16/02/22

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 16/02/22

Time: 7pm

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

1.    Mal

2.    Peter

3.    Kirsty

4.    Alex

5.    Nicol

6.    Ash

7.    Ainsleigh 

8.    Keir

Apologies

1.    Amanda

2.    Alicia

3.    Caity

AGENDA

1.    Associations week

2.    Help for/from departments

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

Reports

Peter

  • Jonah has made mental health provisions survey – looking for responses from people who have experience with the university’s services; posted on his SU facebook and on the SU website; would be good to share

Keir

  • Went to SU assembly – nothing directly relevant to association

  • Sunday pub quiz went well

Kirsty

  • Ordering stash – waiting for quote

Associations week

  • Need pictures – Alicia may have some from the tie dye social; will need to get consent from those featured; could use exec photo from zoom or social

  • Use Instagram story for playlist

  • Work on in background

Help from/for departments

  • Do we have resources for departments?

  • Nicol: no, except the trans guide for lecturers

  • Ash: gender neutral bathrooms report, actually about pronouns

  • Peter: worth coming up with something to give to departments – GNB, pronouns in emails, making sure staff know what to do if someone comes out

  • Mal: pull together from what we already have

  • Nicol: include section on trigger warnings

  • Mal, Nicol and Ash to work on

Any other business

EDI with careers service (Keir)

  • Informal, about what careers can do to support the association

  • Shared careers resource list

  • Asked to be sent other – already received a couple

  • Spoke to contact about setting up talks from members of community – bringing full self to work, coming out in the workplace

  • Still in touch so can forward things if necessary

LGBT+ ball (Keir)

  • Fundraising raised as issue – have a look at where stand after stash

  • Want prices to be accessible

  • Need to speak to Jonah about SU grant

Meeting with DSU opp team

  • Mal: might be worth having someone there to represent 3 approaches (social, campaigns and welfare)

  • Nicol happy to help

LGBT+ football event

  • No one has any concerns about advertising

  • Share post we’ve been sent and stuff on their socials

NUS conference (Mal)

  • Going to NUS conference at the end of March

  • Can raise any issues with have

Transition fund (Mal)

  • One of the demands laid out by South protest group

  • Mal has spoken to trans reps at other universities that have such a fund

  • Get more information from Niall and feedback information from other reps and from NUS conference