Various members of our team were at the Societies Fair on the 22nd and the 23rd of September. It was really exciting meeting and chatting to so many freshers! Welcome to Newcastle! We talked to over 400 students, handing out our (free!) reusable water bottles, pens and key-ring bottle openers to everyone.
Our aim for the Societies Fair was to talk to as many students as possible about sustainability and put our name out so everyone knows about the Sustainable Campus. For anyone who missed us at the Fair, we were also giving out our sustainability guidance comic strip and signing students in halls up to the NUS Student Switch Off, which is a great competition with prizes for your halls of residence. To find out more about Student Switch Off visit http://www.studentswitchoff.org/.
So what are we doing in the coming months?
- We are running monthly sustainability campaigns when we will focus on one of our specific areas of work (biodiversity, energy, procurement, carbon, transport, water and waste).
- Each month there will be a newsletter available to everyone who’s interested about the upcoming activities, events and national days.
- There will also be regular events run throughout the year to support national sustainability days and weeks.
- We will continue to increase our social media presence (with the help of even more student volunteers!) to keep you all informed of how to get involved and what exciting things we have coming up.
- We are currently signing students up to take part in Green Impact, a great scheme, which will look really good on your CV! We need you to support a team within the university to help them achieve sustainability goals. You’ll be a Green Impact Project Assistant, receiving training from NUS and Change Agents UK for the role. If you’re interested the training will take place on Wednesday 5th Nov 13:00-16:30 in the SU (room TBC). Please fill in this form if you’d like to come along http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=6883!