How To Directory
- 1. How to Use Groups Hub
- 2. How to Make Your Society Inclusive
- 3. How to Organise Events
- d. Running an internal or external event
- c. Considering Health & Safety for your event
- f. Involving external speakers
- b. Adding an Event the the SUSU Calendar
- g. Promotion from SUSU
- d. Running an event outside SUSU premises
- e. Running your own charity event through RAG
- a. Creating a balanced programme of events
- e. Running an event on SUSU premises
- 4. How to Book Facilities and Transport
- 5. How to Manage Your Money
- 6. How to Manage Equipment
- 7. How to Manage Health & Safety
- D. Completing a risk assessment
- F. Ensuring your Group's safety when manual handling
- B. Ensuring you are covered by insurance
- G. Dealing with incidents
- H. Preparing and supplying food
- E. Safeguarding your members
- C. Complying with SUSU data protection policy
- A. Important SUSU and University regulations you need to know
- 8. How to Run a Sports Club
- 9. How to Handover and Democratic Processes
- 10. How to Manage Commiunications
Using Money Hub
The Student Groups Money Hub system, was set up as a result of requests from students for Us to help manage their finances and to aid in the handover of committee details, where bank details often got lost and money can be inaccessible while it is sorted out.
While the Students' Union is not a ‘bank’, we can offer some support for groups in terms of holding their money and ensuring that there is minimal confusion during handover at what is a crucial time for our groups.
For more information on how to access this support please email activities@susu.org
Once you have confirmation of your account being set up you can transfer your balance from your existing bank account by using these details.
How to become a Finance Signatory
We expect every group to have three authorised signatories on their accounts in order to access their accounts. We recommend that the following positions are made signatories:
- President
- Treasurer
- Vice President/Secretary
In order for you to become a signatory for your groups account and to access your funds. You must complete this form.
https://www.susu.org/uploads/groupadmin/Authorised Signatory - Form.pdf
Please note that we cannot accept this form via email.
This must be printed, signed and then bought to the Activities Office (Level 2 –Building 42) alongside some photo ID. This can be in the form of:
- Passport
- Driver’s license
- University ID card.
We only need to see the ID of the person dropping off the form to us
Once we have processed your signature you will have access to your account
How to View Your Balance
There are two different accounts views available for your group, via your unionsouthampton.org hub and these are detailed below
- Members of Money Hub
You can access your groups balance for all transactions online by visiting www.susu.org/groups/admin and then selecting the Finance options for the relevant group. This will show the all transactions for your group (from the time you started managing your money with us) both ingoing and outgoing money. This will show much as a bank statement would.
- Non-members of Money Hub
You have a more limited view as we do not hold your groups funds. The only information available are transactions between the Students' Union and your group.
This means you can view Invoices that have been raised against your group and whether they have been paid or not, as well as view the status of any payments to come from the Union to your group. (Funding, memberships via the Box Office etc.)
Withdrawing cash
This form helps you understand the process of dispensing cash from the cash machine.
https://www.susu.org/uploads/groupadmin/How To - Dispense Cash.docx
Depositing cash
The link below will help you understand the process of depositing cash using the cash machine.
You are able to access the cash machine at any time when Us is open as it is an automatic machine. We do suggest that all money should be deposited during office hours for safety reasons and so we are able to offer the fullest support in using the machine.
A contact number for during and out of office hours is available in the cash machine room.
https://www.susu.org/uploads/groupadmin/How To - Deposit Cash.docx
Paying a supplier
This form should be used to claim money or to pay invoices.
https://www.susu.org/uploads/groupadmin/How To - Complete Expenditure Claim Form.xls
This is usually a far safer and reliable way of conducting business than in cash.
Below you can find a brief guide of how to complete this form.
Once completed, you can hand these forms into Activities Office (level 2, building 42).
- Enter the date on the invoice or date the expenditure was made if it’s a receipt
- Supplier that needs to be paid (Name/Company on the invoice)
- Brief description of expenditure
This will appear on your statement and should be kept short, but descriptive.
- Group cost centre
You will have received this when your group joined the money management scheme and it will be three digits
- Detail codes highlighted in pink
- Total of invoice or amount spent
Your group is unlikely to be tax-exempt this means you should include all relevant taxes in your total
- How the payment is to be made – either select Cheque or BACS
BACS = Bank Transfer (this is a faster method of paying and we recommend this unless a cheque is specifically required) Please note that BACS payments are only made twice a month, on 15th and final working day.
- Who the payment is to be made to (Name/Company on the invoice)
- Signature of Committee Member 1 and the date it is signed (this must be a named signatory)
- Signature of Committee Member 2 and the date it is signed (this must be a named signatory)