Community guide

COMMUNITY

GUIDE

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THE COMMUNITY TEAM AT SUBU How SUBU can help you settle in the Community whilst living and studying in Bournemouth.

SUBU WWW.SUBU.ORG.UK/COMMUNITY

SUBU Community covers some of the extracurricular community opportunities that you can get involved in, during your time at Bournemouth University.

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Meet your Community officer

Meet your community Team Hannah Wiseman Green and Volunteering Projects Coordinator hwiseman@bournemouth.ac.uk

This can be anything from volunteering your time with local charities and organisations, or helping protect the environment, and to show other students how to be sustainable in their day to day lives, and for the future.

01202 965772

Gillie Lewis

So whatever your community interests are, SUBU Community Team are here to help you make the most of living in the community in Bournemouth and Dorset.

Community Partnerships Manager glewis@bournemouth.ac.uk 01202 967183

Come and speak to the Community Team on Floor 2 of the Student Centre on Talbot Campus.

Ebony Harding Vice President Community suvpcommunity@bournemouth.ac.uk 01202 965111​

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You can find the Community team on the 2nd floor of The Student Centre (Talbot) and at SUBU’s office in Studland House (Lansdowne).

E D I U G S T N p E o T T N CO Tip! MEET THE SUBU COMMUNITY TEAM...................... 1-2 SUBU COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING....................... 3-4 OUR VOLUNTEERING PROJECTS............................. 5-8 SUBU GREEN TASKFORCE..........................................

9 As part of your BU enrolment OUR GREEN TASKFORCE PROJECTS.......................

10-12 you will need to supply some OUR VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP TEAM..................... information online. When13-14 you OUR GREEN TASKFORCE LEADERSHIP TEAM....... register for your course online 15-16 make sure you read the small COMMUNITY COUNCIL ............................................

17-18 print carefully and ‘opt-in’ BECOMING A LEADER.................................................

19-20 for SUBU membership. That LEADERSHIP AWARDS................................................

21 way you will be entitled to STUDENT COMMUNITY WARDENS......................... 2221 join in with all the activity 22 at your SUBU.

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What is subu community volunteering?

Community Volunteering is when student volunteers give their time to help charities or not-for-profit organisations in the local community, and encompasses a variety of student-led projects and one-off MAD (Make-ADifference) Days both on campus and in the wider Bournemouth and Dorset community.

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It is all about what students can do to make a difference and improve the lives of others. From 5 Minute Volunteering to much longer projects, we encourage students to take part in a range of activities, events and campaigns to become more involved with the local community.

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BE A COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER

As a community volunteer you can do short bursts, or long bursts of volunteering - as much as you want - and be completely flexible, to fit in with your academic timetable at university. More information about this is on Page 13 of this booklet.

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BE A VOLUNTEER Leader

As a Volunteer Leader, you will own a specific project and be fully committed to helping regularly on specific community projects.

You will team up in pairs of leaders to run a project and be responsible for recruiting student volunteers to help on your project, and arranging meetStudent ing points and transport to the projVolunteers and ect (with lots of help from SUBU Leaders are led by a 4 of course!!) More information person Leadership Team, about this is on Page 20 with a Chair, Vice-Chair, of this booklet.

Media and Events Officer, and Lansdowne Officer. You can find out more about the Volunteering and Leadership Team and what they do on Page 13 - 14 of this booklet.

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Our volunteering projects Beach Champions Bournemouth’s greatest asset is it beautiful sandy beaches. Our Beach Champions volunteer to help keep the coasts clean through regular beach cleans to stop litter getting in to the sea and harming our environment.

Help the fight to keep our beaches litter free!!

Slades Farm Community Garden Project

Which beach would you prefer, a dirty beach filled with trash and dangerous obstacles, or a clean beach where you can play without worrying? I would choose the latter, and that’s why I chose to volunteer with the Beach Champions.

Steve Sim, Beach Champions Volunteer 2015 - 2016

At Slades Farm, just a short walk from Talbot Campus, volunteers muck in to help build and maintain a community garden. Get involved with digging, planting, pruning, weeding and maintaining the frog pond while learning all about organic gardening, to make Slades Farm a nicer environment for everyone to enjoy.

