Student Life Zone (22nd October 2018)

- For next zone meeting, Officers to fill out an Officer Report. Action: IB to send template round.

- 5 zone meetings throughout the year.

- All welcome, but only committee members are able to vote.

- We will be specifically inviting representatives from relevant clubs and societies.

- AOB = Any Other Business

See above.

As the results of the Open Place elections had not yet been released, those committee members were not able to attend this meeting.

In attendance: Ilona Bartlett (Student Life and Sustainability Coordinator)

See Officer Reports

CT (Housing Officer)

- Who at the Union is best placed to speak to about legal questions (as Law Clinic currently unavailable)? Action: IB to investigate.

- Aims to help students to rent (sublet) out drives. Plans to potentially set up a facebook group, including clear rules. Action: IC to send information about one of our partner companies, ‘Paperclip’, to CT.

- Intends to run a questionnaire, aimed at PGs and international students.

- Will be working with new partners, Cluttr.

- Aims to focus on house harmony.

EW (Welfare Officer)

• Aims to focus on meningitis awareness, including jabs. Action: speak in more depth about this with IC.
• Aims to focus on Homesickness, especially destigmatising.
• Aims to focus on increasing the visibility of support services, e.g. support service video?

CS (Nightline Officer)

• Will be working hard to get enough volunteers to ensure Nightline can remain open.
• Current Nightline email address is nightline@soton.ac.uk.
• Is working on incentives to encourage volunteers, e.g. a subsidised breakfast? Action: CS and IC to look into this.
• Action: CS to check contents of voicemail message when Nightline is closed to ensure it contains campus security and Student Life contact information.

IC (VP Welfare)

• Gave recycling update.
• Update from meeting with Southampton Common Forum, including ‘Blue Light’ system on lamp posts to alert security.
• Update from University Executive Board re mental health and support available.

Thursday 6th December, 3-5pm, Meeting Room 5.

• IC will be making facebook pages for the student leaders to interact with students.
• IC will be making a facebook page for the student life zone societies. Action: DS to add societies to facebook page.
• Movember – we will be acknowledging our support of Movember, for example social media focus on men’s mental health and physical health; however student groups (e.g. RAG) are leading the majority of events.
• Dental health text reminder?
• University’s Faith Strategy Group.
• ‘How to Adult’ Fayre ideas – housing, Cluttr, recycling, noise/community repsect, frying pans/washing up, bills and utilities, food and biocycle.
• Could the ‘Don’t Rush to Rent’ campaign actually be planting the idea of renting early?
• Aim to lobby government re food waste, promoting the French model of requiring shops etc. to offer food to be donated before thrown away.Action: IC to bring up at next Southern Unions meeting.
• EW elected as senate rep