► Your Community and Volunteering
What's it all about?
When the Union talks about the community we mean the community in the surrounding areas. The Union is committed to ensuring students have a great student experience and that where they live and study has a positive impact on this.
The UCSU actively engages with the community to improve the society and area we live in. The SU realises that its members (you!) have skills that could benefit both the student community as well as the local one.
By working with external partners the Union provides opportunities to enhance your employability as well as giving you the ability to gain national certification for your efforts!
Employers look for more than a degree from new staff. They also look for sector experience and to see that you have engaged in activities outside of your degree that benefit others rather than yourself.
At the Union we have many opportunities and ways for you to get involved in volunteering and a number of ways for you to gain accredited recognition for your efforts.
You can become part of our Freshers’ Crew, Welcome Reps or Course Reps. If events are more your thing we have RAG fundraising events all year round to get involved in. Interact with the wider community and give something back or you can even create a volunteering opportunity of your own. However you decide to get involved, we’re here to provide you with means to do it.
The Union has started Campus Student Experience Forums where you can come and raise problems that you might be having in your community or on campus. This is your opportunity to let the Union know so that its in a position to help.
Over the last year the Union has been involved in a number of campaigns in order to change the typical negative stereotype of students within the community by attending meetings with the local councils and getting involved in community projects.
We also play a major part in the National Union of Students (NUS) ‘Neighbourhood’ campaign which promotes all the good and services that students provide within the local economy.
On top of helping you to live in a great environment we know many students want to give something back, and that is why the UCSU is committed to providing volunteering opportunities. We are currently running a project called Beatz Break Barriers which works within the community and offers dance, dj and mc workshops for young people.
Get involved
Students
If this interests you or you would like to take up any other of our opportunities come and get involved, or why not come to the Union with a suggestion of a volunteering project we could help you set up. Download the registration form below and email it back to the Volunteering and Activities Co-ordinator-Casper Beade on d.beade@chi.ac.uk, telephone 01243 816 339 or alternatively just pop into the SU offices above the Zee Bar.
Download Volunteering Registration Form here
External organisations with volunteering opportunities
If you are an external organisation that would like to work with us at the Students' Union in order to provide a volunteering opportunity then please download the registration form below and email it back to the Volunteering and Activities Co-ordinator-Casper Beade on d.beade@chi.ac.uk, telephone 01243 816 339 or alternatively just pop into the SU offices above the Zee Bar.
Download External Volunteering Opportunity Registration Form here
