Happy New Year!

We’ve had a busy couple of months here at Solent Students’ Union.

The Student Involvement team recently visited Bucks Students’ Union, to get ideas on improving our volunteering here at the SU. We will be bringing in new intitatives to help students identify the transferable skills gained through volunteering that they can take into graduate employment.

The RAG team at Solent continue to be busy. Last Tuesday, Ed Prosser cut his hair off after 7 years to raise money for the Little Princess Trust. This charity uses human hair to make wigs for children undergoing chemotherepy. Ed’s fantastic fundraising efforts of £260 take the RAG total to £1880 for the year!

Next month marks LGBT history month. We are planning to support this at Solent SU, so keep your eyes open for exciting things going on!

If you want to get involved in any societies at solent, email su.engagement@solent.ac.uk

We are launching a campaign to encourage students and the local community in Southampton to think about their safety when travelling around the city on their own at night time.

So Movember is over, and what fun we had!

George Bergel, at Project 4, captured our World Record Attempt for us in this cracking video. We didn’t manage to beat the record, but we did beat the current European Record with 494 men, and Solent RAG raised over £1000 for Prostate Cancer UK! :)

The Southampton community were lovely, really getting behind the project! So much so that we have even started discussing the event for next year!

The Solent Ravens, our in house cheerleading squad, provided some light entertainment for those at the Guildhall Square!

OTHER NEWS

Last Thursday, we had our annual general meeting, which was the opportunity for students to pass new policy on how their Students’ Union would be run. This was the first time the AGM had been live linked with Warsash Maritime Academy, allowing them to be fully involved with the process.

New Policies that were passed were:

- Part Time Officers name to be changed to Student Officers
- Creation of Post-Grad and Warsash Student Officers
- Attendance Monitoring for Lecturers as well as Students
- Liberation groups at the Union to be supported by the VP Engagement & VP Welfare, regardless of society status.

We also passed new societies this week!

- The Model Yatching Society
- D20 Gaming Society
- Solent Accounting and Finance Society (S.A.F.S)
- Solent International Society (S.I.S)

Our RAG society have been out fundraising this month, raising £192.52 for Children in Need, and £153.59 for World Aids Day, and taking our RAG total for the year over £1500! YAY!

If anyone wants to get involved with any of the societies at Solent, email suengagement@solent.ac.uk!

Yes. Exciting, there are new societies at Solent.

We now have:

Solent Gig Society

Live Action Role Play

Card and Board Games Society

to add to our growing list of societys available here!

To get involved with any societies email me at suengagement@solent.ac.uk

ALSO, new for 2012/2013 we have Capoeria classes starting! I am so excited about these and will definietly be taking part.

We’re planning lots to do with Movember, follow @ragsolent on Twitter or Facebook  to keep up to date with the information.

Freshers is over, and I’ve survived and had great fun!

We’ve had an amazing time meeting the new intake of Southampton Solent students!  My babies (the societies) showcased their skills at the Societies fair, with record numbers of people coming.

If you missed the fair, or want to know more about societies, email me: suengagement@solent.ac.uk

Upcoming:

We’re working with the University to launch a huge Movember campaign, which will see us try and break the World Record for the most amount of people with moustaches in one place - Guildhall Square, 30th Nov. Time : TBC