![]() The union executive committee 2012/13, taking questions at the 411th (1st) Union Council in October 2012. Recently, the Union has started to address a number of pressing challenges presented by the dynamism and growth of the university under Sir Colin Campbell – such as provision of union services to members at East Midland sites beyond the main Nottingham campuses. The renaming was intended to clarify the Union's status as a students' union. Prior to 2000, the University of Nottingham Students' Union was known as the University of Nottingham Union, abbreviated to UNU. Membership rose by 23,000 in the same period, whilst staff numbers more than trebled. The pace of change in the Union accelerated after the Robbins Report, as rises in student numbers drove it towards a bigger capacity, more permanent staff and sabbatical officers, more rooms and offices and bigger turnovers and budgets. This did lead to some positive results, such as student representation of many University committees – an opportunity openly satirised by the 1980s as less of a revolutionary shift than expected. This system worked well for over two decades, before a critical mass of students came to live outside halls, at which point the strong communities on which the guild system was based lost their universality.ĭuring the 1970s the Union took on a more militant air, with sit-ins and student strikes. In the 1960s, the Union rationalised its representative system into a series of guilds, mostly based on halls of residence as 'constituencies'. By 1956, the Portland Building had been opened, and was originally designated as a Union building, but although the Union is the major user, the management of the building has always rested with the University. In 1928 the expanding college moved to the new out-of town Highfields Estate and here the Union's first permanent residence was in the lower corridor of the Trent Building. The Gong Magazine (now Impact, having been Gongster and Bias at various points) initiated in 1939 was an early sign of developing union life. ![]() ![]() At the old university college site in the city centre the 'RAG' started in 1923. The Union's activity started in the 1880s when a cycling club was formed. The Students' Union is a charitable organisation, enshrined by legislation such as the Education Act 1994, and responsible for a number of areas of work: student representation, student activities, student advice on education and welfare, and campaigning. The Portland Building's rear entrance during snow in December 2010 The Union obtained charitable status in 2010 and is overseen by a Board of Trustees made up of student-elected sabbatical officers and full-time staff. As such the University of Nottingham Students' Union has over 32,000 members. The union receives a block grant from the university of over £2 million to support its activities, although the union also raises money through income streams such as the Union shop and a bar.Īll members of the University of Nottingham are automatically members of the Students' Union, unless they use their right to opt out of membership. The Students' Union is housed in the Portland Building on University Park campus, a building shared with some non-student union activities. It is a representative body that aims to represent students to both the university and the wider community. The University of Nottingham Students' Union (often abbreviated as UoNSU ) is the students' union at the University of Nottingham, England. National Postgraduate Committee Citizens UK Portland Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD University of Nottingham Students' Union 250px
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