Handover

Handover
July was intense; it was the month that Guild tried it’s hardest to equip me with all the tools I needed to be an effective President. It involved lots of training in house and up and down the country. I attended my first external training at De Montfort Student Union it was on governance and was really helpful. The most useful thing I look from this was my role in making sure that our new governance structures consistently work for you our membership.

Before this training I went to Edinburgh for Aldwych Handover, this was my first time in Scotland - fab! The Aldwych Group are all the student unions of the Russell Group institutions, who meet on a monthly basis to discuss the issues affecting students here. I and the other officers were taken to the Scottish Parliament which is a fantastic and modern building. Although the weather wasn’t great, Scotland is a beautiful part of Britain and I will be back there soon. Aldwych was also the first time I got to meet other sabbaticals from across the country, meeting them assured me that this was going to be an extraordinary year for student unions!

Towards the end of July I was ready to go ready to truly make things happen. This was also the time where I started to reflect on my manifesto pledges. You will be please to know that nothing has fallen off the list, the opposite in fact, I have even more things I want to do this year. This includes a successull outcome on the review on higher education funding next year. Check out this webiste to find out more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/tuitionfees .