Affiliation

Within your first 8 weeks you will need to become affiliated to the Students’ Union officially. To do this you need to meet the following criteria: To have all your mandatory committee roles filled To have all your committee members completed mandatory training To have all your committee members purchased their society membership To have 8 paid members to your society

A person being guided through a laptop survey with two Student's Union staff either side of them.

What does it mean to get affiliated?

Being an affiliated society means we, Your SU, and the University can support you in having a society webpage, you’re included within our policies and insurance and are eligible to receive awards and recognition. We also work with the university to add committee member volunteering onto their Higher Education Academic record (HEAR) through the Phoenix Plus modules.

What happens if you don’t get affiliated within 8 weeks?

Don’t panic, We’ll start out on an affiliation action plan and your coordinator will meet with you to discuss what you believe the biggest challenges are to achieving affiliation and how we can overcome them.

If you don’t engage with the action plans and your role as a committee member you may be removed from post or the society be made dormant.

Should this happen, we will offer refunds to any paid members and offer them the opportunity to submit a lead a society request to take over management of the society.

If you would like to attempt to adopt the society after it has been made dormant at this stage, you will be asked what you will do to keep the society active in your second attempt.