Vice President Activities

These are short updates about where I am at with each manifesto aim :) 

Support for Societies and Clubs - Last updated 11/12/23

• We had a great turnout for committee training in September, everybody seemed engaged and loved our Disability Rep, Rainbow, training the committees on Disability Awareness Training 
• We have created a Teams channel for all committee members so there is a streamlined way of communication between staff and students. 
• As a Union, we are currently changing all of our Bye-laws (aka rules) and articles of association, meaning I am working on making rules around clubs and societies a lot easier for students (and myself!) to understand and follow.
  • This will be things like the code of conduct for societies and clubs, a clearer outline of how committees manage their societies, and it will be as jargon-free as possible!
  • More to follow on this around February!

Update 30/5/24

We're currently at the beginning of planning our committee training for the new academic year right now and it's so exciting! I have lots of ideas as to how we can keep it fun and engaging to our committees, whilst also giving them all of the important information they need. We have also had interest from the university, who want to hold some mental health training for our committees, which would be such a good opportunity as they will be trained on how to notice if someone is struggling, and how to signpost and support them.

I am also working with our new societies co-ordinator Nisha to develop a 'badge scheme' wherein student groups could complete tasks or specific training and earn a badge on the website. This will allow prospective, new, and current students not in a group to notice which groups are supporting their community and actively seeking training to expand their knowledge of things like mental health, consent, micro-aggressions, and being an active bystander. I have been wanting this since basically day one of this role so it's wonderful to see it in the works!