Our societies have had a great year of achievements! Here's a highlight of amazing successes from our societies this academic year:

EQHO Hip-Hop's competition team entered their advanced and intermediate competitions teams into the Sheffield and Go Hard or Go Home 2025 competitions. In terms of placings, their intermediate team came 2nd out of 17 teams in their intermediate street category at Go Hard or Go Home which was such an incredible result!

Entrepreneurs held a meet your co-founder event in January where students in the ideation phase or those interested in pursuing a venture in the future could speak to other like-minded students and discuss their ideas hosted in collaboration with LSESU Entrepreneurs, Imperial Entrepreneurs, Kickstart Global, KCL Tech Society and OX1 (Oxford). They received 200+ applicants for the 100 candidate capacity at the Shard and the event was extremely successful.

Warwick Quadball Club won bronze at the British Quadball Cup on the 10th and 11th of May!

Cyber Security ran our first conference (mic0nfig, run on the the 10th of May) . It was a student-focused cyber security conference, we had 109 attendees in total from all over the UK, the majority of them undergraduate and masters students.

RAW won a number of awards at the Student Radio Awards in 2024 including Gold - best multiplatform Initiative  and Gold for best news and journalistic programming

Doctor Who Society has won an interuniversity tournament called Whoniversity Challenge! Whoniversity Challenge is a competition between 24 universities that tested knowledge related to Doctor Who.

STAR (Student Action for Refugee) has had a bunch of successes this year!

1.‘Family Open Day’ 

On Saturday 17th of May, our Equal Access Coordinators, alongside our Exec and volunteers, held a ‘Family Open Day’ , in collaboration with the Widening Participation Team at Warwick and Refugee Education UK. 

The day involved campus tours, a session from Crafting with Happiness and a presentation from Warwick Islamic Society on student life, as well as valuable information from the Widening Participation team regarding scholarships available at Warwick for people seeking sanctuary. 

2.Football training session & match

In April, in collaboration with the University of Warwick Women’s Football and Futsal Club, we hosted a football training session and match for participants from our Youth club, as part of our Refugee Welcome Initiative. The event gave an opportunity for a fun, welcoming and accessible space for individuals seeking sanctuary. 

3.Big Issue’s Top 100 Changemakers of the Year. 

STAR was named one of the Big Issue’s 100 Changemakers of the Year. This recognition placed us alongside some incredible organisations that campaign for refugee rights and offer safe, welcoming environments for education and support for people seeking sanctuary. 

4.    The first ever Charity-Summit at Warwick,

On 23rd November 2024, STAR hosted the first ever Charity Summit at Warwick. The day welcomed organisations such as Refugee Education UK, SOS Mediterranee, The Danish Refugee Council, Prisoners of Conscience and many more. Attendees engaged in impactful workshops concerning fundraising, campaigning and health inequalities.