Annual Fund Now Recruiting Student Call Team

Posted 126 Months Ago

Support the Annual Fund and earn £7.50 per hour, plus bonuses!

This is your chance to:

• EARN CASH
• ADD TO YOUR CV
• GET VALUABLE WORK EXPERIENCE
• MEET NEW PEOPLE
• HAVE FUN

Heriot-Watt Alumni are looking for a team of 50 students to work part-time at the Edinburgh campus in the evenings (18:15-21:30) and weekends (Sat 10:45-17:00, Sun 13:45-20:00) on a telephone fundraising campaign, calling Heriot-Watt graduates to raise money for the Annual Fund. Full training will be given.

The Campaign runs from Saturday 24^th January to Sunday 1^st March 2015.

Fill in the online application form here www.hw.ac.uk/telethon2015

or email steve.watson@hw.ac.uk to receive the link by email or for further information.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Monday 1^st December 2014, 5.00pm. Deadline extended to Friday 12th December, 5.00pm

Can we experiment on you

Posted 126 Months Ago

We’re offering Heriot-Watt students a unique opportunity to win up to £150* in prizes and make a real contribution to the future of student life at Heriot-Watt, by completing the Student Survey 2014.

We are conducting a student experiment throughout this semester designed to help us understand what students are interested in and what they need from their University experience. This survey is the first part of this.

Click here to complete survey

It will only take around 15 minutes and will help us give you more of what you want, less of what you don’t and generally help your Union do a better job for all students. We need all of your views, even if you have no regular contact with the Students’ Union.

Thank you for making sure your voice is heard! There will be further opportunities to get involved later in the semester.

*Random draw of all complete responses will take place at the close of the survey in early November: First prize £150; 4x Runner-Up prizes of £25

By Election Results 2014

Posted 127 Months Ago

And the results are in! Thank you to everyone who voted. The winners are shown below, but for more information and to download the count sheets, visit www.hwunion.com/elections/results.

Executive Committee (3 places)

Mina Kostova

Luke McKeown

Iswarya Ravichandran

Executive Committee (SBC place)

Aaron Murphy

Disabled Students Officer

Heather Martin

Women's Officer

Lamia Begic (elected unopposed)

NUS Scotland Delegation (Women's Place)

Iswarya Ravichandran

NUS Scotland Delegation (Open Places)

Cal Dempsey

Peter Gilchrist

Rahul Singh

NUS National Delegation

Marc Long

Rahul Singh

Therapet

Posted 127 Months Ago

Are you stressed out?  Do you think a cuddle from a dog would help you to de-stress??

Well good news!  In partnership with Therapet, the Healthy Universities Strategy Group are bringing “pet therapy” to Heriot-Watt on Wednesday 8^th Oct from 11.30 – 13.30 in the student union.  Specially trained calming pooches will be on hand as part of our activities to mark World Mental Health Day.   You can book a 20 min slot and have a cuddle from a lovely dog and you will be amazed at how spending some time with these cute canines can help ease your stress! 

We have limited availability and all slots will be booked on a first come first served basis.  If these sessions prove popular we will be looking to host another one later in the year. 

Booking will go live on Wednesday 1^st October 2014 at 10am, we will send out the link Wednesday morning.

Remember that we’re also launching our involvement with the SANE black dog campaign on Friday 10^th October. You can have your picture taken with the first Black Dog statue – named Angus – brought to Scotland in partnership with SANE and Ryden property consultants last year.

The aims of the campaign are to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness and encourage people to seek help early, rather than suffering in silence using visually striking Black Dog statues to raise awareness. More information can be found here www.sane.org.uk/ Heriot-Watt is launching fundraising activities so that we can bring the next SANE Black Dog to Scotland. If you would like to have your picture taken with the dog statue you can pop along to our event on Friday 10^th from 10am in the main reception, to book a slot contact Laura Fraser at L.Fraser@hw.ac.uk   

For more information about either event please contact Sharan Virdee on S.Virdee@hw.ac.uk or Sarah Robertson on sarah.robertson@hw.ac.uk