It has been the most frantic of first semesters at HUU, records have been broken throughout
whether it was numbers at welcome week events, record amount of money raised for charity by
RAG already with the rest of the year left to go, record number of users for our job exchange and
a record number of members for the AU and societies. In the last 12 weeks we have also held
HUU’s first event in the city of Hull, an on campus rally, participated in two marches in London on
University funding to which we took over 400 students accompanied by a lobby of parliament where
we made national press by persuading three of the six Conservative MPs who voted against their
government to do so.
As a sabbatical team we have spent much of our university focus on improving the library and so far
we have won for you extended library opening hours, extended the use of the short loan system
and there is more to come in semester two with a high profile library campaign based on two year’s
worth of research being unveiled in January by Matthew Barrow our VP Education and will take
much of the focus in the second semester.
In the upcoming semester there is much to look forward to and get excited about, from elections,
HUU media’s partnership with the BBC and candlelight charity. We will also have our SUEI audit.
SUEI is the most significant of measures of how good a student union is and is backed by NUS and
the government. We are at the forefront of its use and will be the first union to go for a second
evaluation looking to improve on our 2008 Silver award. To get Gold is a long ambition of HUU and
is our main aim as an organisation. The only two other unions to achieve this are Sheffield and Leeds
in the last three years so it will be a true sign of how outstanding this union truly is and thanks to a
record number of students filling in the Student Satisfaction survey we know we are well placed to
achieve gold and will be working hard in the new year to keep up the relentless pace that we are
moving at to secure better university services for all students, improve our own services and secure
SUEI gold as recognition for all the hard work that all students and staff have put into the Union over
the last few years.
Happy holidays and a successful New Year
Aidan Mersh
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