Every Union Delegate holds a seat on Union Assembly, the decision-making meeting where students set the direction of their Students' Union. As a Delegate you will:

• Vote on ideas and motions. Delegates decide which student ideas become Keele SU policy, and that policy binds your Elected Officers.
• Hold your Elected Officers to account. Full-time Elected Officers report to Union Assembly and answer questions from Delegates on what they have done and what they have not.
• Support Networks, Societies and Clubs. Liberation Delegates hold positions within their respective Network Committees, consult members on motions, and raise ideas on their behalf. Team Keele and Society Delegates work with club and society committees to ensure they are represented throughout policy and decision-making at Keele SU.

From 2026/27, most Union Delegate seats sit inside a student network committee.

Keele SU has seven student networks, each run by a flat team of Co-Chairs rather than a single president. Three Co-Chair posts form the core of every network committee:

• Communications Co-Chair
• Union Delegate the post that carries the network's seat at Union Assembly
• Non-portfolio Co-Chair who carries the network's finance function

If you are elected as the Union Delegate for a network, you do two connected jobs: you help run the network alongside your fellow Co-Chairs, and you carry what that network decides into Union Assembly. It is the link that turns a network conversation into a Union decision.

A handful of Delegate seats sit outside the networks. Those Delegates represent their group directly and are not part of a network committee.

You do not have to be a Union Delegate to get involved in a network. Anyone who self-defines can stand for another Co-Chair post, take on a task-based role, or simply come along.

Find Your Network

The role of Network Co-Chair is voluntary and can count towards your volunteering hours. You can choose how many hours you want to contribute.

There is no limit on how many Co-Chairs each network can have. This allows the workload to be shared effectively across the network.

As a Network Co-Chair, you will meet with other students, run campaigns and events on behalf of the network, work with fellow Co-Chairs and network administrators, and provide feedback on issues raised by members to your Union Assembly Delegates.

Applications to become a Network Co-Chair for the 2026/27 academic year are now open.

Being a Co-Chair is voluntary, counts towards your volunteering hours, and is open to any member of the network.

• Sharing a role is built in

  Any role that the network fills itself can be held jointly by two people. You do not need to give a reason or ask for an exception. Job-shares are the default, not a favour.

• More than one way in

  Most roles are elected, but they can also be filled by appointment, by co-option between elections, or by someone who has contributed to the network's work over a term and is brought onto the committee.

• You do not have to be in the room

  Meetings are minuted as standard and decisions can be taken between meetings, so you can take a full part without being in one place at one time.

  Meetings are recorded only if everyone present agrees, and we do not publish who attends.

As a Co-Chair, you will meet with the rest of your Co-Chair team, run campaigns and events on behalf of the network, work with other networks and Student Voice on plans for the year, and take the issues raised by members into Union Assembly.

Each network is led by a flat team of Co-Chairs. There is no single Chair and no hierarchy. Three Co-Chairs of equal standing share the work of holding the network together.

• Co-Chair (Communications)

  This role is for someone whose strength is making the network visible rather than running meetings.

  You will run or support the network's communication channels, promote events and campaigns, keep language accessible, and make sure members know what is happening and how to take part.

  During a typical few weeks, you might post about upcoming activities, share how an event or campaign went, and keep the network visible to members between activities.

  How you take it on: Appointed or co-opted. This role can be shared between two people.

• Co-Chair (Union Delegate)

  The role through which members' issues enter the Union's democratic decision-making.

  You will lead the network's campaigns and sit at Union Assembly as your network's delegate. This means that issues raised by members can enter the Union's decision-making directly.

  During a typical few weeks, you might gather the issues members are raising, shape them into a campaign or proposal for Union Assembly, and follow them through. You will also work closely with the officer team.

  How you take it on: This is the one role that the network does not fill itself. You hold it by being elected as your network's Union Delegate in the Union's elections .

  Usually, one person holds the seat. Where the Bye-Laws give a network more than one Delegate seat, each Delegate is a Co-Chair of equal standing.

• Co-Chair

  No specialism is required.

  You will be a full member of the leadership team with no fixed brief. You will share the work of holding the network together and take on whatever the network most needs capacity for during that term.

  By default, this role also looks after the network's money. This includes monitoring the budget, keeping simple records, and making sure spending on events and campaigns is approved correctly.

  No finance background is required. Responsibility for the network's money can move to another Co-Chair if your capacity changes.

  During a typical few weeks, you might meet with your fellow Co-Chairs, complete agreed pieces of work, and check in with network members.

  How you take it on: Appointed or co-opted. This role can be shared between two people.

Nominations for Student Voice Reps and network Co-Chair posts open and close on the same dates, so you can put yourself forward for more than one thing in one go.

Ready to Stand?

Union Assembly is open to every Keele student, not only to Delegates. Come along, listen, ask a question, or speak on an idea you care about.

You do not need to be a Delegate to put an idea to Union Assembly. Any Keele student can.

Submit an Idea

Submissions close a week before each meeting, on the idea deadline in the table above. That week lets us check every submission against our charitable objectives, charity law and other relevant legislation. You can ask to be kept updated on your submission, and you will be told whether Delegates approved it.

• Tuesday 13 October 2026
• Tuesday 1 December 2026
• Tuesday 23 February 2027

Keele SU's affiliations with external organisations are voted on at the Annual General Meeting, taking place on Tuesday 1 December 2026.

Interested in a seat, or want to know more before you nominate yourself? Email su.voice@keele.ac.uk.

Looking for agendas, minutes and slides from previous meetings? Browse this year's archive below.