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Academic Kindness Gift Circle - now closed

19/3/2017

5 Comments

 
 Late last year I ran an Academic Kindness Gift Circle (you can read about it here). It was, by and large, successful, but the timing was slightly problematic. I thought I would - for the more permanent (and possibly annual) AKGC have it earlier in the year, with a sending window, so that gifts will arrive all around the same time (and for us in the UK, will come around exam-marking time!)
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​The other concern was that a limit of £15- did exclude a number of people who just couldn't justify the expense. The purpose of this is to spread community and support throughout the academy, so I am conscious to this. Therefore...


The Rules
1. Gifts should cost ​no more than £5/€6/$6USD/$8AUD/$8CAD/the closest whole value that comes up when you compare with £5 on xe.com. This is excluding postage.
​2. Gifts can be whatever you like within this range including handmade or purchased. They should be accompanied by a personal letter addressed to your giftee. The entire value may be spent on paper or card to carry this message (that is to say, the entire gift may be the letter itself).
​3. Gifts must be anonymous.
​4. Gifts must be posted in the week beginning Monday May 22nd, 2017. Gifters must email me to confirm that gifts have been posted.

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Sign up will be open from 19/3/17 to 20/4/17.

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To keep postage costs down, there will be regional pools. Last time this was UK and EU, North America, Rest of the World. The regional breakdown will depend on signups.


To maintain anonymity there will be a designated return address for each region. If you are happy to act as the regional return person, please indicate this on the sign up form. This involves having your address marked as the return address on all gifts in your region. If any gifts go astray they will then be 'returned' to you and we can try and get them to their intended recipient. I will be the designated return for UK (and perhaps Europe).

​If you cannot afford to participate the ​please get in touch with me​ by email and I will arrange for funds to be sent you to. If you can afford to sponsor another gift, please donate via PayPal (this does not need to be in increments of £5- you are free to donate however much you wish). All unused funds at the end of the gifting period will be donated to Arts Emergency. The only money coming in to this PayPal account at this point are related to AKGC. If you do not want to donate via PayPay please email me.
5 Comments
Giulia Mari
19/3/2017 09:56:45 pm

Hello,

I just subscribed to this as I think it's a wonderful idea, but actually now I wonder if I may not be highjacking a private exchange between friends... if so, please feel free to disregard my subscription and I am very sorry for barging in. In that case I may start an Academic Kindness circle amongst my acquaintances as well, as I think it's such a lovely idea!!!

Very best wishes,
Giulia

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Ellie Mackin
19/3/2017 09:59:54 pm

Hi Giulia! This is an initiative for everyone, whether you know any of the other participants or not. The more the merrier, and in part the success relies on loads of unconnected people signing up!
Best, E.

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Donna Sears link
4/4/2017 09:48:26 am

What a fabulous idea! I am excited to participate.

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Andrea Lane link
26/6/2017 06:01:51 pm

Dear Ellie,

I am a follower of yours on Twitter, and have an admirer of your feisty posts and unflinching advocacy with a while now.

I know what it is like to be a person involved in academia who has to deal with unseen health issues both physical and mental in nature.

I am luckier than most, insofar as the vast majority of senior academics, support staff and other people who have helped me to get this far, are genuinely decent human beings. They have shown me great kindness in the past and thankfully continue to do so.

I stumbled upon the #AKGC2017 hashtag today and was struck by the simple but life-affirming concept.

I want to thank you for spreading the joy and support you advocate to the academic community around the world.

You are a gem of a human being and we need more like you.

I know I am too late to participate this year but I look forward to engaging with #AKGC2018.

Keep up the good work,

All the Best,

Andrea 😊

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Cal Desmond-Pearson link
8/10/2017 02:24:14 pm

Too late for 2017 but I'm definitely up for 2018! Already involved with Random Acts Of Kindness, SendSomething, PostCrossing etc, so this would fit in perfectly! Already send out 20+ postcards/letters/small gifts each month!

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