Volunteering at Slades Farm throughout my 3 years at Bournemouth University provided me with an opportunity to meet other people as well as to create and maintain something special. You can see the instantaneous changes that you make to the site meaning that the local community can see these changes too. It’s amazing to return to Slades Farm and see how the garden has changed for the better over time and know that you were a part of that.

Corina Lees, Volunteer 2013 - 2016

Conservation Rangers If you love the great outdoors, or want to learn more about the beautiful Dorset countryside and how to look after it, then being a Conservation Ranger is for you. With regular afternoon and weekend activities, you could well find yourself ‘pine-pulling’ on the RSPB nature reserve, helping members of the public learn more about the countryside at the Kingfisher Barn, or learning about hedge management in the countryside.

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Mural Painting If you enjoy art and painting this is for you. The Mural Painting Volunteers will design and paint murals for local schools and charities. Last year, our Mural Painters painted some fantastic walls in the waiting room of the local charity Rape Crisis.

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Our volunteering projects Alzheimer’s Society Our two Alzheimer’s support projects are the Memory Café and Singing for the Brain. At the Memory Café, student volunteers come and chat to people suffering from memory conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s, enjoy a cuppa, and playing table top quizzes and games, or just being someone there to chat with to brighten their day. At the Singing for the Brain project, volunteers join the community members as they sing songs which can aid the memory and improve their general wellbeing. So if you want to put a smile on people’s faces, this project could be for you!!

MAD Days MAD stands for Make-A-Difference and does exactly what it says – getting a group of students together to make real change and improve people’s lives. Examples of previous MAD Days are:• • • • •

Making Christmas decorations for a Residential Care Home Urban Weekenders Conservation Project at Upton Heath Litter Squad Community Litter Pick Chocolate Sleigh Making for Trussell Trust Food Bank Toiletry Bags for the Homeless – Hope for Food

I was involved in several MAD Days because I wanted to help local community while strengthening my teamwork and communication skills. It was a great experience and I learnt how big the impact we could make bye our small act of kindness, either towards other people or the environment. For me, MAD Days is a brilliant platform for everyone to develop beneficial skills, which are essential for personal and professional development, and it feels good to help others!

Yeyen Sinarta, MAD Days Volunteer

Hope for Food Hope for Food is a charity based on feeding the homeless, and helping out around 200 families in the local area, who are struggling with poverty. Volunteers help out on a regularly weekly basis at the local ‘Soup Kitchen’ in central Bournemouth. Students also donate their unwanted bedding at the end of the year such as duvets, pillows and sleeping bags.

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What is subu Greentask force?

The SUBU Green Taskforce is made up of students who are passionate and engaged in making a change to the sustainability and the green impact the Students Union and BU have on the wider community. You will have an ethos for wanting to encourage all BU students to question every aspect of their life, and how they can live it in a more sustainable way, during their time as a BU Student and in the future when they go on to Graduate.

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Our subu greentask force campaigns/ Projects

The key role of any Green Taskforce Member is to campaign and educate other students on and off campus, and in the community, to raise awareness on environmental and green issues, and how to live more sustainable lives.

The SUBU Green Taskforce is led by a 4 person Leadership Team, with a Chair, Vice-Chair, Media and Events Officer, and Lansdowne Officer. You can find out more about the Green Taskforce Leadership Team and what they do on Page 15 of this booklet.

coffee cup campaign Currently there is no way to recycle coffee cups which are part of your hot drinks purchases in most UK coffee shops. As part of this campaign you will raise awareness of this issue and encourage all students to use their own re-usable coffee cups while saving money on their purchase. As a Green Taskforce body, you will be expected to lobby local MP’s and run petitions to ban the use of coffee cups which are not recyclable.

Want to join the t askforce come and se on the 2n e us d floor of SUBU

Now you can get 15p discount on your coffee when you use ANY reusable cup at SUBU outlets!

