Main events of the next two weeks.
Sabbatical Elections
Voting for the Sabbatical Elections will open on Monday 5th March. Please get the message out to as many students as possible to encourage them to vote! If you are attending any meetings with large amounts of students please pop along to marketing and pick up some voting flyers to take with you. Every little helps..... Thankyou.
Staff Training and Development
Staff Update
Carmela Lear will be joining the Activities team as Activities Administator on Monday 12th March. Most of you will know Carmela so we warmly welcome her back to the Students' Union.
International Women's Day
When: Thursday 8 March 2012
Where: Everywhere
What: International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.
Why: Suffragettes campaigned for women's right to vote. The word 'Suffragette' is derived from the word "suffrage" meaning the right to vote. International Women's Day honours the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911
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Fair Trade Fortnight
It's Fair Trade Fortnight from 27th Feb until 11th March. The SU has been working with Hospitality and Catering, the University Retail Operations and People and Planet to support this initiative and all this week there will be stand in the Student Centre (27th - 2nd), staffed by People and Planet, giving away Fair Trade Goodies. You can also sign up to the Fair Trade Foundation's national campaign, "Take a Step" to be entered to win a hamper of Fair Trade goodies. Look out for all the blue and green foot prints around campus leading you to Fair Trade products.
As you know, the SU supports Fair Trade in the following ways:
All coffee sold behind the Bar is Fair Trade
We support Fair Trade Fortnight
Coffee/tea bought through the SU for the staff kitchen is Fair Trade.
If you have any ideas on how we can increase our support please let me know.
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60% of Fairtrade farmers and workers are based in Africa. Thanks to them we can buy Fairtrade cotton clothing, cosmetics, wine, fruit, coffee, tea,chocolate and much much more…
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19 million glasses of Fairtrade wine were enjoyed in the UK in 2010. You can buy Fairtrade wines in most major retailers and selected wine merchants. Or savour a glass in one of 137 Marston’s pubs across the UK.
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Three of the top chocolate brands in the UK are now Fairtrade. Look out for Kit Kats and Cadbury Dairy Milk bars with the FAIRTRADE Mark and from next summer, Maltesers too!
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Chichester Cathedral is the world’s first public building to display Fairtrade and Fairmined certified gold. In October 2011 a 3ft cockerel was gilded in Fairtrade certified gold and positioned atop the 270ft Cathedral spire.
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Three out of 10 bananas sold in the UK are Fairtrade. All bananas in Sainsbury’s are Fairtrade – they sell 1,200 Fairtrade bananas a minute adding up to a whopping 650 million a year.
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Fairtrade and Fairmined certified gold was launched this year on Valentine’s Day. The gold is mined by small scale artisanal miners in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Livia Firth wore Fairtrade gold to this year’s Oscar ceremony in LA.
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Model and TV presenter Lisa Butcher has just launched a range of Fairtrade cotton tee-shirts available from Tesco online.
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Thousands of people up and down the country will be taking a Step for Fairtrade in 2012. They’ll be baking cakes, holding coffee mornings, pledging to drink Fairtrade tea for a year, persuading their office to switch to Fairtrade beverages and taking a step to buy more Fairtrade cotton clothing. Last year more than 5,000 events took place around the UK. What will your step for Fairtrade be?
Kitchen Update
You may have noticed but just to let you all know there is now a Handryer in the Staff Kitchen this is a result of staff feedback.
Endsleigh Staff Benefits
Did you know, as a University Staff member, you’re entitled to additional benefits with Endsleigh? We can offer 12 month’s car insurance for the price of just 11 months. Use the promotion code UNM01 online or mention it on the phone to unlock this saving.*
Plus, on all home insurance we provide...
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£50,000 worth of legal cover included
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Downloaded music cover - not only can we cover PCs, laptops and MP3 players, but we’ll also cover downloaded music
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Garden Contents included as standard
* Terms and conditions apply.
Ethical and Environmental Update
David Cameron
So hopefully you have seen the posters that have been updated to remind you where to recycle all of your rubbish including things that you may not be aware that we recycle, like stamps! We are also working on getting a small box in the Resource Room to collect CDs and DVDs for recycling. You should also remember to recycle anything no matter how obscure - take mobile phones for instance, either the porters can take them or you could get cash for it using an online recycling firm!
You should also remember to turn off the lights and computers that you use as you go and not leave them on all night. Turning off monitors and computers overnight can save £100 per person over a year! Think of the savings! You should also remember to turn the lights off as you leave rooms, particularly your offices before going to meetings, as this can be very inefficient due to the heat that is lost when producing the light.
Varsity Day
Sports Varsity Event, Saturday 24th March, Rugby Match 1730, Bath rugby Club.
Hospitality boxes available at Bath Rugby.. £250 per box, fits 20 people, £12.50 each includes curry and Rice, drinks etc. Anyone welcome, contact the SA office for further information.
Birthdays
Happy Birthday to Ian (2nd March), and Fiona (3rd March)
Rag Week
If you missed it here are a few snaps from Gunk a Sabb. Congratulations to the Sabbs who raised over £600 for RAG Week.
LGBT Awareness Week
As well as being gunked our sabbs have been dressing up in drag for LGBT Awareness Week. So in case you missed it here are a few snaps for you.
Photo of the fortnight
Taken by our student photographer Thomas Reis
Get to Know You
Full Name: Fiona Carylon
How long have you worked at BUSU? Almost two years
What is your favourite film? American Beauty
Who is your favourite band? Muse
What place in the world would you most like to visit? New Zealand
What did you want to be when you were younger? A teacher
One funny fact about you? A restaurant once sold pieces of my birthday cake all day before we got there, as they thought it was one of their own.
Mind Trap
1.) Which word from group B belongs to group A and why?
A) FRONT, SKI, MELON, FALL
B) ROAD, TIRE, TOWER, CLIFF
2.) Shadow asked his secretary to make him a coffee. While the secretary was making the coffee, her clip on earring fell into the cup. Even though the cup hd cofee in it, the earing didn't get wet. How is this possible?
3.) What is the beginning of eternity. the end of time, the beginning of every end and the end of every place?