffield's International Week.

Now Durham University has received £350 for its Breast and Testicular Cancer Awareness Campaign including Information and advice on shower hangers across the residential campus. The Fund is currently sponsoring Warwick University’s Rock Gospel Choir and their concert tour to Barbados in January 2008. It is also very pleased to be working with Oxford University’s Model United Nation for their Global Village events this October.

But the Fund does not want to stop there and would like to hear from more event organisers with plans for the autumn term and into 2008.

Diversity Milkround pays five percent of all its advertising income into the fund. It then invites students to apply for a donation of up to £500 for promotional events, awareness and fund-raising activities, conferences or talks. It was to ensure diversity and equality are celebrated at universities and wants to hear from students putting on events.

Richard Chapman, Diversity Milkround Fund Coordinator, said: “The Fund is designed to support student groups organising worthwhile and fun events or activities. One excellent aspect of the fund is its flexibility; we sponsor a whole host of events covering the unlimited spectrum of true diversity. We are also delighted to be joined by our Fund partners PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Merrill Lynch and Accenture who have given further weight to our excellent (ad)venture!”

Students and Universities planning an event that may qualify for funding from the Diversity Milkround Fund should visit the fund page or call 020 3003 4070 for more details and to apply.