https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/big-su-survey-member-funding-report-2025-pdf

Summary: A report into SU funding based on data collected in the Big SU Survey 24/25 Audience: any SU staff wishing to analyse funding in the sector. Length: 32 page pdf There is an accompanying excel sheet with raw data which can be found at https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/articles/big-su...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/big-su-survey-member-funding-dataset-2025-xlsx

Summary: An excel workbook detailing the blockgrant data for SUs - for 21/22, 22/23, 23/24, 24/25 and where available forecasts for 25/26. Also includes data from the Charity Commission and OSCR based on charity annual returns. Version: V1.1 prepared 07/03/25 Audience: any SU staff wishing ...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/resources/employee-engagement-survey-2025-core-questions

Summary: This document contains the set of core questions for this year's Employee Engagement Survey.  Length: 9 pages, PDF Audience: HR or SMT staff in Students' Unions looking to participate in the Employee Engagement Survey. Contact: su.careers@nus.org.uk

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/articles/nus-launches-new-su-sa-officer-networking-groups-for-2025-2026

All new and returning Officers can now connect with colleagues from across the movement through our new networking groups, hosted on WhatsApp.   Connection and curation is a core part of what we do here at NUS Charity. We work to connect students’ unions to one another to share expertis...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/learning-resources/hr-hub/employment-guidance/minimum-and-national-living-wage-real-living-wage-and-statutory-pay-rates

National Living/Minimum Wage Rates The rates change at the start April every year. Effective from 1 April 2025: Apprentices and those aged 16-17yrs - £7.55 18 to 20yrs old - £10.00 21yrs old and over - £12.21   Real Living Wage For those who have signed up to the Real ...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/learning-resources/hr-hub/employee-engagement-survey-for-sus

  The Employee Engagement Survey supports SUs to measure the engagement and satisfaction of their staff and benchmark results against previous years, the sector and wider charity sector trends.   Sign ups for the Employee Engagement Survey 2025 are now closed. For SUs taking part in...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/learning-resources/hr-hub/employee-engagement-survey-for-students-unions/employeeengagementinsights

75 different students’ unions/associations have participated since the pilot in 2013 and, the value of this collective information is now recognised as a key source of data on people working in the movement.    Join us on a webinar series based on the movement-wide data from this year's Emp...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/trading-support/programme-information/programmes/ppl-opt-in-scheme

Background to the PPL Opt-In Scheme NUS Services have had a negotiated discount deal in place with PPL since PPL successfully obtained a restriction on Section 67 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act (1988) that previously provided a blanket exemption from PPL licensing of publicly per...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/introducing-union-development/welsh-student-voice-project/welsh-academic-communities-experiment

Welsh Academic Communities Experiment Most students’ unions support academic societies and academic representation, very few combine these activities into one cohesive model. The Welsh Academic Communities Experiment proposes that combining academic society activities and student representatio...

https://www.nusconnect.org.uk/introducing-union-development/welsh-student-voice-project/details-for-su-involvement-in-the-welsh-academic-communities-experiment

Details for SU involvement in the Welsh Academic Communities Experiment Complete students’ union data collection survey Access the SU data collection survey here This survey should be completed by student voice and student opportunities staff Will take around 15 minutes to complete ...