August: Meetings, Media and Many Freshers

The Fountain outside City Campus is one of our key locations in the sabb video.

Today is the Bank Holiday, the last day of summer apparently. We're now on the cusp of September where here at USW everything gets scary/exciting. A wave of students will arrive next month and a bunch more will flock back to start the new term. So summer planning time is definitely running thin at this point. This month at USWSU, we've been doing our best to prepare ourselves fully for September.

What I've been up to...

• Had a meeting with Cardiff's Welfare Officer to see how we could work together mainly on housing issues over the year. I'm also working with Cardiff Digs to try to inform students about what their responsibilities are in regards to housing. They'll be relaunching their website: cardiffdigs.co.uk before Fresher's Week.
• Met with the Royal Welsh SU President to try and work together on events throughout the year. They'll be getting involved in our Cardiff scavenger hunt which is part of Welcome Week.
• We're almost there with the SVR/Course Rep structure for next year which should see Sabbs have a bigger involvement in it to improve communications between all three parties.
• Helped review the Student Charter between the SU and the University. If you don't know what that is, click the link above to find out! (this is still old one until the new one is passed.)
• A Level Results were out! So set up some Freshers groups on Facebook by region so people could meet others on their courses and in their halls. For those interested the Cardiff group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/505046822901990/ 
• Finished the "University Students Want" Academic Manifesto and we'll be looking to push the contents of that throughout the year.
• Had a big involvement in reshaping Student Media for the next year. I've put a proposal forward to have an online magazine, audio and video across all regions of the University. It would also see Tequila Radio remain intact for the next year.
• In other media news, we've made ourselves a sabb video which should be debuting later in the week. We'll be also making an Induction video for more info on how to get involved in things like societies, Student Council and the Course Rep system.
• Organised a societies fair on the 2nd of October at the ATRiuM so you can find out more about what societies we have in Cardiff if you can't make it to Freshers Fair. Also if you fancy setting up a society or want a table for it, feel free to get in touch.

Lots of planning still to do before Freshers get here. Newport's Welcome week starts a week before Treforest, Glyntaff and Cardiff's (on the 16th). So it's scary how little time we really have left.

Looking forward to meeting lots of new faces next month. Many of which have all week wristbands which almost guarantee them to get the dreaded "Freshers Flu" following a wild week. Remember if Freshers' week doesn't quite go your way, I'm here to help. I shall be back in touch with more updates soon.

Cheers,

Rich