Anjit welcomed everyone to the meeting.

The minutes were approved.

The Welcome to our World planning is going well and the event will be on 6^th February 2016 on Avenue Campus is going well.

Ryan asked about a similar event in Winchester. Anjit said that realistically it wasn’t going to happen for next week, but would look to doing something at a different time.

Republic Day (30/01/16) - in Garden Court from 18:00.

Chinese New Year (08/02/16) - Will include a countdown to the actual time and lots of events happening around various halls.

Holi (23/04/16 or 14/04/16) - To kick off Culture Festival the Indian society will host a Holi celebration on campus.

Global Project - Anjit explained that this was an ongoing project and now looking to get feedback from all sorts of different areas of the University.

The first Halls Committee Board was on 27^th January 2016, and they now only have 13 unfilled spaces. The new Halls Committee have been really good with advertising refreshers events and making sure everything has run smoothly.

PGR Committee have all their positions filled and have recently met for the first time. Current projects include PGR mental health, a joint PGR social and looking at the demonstrator pay across faculties. Also the recent postgraduate You Are More Than events were popular and well attended.

The Committee also discussed marketing to postgrad students, and Anjit explained that it was something they would look at in the Brand Review.

Looking at doing a dissertation hand in event and are going to contact each faculty about their different dissertation dates. Also looking at creating a handbook for future postgrad students because there is no physical document with all the information.

The Committee also suggested having You Are More Than events during the summer for PGT students.

Rebecca reported that she had met with newly affiliated groups as well as helping groups with their various issues. Still looking at the possibility of holding a student groups forum every few months, which would be useful.

The space allocation project is still ongoing.

Nominations are open for the WSA Committee positions as part of the Spring Elections. WSA is also establishing a social media identity on Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Ryan brought up the issue of Winchester’s brand identity and said that whilst there needs to be some consistency with the main SUSU branding, it can’t be the same thing just on a smaller scale. Anjit suggested that Ryan speak to Ben Franklin about it, as well as filling out the Brand Review survey that had been sent out.

The Committee spoke about longer term aims at Winchester and Anjit said that whilst they were good aims, that sort of thing would take time to happen and for now they were focusing on smaller more manageable things.

The WSA By-Law was approved.

There were a few issues about distributing money to their groups, which has now been solved.

Anjit and Emily spoke about the Culture Week and the various activities that had been planned so far.

The Committee suggested tailoring the events to what is studied at each campus as well as doing events at halls. Arun suggested that The Bridge could be used to serve various international food.

The Committee agreed that this policy should be lapsed.

The Committee agreed that Anjit and Sam should meet to decide about what needs changing before reporting back to the Committee.

Harriet volunteered to lead on the project and suggested to start small on Avenue campus. Anjit suggested getting Frazer Delves involved who was keen on going more events at Avenue and Mike suggested using a similar model as the Science Room events (e.g. a person introducing a topic), which has worked for them.

The survey showed that there was a general consensus that Avenue students wouldn’t mind coming to Highfield for an event, but there was an issue with a SUSU presence at Avenue. They were now looking to do an audit of spaces that could be used.

Mike asked about showcasing the work of WSA students in the SUSU concourse, particularly things that don’t need floor space.

Harriet spoke about the importance of highlighting the difference between SUSU and the University and having a small leaflet explaining what SUSU is. Anjit said that he would put Harriet, Arun and Flora in touch with Ben Franklin to develop the idea and possibly feed into Freshmag.

Anjit explained that the Employability Officer was vacant and asked all officers to promote the position.

Anjit reminded the Committee that anyone looking to raise money for charities have to go through RAG first.