Work together
#demo2012 provides a great opportunity to work with other unions in your local area. Pooling resources will help you get more students to the demo on a budget as well as bringing more ideas to the table – many hands make light work!
Top tips for working together
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The sooner you start planning the better. A group of FE unions in Yorkshire (Sheffield, Wakefield, Bradford, Kirklees and Leeds) are having regular regional networks and ensuring that #demo2012 is always on the agenda. If you haven’t already met with other unions near to you, then arrange a meet up soon.
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Share the workload. No one person in your union should have all the responsibility for your demo efforts. Decide early who will take on different tasks and keep each other up to date on your progress.
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Identify where it would be beneficial to work together – lots of unions including Bradford College SU are looking into block booking coaches with local unions get a bigger discount.
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Keep in touch. Make sure you plan regular catch ups with the other unions you’re working with. Make commitments now and stick to them.
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Set shared goals. Liverpool Guild, Liverpool SU and Liverpool Hope SU have set a joint target of bringing 1000 students from the city of Liverpool.
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Use the Demo as an opportunity to work with your local HE and FE unions. Derby SU have been looking for a meaningful way to work with their local FE unions and are using the #demo2012 to start building a partnership with them.
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Think beyond your town or city – Glyndwr and Bangor are over 60 miles away from each other but are exploring sharing coaches and using pick up points to get a strong contingent of students from North Wales down to London.
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Don’t forget about your post demo campaigns. Now is the perfect time to identify shared campaign aims and map how you can continue to work together when you get back from the demo.
How are YOU planning for the Demo?
Got some exciting mobilising plans? A genius way of raising extra money for coaches? Reckon you can beat Liverpool’s target of 1000 students?
Let us know at campaigns@nus.org.uk and you might just appear in next week’s Tip of The Week…
10 WEEKS ‘TIL THE DEMO