Posted on Fri 12 Sep 2014 at 11:32 by
Ceinwen Cloney
To me it makes sense that one of my first blogs of the year is based around the idea of explaining who we are and what we do, so, as concisely as possible, here goes…
Students’ Unions were originally founded to represent students to their universities and push university education to be the best it can be. We’ve evolved hugely since then and now as organisations we have a remit that covers things such as; Representation, Campaigns, Advice, Sports, Societies, Volunteering, Employability and entrepreneurship, Commercial outlets , Events programmes and much much more.
As a Union we are separate from the University but still work in partnership to ensure your student experience is the best it can be.
Primarily we consist of 5 Full time officers, who are democratically elected by you, as students, each year. I am one of those officers, along with; Ilana, our Education Officer, Joel our Welfare Officer, Charlotte our Sports Officer and Jerry our Societies and Services Officer. Each of us has taken a year out of study to work full time for a year to represent you! We also have a number of part time officer positions that are filled with students still in study. Together we form the full representative remit to (hopefully) cover the needs of each and every student.
In addition the Union employs around 45 full time members of staff and hundreds of part time student staff to help support our aims, aspirations and purpose!
As an organisation we have several commercial outlets that help fund our campaigns and representation activities. You’ll become familiar with these over the next few months but they include: Sin City, Divas, Costcutter, Spa, The Advice Centre, Jcs, The Nursery and Fulton Outfitters.  We’re also the organisers of all the Freshers week evening events, trips out and sporting events, and of course not forgetting our amazing Freshers’ Fayre which will take place in the main marquee on Tuesday 23rd September and Wednesday 24th September!
If you would like more information about us as a Union, have a look around this website, email an officer, or feel free to pop into your Students’ Union, located in Union house, behind Fulton House, in the centre of campus, the Full time officers’ offices are located on the third floor.