Read to find out what Fina has been up to over the last month!

• UMHC
  • Prepping for the assessment days with lots of briefing meetings and discussion
  • Reading gather background to prep for the panels I will be sitting on
• SHAG week
  • Successful pop-ups on both Penryn and Woodline campuses
  • Free sessions with yoga, pole, and life drawing societies
  • Curated and ran an opening night for Sexhibition at the fish factory
    • Over 120 people came to opening night and variety of students in the pole society preformed
    • Exhibit was up for two weeks with lots of positive feedback from both the students and local community members
• Elections
  • Successfully hosted question time with candidates, making sure students heard what our candidates stood for and keeping the candidates as calm and at ease as possible!
  • Checking in on a variety of candidates to make sure they were doing ok and walking around campus convincing people to vote took up a lot of the election week
• Busses
  • After creating some stellar Instagram content calling for students to help us research buses we have successfully pick 4 students to help us research the provision at Falmouth and Exeter's main competitors
    • These students will bring us data around how other universities help make bus travel affordable for students and we will  then use this to pressure our universities to do better.
    • Stay tuned for more updates on this coming soon!
• VC tea
  • Jadelle and I attended our termly tea with the Falmouth Vice Chancellor where we updated her on the projects and campaigns we have been running and she commended us on how well the SU has been doing this year as opposed to previously
• Falmouth international committee
  • Attended the international committee for Falmouth where I advocated for more support for Falmouth international students, and better communication with students when closing feedback loops
  • Have ensured that a standing agenda item be added to committee meetings for international student issues that have been directly through the SU via officers and SSLGs
• Cornwall council
  • With the assistance of FXPLUS we have scheduled a meeting with the council to discuss the state of student housing and how we can support students in knowing their rights and how to go about talking to the council when the state of their housing becomes extremely bad.
    • This will hopefully be the first of many meetings with the council so that we can continue to make them aware and advocate for student rights in the local community
• UMH&W strategy writing
  • I have sat on the wellbeing inclusion and culture committee which provides overall steering for Exeter's new mental health and wellbeing strategy. I have used this space to advocate for student wellbeing being at the centre of all pillars of the strategy
    • I have also sat in on the strategy writing groups to ensure that the wording of the strategy is written in a clear way for students to comprehend what it really means