Christmas!

I'm sat here on the night of Christmas, pounding out tunes from my new Gatecrashers Anthems CD, reading a book which in honesty displays a total lack of literary interest and if the fact it was published was astonishing enough, the lack of punctuation in dialogue makes me think this woman has lungs the size of small pillows... So, sod the book, lets write something :D

I've been a student officer for 2 and a bit weeks now, with one of them being at home, still - I've been up to a few things in the mean time...

The Parkour Society:

Before the Christmas break, I've been talking to Chris Farrell about going forward with the recently approved Parkour Society which - expecting it to be quite popular - has surprised even me with the level of interest from students; we have over 30 students' details on file, and about 20 more who have showed interest...

Hopefully, as soon as we get back after Christmas the Society's membership details will be set up on the main computer at SOAP, so you can go in and sign up. We plan on booking in a couple of training sessions, though the location, date and time are unconfirmed, about a month in advance to make sure everyone who has paid membership can go.

Travel (if required) will be supplied, and the cost of the session covered - these sessions are where most of the membership funds will go - and we can have a professionally led session to get those who haven't done Parkour before introduced to it.
I'll be on hand, with 2 other experienced students, as we are qualified to coach 5 members each which means we can definitely have everyone involved who wants to be!

Communication:

If you've read my first post, you'll know my manifesto comprises mainly of looking into the communication between the Union and Students across the board, and trying to identify and implement ways of improving this.

I've been thinking more about how I want to achieve this, and have given myself a bit of a 'mental action plan':
-Find out how students feel the Union communicated with them; if they have enough information of SU activites etc...
-Find out how Students communicate with the SU, or rather - how they would WANT to communicate with the SU
-Do a little research into the feasibility of  changing communication methods to what students want
-Put these changes to Exec. Committee/Student Council

Yes, it's a very brief plan and could be considered an obvious way forward to look at communication, but it's a plan non the less, involving potentially quite a lot of time, something we all have little of!

Have a good holiday everyone,
See you all in January!
-Joe