Fairtrade Awareness

We always try to be super green and that’s why we are rolling out the discount available on the BU reusable cups to anyone a Fairtrade Campaigner usingAs ANY reusable cup!

We LOVE rewarding you will for being you be expected to work with SUBU, BU and local shops to promote awareness of Fairtrade, what it is, and howGreen! it helps producers in Third World Countries to earn a better living, and in a safer way. You will be very busy and active during the International Fairtrade Fortnight Campaign with pop up stands around campus. You will also work closely with Ethical Food Campaigners as well.

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Plastic Oceans/Nurdle Hunting If you want to prevent the glorious beaches of Bournemouth turning in to a plastic soup, this is for you.

You will run campaigns and events such as Nurdling to raise awareness of how plastic is damaging our oceans and the creatures that live in them. You will support national and international campaigns such as Sky Plastic Oceans and The Great British Nurdle Hunt, and promote them around campus and in the community. You will also work closely with the Volunteer Leaders who run the Beach Champion volunteering days to encourage students to volunteer and help keep our Dorset Beaches free from plastics and other litter.

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Education for Sustainable Development This is a campaign to lobby the university about how they can be responsible for better education for students on sustainable development. The campaign will help other students on and off campus, and in the community, to ask questions about understanding and awareness of sustainable development and lobbying the university to be better educated on how to live more sustainable lives.

Divestment from Fossil Fuels

Ethical Food Campaign

Divestment from Fossil Fuels, means campaigning to organisations who invest their money with banks, who in turn, invest the money with companies who fund programmes to extract fossil fuels for industry from the earth’s natural resources in an unsustainable way. This is a campaign to raise awareness about encouraging companies to divest their money away from fossil fuels, and to encourage all students to think about their graduate careers, and ask the question of any organisations they work for about their ethical and sustainable investment practices.

With this campaign, you will be asking other students things like ‘how bad are bananas?’ You will be making students and staff think about the carbon footprint of food production and sales around the world and asking things like what has the highest carbon footprint – a bunch of bananas or a pair of new jeans? You will also work closely with Fairtrade Campaigners as well.

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Community Volunteering Lansdowne Officer

Our Community student bodies Volunteering Leadership Team Community Volunteer Chair The Community Volunteer Chair hosts the Volunteer Fair, and other volunteering campaigns and events throughout the year, such as National Student Volunteer Week, and regularly run campus campaigns to recruit students to take part in volunteering.

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Community Volunteering Vice Chair The Vice Chair supports the Chair, and the rest of the Volunteer Leadership Team. It entails a variety of things, from scheduling meetings to organising leadership Team socials. You will be responsible for sending invitations and collecting apologies for meetings as well as being responsible for minutes and circulating them to the team.

The Vice Chair will also collect information on volunteering events for the Media and Events Officer to use for the Community news letter to ensure events are adequately advertised.

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Preferably you are a Lansdowne based student as this role is based on representing students who study and want to volunteer at the Lansdowne. You will conduct research on what Lansdowne Students require in the way of volunteering and you will also work closely with the Lansdowne Student Council to let them know about Volunteering events that are run at the Lansdowne.

BE YOU

How to apply Go to SUBU.org.uk/ volunteer

Volunteering Media and Events Officer

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BE YOU

The Media and Events Officer liaises with the rest of the Leadership Team to plan community volunteering events on and off campus and market and advertise them to students.

They also work closely with the Communications Assistant in the Community Team, to promote up and coming volunteering opportunities and events.

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Green Taskforce Lansdowne Officer

Green task force leadership team The Green Taskforce Leadership Team hosts campaigns and events to do with the environment, green impact, and sustainability, throughout the year, such as Go Green Week, and Fairtrade Fortnight, and regularly run campus campaigns to recruit other students to take part in sustainable best practices and help raise awareness of all the green stuff.

Green Taskforce Chair The Green Taskforce Chair attends the NUS Student Sustainability Summit and organises and runs Go Green Week and supports all the other campaigns such as Fairtrade Fortnight, and other green events, and promote International Earth Day.

