Green Gown Awards 2017 - The Students’ Union at UWE - Highly Commended

Thomas’ year in post volunteering as the part-time Sustainability Officer at The Students’ Union (SU) at UWE enabled him to connect communities, students and the University to drive forward student action.

Through his leadership style – inspiring and engaging his fellow students as well as members of the Union and University itself – he has created a legacy of an elected student-led Sustainability Committee and the creation of several sustainability related policies.

Through successful stakeholder engagement, Thomas has connected students, staff, and the local community around green projects – embodying the values of sustainability. His demonstrable passionate commitment to achieving numerous key initiatives can be evidenced through being awarded both the ‘Green Volunteer of the Year’, Bristol 2015/Bristol Natural History Consortium, March 2016 as well as ‘Sustainability Student of the Year 2017’, Celebrating UWE Bristol Talent.

Top 3 learnings:

1 Embedding Sustainability in all that we do as a Students’ Union involves staff and students coming together and sharing the mission.

2 The power and positivity of partnerships – working positively with internal and external stakeholders and organisations to make change.

3 Championing the influence of the student voice – students have real power to be co-creators in their curriculums, environment and future.

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