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VISION 2012

AREA PLANS

Activities

  • Organise activity themes e.g. volunteering, sport etc, linking up with other departments to broaden profile and stakeholder engagement.
  • Maintain GIAG pricing/subsidy mix at 2009/10 levels, reviewing impact on sales figures compared with 2008/09.
  • In conjunction with Marketing & Advertising Department, seek external funding and support to recognise student contributions to Students' Union life.

Children's Services

  • Involve parents with their children's learning through workshops.
  • Join the ‘ESCAL' (Every Sheffield Child Articulate & Literate by the age of 11) programme to work with parents on the use of books, stories, puppets poems etc.
  • Instigate parents sharing their work experience with the children.

Commercial

  • Sell NUS Extra card.
  • Pricing and value strategy – contribute a person from catering and bars to sit on the project group.
  • Loyalty card scheme - contribute a person from catering and bars to sit on the project group.

Democracy & Representation

  • Develop simple and accessible systems and processes that allow students to impact upon decisions throughout the year, not just when we ask them to vote, and in ways that can attract wide groups of members, rather than simply those already engaged in democratic and representative activity.
  • Work with hard to reach groups within our membership to ensure all members are properly represented and are engaged in their Students' Union through developing specialised training programmes and reviewing working & representative committees as the bodies responsible for representing liberation campaigns and non-traditional and postgraduate students.
  • Recognise and reward the contribution of our representatives as part of an annual celebration of our members' contributions; make all representative roles something students aspire to.

Entertainment

  • Support the use of new feedback mechanisms as developed by Marketing Department.
  • Entertainments Marketing Manager to contribute to Marketing Department development of online communities.
  • Drive the successful roll-out and adoption of the new Students' Union brand identity in all areas of the Department's operations.

Marketing

  • Research – investigate memberships reaction towards a loyalty card and how it may possibly link with life membership and NUS Extra.
  • Membership campaign – develop a continuous campaign / awareness around membership. Improve this as we gain more knowledge from the research carried out to aid other groups.
  • Communication – develop and implement a communication plan as part of the communication strategy.

Resources

  • Involvement in creating the strategy for the development of on-line communities.
  • Awareness: Implement the brand identity in line with style guides.
  • Membership Involvement in the project team to investigate offering a loyalty scheme/card.

Corporate

  • Prepare a report on delivering culture change to enable departments to take calculated risks.

Student Advice Centre

  • Use of focus groups of users to gain feedback, review publicity and other information, improve knowledge of relevant issues e.g. 100 things I wish I'd known, look at new Student Advice Centre (SAC) logo. Use new Visual ID in publicity material.
  • SAC Open Day – promote SAC as a resource, encourage Student' Union and university staff to visit and find out what we do – as part of long term Students' Union membership campaign.
  • Develop effective peer support initiatives, particularly for international students. Provide opportunities for students to support their peers.
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