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Green Taskforce Vice-chair The GTF Vice - Chair supports the Chair and the rest of the GTF Leadership Team, and will schedule meetings to organise Leadership Team socials. You are responsible for sending invitations and collecting apologies for meeting, writing up and circulating minutes.

The Vice-chair will collect information on Green campaigns for the Media and Events Officer to use, for the GTF Newsletter to ensure campaigns are promoted and advertised.

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Preferably you are a Lansdowne based student, as this role is based on representing students who study and want to run green campaigns at the Lansdowne. You will conduct research on what Lansdowne Students require in the way of green campaigning.

You will work closely with the Lansdowne Student Council to let them know about Green taskforce events that are run at the Lansdowne Campus.

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Chloe Humphreys

BE YOU

How to apply Go to SUBU.org.uk/green

Green Taskforce Media and Events Officer

BE YOU

The Media and Events Officer liaises with the rest of the Leadership Team to plan Green Taskforce Campaigns and events on and off campus and market and advertise them to students.

They also work closely with the Communications Assistant in the Community Team, to promote up and coming Green campaigns and events.

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Community COuncil General Secretary

This council is there to help students with community issues; everything from housing issues, to the environment to volunteering for students in the local community. You could be a student representative on the Community Council.

www.subu.org.uk/community

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RESIDENTS outreach officer

This role will require you to represent students living in the Student Village. You will look at issues surrounding the standard of living as well as the health and wellbeing of these students. You will be working with the Community and Welfare departments as well as SUBU Advice and BU Accommodation managers to work on issues surrounding these areas. Ideally, this role will be taken on by someone living in the Student Village.

This Officer will be responsible for communicating the time and place of meetings, writing the meeting minutes, and communicating with the student body what the council have been up to.

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Halls accommodation officer

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Halls health and wellbeing officer

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HOUSING OFFICER This role will require you to represent students who aren’t living in halls and instead are living in the wider Bournemouth community. You will be working with the Community department as well as SUBU Advice and the SUBU Reps department to ensure that students are aware of the services available to them such as our feedback system SimOn and campaigns such as The Big Give.

This role will require you to be on hand for issues surrounding anything involving standard of living in halls. You will work closely with the Community department as well as SUBU Advice and attend meetings with BU Accommodation managers in order to represent the interests of students living in halls.

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This role will require you to work on the welfare side of living in halls. You will work with the Community and Welfare departments, as well as SUBU Advice and BU Accommodation managers to work on issues affecting the wellbeing of students living in halls. You will also come up with and work on campaigns to improve student wellbeing in halls.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH OFFICER

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This role will require you to be part of the link between students and the residents of Bournemouth. You will be working with the Community department to make sure students and residents are able to have a clear idea of who to turn to for advice on any issues they may face.

You will also be running campaigns based on feedback from students and residents on how we can change or improve living situations.

This role will require you to be part of the link between students and the wider Bournemouth community such a businesses and charities in the area.

You will be working with the Community department in order to strengthen that link and make sure that both SUBU and the community are able to benefit from each other.

Hello! I’m Chloe and I’m the Green Taskforce chair for 2017/2018. We aim to try and encourage the university and the student body to be more environmentally friendly. I’m hoping to show everyone that being green doesn’t mean compromise and to organise some really fun socials for next year. Hope to see you soon, especially at Fresher’s Fair! See you soon!

How to apply Go to

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Chloe Humphreys Volunteering chair

Hi I am Vaishni your Volunteering Chair for 2017/2018. Volunteering is such a rewarding experience that comes with so many benefits - you get to meet new people, have fun, create memories and really make a difference during your university life! There’s so much to get involved with, so get involved and make the most out of your university experience!

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How to Become a leader

What does it take to become a leader?

Have good time management

Be prepared to put the time in, attend regular meetings.

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Organised

To be a leader you should be

Act as an ambassador for other students, to promote all the great activities events and campaigns run by you.

Communicate with the SUBU Community Team on a regular basis, and keep them updated with what you are doing. Eg, regularly checking your emails and replying to them.

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Have commitment and dedication

Prepared to fill in some paperwork!!!

