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Welcome to SUBU's Your Idea Platform!

This is where your ideas make real change!

 

This platform is for submitting ideas for change across SUBU, BU and Beyond. Below you can also vote and comment on other ideas, and popular ideas will be taken to our Student Meetings to decide whether it will become SUBU Policy!

 

Submit New Idea

Before submitting your idea

Before you submit your idea, consider what it is you want to change. This can be big structural changes or small amendments. They can call for change from within SUBU, BU or even the wider community. Your idea could be action based such as having SUBU lobby the university on an issue or your idea can be more ideological such as supporting a specific group or cause.

You can find out more about Union Policy, as well as viewing the current list of live policies here. Please ensure you look at existing policies before submitting your idea so we can avoid duplicates of policies.  

Please also note the Your Ideas platform is NOT for complaints.  

Example of what IS an Idea: 

For SUBU to lobby BU for lecture and seminar resources to be shared one week in advance.

Example of what IS NOT an Idea: 

Misleading packaging on food sold in SUBU shop.

This is not an Idea as this is something SUBU would action immediately for the health and safety of students. An Idea of this nature would not need to go to a SUBU Summit or Student Members Meeting to be voted upon.  

When submitting your ideas, you’ll be asked to answer the following questions: 

  1. What is the problem or idea? – what do you think needs to change, be amended, be introduced;  keep it concise and relevant and use research/data/feedback where necessary to back up your Idea 

  1. How is your suggested solution? – what steps should SUBU take to achieve this, what is the solution to the problem. 

  1. Which Full-Time Officer you think should lead on it?

    1. President 

    2. VP Education 

    3. VP Student Opportunities 

    4. VP Welfare and Community 

Once you have submitted your idea

We review ideas continously throughout the year, but an idea can only become policy at one of four democratic student meetings. Each meeting usually takes three ideas to be voted on by attendees but this may differ throughout the year. Additionally, some ideas may be easy to implement, already in policy or can be done without the need of an approved policy, in which case we will action these seperately.

Once students submit an idea, other students can vote and comment on this to indicate their support or lack thereof for the proposed ideas. Students will be able to  vote in favour of  the idea or to vote against the idea. Ideas require 15 votes in favour to be moved forwards to the discussions stage. Subsequently, ideas with 15 votes against will be rejected.

SUBU reserves the right to reject any Idea that poses a financial, reputational or legal risk to the Union. SUBU may also reject an idea if it does not align with our student-led and informed strategy found here.

Once an idea achieves the necessary votes the student who submitted the idea will be invited in by a member of the Democracy and Campaigns team to discuss their idea in greater depth, to provide further context and create a draft policy. This draft policy will then be taken to an agenda setting meeting where Officers will discuss and vote on whether to take the motion to either SUBU Summit or Student Members Meeting.  

If the idea is not selected by the committee to go to meeting, it can receive one of two outcomes; Decline – The idea is closed and updated accordingly but can be resubmitted without time penalty OR Revisit – The idea will be on hold and reviewed again before the next SUBU Summit where it will either be selected to go to meeting or will be Declined. 

If an idea that is made presented as a motion at either the SUBU Summit Meeting or Student Members’ Meeting it will be updated on ‘Your Ideas’ accordingly and made into Union Policy. 

All ideas on the platform will be kept updated accordingly .

Your Ideas

  • Ideas 67
  • Submitters 45
  • Last submission 23:47 on 01 Dec 2024
  • Voters 256
  • Commenters 28
  • Current 23
  • Locked 0
  • Passed 15
  • Rejected 4
  • Expired 25

Your Ideas

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  • 14 up votes 0 down votes
    14 voters

    SUBU to promote student safety.

    Current
      Many students who live outside of student accommodation have worries and concerns when walking home at night. Since it becomes dark around 5 p.m. every night, I feel that it would benefit students to be given information on how to stay safe when walking back from lectures, their jobs, etc.

      What is your suggested solution?

      A stand on Landsdowne & Talbot campus with staff to talk about methods of keeping safe when walking back from lectures/work etc. Also doing an Instagram post to give tips on how to keep safe would also be beneficial.

      Which Full-Time Officer should lead on it?

      VP Welfare and Community.
    Dorina Bitca
    12:11pm on 18 Nov 24 This is a real problem in Lansdowne specifically. There are always homeless people under the influence in front of BGB, even during the day, but even more once the sun sets. A great deal of emphasis is put on students having their IDs to get in the building, but not much is done to keep students safe once they are outside the building, especially with most of the accommodation halls being right around the corner. There are some police officers here and there periodically, but not nearly enough, and I've never seen them during the evening. There are always groups of drunk or high people around the building, and nothing seems to be done about it.
    Catrin Morris
    1:07pm on 18 Nov 24 For further comment, I will also ask the Bournemouth MP during the MP Showcase regarding this matter and see how Bmouth Council are able to make students feel safe when outside BU campuses!
    Jack Prosser
    1:34pm on 18 Nov 24 I second this issue and believe it should be extremely high on both importance and priority list. Increased police patrol and guiding the homeless out of student dense areas may be beneficial. The homeless shelter is beneficial in helping out vulnerable adults during weekdays and when SWEPT is active. However, this is not always the case and consideration needs to be given to those vulnerable adults as well.
    Catrin Morris
    1:41pm on 18 Nov 24 Hi Jack, I 100% agree and I feel that consideration and care is required to deal with homeless individuals. I want to ask the MP this and see if we can work together to make students and people feel safe as well as support homeless individuals. Although homelessness is an issue with student safety, I feel that it is also an issue with regards to walking home in the night with broken bottles everywhere, needles as well as lack of street lamps that contributes to students feeling lack of safety. But I agree, If this policy is implemented, I would love to work with BCP council as well as BU to address all these issues in regards to student's safety as well as be sensitive as well.
    Elizabeth Moxey
    9:48pm on 22 Nov 24 Not sure how feasible this would be but a bus service that stops at popular student areas and each of the accommodations individually would be so helpful so that students don't have to walk far and potentially alone at when it's dark. It would most likely be a longer journey than most and probably not possible but could be worth mentioning. If this isn't possible another potential idea could be to have a SUBU-led service (paid or voluntary) where people are essentially 'on call' for students walking home and potentially not feeling safe and wanting to be on the phone to someone for that extra level of security. Again, I'm not sure how feasible these options would be but it could be something to consider if you haven't already!