Hi, I’m Amrit - your new Experience & Community Officer!
I came to Keele in 2023 to study law from Birmingham (a wonderful place if you ask me) and I have loved every moment of it, despite how intense it was.
My first interactions with the student's union were with joining Cheerleading (and later on Trampolining) and Law Society, all of which where I have found friends for life.
It’s safe to say that I’m no stranger to advocating and cheering people on or a cheeky Wednesday night social. In addition to this, I also have experience raising money for Movember, where I worked with another ambassador and our previous Experience and Community Officer to raise over £8,000!
In my final year, I got further involved with the Students Union by working at Dirty Dunkz, where I was fortunate enough to come face to face with the student body, and get to know some of you! As you can tell the Students Union has made a massive impact on my life, and I hope that this is common among the students too.
Societies and Sports clubs are so so so important to the university life, and I am so excited to help you all find your home away from home. Not only that, I am also here to support you host a range of events and champion student inclusion.
Whether it be charity, performance or something genuinely iconic: I’m your girl!
What piece of advice would you give to students this year?
Please please please join a society! You don’t always have to go to events but having the option to do so is wonderful. You can make so many new friends and it’s always fun having somewhere to go to when you’re not studying.
Talk to me about...
- Clubs
- Societies
- Careers and Employability
- International student issues
- Mature student issues
- Local student issues
- Commuter student issues
- Activities and Events
- Wellbeing
Email me at su.communityofficer@keele.ac.uk
Posted on Thu 08 Feb 2024 at 13:21
Thursday 8th February 2024
Welcome to my latest report on what I’ve been up to, this is everything I’ve done since the last UGM on Tuesday 5th December.
Society Spotlight, Club of Keele and Execs Give it a Go!
- As part of changes to this year's campaign, our AU and Societies Executives attended these sessions, which was a major success!
- Applications will reopen for semester 2 in the next couple weeks so keep an eye out!
- We had 7 applications from clubs and 8 from societies, with a total of __ sessions attended by __ of our executives.
- I am planning long term changes to the campaign and integrating taster sessions year-round as part of weekly AU activities so if you want more info or have any feedback on these changes please come along to our AU Council on Wednesday 21st February, 6pm in the Squirrel (come in social attire!).
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BUCS AGM and Fees
- Before the winter break, I attended the BUCS AGM where an increase in membership fees was decided.
- Fees will increase by 6.1% for next year, this will have a knock-on effect on the AU membership fees for the 2024/25 academic year as these new fees will need to be reflected in the price, what this price will be hasn’t been decided yet.
On the same note as AU Council, we also have our next Societies Forum also in the Squirrel the following day, Thursday 22nd February 5pm – 6pm so please come along! We will be discussing important society topics including the new freedom of speech legislation, don’t know what that is or why you should care? Come along and find out!
Semester 2 Events prep
- I have been helping with prep for Society and AU Awards, AU Summer Ball, and Varsity, as well as planning for This Keele Girl Can I hope to launch next month, keep an eye out for updates on these and for our annual Varsity competition next month!