Student Sunday gets NUS backing

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 08:43

Our campaign got a further boost yesterday when we received the support of Wes Steering, the President of the National Union of Students. I met Wes and Susan Nash, who heads up the Union’s Society and Citizenship work, yesterday afternoon at their London base to discuss the campaign and how the NUS could help turn out students in the June elections. A programme of joint work was agreed which has the potential of mobilising thousands of students over the next three months.

The main focus of our student mobilisation will be Sunday 10 May – which we are calling Student Sunday. On this day we hope to get student unions and student HOPE not hate groups to agree to leaflet areas around their colleges. Already, the HOPE not hate campaign at Manchester University has agreed to mobilise at least 200 students to cover the entire Manchester Withington constituency.

My meeting with the NUS followed an earlier Searchlight team meeting where we put the finishing touches to our campaign strategy. With some much going on around the country it is not often that we are all able to meet up so this was a really useful event.