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SOS-UK SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS' UNIONS 2020-2021
SOS-UK
  SUPPORT FOR
STUDENTS’ UNIONS
   2020-2021
SOS-UK SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS' UNIONS 2020-2021
INTRODUCTION TO SOS-UK

Over summer 2019, in response to the climate
emergency and ecological crisis, student officers and
staff at NUS founded Students Organising for
Sustainability UK (SOS-UK) to go further and faster with
NUS’ transformational sustainability work.
SOS-UK is part of that NUS family that has been at the
forefront of social change since 1923 with 550 students’
union members representing 7 million students.
SOS-UK engages, inspires and empowers students to lead
on sustainability. Ours is a long-term investment in
education today for a better future tomorrow.
UNESCO recognise SOS-UK as global leaders of education
for sustainable development.
SOS-UK also runs programmes to support alcohol and
drugs harm reduction on campus.
SOS-UK is a charity.                                       Connect with us:

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OUR WORK IS DRIVEN BY STUDENT DEMAND

SOS-UK’s work is underpinned by findings from a national online survey which has been
running since 2010. The survey was completed by over 6,000 students in October 2018.
Findings include:

 88% say they agree their                   80% would like to see                    59% say sustainable
  place of study should                   sustainable development                development is something
 actively incorporate and                actively incorporated and                they would like to learn
   promote sustainable                 promoted through all courses                     more about
       development

Source: NUS Sustainability Skills Survey 2018-19 | Base: c.5565 respondents in higher education across the UK

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CALL TO ACTION- KEEP IN TOUCH!

If you are interested in working on issues relating to sustainability and climate justice or
drugs and alcohol harm reduction, please join our mailing list where we share monthly
updates and opportunities:

Join the SOS-UK mailing list

We also support NUS to run the following Facebook Workplace groups:
NUS Sustainability, Ethics and Climate Action
NUS Students and Alcohol

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GREEN IMPACT
STUDENTS' UNIONS

                          Green Impact Students’ Unions (GISU) is our
                           flagship sustainability support package and
                                           awards programme for SUs.

                                       It’s designed to help unions run
                          impactful projects and campaigns, using our
                            power as the student movement to create
                                                        lasting change.

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GREEN IMPACT STUDENTS’ UNIONS

•   A framework for union staff, officers and
    students to collaboratively address key issues
    to lead on embedding sustainability and
    social justice across campus, the
    curriculum, and wider society.

•   This supports SUs to build impactful projects
    and campaigns around climate justice and
    equality, curriculum reform, health and
    wellbeing and much more.

•   You’re joining our network. We provide
    opportunities to partner with other unions,
    hold networking events and share best
    practice through resources and case studies.

Find out more or email gisu@sos-uk.org
Embedding sustainability across campuses, curriculums and communities is
fundamental to representing our students, and strengthening our students’ unions.

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OUR FLAGSHIP
CAMPAIGNS 2020-2021

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TEACH THE FUTURE
Teach the Future is a campaign by secondary
and tertiary education students to repurpose
the UK education system around the climate
emergency and ecological crisis.
We call for
1. a review
2. teacher training
3. priority for sustainability in school inspections
4. a new emergency act of parliament .
The current and future generations of students
are going to grow up in a world greatly affected
by climate change. We deserve to be taught
about this so that we can understand the
impacts we will face.
We must be equipped with the skills to live
sustainably so that we can limit the progression
of climate breakdown as much as possible.

Find out More and get involved!

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INVEST FOR CHANGE
Invest for Change is a campaign to radically reform
how universities invest their endowments,
unleashing their positive potential to create a more
resilient and sustainable economy.

UK universities have over £15 billion of endowments
invested in holdings that frequently act against the
interests of students and the world they will graduate
into. Furthermore, investment decisions are often
left to externally appointed investment managers
with little engagement from the university itself.

We’re asking SUs to help us convince our universities
to invest in environmental and social justice
solutions, engage with investments to influence
wider corporation change and adopt responsible
investment policies that support a sustainable
future.

Find out more and get involved!

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NEW- DRUG IMPACT

From 2020-21 we are expanding our Alcohol
Impact accreditation to include a whole university
programme designed to foster a harm reduction
approach for drugs including alcohol on campus
and in the community.
The accreditation programme will provide
resources and practical guidance for use by
university institutions and students’ unions to help
them develop student/campus-specific drug harm
reduction policies and action plans.
We will be running a 2-year pilot with a limited
number of institutions. To register your interest
please email tracy.lumb@sos-uk.org

Full programme information.

