We’re launching a new project called 'I Am The Change' on Thursday 24 November, which is designed to encourage students to make positive changes which NUS can help bring about. Helping students to feel they can make a difference is what students’ unions are all about, and we’re sure that together we can make this project a success.
We have put together an animation to promote the project, which has been previewed at events like Zone Conferences and Student Activism 2011.
The video is going to link to a website where students can upload their picture and write details of a positive change they’d like to make - this change could be about education, the community, the environment, personal development, health and wellbeing, careers or politics.
Specifically, there may be students who want to make changes on your campus.
All visitors to the website will then vote for their favourite idea, and the most popular ones will be in with a chance of receiving training and a campaign budget to help deliver the campaign.
Your students’ union can be a part of this project by promoting it to your members. For example, on the launch day you can embed the video onto your website, tweet about it, or ‘like’ the I Am The Change website.
We have put together a series of assets to help you launch the 'I Am The Change' project on your website and other online channels:
Please take a look at the video, and let us know your ideas for promoting this project to your members by emailing dan.higgins@nus.org.uk , so that together we can empower students to Be The Change.