Quickly - what have I been doing?!

I apologise for the lack of blogging!
Firstly, I seem to have spent a lot of time lately in meetings. I don't like this very much - I find it hard to sit still at the best of times and I also feel that endless meetings make me lose touch with what students want and what I am here for!

A brief update though:

Elections - it's RA election time! Myself, Oggy (VPHC) and Emma (LGBTQO) doorknocked Pritchatts Park to advertise the elections. We have received approx 122 nominations and the results will be announced on Saturday night. I was also a candidate in the NUS delegate elections.

Environment - As well as ongoing work on the Sound Impact workbook (which has to be submitted at the end of term) I have been asked to attend various meetings regarding environmental issues over at the university. If you want to know more please email h.lazell@guild.bham.ac.uk

Guild Council Review - I will write more about this in a seperate post, but it is all very exciting! I have mainly been busy with 121s with Officers

Visits - I went to Leeds and Sheffield to look at their unions, as they have very good reputations nationally. Leeds has amazing commercial services which we looked at for our building redevelopment, particularly how they do their clothing store. At Leeds, I was particularly impressed with how the had stickers to promote the "its easy" campaign - which is essentially a campaign to get people more involved in student groups. Every time someone buys something from one of their shops, they will see this sticker! Sheffield had a very good "social learning space" which is basically a space that combines the ability to study and socialise.

NUS - I went on the Activists Academy which was in Coventry, and this was centred about creating a campaigning culture in the Guild. I was really inspired by it but I know that it will be difficult to make all the changes I would like in the space of time I have left! I also went to NUS extraordinary conference in Wolverhampton.

Thats all for now - I'm also running around trying to sort out elections and such!

As usual I want questions etc - email h.lazell@guild.bham.ac.uk

Hannah