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LEARNING ACADEMY

                                 The Learning Academy is our hub of
                            learning and development, with a range
                               of opportunities designed to progress
                          sustainability across the education sector.

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THE STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT

The Sustainability Summit is our flagship
sustainability event for students, officers and staff
from across the movement.
This year’s summit will be taking place online, across
the week of 2-6 November 2020.
The Sustainability Summit offers workshops, talks and
panel discussions with some of the UK’s top
environmental activists and campaigners, from
organisations including Friends of the Earth and People
and Planet, as well as the students and students' unions
leading the youth climate movement.
Connect with others involved with environmental and
climate justice campaigning , and gain practical skills in
community organising, campaign planning, liberation
and sustainability, and so much more.
The Summit is open to all students over the age of
16, as well as officers and staff from both the SU and
college/university. Some SUs send their Environmental
Committees.
If you have any queries please contact hello@sos-uk.org

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EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABILITY

Officer Sustainability Bootcamp £150 per attendee + VAT
Training for new part-time and full-time officers who have a sustainability and/or
environmental and ethics remit or interest in progressing this. This is an opportunity to gain a
deeper understanding of what it means to declare a climate emergency, how to do it and how
to develop a strategy to turn such a declaration into meaningful action.
Course reps & sustainability: an introduction to ESD £500 in-person delivery or £350 for online delivery
An introduction to sustainability and education for sustainable development for course
representatives. The training will explore how course reps can use their roles to contribute
towards progressing sustainability and Education for Sustainable Development in the
curriculum.
Sustainability and ethics: Integrating values into our professional lives TBC
A day's training course for students and/or staff from all programmes of study to explore
sustainability values and ethics, and bringing this into future careers regardless of specialism.
Sustainability & laboratories TBC
A half a day training course on exploring sustainability in laboratories. What are the key areas
that will make the biggest difference with procurement, resource use, wellbeing and
efficiency?
Sustainable students £500 + VAT
A session for students to understand what sustainability is, what it means to be sustainable,
and what actions students can take to help address the sustainability issues at their
institution.

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Carbon Literacy Contact for quote
Carbon Literacy is defined as: “An awareness of the
carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities,
and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on
an individual, community and organisational basis.”
This training will provide attendees with some
introductory science on climate change to understand
the social and environmental impacts of carbon dioxide
emissions. During the training attendees will begin to
develop their own toolkit and strategies for acting on
and communicating action on climate change.

This training is certified by The Carbon Literacy Project.
Upon successful completion of the training, learners will
be award a Carbon Literacy certificate.

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WELLBEING

Alcohol Awareness Training Contact for quote
This training will enable staff to deliver alcohol
awareness training to students and explore how to run a
successful alcohol awareness interventions. As
recommended by the recent UUK report into student
initiations, the training will also cover educating
students about the risks of consuming alcohol in large
quantities and guidance on caring for those who are
drunk.

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PROJECT & CAMPAIGN PLANNING & MANAGEMENT

Planning your sustainability campaign TBC
Developing impactful campaigns which make progress towards a set specific outcome, need
thoughtful planning and an awareness of building capacity and keeping up momentum.
Individual Social Material: Planning effective behaviour change interventions £500 + VAT
ISM is a practical tool, which allows us to think beyond the individual to consider all of the
contexts that shape people’s behaviours - the Individual, the Social and the Material.
Developing a theory of change £500 + VAT
A theory of change is a useful tool that can help organisations define what they want projects
and campaigns to achieve and how these achievements will be realised.
Monitoring your impact TBC
This training introduces a range of evaluation tools and approaches which enable the collection
of quantitative and qualitative data that will support understanding of impact.
Student project implementation training & support      Contact for quote

A bespoke training opportunity for students on project design, planning and implementation.
Students go on to implement their project on campus, or in the community.

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SUSTAINABLE FOOD

Starting a sustainable food social enterprise £500 + VAT
Since 2017 our Student Eats programme has worked with almost 80 student and staff groups to
help them establish sustainable food social enterprises on campus. These have included zero
waste shops/stalls, vegbox schemes, growing to sell and food preserving enterprises, pay-as-
you-feel cafes, beekeeping and many more. The impact has included access to affordable,
sustainable and healthy food, reduction in food waste and improved employability skills for
students.

