Find your community, build power together and create real solutions to improve student life. This is Community Organising – our new way to deliver change.
What's Community Organising?
Community Organising is about students coming together to create change. It’s about building student-led solutions to both everyday issues and bigger challenges — solutions that work for everyone.
Different communities face different pressures: for some it’s the cost of studying, for others it’s protecting wellbeing or making sure every student has the chance to succeed at university.
Through Community Organising, we can act on the issues that matter most to you. By coming together, the power is back in your hands — holding decision-makers to account and making sure student voice leads where it matters.
Community Organising is about building positive relationships between students, the Union, the University and wider communities, so everyone is heard and no one is left out.
By uniting across differences and finding common ground, we can shift the balance of power and create meaningful change on both a local and national level.
How it works
Community Organising is about turning student voice into student power.
Here’s how it works — five clear steps that take us from ideas to action, and from action to change:
- Organise – We organise to build the power we need
- Listen – We listen so experiences set the agenda
- Plan – We plan to turn insight into action
- Act – We act together to shift the balance of power
- Negotiate – We negotiate with decision-makers to deliver change
How to get started
We’re busy behind the scenes building a whole range of student communities — and soon you’ll be able to explore and join them directly through our website.
There’ll be communities built around:
- Academic subjects
- Nationality
- Identity
- Faith
- and more
No matter who you are, you’ll find a space to belong, connect with others and turn ideas into action.
Learn more about Community Organising
To find out more about Community Organising, visit the Citizens UK website.