Hey everyone,
So sorry for letting the weeks fly without a post. Since Winton Community Forum, I’ve been busy busy busy, working on 'The Word', having Exec team meetings and organising the SUBU section in Nerve and sorting deadlines for all publications for next term.
In addition to that, I’ve been working on SUBU's communications strategy with the Comms Department to ensure that we have a clear outline of the departments aims and objectives and how we work with the varying departments in the Student's Union.
Within my Exec Team, including Laura, Tufan, Steven and Emily we’ve been visiting Lansdowne Campus and have been working with the University to ensure over the Christmas period the SUBU area in Bournemouth House gets repainted and revamped to make it more user-friendly. I've also had my environmental session enhancing the usability of our website www.subu.org.uk, whilst also keeping the news stories up-to-date.
I'm now looking forward to Christmas and the New Year. I've been clearing my desk today and realised how quickly the last term has gone. The spring term should be exciting we the Elections, SUBU Not for Profit Campaign, Sexual Health awareness week and Fair-trade fortnight. There is so much going on so make sure you pick up a copy of 'The Word' or visit www.subu.org.uk/theword to find out all the latest news and events.
Have a great Christmas,
Ads
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Something needs to be done!
Hey,
I just thought i'd write a little something about my experience tonight. This evening saw my first Winton Community Forum meeting! When we arrived I ended up sitting on the panel with the head of the University accommodation, councillors and a police representative.
The topic of the meeting was 'The Student impact on Winton', at first I felt this was a bit unfair to be negative, however after listening to over 40 residents in the room, about their concerns, experiences and feelings I realised that as a Union, along with the University and the Council we need to raise even more awareness about living in the community.
Our 'I love BH' campaign was the beginning of what needs to be a much bigger project. I was introduced to many influential people and hopefully in the near future Scott, myself and Fred will be able to arrange productive meetings.
I spoke in the meeting, agreeing that Private Landlords and Estate Agents also need to take responsibility alongside us, the Council and the Uni to ensure that anti-social behaviour is addressed.
The residents of Winton spoke out and said they realise it is a small minority that cause the problems and I agree it is a shame the few spoil the relationship for the many, however this doesn't mean it should be push under the carpet.
I believe we need to work with the council on a funded community project to ensure something gets done. After all I've enjoyed living in the area for 4 years, and although I may not be classed as a resident, I feel Winton is my home, as I'm sure do the majority of you! I just hope we can all move forward and attack this issue head on.
That's my little bit about this evening (just felt you should be filled in)
Any ideas about what we can do please email me on suvpcomms@bournemouth.ac.uk
Thanks,
Ads x
I just thought i'd write a little something about my experience tonight. This evening saw my first Winton Community Forum meeting! When we arrived I ended up sitting on the panel with the head of the University accommodation, councillors and a police representative.
The topic of the meeting was 'The Student impact on Winton', at first I felt this was a bit unfair to be negative, however after listening to over 40 residents in the room, about their concerns, experiences and feelings I realised that as a Union, along with the University and the Council we need to raise even more awareness about living in the community.
Our 'I love BH' campaign was the beginning of what needs to be a much bigger project. I was introduced to many influential people and hopefully in the near future Scott, myself and Fred will be able to arrange productive meetings.
I spoke in the meeting, agreeing that Private Landlords and Estate Agents also need to take responsibility alongside us, the Council and the Uni to ensure that anti-social behaviour is addressed.
The residents of Winton spoke out and said they realise it is a small minority that cause the problems and I agree it is a shame the few spoil the relationship for the many, however this doesn't mean it should be push under the carpet.
I believe we need to work with the council on a funded community project to ensure something gets done. After all I've enjoyed living in the area for 4 years, and although I may not be classed as a resident, I feel Winton is my home, as I'm sure do the majority of you! I just hope we can all move forward and attack this issue head on.
That's my little bit about this evening (just felt you should be filled in)
Any ideas about what we can do please email me on suvpcomms@bournemouth.ac.uk
Thanks,
Ads x
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Catchup time!
Hey everyone,
So, firstly hello, I'm Adelaide you can call me Ads and i'm your Vice President in charge of communications in your Students' Union (SUBU).
So you may be wondering why we have set up Blogs all of a sudden? After all the hectic-ness and fun that was the Freshers' period I spent some time looking over my manifesto which got me voted into this position in the first place and realised that although I had put a lot of time and energy into helping creating the Freshers' mail out, doing induction talks, publicise the events at the start of term and launch not only the new ground floor space in Poole House atrium but also the new newsletter 'The Word' (www.subu.org.uk/theword) I hadn't addressed many of the issues I spoke about back in March during the election period.
