Your Voice
Campaigns
We want to support you to make change happen both at St Mary’s and beyond!
Creating a campaign
Here are the steps for developing a Union recognised campaign:
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Step 1: Tell us the issue
Figure out what the issue is and fill out our Campaign Proposal Form.
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Step 2: Research it together
We’ll help you conduct research into the issue, whether that’s through the course rep system, a survey or focus groups.
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Step 3: Take it to the right people
We’ll support you in taking it to the right people who can make change happen, whether that’s a University meeting, a staff member or Union Council.
Campaign toolkit
Here’s what we can support you with when developing a campaign:
- Access to SMSU campaigning funds
- Access to campaigning knowledge to help you reach the right people, faster
- Access to SMSU’s social media to help promote your campaign and spread the word
- Use of SMSU’s logo
- Sabbatical officer connections and lobbying power
- National network of Students’ Unions and sabbatical officers, to help you make change on a national scale
Our current campaigns
Campaigns could be on anything that matters to you, but here are some ideas of campaigns we’ve worked on in the past or are developing at the moment:
- Zero-tolerance policy to sexual harassment and assault
- Increase the availability of learning resources
- Scrap the dyslexia diagnosis fee
- Grow sustainability initiatives including creating a Simmie Swapshop
- Ramadan Unity Fast
Got something you want to change?
Campaigns could be on anything that matters to you. Tell us what the issue is and we’ll take it from there together.
