University of Chester - Chester Students' Union

Chester Students' Union

Chester Students' Union (CSU) offers services and provides facilities for students and is a member of the NUS. Three sabbatical officers are elected each year. For the 2012-2013 term, is President- Katie Badman, the Vice-President for the Chester campus- Becky Lees and the Vice-President for the Warrington campus- Roberta Micci. Sabbatical officers serve a maximum of two years.

The Executive Committee are the trustees of the Union. Members are elected each year before the end of March and each has a different role, such as Entertainments representative, Welfare and Campaigns representative and Publications representative. The support staff for the Union consists of a number of full-time employees, part-time student staff and volunteers from the elected Executive Committee and the Union Council.

The Union runs a bar 'CH1' on the main Chester campus. The previously known 'Padgate Union Bar' on the Warrington campus was in August 2010, taken over by the university. The Union also has three shops. Two are on the Chester campus, consisting of a general shop and a Starbucks Coffee franchise, and one at Warrington. The Union also runs over 75 sports clubs and societies; with each campus having its own teams, many of which compete in British Universities and Colleges Sport competitions. Once a year, the Union runs an inter-campus competition known as Varsity on campus where sporting societies, such as seven-a-side football, and non-sporting societies, such as poker, compete. Other non-sporting societies include the Drama Society, the Amnesty International Society and the People and Planet Society. A student radio station, The Cat 1251AM, is based on the Warrington campus and broadcasts daily, with presenters on air from September until June.

CSU won the NUS 'Community Relations Award' at the NUS 2011 ceremony.