Your Big Ideas

Your Big Ideas

 

 

Do you have an Idea about how to make the Students’ Union, University or the wider community better for students?

Your Big Ideas are a great way to make meaningful change on campus. Submit your Idea online and share with your friends and course mates. If your Big Idea achieves 50 or more votes in favour after 28 days, it will be taken forward; either to an appropriate meeting such as Students’ Council or by meeting with the appropriate person(s) to help make your idea a reality. If a Big Idea gets approval at Students’ Council, it will become Students’ Union policy and we will work with you on making it happen!

To submit an Idea or vote on any of the current Big Ideas below, you must be logged in using your UCLan student login. Once logged in, the option to submit will appear and to vote, just click the thumbs up or down button - depending on your opinion! 

Previous Big Ideas-turned reality have included free period provisions on campus, an extension to the academic calendar and free disability screening.

Anyone can submit a Big Idea. It’s an easy way to change the lives of students!

Big Ideas Top Tips

  1. Identify the issue you want to solve.
  2. Do your research and talk to others. Staff and Elected Officers can help you prepare to launch or promote your Big Idea.
  3. Plan what you think should be done to solve the issue and decide how you'll know when it’s fixed.
  4. Submit a Big Idea! Go change Students’ lives.

 

Need some help submitting Your Big Idea? Follow the steps on our how-to video here

Click here to view all  current policies passed by Students' Council 2023 / 2024

Got a question? Get in touch at yourunion@uclan.ac.uk.

 

 

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    Thoughts on separate Emails for every Student Group?

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      Tired of getting emails every week regarding offers for your Student Group or reminders from the Students' Union about important society information to your personal uni email?

      An easy solution for every Student group to have a separate email regarding all the necessary information being sent to one account that all committee members can have access to! The Students' Union themselves have been pushing for this idea but there's no harm in students having their say in this too. 

      Who thought this was a good idea?

      Us! During a training event in Livesey House, multiple committee members from different Student Groups agreed that this would be a good idea. Now we want this to become a reality. 

      What would it do?

      A separate account would provide a designated place for Student Group related emails to go - including brands/businesses reaching out, student group collaborations and teams notifications. Additionally, it gives potential and current members an account to contact the committee if necessary.

      Why do we want this?

      It's very easy to miss an email or two when you're a stressed uni student with responsibilities on top of more responsibilities. Whether you miss a deadline on a grant application or miss a deadline on an assignment, it's not fun. So to avoid this issue, separating your uni work from committee work allows for a less cluttered workspace.

      Bonus Reasons

      The account provides a shared area where committee members can save information, important dates and contact details.

      There are also committee members in multiple Student Groups where it can cause confusions in their inbox on some ends. If that person were to have access to separate accounts, it would avoid that (hopefully).

       

      tl;dr are you in a student group committee but hate the email spam? interact with this and hopefully you won't have to deal with it as much because it'll be on a separate account.

      Thank you for reading <3

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