Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Hello all, and welcome to my space on the information superhighway. My name is Rob Church, and i am the successor to the unmissably tall (6’8”) ginger beast of a man machine that was Dan Yeandle.

It’s been an awesome first month at the Students Union where I have been riding shotgun with Ash and Kelly, the other two Sabbatical Officers, as we settled in and got to know each other and the current staff a bit better.

But if I’m honest, Uni is dead. There are no Students walking our halls, no loud noises to put me of doing my work and no glimpses of what was those exceptional student ‘athletes’ who would go into the Loft bar at 09:00 on a Monday morning and order a pint as some kind of equivalent to a well nutritional breakfast in order to get them going for the day. All I get to experience is the odd flash back of the days before Student Summer Holidays, and the odd bit of tumble weed that I keep glimpsing rolling along Chancellors Mall (Eagle Mall).

O.k. so I’m exaggerating a little. It’s really not that bad here at the moment. In fact, we are all getting rather excited. Fresher week should be a treat, with an array of events that have been lined up and are in the inaugural stages.

So all I am left to say now is that I am looking forward to the start of the academic year commencing Sunday 20th September where we set things off on a roll with the Meet and Greet at the Loft Bar.

It’ll be a great year and i look forward to meeting you all,

Funk Out!

Ciao,


Rob
- Blue. It’s not just for jeans any more

May, bleak month! but happy days!

Hello all, i realise i have been lax with this blogging, but surely that's a good thing and shows that i am busy?!

Any way, our elections have (finally!) finished, and i want to say congratulations to our new Sab/non-Sab team. I especially want to say congratulations to Rob Church, Vice-President of Education & Representation Elect. I think we have got ourselves a fantastic VP here, who can really give this sector of the Union the creative spark and initiative it needs.

Now onto updates! The Zimbabwe Awareness Week was a massive sucess, with over 700 people signing up to make our local MP act! We also have sold a large amount of the wristband and pin badges for ACTSA (ACTION for Southern Africa), which is a massive success. The next step is for us to go to our local MP and make some noise! we have an appointment booked for near the end of the month, but if anyone would like to send words of support or anything you feel we should bring up that would be brilliant (suvpedu@bolton.ac.uk).

On a final note, i wanted to wish you all well in your exams and assessments at the moment, get swotting up!

Yeandle x

Zimbabwe, among other things...

This blog seems to have lacking input recently, so i thought i would keep all you keen readers up to date as too what has been going on within your Union!

Currently, in partnership with other bodies, we are about to start an awareness campaign about the situation in Zimbabwe. If you have ever read our senate papers you will see that we passed a motion which now means we are now in support of the activities which are attempting to sort out the atrocities in Zimbabwe.

If you have been effected by these issues, then we want to hear from you and get you involved, email me at suvpedu@bolton.ac.uk

Another issue which appears to be taking up my time is student complaints, and quite frankly, i love them. Any problems you are having, the students' union is here to help.

Run By Students, For Students.


Yeandle x