Jesse Scharf Project Officer
Overview - During October/November we run a volunteer training session with students to tell them more about SSO and train them in peer to peer engagement techniques. - These are our ‘Student Ambassadors’ - Support from Student Ambassadors can provide valuable additional resources to the project.
Switch Off Lights…
…and appliances
Put on Layers not the Heating
Only boil what you need
Starting a movement
What do they do? • Talk to their housemates and friends about SSO • Wear their SSO t-shirt • Enter our photo competitions, quizzes and get their friends involved to.
Going further… • Help with halls visits and recycling audits… – particularly helpful where Wardens/RA not available • Working independently e.g. reposting competition launches on Facebook • Setting up own society – Uni. of Southampton – Society established in 2011/12 and has full committee with reps at each site. – Make their own plans around awareness raising – Stalls outside halls with competitions e.g. how many layers can you get on in a minute – Do halls visits independently – Have been encouraged by the head of Eni Sci
Where we’d like to improve… • Get more students to the training session • Increase the level of follow through - from students coming to our training session to being active throughout the year. • Give more back to the students who are active
Your Turn… • How can we get more people to the training session? • Do you have students volunteering for other green projects who would be interested? • Do you have any environmental or volunteering awards that we can link to? • What do you think motivates your students?
Our ideas… • Working with SU volunteering programs e.g. Sheffield one off volunteering day. • Give references at the end of the year • Continuing to work with students as they go into the second year. • Having students develop their own engagement ideas during the training session
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