Here are some of Student Hubs’ good news headlines from the month to put a smile on your face.
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Here are some of Student Hubs’ good news headlines from the month to put a smile on your face.
The Real Value of Sports Volunteering: Lessons from Empower Active
Volunteering and sports are two activities to which students often dedicate a lot of their time at university. In my experience, I have noticed that...
Should Higher Education Institutions Support Student Social Action?
The UN’s International Youth Day will be celebrated for the 20th time on August 12th. Since 1999, each year has had a different theme, from ‘Safe...
How Social Action Can Help You Build Strong Friendships and Communities
Eight years ago, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the International Day of Friendship on July 30th, aiming to promote the idea that friendship between people,...
Student Hubs Is Delighted to Announce That Charlie Hamilton Is Our New Chief Executive
Charlie has a strong background in the education and charity sectors, most recently as Development Director with London Music Masters, an arts and culture charity....
Creating meaningful internships in the social impact sector
At Student Hubs we run the largest social impact sector internship scheme in the UK, which has been operating since 2008. Each year we recruit...
Harnessing the power of video on a shoe-string budget
Video naturally appeals to the human brain. Viewers retain 95% of a message when they watch it in a video compared to 10% when reading...
How innovative companies such as Storemates and eRated are helping to grow the sharing caring collaborative economy.
Estimates show that the sharing economy could be worth $335bn by 2025 Even the Government wants to get involved in Unlocking the sharing economy and...
The future of social action in universities: what can we learn from student leaders?
Generation selfie is dead; long live the millennials. A ‘values revolution’ is being driven by young people who value purpose over pay cheque. Then again,...
Sustainable consumption on a student budget
On Saturday 7th March, Southampton Hub held another daylong Sustainability Festival that proved to bring even more students, staff and external organisations together than last...
Volunteer for Cambridge: the power of community collaboration
Collaboration is a tricky word. More often than not collaborative projects can be undermined by a minefield of negotiations about who’s responsible for what, what...
The A-Z of social enterprise
One of the things l really love about the work I do is the mentoring of business leaders and social entrepreneurs. I have benefitted so...
#UpForSchool: A reflection on education
As a trainee teacher, reflecting on the role and place of education has impacted greatly on me during my time at University. Throughout Sixth Form,...
#UpForSchool: Rise up for education rights for all children
Education is the birth right of every child, but today there are more than 120 million children who do not go to school. When the...
Student Volunteering Week: what is the future of student social action?
It’s that time of year again: Student Volunteering Week is upon us. Of course, at Student Hubs the planning started 11 months ago; in partnership...