For all events that you run, there will be some paper work involved, mainly risk assessments, and noting who has attended your event. Don’t worry, it’s all included in the training that SUBU will provide you with as a Leader.

Prepared to recruit students to help you with campus events, volunteering activities and attend events in the Bournemouth and Dorset Community.

Passionate about your chosen project or campaign and imparting your knowledge to others.

For any students who become Leaders either as Volunteers, as part of the Green Taskforce, or on the Leadership Teams, you will need to apply for the role, and take part in a short interview with the SUBU Community Team, in order to become appointed to the role.

(This is with the exception of the Chair roles, which are elected roles. Elections take place in May each year, for the Chair to fill the role in time for the start of the academic year.)

If you would like to apply for any of the Leadership roles you have read about in this booklet, please go to the following link and complete the application form.

What does SUBU provide in the way of support for leaders?

Initial Leadership Training. This is usually residential, and off site for two days, to help you understand about being a leader, and how to plan your role, for the forthcoming year.

Risk Assessment Training – this will be part of the Initial Leadership Training, to make sure that you understand Risk Assessment and can run your event or campaign safely.

SUBU will be the main point of contact for help and support with any of your campaigns, vents and volunteering.

Support from the Full Time Officers, who will be supportive of your events campaigns and volunteering, and happy to help you if you would like them to – just pop up and see them on Floor 1 of the Student Centre on the Talbot Campus. For most of the campaigns they will be supported by the Vice-President Community and the Vice-President Welfare.

Termly meetings and socials with the Community Team, to share experiences, best practice, and have a good giggle.

Ongoing ad-hoc support where needed.

Chloe Humphreys

Volunteering To apply to be a Volunteer Leader To apply to be a Green Takforce Campaign Leader

www.subu.org.uk /main-menu/activities /subu-volunteering /volunteeringrecruitment

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Greentaskforce www.subu.org.uk /green

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Subu communty wardens

SUBU leadership award The SUBU Leadership Award gives recognition and rewards you, for the knowledge, skills and confidence you develop in your Leadership role.

The award consists of 5 Levels, Levels 1-3 of the Award will be done based on your role in SUBU (Reps, Community, Activities, Part Time Officer). This means you could potentially get 4 consecutive Level 3’s if you are involved in all 4 areas. Once Level 3 is completed in any role you can then work towards Level 4 and 5 of the SUBU Leadership 21

Award where you will consolidate your skills and experience so far and apply that to a Leadership Activity supported by SUBU. The Award requires you to take part in workshops, these will give you transferrable and key employability skills not only developing you as a Leader but also enhancing your CV ensuring you stand out from the crowd when looking for a job during and after University!

For more information about the Leadership Award, click here, or ask a member of the SUBU Community Team.

Chloe Humphreys

www.subu.org.uk/ subuleadershipawards

Each year SUBU employs around 10 students to be Community Wardens.

The Wardens patrol about 50 roads and streets in the Winton and Charminster district, between the Talbot and Lansdowne campus’.

the local community.

Student Community Common community matters that the Wardens Wardens need to have lived in Bournemouth deal with are things like for at least one year, noise, parking, bins and house security, as well as and have a reasonable knowledge of the area. helping students know what to do about housing They are recruited between May and issues such as mould, damp, and faulty boilers, September, ready for The wardens work patrolling at the start of gas or electrics, and pro-actively towards the academic year. dealing with Landlords making the local and Letting Agents. community a safer, If you are interested in cleaner and greener The Community Wardens becoming a Community place for Warden, or you have work in partnership with all residents, a question for the Bournemouth Borough and foster good community wardens, Council and Dorset relations between Police, and Winton you can email the student and Community Forum to non-student help students have www.subu.org.uk/ residents. a positive impact on communitywardens Chloe Humphreys

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Contact us SUBU Community Team 2nd floor of the Student centre Studland House, Lansdowne Campus SUBUvolunteering@bournemouth.ac.uk subucommunitywardens@bournemouth.ac.uk www.subu.org.uk/community /subu.volunteering /SUBUGreenTaskForce @SUBUVolunteer @SUBUGreen

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