You Spoke. We Listened and We Are Changing.
We are excited to deliver our 2024-27 Strategy for Newman Students’ Union. This document is the culmination of the broadest insight and engagement process in our history. We spoke to over 14% of the student body at Newman as well as key stakeholders in the University and pre-university entry students at Halesowen College. You told us about your interests and passions and where your concerns and barriers lie.
From talking to you in focus groups, or in the many interactions we had over our ‘Let’s Talk’ Week, we realised that the direction we had been heading in needed to change, to best meet your needs now and for your future.
In the shadow of Covid-19, we had spent too long trying to replicate what student life looked like before the pandemic, and this just didn’t fit how you wanted your Students’ Union to be. During our Strategic Review process, we stripped the Union back to first principles, recognised what we are great at and where we should spend our time improving.
Our process has also covered a comprehensive governance review, in order to bring our structures and guiding documents in line with our new direction. This will be concluded in the summer of 2024.
From listening to your views and working with Union Staff and Officers over the past six months, we will be focusing our efforts over the next three years on developing services and initiatives around 4 key themes: Voice, Support, Community and Wellbeing.
With those themes in place and a clear understanding of what students want from their Students’ Union, we are confident that this strategy represents a great way forward for the Students’ Union at Birmingham Newman University.
This strategy will inform how we plan operationally year on year, to take into account changes in student need and the manifestos of our elected Student Officers.
We hope you enjoy reading our plan for Newman Students’ Union and engaging with us over the next three years.
An overview of our strategy can be found in this section of the website, or if you would like to download the full strategy document, click below.
