4 Encourage more collaboration between the Union and Specific courses. Against each course analyze which currently have societies. Against each course analyze have development activities. Analysis of each courses answer to question 23. Waiting on the data to be able to have a full list of course for the upcoming year. I will then create a list of those who do have a society attatched. I have planned to make a speech during the course rep conference to encourage course reps to set up the societies on their courses. Currently waiting on the data before I can start this. Currently thinking of new courses to approach for this. Question 23 of the NSS has now changed. I plan on meeting with the marketing department to see what the next step will be. Received a full course list from the Voice team, I am now working through the courses and comparing socs and volunteering projects that we can promote to these courses. I am scheduled to make a talk at the Course Rep conference how to set up a society to allow them to enhance the student experience whilst studying. 5 Creating a more transparent Students’ Union. Look at all meetings attended by Student Representatives and how we can broadcast to the wider student body. Work with the marketing department to see how we can relay this information out after those meetings have happened. Currently planning on live streaming AU, Soc Council, VPSE, Education Committee and Student Council. I would like to create infographics of key information found in each meeting that we can then release for people to have an easy understanding. We live streamed the past student council and it didn’t work very well due to the fact that it was done off an iPad in a fixed position. We are looking to use a 360 camera to fill the whole round table discussion.
6 Promoting Changemaker opportunities within the Students’ Union and possible collaborations. 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. All students who attended committee training were put through a mandatory Changemaker module to give them an introduction into what Changemaker is allowing them to develop themselves as clubs and socs. Students now have a basic understanding of what Changemaker is and are hopefully able to know who to contact or what direction they want to go in. The criteria for the extra funding is currently being worked on by Membership Services and Changmaker Hub. The criteria will be set by the next Allocations committee. I believe that there will be around £25,000 to apply for. Currently in discussions with the Changemaker hub to sponsor awards at Sports awards and Socs and Volunteering awards. 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. Currently working alongside the Ents team to be able to deliver a weekend program of activities on Avenue Campus, allowing those students to utilize the SU facilities just like any other students. Once term gets started, I plan on working with the relevant P.T.O’s to ensure the commercial events and activities we try to engage all of our student groups. We have started showing films on a weekly basis at Avenue and we’re looking to alternate this between Avenue and the Pavilion. We have employed student researchers we will be able to conduct research into what students want on a large
Once I have the information from working with the P.T.O’s I will be able to work operationally with the appropriate line managers. scale. Not just those who we already know engage with the Union. PART B EXECUTIVE OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES Objective and expected outcome(s) Activity (what I will do to achieve this) UPDATE Status Insuring that our commercial Freshers events have been a success. Been meeting with Will and Matt on a regular throughout the Freshers period to see how the fortnight was going. The fortnight was a success, the feedback given has been highly positive. Will create a report analyzing our commercial outputs. Helped the CoppaFeel! Girls in their fundraising for Boob Week. I facilitated collection pots throughout all of the Unions’ venues and helped coordinate the Sports socials. The CoppaFeel! Team raised a fantastic £818 making them ranked number 5 in the UK out of 62. Helped set up the Movemeber Members. A student has approached me regarding raising money for Movember throught the Students’ Union. The group has been set up, and has had meeting with myself and the Member Development Manager. A constitution has been written and they are just waiting to be ratified at the next VSEC.
Working with the Ents team to create a procedure regarding Alumni events. This procedure has been created to allow clubs to utilize SU facilities for their alumni socials, it has been created in conjunction with the Ents team. The idea behind this is that if clubs want to use the SU facilities for their alumni socials they may. However, the actions of their alumni members is reflected upon the club. Just like the guest policy the SU has for events. Working with the Societies development committee to create a sponsorship contract within the Union. The idea behind this is to offer a sponsorship scheme to societies to allow them to utilize the SU facilities available to them. We have also replicated this to be used for volunteering groups as well. The concept behind this is that the Society and Volunteering Groups will be able to have 10% of their groups monthly spend. Still waiting approval from SMT. Attended the Sport Development Trip to Bradford and Huddersfield. I visited these Unions to look at how they operate their sports within the Students’ Union. It was a very informative trip and gave us ideas of what work within these Unions which we could replicate here alongside things they don’t do very well. A report has been delivered to AU. PART C MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY What was the objective of the engagement activity you took part in? How is the information collected going to be used? No. of members