July Activity- Mon 5th- Sun 11th

NUS REGIONAL RECEPTION

The first of our official NUS training days with the whole team. So Im here with Dave Anson and Ellen Marshall. Warwick University is pretty impressive, it will be great to try to achieve the same feeling of pride in our SU. Anyway this reception was a chance for other presidents and officers to come together and find out how to access NUS services and share contacts and best practices. Once again I have completed a report on this event and this as always can be found in my personal folders.

I met some familiar faces from over the spring/summer and gained some more new contacts. Attended a workshop with Susan Nash VP Society & Citizenship and a workshop for Presidents.

FRIDAY- A WHOLE DAY OF MEETINGS
1) 9am First meeting with Hazel and Luke, to go over our notes and thoughts coming out of the NUS Cuts Conference. We have now decided on devising a strategy for future campaigns, including the national campaign scheduled for sometime in November. (as previously mentioned, full notes on this are in my personal folders)
2)10am- Staff Consultative Forum- Regular meeting to discuss staff issues, in attendance are reps from all our departments. We covered many topics including the new staff handbook and proposed flexible working times for Sept.
3) 2pm- Meeting to discuss the freshers proposals put forward by Cool It. This was attended in Costa Coffee. Present was Eric Potts, Ivor Mullings, Luke Gilbert. Very interesting meeting, especially because as the time grows nearer to making our final decisions for freshers, Im getting a lot of questions and nudging by people trying to find out or influence my decision. The fact is what ever we decide, will have the needs of students first. So we are pretty much decided on the outcome now and these will be finalised next week. We've been planning this since early may and now we just need to pull the final decisions together.
4)3pm CEO Objective Setting Meeting- In attendance all current Officers and Bally. A meeting to discuss the progress of Luke (CEO) and to decide on his new objectives for the following 6 months.
5) 4pm City Bar Meeting- In relation to the International party on Sept 10th, meeting attended with Ivor to meet the manager. We discussed the music and door policy, along with entry fee and drinks prices. This is a very positive meeting, the owner has the needs and safety of International Students at the highest level. I look forward to making our final decisions on this venue and this will be a regular event that will continue into the year.