Setting up a no-dig food growing site £500 + VAT
Over the last 8 years food growing has played a central role in Student Eats with our free
membership network bringing together students and staff across 70 sites to produce nutritious
and delicious food. Charles Dowding, a well-known no-dig gardener and author of 9 books, has
been supporting Student Eats and we're now focussing our support towards no-dig growing
methods. This technique leaves soil structure intact creating the potential to increase soil
carbon, water retention and produce food with higher nutritional benefits.

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INSTITUTION-WIDE
ENGAGEMENT
PROGRAMMES

                                        SOS-UK offer a broad range of
                                  university/college wide engagement
                           programmes around sustainability, as well as
                                    alcohol and drug harm reduction.

                               These programmes support SUs to work in
                          partnership with their university or college to
                          deliver positive change across the institution.

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ALCOHOL IMPACT

Alcohol Impact is our whole-university
programme and accreditation mark designed
to foster responsible drinking cultures for
students. The programme adopts social change
theory; aiming to reduce harm and improve
welfare, well-being and academic achievement –
whilst creating more inclusive spaces and
enhancing the student experience.
Full programme information.

DRINK RETHINK

Drink Rethink is a preventative approach which aims to
reduce high-risk drinking behaviour among students by
training student ambassadors to use a nationally
recognised evidence-based behaviour change tool
(Identification and Brief Advice - IBA) to deliver an alcohol
intervention on campus.
Full programme information.

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NEW- DRUG AND ALCOHOL IMPACT

From 2020-21 we are expanding our Alcohol
Impact accreditation to include a whole university
programme designed to foster drug harm
reduction on campus and in the community.
The accreditation programme will provide
resources and practical guidance for use by
university institutions and students’ unions to help
them develop student/campus-specific drug harm
reduction policies and action plans.
We will be running a 2-year pilot with a limited
number of institutions. To register your interest
please email tracy.lumb@sos-uk.org

Full programme information.

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SUSTAINABILITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMMES FOR UNIVERSITIES AND
COLLEGES
Student Switch Off is our multi award-winning
student sustainability programme - it provides a
structure for engagement to improve student
experience and carbon literacy by focusing on
quantifiable energy, waste and water reduction
within student accommodation.

Full programme information.

Green Impact is our UNESCO award-winning
change and engagement programme for
workplaces – this environmental accreditation
scheme helps staff and students understand
sustainability and social responsibility, gives a
framework for actions, and celebrates
achievement.

Full programme information.

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STUDENT EATS

Student Eats works with students and
staff at colleges and universities to create
a more equitable food system by putting
healthy and sustainable food at the heart of
campuses across the UK.

Full programme information.

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FAIRTRADE UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES

The Fairtrade Universities and Colleges accreditation is
run in partnership with the Fairtrade Foundation for
institutions that have made a commitment to supporting
and using Fairtrade. NUS research tells us that 90% of
students say they want to buy more products that don’t
harm the people that produce them and 84% say they
trust the Fairtrade Mark the most of all product marks.
From procuring more Fairtrade products to embedding
trade justice principles in policies and campaigns, the
award seeks to impact students, staff and producers.
Full programme information.

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EDUCATION
PROGRAMMES

                              SOS-UK education programmes work to
                          embed sustainability through all aspects of
                           the student learning experience, ensuring
                                  all students leave formal education
                                equipped to make the world a better
                                                               place.

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RESPONSIBLE FUTURES
Responsible Futures is our accreditation framework for
embedding sustainability through all aspects of
student learning. Using whole-institution approach, this
embeds sustainability learning through the formal,
informal, and subliminal curriculum. To date, 30
universities and colleges have participated in partnership
with their students’ union, representing over 500,000
students.

Full programme information.

FOR GOOD
For Good is our platform which supports students to
make their coursework, projects and dissertations more
than just an academic exercise. We match local
charities and small businesses with students, so their
research delivers community and sustainability benefit.

Full programme information.

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SDG CURRICULUM MAPPING

A support package for mapping the
UN Sustainable Development Goals across
the formal curriculum through a student-led
audit.

Universities, colleges, and students’ unions
across the UK are increasingly examining
how they might map their teaching and
learning onto the SDGs. We know there is
significant demand from students for greater inclusion of sustainability, in its broadest
sense, in the formal curriculum.

In response to this institutional and student
demand, the University of Winchester and NUS developed a training and support package
for mapping the curriculum to the SDGs through a student-led audit.

Full programme details and 2020-21 programme fees.

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We also offer bespoke support, get in touch if you would like to discuss this further.

                       We look forward to hearing from you.

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