Now although Blogs came up quite low on the communications survey myself and the comms department did last July both myself and Bryony (a newly elected member on the Exec committee) felt it was important we set these up. The main benefit of having these blogs is so you can hold us officers to account, ensuring that we're delivering for you and also it gives you a forum to let us know how you feel about your Bournemouth Experience. So please comment away!
So aside from the above what have I been up to? Well I’ve been keeping the website up to date (hopefully), co-ordinating the newsletter fortnightly, assisting Fred in running the by-elections, working with Scott to ensure we get you information about Plagiarism (look out for helpful flyers next week), attending Open Days and with the help of the communications department I have helped recruit you to get involved with the communications committee, who will be assisting me throughout the year to ensure communication between us and you improves.
Alongside this I've been working with my Exec team (Laura, Steven, Tufan and Emily) to help them achieve their goals over the year. We worked hard on 'I love BH' week to make sure we helped raise awareness of living in the community. I am attending the Winton Community Forum meeting tomorrow night to represent you to the community of Winton, who have mixed opinions of the student impact. My team has been down to the Lansdowne campus and have made plans to brighten up the SUBU area in Bournemouth House and planning to make signage to ensure that if you study down at Lansdowne you know whereabouts we're based and what we can do for you.
Finally, I’ve worked closely with the PR team of the university to enhance the media presence SUBU has. Especially with the world record last week, Freshers and all the volunteering work we do we've had loads of coverage from BAMMJ interviews, local radio and press, to CNN and the BBC, which is great!
So, I'll stop rambling now, I just want you to all know I'm still working on streamlining the communication of your Union, mainly ensuring that we use email and facebook more effectively so it doesn't bug you.
I will write again next week but in the meantime if you wish to feedback anything about the way your union communicates to you please do.
You will see an email in the near future asking your opinion on the topical issues which we will be discussion in the Student Experience Committee so please do contact me about that. Also if you ever need any help publishing anything don’t hesitate to drop me an email on suvpcomms@bournemouth.ac.uk
Thanks,
Ads x
So, firstly hello, I'm Adelaide you can call me Ads and i'm your Vice President in charge of communications in your Students' Union (SUBU).
So you may be wondering why we have set up Blogs all of a sudden? After all the hectic-ness and fun that was the Freshers' period I spent some time looking over my manifesto which got me voted into this position in the first place and realised that although I had put a lot of time and energy into helping creating the Freshers' mail out, doing induction talks, publicise the events at the start of term and launch not only the new ground floor space in Poole House atrium but also the new newsletter 'The Word' (www.subu.org.uk/theword) I hadn't addressed many of the issues I spoke about back in March during the election period.
Now although Blogs came up quite low on the communications survey myself and the comms department did last July both myself and Bryony (a newly elected member on the Exec committee) felt it was important we set these up. The main benefit of having these blogs is so you can hold us officers to account, ensuring that we're delivering for you and also it gives you a forum to let us know how you feel about your Bournemouth Experience. So please comment away!
So aside from the above what have I been up to? Well I’ve been keeping the website up to date (hopefully), co-ordinating the newsletter fortnightly, assisting Fred in running the by-elections, working with Scott to ensure we get you information about Plagiarism (look out for helpful flyers next week), attending Open Days and with the help of the communications department I have helped recruit you to get involved with the communications committee, who will be assisting me throughout the year to ensure communication between us and you improves.
Alongside this I've been working with my Exec team (Laura, Steven, Tufan and Emily) to help them achieve their goals over the year. We worked hard on 'I love BH' week to make sure we helped raise awareness of living in the community. I am attending the Winton Community Forum meeting tomorrow night to represent you to the community of Winton, who have mixed opinions of the student impact. My team has been down to the Lansdowne campus and have made plans to brighten up the SUBU area in Bournemouth House and planning to make signage to ensure that if you study down at Lansdowne you know whereabouts we're based and what we can do for you.
Finally, I’ve worked closely with the PR team of the university to enhance the media presence SUBU has. Especially with the world record last week, Freshers and all the volunteering work we do we've had loads of coverage from BAMMJ interviews, local radio and press, to CNN and the BBC, which is great!
So, I'll stop rambling now, I just want you to all know I'm still working on streamlining the communication of your Union, mainly ensuring that we use email and facebook more effectively so it doesn't bug you.
I will write again next week but in the meantime if you wish to feedback anything about the way your union communicates to you please do.
You will see an email in the near future asking your opinion on the topical issues which we will be discussion in the Student Experience Committee so please do contact me about that. Also if you ever need any help publishing anything don’t hesitate to drop me an email on suvpcomms@bournemouth.ac.uk
Thanks,
Ads x
Monday, 3 November 2008
SU VP Comms Blog #1
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