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Liverpool
Guild of Students wins Student Opportunities Award at NUS Awards 2015
THE National Union of Students (NUS) is delighted to
announce that Liverpool Guild of Students has won the Student Opportunities
Award at the NUS Awards 2015.
The NUS Awards ceremony was held Wednesday, 8 July 2015, on the final day of Students'
Unions 2015 at the Macron Stadium in Bolton.
Liverpool Guild of Students won the award for their commitment to increasing
student opportunities, encouraging students to move from their own individual
interests to the interests of the wider community and student body.
The union has increased access to participatory budgets for societies and has
also introduced mentoring, providing regular catch ups to check that societies
are meeting their goals and to identify any training needs. It has also held a
series of master classes, from script writing to education for Sustainable
Development, to increase the number, range and quality of opportunities
available. Society memberships have increased by 2000 this year alone.
The union has also launched several programmes in order to increase student
participation. The Give it a Go programme ensures that there are continual
opportunities for our members to 'try', while the Union's Volunteering
initiative has seen over 200 organisations/projects registered and over 800
applications to volunteer registered from 514 registered volunteers. Meanwhile
the Leave Liverpool Tidy programme has seen 3.9 tonnes of refuse collected and
recycled last year.
Harry Anderson, President at the Liverpool Guild of Students, said:-
"We're overwhelmed with the award and we're really glad to have got some
recognition from NUS."
Richard Brooks, NUS Vice President for Union Development, said:- "I'm
really proud to announce that Liverpool Guild of Students has won the award for
Student Opportunities at the 2015 NUS Awards. The Awards are fundamentally about
celebrating excellence across the many and varied activities of students'
unions. We're building a fairer, better education system and a more just world.
I hope the awards encourage, inspire and, most importantly, build pride in our
national efforts towards that. The unions that have won awards have shown the
ability to organise students and make a real change both in the lives of their
students and the world around them." |
