Week 4 Aug 23rd till 28th

.... on and on it goes its the official 4th week in office and my week really does fill up fast!
Ive had the Monday off as holiday. Managed to write my graduation speech last week so spent the weekend practicing.

New Website is Launched!!!
Wow is all I can say, well I can actually say http://www.wolvesunion.org and take a look for yourselves. Its all the words associated with awesome, I believe the youth of today say "Sick!!".

Tuesday I am stacked up with meetings, starting with a group meeting with Sharon Meeley from the Grad Office. She has come over to ensure that we are happy with the procedure for the graduation and to check that we have what we need. We are lucky enough to have the offer of a special VIP lunch on some of the graduations days. MMMMM free food always helps me work harder. Later that day I have a 1-2-1 with the Vice Chancellor, I inform her about the current status of the SU, freshers, some other internal issues, and also about some proposed plans for the future of the students union. I also inform her of our plans for the NUS National Demo. The good news is that she sounds supportive and understands why as a nation of students we have to do this. My day ends with some student interaction, website designing and tweaking, more freshers planning, and I get to sign my contract of employment.


Wed & Thursday
These to days are spent on catching up with the day to day duties. I have another staff handbook consultancy meeting, this is good because we are now finished and ready to have this checked out by the solicitors before making the document live after presenting at the Trustee Board later in September.
Had a meeting with a Walsall Night Club for our Freshers week events and also discussed the possibilities of a regular weekly deal. All things are looking good and contracts for freshers are signed. That's another tick on the to-do-list!!!
The day ends at around 8pm, yes its a late finish considering I started at around 815am, but I went to visit Cov SU with Alex Blower, this was a meeting with other member students' unions to discuss plans for the future and strategy for the demo amongst other things.

Friday-the week ends
The end of a busy week ends today. The new building plans are moving along nicely and its starting to actually look like we will actually be in for an amazing treat with the new space. The morning begins with strategy planning with Luke and the team, followed by our very first Exec Meeting. This is a meeting that I chair. We cover the usual stuff and also discuss the possibility of a new student society linked to student media, setting up an open student forum for activities and of course the AGM. As always, minutes from the exec can be found online via our website

Week Three 16th - 23rd Aug

More NUS Training.

I'm back in the office for one day, and the work from last week is still here, so its back to back meetings before driving back home for a change of clothes and then Tuesday to Thursday more NUS training at Warwick University.

BBSU Building Better Students' Unions.

Its got nothing on APL but the amount of knowledge shared and gained is positive. The full details of both these training courses have been written up and can be found in my personal files.

So these last two blogs as short as they are, does not reflect the amount of shizzle I've been up to. Kinda finding it hard to even find time to write these blogs. (its a little late)

Week Two 9-15th August 2010

It's official, I survived the first week.............

So here we are in week two and it really is going well.
This is gonna be a short blog entry, but that doesn't mean its been a short week. I spent the first day on more in-house training, its a session on public speaking. It's not about "hear-yee hea-yee" but more about writing our graduation speeches and how to deliver them.
Tuesday to Friday I'm off with the whole team to University of Bristol for NUS training at APL (Active Political Leadership)

Wow this is an amazing course, I leave it feeling inspired, empowered and ready to fight for student rights. Way too much stuff to put to words here, but its four days of training, networking, sharing good practice, and Digby Jacks. Key word for the event? "Hyperdiversity"