Title: P1253814463YovpU
12008-2009
2Vision
UBSU will be an active unified community which is
the first point of call for students representing
and fighting for their views.
3Values
- Representation
- Involvement
- Support
- Democracy
- Diversity
4Priority Campaigns
- Finance
- Students Union Awareness and Pride
- Integration not Segregation
- Accommodation
- Academic and Student Facilities
- Bedford Bar
- Aim to keep all of them SMART throughout the year
5Finance
6Finance
- I do not know where to begin.!
- Sanctioning communication, policy and
procedure, consistency, referrals, registering,
accommodation v academic debt. - International Students
- Awareness of bursary scheme.
- Already flagged up with university, established
initial meetings. - Achievable, yet difficult.
7Students Union Awareness and Pride
8Students Union Awareness and Pride
- The Current Situation
- No quorum at any democratic meeting in 2007-2008
- No regular question of the week initiative once
started - Limited contested sabbatical positions
- The Future Aim
- To increase awareness of UBSU and what we do!
- Achieving quorum at democratic meetings
- Conducting question of the week EVERY week
- Increase media engagement
- Increase social activity engagement
- Achieve contested sabbatical elections and higher
vote volume
9Students Union Awareness and Pride
- To Date
- Transformation of space in Bedford (building on
work of last year, increasing autonomy and
identity) - Refreshing bar space in Luton
- Increased identity and effectiveness of advice
centre area - Further Ideas
- More UBSU / University clothing sales
- Using course representatives, sports teams
- If Every Student initiative
10Integration not Segregation
11Integration not Segregation
- Problem
- Students raising integration problems with Vice
Chancellors Q A sessions with students last
year - A culture and national / international issue of a
large scale - Objective
- Enhance the perception of a community.
- Tackle academic integration
- Action
- Diversity Weeks!
- Using 2nd and 3rd year students as the control
groups gather quality data of first year
perceptions of integration here. - Try to influence this by the end of the academic
year - May require specialist help and advice.
12Accommodation Halls in Luton
- Action
- Set up meetings with Accommodation on regular
basis - Accommodation survey in October, then again in
May - Feedback results and recommendations to
University - Provision of social space
- Soft furnishings
- Washing Machines
- Internet
- Rent comparison with other Universities
- Rent inflation agreement for future years
13Accommodation
14Accommodation Private
- Problem
- Students who leave halls may be going to private
accommodation for the first time - Unscrupulous landlords / ladies or letting
agencies taking advantage of students
- Objective
- To establish a Rate your Landlord Scheme
- Reward good landlords / ladies or letting
agencies - Publish results!!!
15Accommodation - University
- Liberty Living
- Has ran for one year
- Problems are being highlighted
- Bigger Picture
- Liberty Living are due to have accommodation in
Luton shortly - Objective
- In being reactive to the situation in Bedford
- can enable proactive action in Luton
16Academic and Student Facilities
17Academic and Student Facilities
- Problems
- Media equipment and resources (strong student
feeling at last SRC) - LRC open times and shuttle bus operational times
in Bedford - Butterfield nursing issues car parking and
safety - Aims
- To liaise with staff in the media field (some
seem as frustrated as students) - To join LRC and shuttle bus opening / operational
times - Liaise with university to provide a solution to
Butterfield problems
18Bedford Bar
19Bedford Bar
- Currently
- No UBSU bar on campus
- No student friendly bar in close proximity to
campus - Students Union bar was a casualty of the new
development an lost by DSU - Last Year
- Real progression with university eventually
accepting capital bid - Presently
- No feedback from capital bid process
- (although we realise it must have been
unsuccessful) - Future
- Find out feedback
- Ensure the process the university and UBSU agreed
to was carried out appropriately - Work on feedback from unsuccessful bid
- Adapt campaign for increased potential of success
(realistically thinking long term)
20Democracy
21Democracy
- AGM (Tuesday 18th November)
- Student Representative Council
- Campus SRC members
- Campus Student Representative Council
- Executive committee
- Club Society Presidents
- Sports Captains
- Course Representatives
- Hall Wardens???
- UBSU Casual Staff
22Freshers Week Events Events promotion is the
key to ensuring that they are successful, both in
terms of enjoyment and participation, but always
financially.
23Luton Freshers Week
- Freshers Angels
- Returning Students who are volunteering their
time to help out new students moving into halls - Successful for four years now
- Great way of helping new students feel welcome
- Help promote Union and all our functions to new
students
24Programme of Events
- Saturday
- Free BBQ in the Union for parents and students
- Halls Tour Welcome Party in the main bar
- Sunday
- Free BBQ in the Union for parents and students
- Fresher's Party in the Evening
- Monday
- Long Bar to Liquid
- Tuesday
- Ice Skating (Joint Event)
- Friendship Speed Dating
- Funky Fresh RNB Night
- Filmstock
- Wednesday
- Pool, Darts, Table Football, Mario Kart Comp
- Long Bar to Legends
- Thursday
- European House Night
- Pool Party (Joint Event)
- Friday
- Freshers Fayre
- Band Night (Joint Event)
- Saturday
- Cabaret Evening
- Sunday
- Roast Dinner
- Quiz
25Bedford Freshers week
- Tuesday
- Ice Skating (Joint Event)
- Wednesday
- Freshers Fayre
- Bar Soviet to NY NY
- Thursday
- Milton Keynes shopping and Ikea trip
- Pool Party
- Friday
- Band Night (Joint Event)
- Saturday
- Sunday
- Saturday
- Free BBQ outside the Union for parents and
students - Taken to pub for social interaction
- Sunday
- Fresher's Party in the Evening at NY NY
- Monday
- Bar Soviet to Oxygen
26Continuing
Oasis pool party night
Ice skating in MK
27Student Media
28Websites
- www.ubsu.co.uk
- New Website in from last years!
- Requires regular updates
- Anything we do correctly needs to be publicised
- Facebook
29The Blend and Entertainments Guide
- Building on the success of last year!
- Newspaper officer (new structures)
- Ensure a regular and attractive entertainments
guide is continued
30Advice Centre
31Advice Centre
- Advertising Changes
- Sexual Health Clinic
- Legal Advice Clinic
- Chlamydia screening programme
- Surgery hours for student advice in Bedford on
Tuesday afternoons - Welfare and Education Campaigns
32Committees
- UBSU now has an established committee structure.
- Allows ownership, operational progression, and
strategic direction to be more achievable. - The belief that
- Engagement improvement
33Vision
UBSU will be an active unified community which is
the first point of call for students representing
and fighting for their views.