Academic Year 2019/20

LaunchPad opened in September 2019 and is a mixed community housing scheme set up for University of Bristol students, young people at risk of homelessness and Key Workers. This is student housing with a difference, bringing young people together to build communities and futures. SU Lettings worked in partnership with the University, 1625ip and United Communities on the project. In December 2019 the property was shortlisted for Small Residential Development of the Year at the first insider South West Residential Property Awards 2020.

The course is highly personalised and intensive, taking students through their year as a group leader. We train key skills in fortnightly workshops and work on their personal development in 1-1 meetings.

Smashing more records for elections and student council 4340 students voted in the first term elections, smashing all previous term 1 records! 280 student leaders attended Student Council and passed motions to make Welcome Fair more accessible, to support Student Housing Cooperatives, to support the Climate Strikes, and to start Read more…

Revamped our Student Group of the Month celebrations We launched our revamped ‘Student group of the month’ competition, with an amazing 31 nominations in the first month alone. The first winners were the Bristol Uni Boob Team, representing breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel! They’ve seen a clear need in the Read more…

We welcomed our first International Students Full Time Officer this year, who has represented and strengthened our community of international students.

Three new Networks came into action this year: the Multifaith Network, the Care Leavers & Estranged Students Network, and the Mature Students, Parents & Carers Network, who are all already hard at work supporting their students.

There are almost 3500 current SU members who are students of faith, but atheist and agnostic students are welcome to join the Multifaith Network too!

Over 2600 SU members have also told us that they identify as a Mature Student, Parent, Carer, Care Leaver, or Estranged student, so our new Networks stand to benefit a whole range of students!

Our student opportunities team devised a new model for our fun, social, Intramural sports competition which introduced a range of new sports and new ways to play.

We now have over double the players we’ve had in previous years, with 1 in 10 students now an Intramural player.

Supported the launch of the Global Lounge We supported the University in launching the Global Lounge, a new welcoming space aimed at our students from around the world. We co-ran and co-hosted a busy launch event in partnership with the University, as well as a dedicated Welcome programme for international Read more…

December kicked off with the celebration of the Bristol SU Living Room’s first birthday.

Now a second home for 700 students every day, the SU Living Room has hosted almost 100 society events in its first year and we received over 700 birthday cards from students at our party!

We’ve opened new Living Rooms in residencies! Following the success of the Bristol SU Living Room in Senate House, we secured four new Living Rooms in halls of residence for September 2019. These Living Rooms are open to everyone, whether or not you live in that hall and they are Read more…

Meat Free Mondays in Catered Halls and the Balloon Bar After working with the catering and sustainability departments at the university, Meat Free Mondays has been launched in all 5 catered halls and in the balloon bar. This was an initiative was in the current Student Living Officer’s manifesto, and Read more…