Our biggest fundraising each year consists of a marathon reading of a classic work of literature. Teams of readers take on the responsibility of performing a section of the text and collecting donations in support of their participation. By the end of the event (sometimes 24 hours later!), we have heard the whole text read from start to finish. Over the years we’ve explored Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Divine Comedy, both Marlowe’s and Goethe’s takes on Dr. Faustus, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.
Our latest fundraiser was Jane Austen Live! held on November 30, 2024 at the University of King’s College. For 12 hours 12 teams of readers made their way through all of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, a story of an unlikely novel-obsessed heroine whose overactive imagination gets her into trouble.
