Student Opportunities

Find out more about what Give it a Go actually is, and why it is beneficial to develop a programme in your Students’ Union. This briefing identifies how to design Give it a Go, how to develop an existing programme, and tips for overcoming common problems. Download: Give it a Go

This resource will help you to think about how you allocate grant funding to your clubs and societies. It will help you to consider the make-up of the grant allocation committee, the application process, and the terms and conditions of grant funding. Download: Funding

Handbooks are a great way of providing information and guidance to volunteers. This inspiration sheet highlights ideas for content and ways of presenting the information. Download: Handbooks

Using statistics this briefing highlights why quality academic societies are important to your union and institution. It also offers advice, ideas and suggested activities for developing these societies. Download: Lunch and Learn – Academic Societies – Briefing

This guidance documents contains lots of ideas about role descriptions to help you in supporting your student volunteers

This inspiration sheet contains lots of ideas and information about how you can support clubs and societies to fundraise to support themselves in becoming more sustainable

In this inspiration sheet we cover different ways that you can support your students in developing new clubs and societies, including ways to break down bureaucracy that might stand in the way of creating new opportunities

This inspiration sheet will give you examples of how you can develop your committee handover and training process to ensure strong and effective student teams are running your clubs and societies