Hello!

As this is my first blog I should probably introduce myself. I’m Matt, I’m 21 and until next summer I am one of the sabbatical officers in the Students' Union. This week I will graduate from an English and Creative Writing course and have joined the obligatory Facebook group where we all vow post-graduation to throw our caps and deposits into the air in one foul swoop!

I’ll start by telling you a bit about what we have done and what we plan to do. I’ve been doing the job now for two weeks. Over that time we’ve been working out the best way to help all students. One of the main things which came out of our planning was more consultation of those who might have some opinions on student rights and welfare – YOU! If we do our jobs right, then that will be an underlying theme throughout the year. After all who better to tell us what we need to do than just over 19,000 students at University of Salford? So if you want to feedback anything to me then please leave a comment on the blog, email me at support-ussu@salford.ac.uk or if you have time pop by to University House to the Student Union and we can have a chat. Without representing you effectively there really is no point having a Students' Union.

We have also planned an event in Allerton this week (14 & 17 July 11-5pm) where you can find out more about your USSU and in particular you can meet the officers, there will be information about the Advice Centre, some STD testing and some fun and games. This may be the first year that the first thing the USSU can do for you is tell you is that you have Chlamydia, fun times!

There is also a Facebook group for new students’ that has been set up so we can all get to know each other and find out information a bit more informally. The link is: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=17359979849

That link tells you a lot about what we are planning to do including some information on Welcome Week.

I’ll leave it at that for now but please get in touch with any questions or queries or just to chat!