Your Halls of Residence

The University Halls of Residence are where most students will start their adventure in Leeds.

Whilst in Halls you can enjoy free food events, nights out, day trips and loads more organised for you by a team of student volunteers called The Residence Life Social Committee.

Find out more about the different Halls below, as well as the Residence Life Social committee and upcoming events. You can also find lots more details on specific halls, as well as information on how to apply on the University’s accommodation pages here (external link).

As well as this, we encourage you to join the Residence Life Social Committee at your halls. These committees provide an opportunity for you to run events for your fellow residents. You’ll work with a budget and develop key professional skills including teamwork, running meetings and collecting feedback.

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The Residence Life Social Committee

The Residence Life social committee (RLSC) programme provides you with the opportunity to run events for other students and to make the most of your time in residences. The social committees meet regularly and work within a budget to plan exciting social events, fundraisers and campaigns. Being part of the programme will help you to meet other people and to develop important professional skills including event management, teamwork and time management. You will also be part of a wider development programme focussed on leadership, teambuilding and personal development.

This opportunity is available to anyone living in residences, and you can apply here. The deadline to apply for the 2022/23 academic year is Sunday October 09.

Past Events

  • Residence Balls
  • Trips to UK destinations
  • Go-karting
  • Bowling
  • Themed mixers
  • Musical performance

 

  • Cultural events such as celebrations for Diwali, Christmas, Holi, Eid, Bonfire Night.
  • Movie nights
  • Murder mystery night
  • Games night
  • Sports tournaments

Residence Life Social Committee Positions

The social committee for each residence is made up of:

  • · President
  • · Treasurer
  • · Secretary
  • · Wellbeing Rep

 

 

 

  • Sustainability Rep
  • Marketing Rep
  • Sports Rep

 

Please note that roles can be shared, so there can be more than 7 people per committee.

Position Descriptions

President

1. Lead the Social Committee to plan and deliver events as a team

2. Act as chair for weekly meetings

3. Actively participate in all Committee activities

4. Complete event proposals and event evaluations on StarRez (with the Secretary)

5. Take the lead on completing the planning calendar

6. Responsible for completing and submitting risk assessments on time (with the Secretary)

Treasurer

1. Complete budgets for each events

2. Oversee all financial transactions of the Social Committee and ensure spending does not exceed the annual budget

3. Process invoices and reimbursements on the Engage platform

4. Manage ticket sales on the Engage platform or other platforms (with the Marketing Rep)

5. Support other Social Committee members to plan and deliver events

Secretary

1. Take and circulate minutes of Committee meetings

2. Construct and circulate agenda for Committee meetings where required and be the main point of contact

3. Manage the Teams folder for your Committee

4. Support the President with completing event proposals, event evaluations risk assessments in a timely manner

5. Support other Social Committee members to plan and deliver events

Marketing Rep

1. Responsible for all event promotion via dedicated Instagram and Facebook pages

2. Draft any email comms to be sent to residents

3. Ensure that residents are aware of the Social Committee and help to increase visibility of the programme

 

 

 

4. Use the resources provided to design and distribute promotional posters

5. Manage ticket sales on the Engage platform or other platforms (with the Treasurer)

6. Support other Social Committee members to plan and deliver events

Sports Rep

1. Plan and lead sports and exercise events for a range of participation and ability levels

2. Work with other Sports Reps to coordinate cross-residence events, fundraisers, tournaments and/or leagues

3. When running a league, recruit residents, coordinate the match schedule and keep scores

4. Support other Social Committee members to plan and deliver events

Sustainability Rep

1. Plan and lead events that raise environmental awareness and include sustainable action

2. Work with other Sustainable Reps to coordinate cross-residence events, fundraisers and campaigns

3. Advocate for sustainability within the Social Committee and consider environmental impacts at all stages of planning

4. Support the work of Residential Services and its Student Sustainability Architects, in delivering Blueprint actions within Residences.

5. Support other Social Committee members to plan and deliver events

Wellbeing Rep

1. Plan and lead events and campaigns to support the physical and mental wellbeing of residents

2. Responsible for gathering input and feedback from residents about events run by the Social Committee

3. Support the wellbeing of other Social Committee members

4. Support other Social Committee members to plan and deliver events

Time Commitments

· Mandatory training on Saturday 22nd October for the full day

· Teambuilding and development days in each Semester for all the Residence Life Social Committees

· Weekly meetings and attendance at all events

· Additional training sessions will be organised if required

Structure of the programme

Committees will meet weekly with their group and their Warden, or they can choose to meet fortnightly with their Warden. Committees will need to choose a time/day/place for this weekly meeting.

Centrally we will host development sessions each term (1 before Christmas, 1 before Easter, 1 before Summer exams to finish the year). These sessions will consist of teambuilding, a training activity, a talk from internal/external speaker and a social afterwards with food/drinks.

Training is on October 22nd, so the first development session will be late Nov or early December (roughly 5 weeks after training). This will largely be a fun teambuilding session with some training incorporated. This will be held off campus but not far from Leeds (transport to be arranged).

We will also run ad hoc training as required when new member joins a committee or where students are facing any issues. Wardens can run this training if they feel capable (training resources given to Wardens I.e powerpoint, specific tasks for roles, digital handbook).

Key dates for Semester 1

22nd October – Mandatory training for all Committees.

Week of Oct 24th – Winter Ball tickets go on sale. You will be notified if your residence will be having a Winter Ball, and instructions will be given to you from your Warden regarding promoting ticket sales, seating plans, running order for the evening etc.

31st October – Halloween. Any proposals for events need to be in on/before 25th Oct.

05th November – Bonfire Night. Any proposals for events need to be in minimum 1 week before.

13th – 19th November – Trans Awareness Week

19th November – International Men’s Day

Week of Nov 21st – Winter Ball tickets come off sale for first 2 Balls to pass information to the hotel

 

Week of Nov 28th – Winter Ball tickets come off sale for 3 more Balls to pass information to the hotel.

Week of 05th Dec – Winter Ball tickets come off sale for remaining 3 balls to pass information to the hotel.

30th November – December 14th – Winter Balls at The Marriott (30th, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th, 14th). You will be notified if your residence will be having a Winter Ball, and instructions will be given to you from your Warden regarding ticket sales, promoting tickets, seating plans etc.

16th December – Semester 1 Ends

16th – 27th January – Winter Exam Season

Key dates for Semester 2

30th January – Semester 2 starts

31st March – Teaching ends and Spring holiday begins

01st May – Spring holiday ends and teaching resumes