Champagne reception with string quartet!
2 course feast followed by coffee and mints!
Two live bands - Casino - Professional DJ
(Black tie with a hint of red)

The University of Bristol StopAids Society, MedSin and Sexpression (in association with RAG) present the Aids Charity Ball to benefit The Terrence Higgins Trust and The Kenya Acorn Project. To be held at the prestigious Leigh Court in Abbots Leigh, the ball promises to be the highlight of the pre-Christmas season with catering by Fosters of Bristol and first class entertainments!

Get your tickets (£37.50) from the RAG Office
(3rd floor, Students' Union, Queens Road)
...or email aidsdayball@hotmail.com







Set in 25 acres of private parkland, Leigh Court is the perfect combination of modern facilities within an impressive Grade II listed mansion house. Philip Miles (Bristol's first recorded millionaire) commissioned the architect, Thomas Hopper, to build the present Leigh Court in 1814, with Humphrey Repton originally landscaping the grounds. Externally the architectural style of Leigh Court is Palladian and built of Bath stone. The interior style is Greek Revival and decorated in impressive 19th century décor, with many of the original features still intact.



The Great Hall with its magnificent double staircase still houses the original unique pipe organ built by Flight and Robson of London. As well as being played manually, it could originally be set to play the overture and a duet (Ah Perdona) from Mozart's Clemenza di Tito. The pipe organ has been restored over the last few years and is still played today. Originally the mansion housed an impressive collection of over forty paintings including many classic old masters - Titian, Poussin, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Rubens and Vandyke. The public could obtain a ticket from Miles' Bank in Queens Square in the centre of Bristol, to view the paintings here on a Thursday afternoon.





The Terrence Higgins Trust is the leading HIV & AIDS charity in the UK and the largest in Europe. It was one of the first charities to be set up in response to the HIV epidemic and has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV & AIDS ever since. The charity was established in 1982, as The Terry Higgins Trust. Terry Higgins was one of the first people in the UK to die with AIDS. A group of his friends wanted to prevent more people having to face the same illness as Terry and named the Trust after him, hoping to personalise and humanise AIDS in a very public way. The trust delivers health promotion campaigns, national services and local services directly to people with or affected by HIV and people at risk from aids from local centres across England and Wales.





The Kenya Acorn Project is a small community based initiative. It funds a 15 bed hospital in the village Ndhiwa, about 8 hours outside Nairobi in Kenya. Community based projects are also run by the project including HIV/AIDS education in the five local schools whilst future plans include the setting up of an HIV/AIDS testing and counselling centre, desperately needed in the village.





Corporate Sponsorship Pack (rtf / 890kb)
Bristol StopAids Society
www.tht.org.uk
www.sexpression.co.uk
www.medsin.org
www.bristolrag.org.uk

For more information contact:
Aids Charity Ball
(Communications & Campaigns)
University of Bristol Union
Queens Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1LN
aidsdayball@hotmail.com


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