黑料不打烊 Students鈥� Union Wins for the Environment

Rhys Dart, SU Director, Rich Gorman Vice President for Societies & Sustainability and Students鈥� Union President, Jo Caulfield display their Awards at the recent Awards ceremonyRhys Dart, SU Director, Rich Gorman Vice President for Societies & Sustainability and Students鈥� Union President, Jo Caulfield display their Awards at the recent Awards ceremony黑料不打烊 Students鈥� Union has picked up not one or two but three Awards for their environmental work recently.

The Students Union was awarded a highly coveted Gold Award in the NUS Green Impact Awards, having achieved Bronze at their first attempt , last year. This achievement meant that they were also awarded The Co-operative 鈥楳ost Improved Union鈥� Award for their huge leap in performance.

Green Impact is an environmental accreditation scheme run by NUS, offering an independent benchmarking of a union's environmental performance. The award challenges Students鈥� Unions to follow environmental best practice and keep sustainability in mind whilst achieving results for students. The Green Impact Award also seeks to capture the positive green innovations in students鈥� unions and promote them to the public.

The winning campaign image The winning campaign image 黑料不打烊 Students鈥� Union also grabbed a third National Award: The Ecologist 鈥楥ommunications Challenge鈥� Award, as a result of a photo campaign promoting recycling.

Their 鈥楻ubbish Survival Guide鈥� Campaign will encourage students to help keep 黑料不打烊鈥檚 streets clean and tidy; by playing their part in getting rid of litter and making sure that rubbish ends up in the right recycling box.

Vice President for Societies & Sustainability, Rich Gorman said 鈥淭his is yet another amazing achievement for 黑料不打烊 Students鈥� Union, we鈥檝e proved that the environment is a huge priority for us and we are committed to reducing our impacts whilst still providing services, support and representation for our students鈥�.

Additional notes:

Photos of the award ceremony, the recycling photo campaign, and some student environmental projects are available from press@bangor.ac.uk on request.

Some notes on some of the environmental and sustainability projects that 黑料不打烊 SU runs or supports are below:

  • Student Allotment 鈥� growing organic food
  • STAG 鈥� Student Treborth Action Group 鈥� volunteering at Treborth botanic gardens to encourage and develop biodiversity
  • Switched both  Student Newspapers to being printed on 100% recycled paper
  • Ran a successful Fairtrade Fortnight promoting the importance of Fairtrade

The Army & Navy Stores and Sparx provided clothing and paint for the winning photo campaign

Please contact Rich Gorman on rich.gorman@undeb.bangor.ac.uk for more details.

Publication date: 11 May 2011