As the new term begins, we thought it would be good to see what SFT groups around the UK got up to last term. Here's a report from Sam Copping at Warwick University

Hi from Warwick Free Tibet Society!

nullSince the beginning of the year we have been successful in gaining over 1000 signatures by holding weekly petitions outside our library for 5 weeks. We also sent four of our members down to the SFT UK Conference, which has helped us to plan events such as our Candlelit Vigil that we held on the Nangpa-La Pass International Day of Action, which have further helped raise awareness on campus [see photos]. Since last year we have got an extra 17 people to join our society, bringing the total to 25 and of course we hope this number will continue to rise. We also have a Facebook group with around 100 members, which we have used to raise awareness of events.

We have also worked hard at securing a place at three One World Week events; OWW is the largest student run international event in the world, and takes place at Warwick in January 2007. These events include a food stall, a speaker for the World War Crimes Forum and a stall at Australasia Day.
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Our society has also been able to raise over £180 from merchandise selling and from memberships. Perhaps our biggest success this term however is the improvement of our relations with the Chinese students on campus, who at first were quite hostile towards us, but now are quite calm and create good academic debate.

If you're group has a good story about what you got up to last term or at all, please let us know and we'll post it for you.