Your FTOs have been a busy bunch this year! Check out their wins here.

Enaya Nihal - President:

• Wrote the SU’s Archive-inspired 60th Anniversary Yearbook in collaboration with hundreds of current exec members, alumni and staff (especially Marketing!). Ran a launch event and exhibition with Celine (from Student Voice) to thank everyone who had contributed to it - especially execs and alumni from all 6 decades!
• Lobbying Parliament with NUS and RGSU: We met with MPs and Lords, including Zarah Sultana, and collectively lobbied them with sabbs from all over the country for amendments to the Renter’s Rights Bill and pushing for the International Students’ Experience project through the APPG.
• Safer Warwick: We’ve finally got Safezone!! Download it on your phones to be a single click away from First Aid and Emergency contacts. We fixed & added 300+ lights on campus, and achieved the Egalitarian’s Safe Place certifications in SU venues thanks to Community Safety, Estates, UHSEC & our Operations team. I’ve also been able to work with Coventry City Council on the Purple Flag Scheme, and with Warwickshire District Council on expanding the Safe Place to include Fridays and Saturdays (check them out at Jephson Gardens!)
• Seeing the results of the hard work Anna, Sophie, Muneeba and I, as well as student and staff members from WA4P and WSWP, put into the Demilitarization paper that led to the Ethical Assurance Review (on Research Partnerships, Investments, Fundraising and Educational Partnerships) at University Council last year. I’ve been able to feed into the policy reviews at multiple sub-committees of Council and Senate all year, and we will finish the policy review by mid-July during my term!
• Making the (Free) Breakfast Club and End Period Poverty campaigns permanent with ringfenced budgets (£7,000 and £4,000 respectively) thanks to our Memberships, Finance and Operations teams. Also worked with Carly (from Marketing), who secured an Oatly deal for over £8,500 for the (Free) Breakfast Club and Curiositea’s special offers in Veganuary (plus the soft-serve!)

Muneeba Amjad - VP Education:

• Academic Rep Welcome Conference: This was run for the first time and was very successful, around 200 reps showed up, things ran relatively smoothly, and we have good feedback as well as knowing where to improve for next year.
• Renters Reform Bill: Successfully lobbied for the abolition of guarantors and for improving the renters reform bill at the NUS Lobby Day in Westminster with sabbs from Warwick and Coventry and MP Zarah Sultana.
• Earlier release of exam timetable: The University put a paper through to the quality and standards subcommittee to have the exam timetable released a week earlier, and the module registration deadline to be moved a week earlier (2 weeks instead of 3). This paper went through successfully, and will be implemented from the next academic year.
• Sustainability Careers Fair: Happened in collaboration with Sasha and Climate Justice, about 100 students attended, overall went well. event ran smoothly, with positive feedback from companies/stallholders and students. This is now feeding into the student involvement with careers, and embedding sustainability more heavily in career fairs/events.
• Student involvement in careers: Successfully got students on the working groups to feedback and make them more representative of what students want to see. I met with the head of engagement at student opportunity, and we are working on stronger student voice in planning careers fairs and events. Specifically this has involved contacting faculty reps/forum members/FTOs/PTOs/society exec to get a range of voices on each of the career sector working groups, and conversations are under way to set up collaborative events and input into fairs. This is also feeding into conversations around ethical educational partnerships and reviewing this policy.

Sasha King-Smith - VP Democracy and Development:

• Soft-launched the Ideas Platform, a space for students to make big changes with low effort, Check it out!!
• Successfully lobbied for reform of renters’ rights bill and met with Zarah Sultana as part of NUS Lobby Day.
• Co-Ran the first Sustainability Careers Fair.
• Co-Created a free student-led Swap Shop which led to the creation of Thrift Thursday, a monthly, sustainably sourced clothes event.
• Ran Liberation Assembly with NC and the Decol Advocates to develop a better understanding of liberation at WSU and try to support liberation Societies better.

Naomi Carter - VP Welfare and Campaigns:

• Designed, funded and released 150 Welfare Packs for clubs and societies.
• Co-designed the new Welfare training for our amazing club and society Welfare Officers, now being delivered via our new online platform!
• Relaunched our Sexual Health campaign – including awareness raising posters, updating Locker 21 and lobbying for free STI testing on campus
• Expanded my #EndPeriodPoverty campaign, recruiting 30 Menstrual Equity Ambassadors, handing out reusable products and funding the installation of permanent dispensers!
• Co-created a free student-led swap shop which led to the creation of Thrift Thursdays, a monthly, sustainably sourced clothes event.

Joe Stanley - VP Societies:

• Exec Training (Evolve and Presentation): This should improve the training and should mean the exec are in a much better position to be exec next year.
• Risk Assessments/ Other Planning Pack Improvements (tickets and accident report forms): These changes should mean the admin and paperwork for societies is reduced making it easier for them.
• SU Open at weekends: This has been implemented this term and hopefully with good attendance it should be more permanent.
• Societies on Digital Boards: I have managed to get an agreement whereby societies can market their events on digital screens which will be implemented this year.
• Secured more storage: Should be a 1/3 increase in storage capacity.
• (Finances - £500 payments not checked should speed up payments).

Louis Gosling - VP Sports:

• Secured £10,000 funding for a refurbishment of the Sports Arena storage areas, replacing the old, knackered filing cabinets with much safer, lockable cages.
• Reduced bureaucracy in financial processes by removing partial checks on all MRFs worth £500 or less, helping speed up payments significantly.
• Delivered the new Club Conference to revolutionise the training provided for 275 incoming execs.
• Awarded a record number of Sports Officer Bursaries, helping students in need of financial support access free sports club memberships.
• Elevated student input into decision making to its highest ever level, creating the Presidents’ Forum to provide unprecedented student insight into the new Sports strategy, and embedding students into processes such as annual session allocations and the TWP review.

Alijah Taha - VP Postgraduates:

• Delivered the Wellbeing Speaker Series, promoted neurodiversity awareness, and introduced Alpaca wellbeing sessions - helping to create a more supportive and inclusive environment for all students.
• Established the Postgraduate Forum as a permanent platform, inviting senior university management to directly hear from elected forum members and address the concerns of postgraduate community.
• Strengthened the relationship with The Boar by engaging openly and supporting the importance of independent student journalism on campus.
• Advocated for the continued importance of full-time postgraduate representation to ensure the unique needs of postgraduates are championed.
• Lobbied for the positive change with the replacement of Rootes Grocery Store with Co-op this summer, as part of efforts to improve affordability for students.