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Adrenalin junkies and sports fans will hurtle down a zip wire to raise funds for Leeds Metropolitan University students from disadvantaged backgrounds this weekend.

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Charity Zip Wire Challenge

Adrenalin junkies and sports fans will hurtle down a zip wire to raise funds for Leeds Metropolitan University students from disadvantaged backgrounds this weekend.

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May 2012 For immediate release

Charity zip wire challenge

Adrenalin junkies and sports fans will hurtle down a zip wire to raise funds for Leeds Metropolitan University students from disadvantaged backgrounds this weekend.

The family carnival day will take place at the home of the rugby league World Champions at Headingley Carnegie Stadium on Saturday 26 May from 10am3pm. The event will include live music and the chance to meet some of the Leeds Rhinos players while Wembley and Olympics tickets courtesy of Leeds Metropolitan and Samsung will be up for grabs.

Fundraisers will travel down the zip wire at 30mph from the top of the Carnegie Stand onto the pitch below. Every penny raised will provide scholarships and bursaries for young people from disadvantaged

backgrounds to give them the opportunity to come to Leeds Metropolitan and change their lives.

One of the University schemes to benefit from the sponsorship is the Shamirah Grant Memorial Bursary, which from September will see annual grants of 1,000 awarded to nominated first year arts-related degree students.

Shamirah was tragically killed in a road traffic accident near her home in Chapeltown last May. Her parents Jennifer and Gary Grant, who have also set up the Shamirah Grant Arts Foundation, approached Leeds Metropolitan to see if the University could help to keep their daughters memory alive with the dedicated bursary scheme.

The Big Zip costs 25 and you can sign up to take part on the day. There will also be the opportunity to have your photos taken with the Carnegie Challenge Cup and World Challenge Cup, take part in archery lessons, win signed merchandise, listen to live bands and take part in Guinness World Record attempts for the largest number of participants in a Rugby League scrum and the most number of consecutive kicks.

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For further details please contact Julia Williams in the Communications team at Leeds Met on 0113 8125978 or email [email protected]

Notes for editors: Leeds Metropolitan University has over 25,000 students and around 3,000 staff. The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is Professor Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of Leeds. Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment and Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences, and Carnegie. Leeds Metropolitans heritage can be traced back to the founding of the Mechanics Institute in Leeds in 1824. International students rated the University top in the UK for language support, accommodation quality and learning spaces in the 2010 Autumn Wave of the International Student Barometer and sixth in the world for the quality of its lectures. We have over 1,500 international students from 122 countries around the globe. The Universitys award-winning learning environments include

Broadcasting Place, which was voted the best tall building in the world in 2010 by the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and also winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards New Building category.

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