Wednesday 21-08-2024 - 16:28

Did you know that if you're a student at UWTSD, you're one of our members?

Whether this is your first year or your last - we'd like to reintroduce ourselves - we're UWTSD Students' Union, and once you've enrolled, you're one of our members. 🎉

We're a team of friendly people - usually dressed in purple and in the company of Dafydd the Dragon - on a mission to help you make the most of your time as a student.

We have a few teams at the Union - Opportunities, Voice, Advice, Venues (and Design & Comms, who are writing this) - and we'll run through what each one does and why you'd want to know them.

Opportunities

Bringing the fun is our Opportunities team. Your time as a student is more than just lectures, and as a member, you can get involved in lots of different activities, including joining or starting clubs and societies around a common interest or passion, attending our events (including the official Welcome), having awesome experiences with Give It A Go and developing your skills and knowledge with Skills Week.

Voice

Our Voice team is passionate about ensuring student thoughts and opinions are feedback to the people who need to hear them. They manage our student representative (will you become one for 2024/25?), look after our Big Ideas platform, and are in charge of all things student elections.

Advice

We all need help at some point - as a member, you can use our advice service. It’s free, independent, and confidential. We want to empower you to make the decisions that are right for you.

Venues

You can come to our bars, clubs, and venues. We have Y Llofft and Y Clwb in Carmarthen and Old Bar and Xtension in Lampeter. Our student spaces and venues are great places to chill out in the evenings, catch up with friends, play games, watch TV, and party the night away. 

Presidents

You might not know it, but we're not a part of the university - we're a separate organisation that works with them for the good of all UWTSD students. We are a student-led charity led by a team of student-elect Presidents - your presidents this year are Maria, Rhobyn, and Natalie (and we'll run through everything presidents do in another post. 

Design & Comms

And finally, Design & Comms - the trio working with all the other teams to spread the word to as many people as possible. It's usually us writing the socials and emails - feel free to say Hi.