I know that student opportunities can be ‘risky business’ but that shouldn’t stop great things happening - that’s why we’ve developed training to give coordinators and early managers a solid introduction to risk management in student opportunities.
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In this paper, we share the story of our Sports Membership Review at City Students’ Union and what we learnt along the way. Faced with rising costs, students with tighter budgets, and an ongoing merger, City Students’ Union recognised that their sports membership model might no longer be working for them. Organised Fun led a research project exploring sports membership models and ultimately made a recommendation ready for the trustee board.
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Last Friday, Students’ Union UCL invited me to London to judge the final presentations of the UCL Consultancy Challenge. I spent the afternoon enjoying presentations about sustainability in urban gardening, social media solutions to volunteer engagement, redesigning training programmes, and designing new fundraising initiatives for charities. As their consultancy specialist judge I sat alongside senior staff from UCL and we had to decide on the winning project.
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Summary of our session delivered in August 2023 at Membership Services Conference
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A summary of students' union and university approaches to academic societies in 2021.
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We exist to challenge the image of what a trustee should look like and to empower organisations and individuals to see the value of young people. This is something our movement has in common with Students’ Unions, and particularly student opportunities teams: every day we see the value of young people, and have full faith in their ability to add valuable insight to important discussions.
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Hands up if you’re worried about the future of student opportunities in your university or college? Yes, we are too.
There’s usually a ‘turnover’ of student opportunities every academic year. Different societies, volunteering projects and campaigns come and go based on student interest. As we move into handover season this year though, we are seeing even more clearly how the actions taken to manage the pandemic have overwhelmed everyone involved in opportunities.
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Research covering student opportunities doesn’t happen often, which is why we were so excited to see The Sutton Trust release The University of Life and Covid-19 and the University Experience in February. Not one but two pieces of research to get stuck into.
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