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2008-2009
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Vision
UBSU will be an active unified community which is
the first point of call for students representing
and fighting for their views.
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Values

• Representation
• Involvement
• Support
• Democracy
• Diversity

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Priority 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

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Finance
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Finance

• 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.

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Students Union Awareness and Pride
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Students 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

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Students 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

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Integration not Segregation
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Integration 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.

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Accommodation 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

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Accommodation
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Accommodation 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!!!

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Accommodation - 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

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Academic and Student Facilities
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Academic 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

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Bedford Bar
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Bedford 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)

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Democracy
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Democracy

• 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

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Freshers Week Events Events promotion is the
key to ensuring that they are successful, both in
terms of enjoyment and participation, but always
financially.
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Luton 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

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Programme 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

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Bedford 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

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Continuing
Oasis pool party night
Ice skating in MK
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Student Media
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Websites

• www.ubsu.co.uk
• New Website in from last years!
• Requires regular updates
• Anything we do correctly needs to be publicised
• Facebook

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The Blend and Entertainments Guide

• Building on the success of last year!
• Newspaper officer (new structures)
• Ensure a regular and attractive entertainments
  guide is continued

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Advice Centre
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Advice 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

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Committees

• UBSU now has an established committee structure.
• Allows ownership, operational progression, and
  strategic direction to be more achievable.
• The belief that
• Engagement improvement

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Vision
UBSU will be an active unified community which is
the first point of call for students representing
and fighting for their views.