1 To create a sense of “school spirit” within sport. Work on creating a team/athletes of the month. Work with the sports officer to raise the profile of women in sport. Encourage the support of BUCS/Cup fixtures. Create a homecoming rally for Varsity. To have the Stallions brand more apparent on campus. I have now created the criteria for a society and volunteering group of the month. Instead of a £10 voucher they’ll get a £10 hamper instead from UniExpress. This Girl Can week was a success. It was great to see so many people getting on board with it. It was a shame that more people didn’t attend the fitness classes. Going to start working with Hannah and the other PTO’s to see how we can encourage more demographics to get involved with Sport. BUCS fixtures are still going out, if the rest of our teams who are still in the cup get any further through, (semis, quarters, finals) I will look to try and put supporter transport on. We’ve released the date for Varsity, we’re now just building up support with the University Staff members to make it the biggest Varsity ever. Especially with the showcase final. Societies and Volunteering projects are now applying for their sponsorship. Looking to create two levels of sponsorship for next year working on the sports and socieities and volunteering model. BUCS fixtures are still bring promoted, hopefully the higher the futher the teams get in cup games, the more we can sipport them through being able to send supporters along. We are currently meeting with the Derby staff and sabbs to ensure the event runs smoothly. We have also been able to facilitate some new competitions.
2 Maintain affordable prices at our commercial outputs. Benchmark key Union products against local competitors. Benchmark key Union products against other Unions. Create infographics to explain the costs of Union products. We’ve re-launched the loyalty to compete with the Restaurant. We now offer 10% off with an extra 5p back for every pound you spend. Making a 15% saving. We’re relaunching the menus a Central park with improved prices. In discussions with the ents team to see what we need to start doing to ensure we make profit when we move to waterside. 3 Make the Union a great employer. Analysis of the Staff engagement report. Meet with Marketing and HR to discuss how we can advertise this to future employees. I have spoken to Marketing about how the creation of a video about how we are a great employer for student staff. The brief is currently being written by myself and marketing. Still working on this. 4 Encourage more collaboration between the Union and Specific courses. Against each course analyze which currently have societies. Against each course analyze which have development activities. Analysis of each courses answer to question 23. After Sammi has delivered course rep training, I have had a few students come to see me regarding setting up Course Based societies. Worked with the Marketing Department to visit certain classes and celebrate the SU’s 84th Birthday. Was unfortunately unable to attend the course rep conference due to the fact I was on the Society trip to Poland.
5 Creating a more transparent Students’ Union. Look at all meetings attended by Student Representatives and how we can broadcast those to the wider student body. Work with the marketing department to see how we can relay this information out after those meetings have happened. The issue we’re finding is that it is in such a large room, it is hard to pick up people when they are talking. I will work with marketing to try and resolve this. I plan on working with the newly employed videographer to assess ways to make this better. 6 Promoting Changemaker opportunities within the Students’ Union and possible collaborations. Audit the funding available to student groups from Changemaker. Work with the Marketing Department how to communicate the message out to certain groups. Inform and engage student groups on what Changemaker is and the support available to them. The issue we’re finding is that it is in such a large room, it is hard to pick up people when they are talking. I will work with marketing to try and resolve this. Looking at future plans for how we can incorporate changemaker into future training we do. Working with Changemaker, to incorporate into some of our big events throughout the year such as sports, s&v awards and Varsity.
7 Ensuring the Students’ Union is available for everyone. Ensure that Avenue has events happening. Work with P.T.O’s to find out what their demographic wants. Work with the appropriate line managers to ensure we are providing the services that they desire. Unfortunately opening Avenue at the weekend was not financially feasible. So we have decided to only open it for specific events. I plan on working with the Ents Officer to see if there are any gaps in the market that we are missing. Planning on trialing a series events throughout this new term to see what we can move to waterside. PART B EXECUTIVE OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES Objective and expected outcome(s) Activity (what I will do to achieve this) UPDATE Status Currently writing a policy explaining what student groups are able to spend their money on. As it stands there is currently no University policy on what student groups can spend their money on. This policy will apply to all sub committees of council and the executive committee. Currently working on this so I can bring it to all the sub committees next month Working with the University Bidding team to get extra sports facilities when we get to Waterside. I have had meetings with the executive Dean Simon Denney surrounding possible bids we can put in to get funded sports facilities when we get to Waterside. Currently in meetings with Senior University staff, sharing this work load with the President. We have discussed the bids and they are currently underway. This will be an ongoing task throughout my term in office. Still on going.