Democracy

Union Council and Executive Committee

Union Council

A bit like a student parliament, Council exists to debate, amend and pass policy as well as hold your Officers to account.

Union Council is made up of the 7 Sabbatical Officers, 36 Part-time Officers and elected Councillors representing their year group, 9 First Year Councillors, 8 Second Year Councillors, 7 Third Year Councillors, 4 Fourth Year+ Councillors and 9 Postgraduate Councillors.

Any student can submit business, attend meetings and speak, however, only elected Union Council members can vote. Meetings take place in Meeting Rooms 4&5 in Warwick SUHQ and commence at 5.00pm. Meeting dates for the year 2011/12 are:

Term 1

• Monday, Week 4 (24th October)
• Monday, Week 7 (14th November)
• Monday, Week 10 (5th December)

Term 2

• Monday, Week 3 (23rd January)
• Monday, Week 7 (20th February)
• Monday, Week 10 (12th March)

Term 3

• Monday, Week 4 (14th May)

All Agendas and Minutes are available through the Warwick SU website.

The majority of Union policy is passed through this body. Policies passed at Union Council are able to be lapsed, overturned or amended at a General Meeting, Referendum or a further Union Council meeting.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is a smaller group of 16 people, members include the Sabbatical Officers, Committee Chairs and Forum Co-ordinators. Executive Committee is the body that ensures that all policy is implemented, in other words that our policy does what it says it will. The Executive Committee have the power to make policy should Union Council be unable to convene or in the case of policy being required during any vacation period.

All Agendas and Minutes are available through the Warwick SU website.

The Project Fund

The Project Fund is a sum of money, administered by the Executive Committee to be awarded to projects which mainly fall under the following categories:

• Academic projects where a lack of funding would prevent a student from participating in an activity beneficial to their work
• Society or Sports Club Projects where funding is not available elsewhere
• Individual projects which are not linked to a particular Society or Sports Club
• Projects in the local community

Further details on the Project Fund can be found online.