Improving communications channels from the Union would help more students find IM clubs. Publicity therefore, I think would be easy to start implementing for IM clubs so that more students are aware of IM leagues and what they could offer students that in some cases Affiliated Union Clubs might not be able to do. As I mentioned in my manifesto, the community around a sport can be the biggest factor for a lot of people to continue playing that sport, I want to emphasise this idea next year because I think the sense of community is what draws people to sports that aren't as common and attracts people that haven't done much sport before Uni.

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The 5 words that I would want SUSU to represent are: Enjoyable, Accessible, Inclusive, Affordable, Community SUSU will mean a different thing to everyone but I want everyone to think of at least one of these words when they are asked this question. I would try my absolute hardest to do that next year if I was elected, not by forcing a publicity campaign but by working to ensure the Union is embodying these values.

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Sport does not inherently bring a problem of racism and exclusion, it is racist and bigoted people that if aren't confronted about their behaviour will spread these unacceptable ideas. So dealing with the racism that does exist in sport will be a case of dealing with the people that spread racism within sports clubs.

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By talking to committees and coaches of individual clubs in order to find ways to make their club more accessible for more disabled people. Every club will have different barriers for entry for different disabilities so there is no one solution to do this for every club or for all disabilities. The time needs to be put in to each club to work out ways to implement these ideas so that more people have access to more sports. In a previous martial arts club I was a part of a few of the students and the instructor worked together so that someone in a wheelchair could take up the activity. That makes me believe that given enough work anyone should be able to do the sport they want.

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I think over the last few years one or two incidents have affected the attitude towards socials as a whole which I think is a shame because the vast majority of societies are fair and inclusive and everyone in the society loves their socials. Should any incident or accounts of hazing happen if I was elected I would wish to deal with them as an isolated incident because they don't reflect the attitude of socials at the University as a whole. I will not be imposing rules for socials on societies that have not been doing anything wrong.

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That's a great question. I would want to explore the idea of a S&W bursary for students that want to take part in sports that utilise S&W facilities. For sports that don't use S&W facilities I would want to set up an agreement between the Union and Committees where, depending on the club's circumstances, they are allowed to give a few members their membership for free. Depending on the club there could be many ways of going about this, for some it would be very difficult but for some it would be very easy. One of the main goal of VP Sports is to improve the experience of all sport and all students that are members of a sports club. To do that I would want to have a working relationship with as many club committees as possible which would make it very easy on a case by case basis to start implementing this idea (and other ideas like accessibility for disabled people).

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