It cost De Montfort University £22,000 to hold a charity event which raised just £5,000 a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Leicester Mercury report:

De Montfort University spent nearly £22,000 on a dance event that raised about £5,000 for charity, it has been revealed.

The university has published the costs of staging its DMU Heroes flash mob following a Freedom of Information request from the Leicester Mercury.

The event, in November, saw more than 1,000 students, staff and members of the public dancing their way across the university’s city centre campus and nearby Castle Gardens to the tune of Bonny Tyler’s 1980s rock anthem Holding Out for a Hero.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.