Strategic Aims

Following extensive research involving students and key stakeholders across the University, we will focus our efforts on these four key strategic priorities to ensure we are delivering our mission:

Building Communities for All Students

Building Stronger Student Voice and Representation

Providing Inclusive Activity and Spaces

Providing Advice and Advocating for Students

How we run

Enabling Themes

Enabling our purpose and strategic aims, these areas and key objectives form the backbone of our plan. Firstly, we must recruit great people who share our values and believe in our mission, fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. Next, we must get our governance in order and invest in our physical and digital infrastructure to ensure it is fit for purpose. We also need to think sustainably in our everyday practices to ensure RHSU and the environment can thrive for years to come.

Develop a People Plan that sets our ambition for our people, and how we’ll enable them to deliver our strategic aims, whilst valuing, supporting and developing them at RHSU.

Create a positive organisational culture which promotes development opportunities, collaboration and teamwork, and supports the wellbeing of all our staff.

Working with the University, develop a refurbishment programme to ensure all our buildings and facilities meet the emerging needs of students and provide welcoming, inclusive and safe environments.

Utilise research, insight and digital technology to effectively communicate with our members, driving awareness, engagement and participation.

Ensure RHSU is a robust, solvent and financially sustainable organisation and can support its core charitable objectives, strategic aims and priorities across 2024-2027.

Establish fit-for-purpose governance and democratic structures for the next generation of students and a modern, innovative students’ union.

Our Values

Our core values guide our work and behaviours and we’re proud to be an organisation that challenges the status quo, whilst being a fun place to work.

We understand without doubt that we exist for our members. We make sure we know how their needs are changing. We adapt.

Quality is fundamental to achieving results. We go above and beyond expectations. We channel our energy into making things better and change or stop things that aren’t working

We champion and celebrate the importance of diversity, equality and liberation consistently through our work. We are for our organisation and speak out if something is not right.

We embrace change and opportunity and we are not afraid to try new things. We are ambitious and constantly look for new approaches to doing things.

We make decisions based on our values and take responsibility for them, admitting if we get something wrong. We communicate with integrity, even when the message might be difficult.

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