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Our Welfare and International Officer, Suzi Burtenshaw tried the fine City of Leicester for an evening meal for Go Gluten Free Week.

Fénian Ó Duġaén, your Activities Officer looks at eating lunch through out the day on campus.

Tomorrow, Welfare and International Officer Suzi Burtenshaw, eats out in Leicester city and tries and finds the best Gluten Free dining.

Lily Davis, our Strategy and Communications Officer has looked around campus for the best Gluten Free food.

Tomorrow Fénian Ó Duġaén, your Activities Officer looks at home cooking for his lunch.

Academic Affairs Officer, Alex Nutt goes to 1923 to experience gluten free food.

Tomorrow Lily Davis, our Strategy and Communications Officer searches the campus for gluten free food.

This week the Executive Officers are taking part in Go Gluten Free Week, a campaign to access our services as a Students’ Union, University and City.

The Students’ Union is moving against the awful practice of Tar Sands, please send a letter to Canadian Federal Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver, ask him to stop the expansion.

This evening at 5.45pm, the Environment Team will be auditing the Percy Gee for its green ethics of lighting. We at the Students’ Union think we have the Greenest building on campus, so come along and put us to the test!

This morning, we will be working out your carbon footprint and giving you tips on how to shrink it!

Come and see us in the Queens Hall Foyer from 11am or do it Online

For more information on the rest of Go Green Week, visiting the Facebook Group

For the 3rd day of Go Green Week, we are asking students and staff to walk into campus.

One of the best things you can do for this planet is to cut down on your Carbon footprint and one of the best ways you can do this is by looking at your transport.

So, if you walk, cycle, car-share or bus into campus, come to the Percy Gee Building and you’ll get a FREE tea or coffee. Environment Team volunteers will be at the various entrances to campus to give you a voucher. 

Not on campus?

The think about how you get around, could you make your journey more Green?

Post your journey on our Facebook event.

Come down to Queens Hall Foyer for a free smoothie!

Made with fruit donated from businesses in Leicester, the free smoothies aim to educate students on the concept of loving food, but hating waste.

To find out more, come and meet the University of Leicester Environment Team or visit Love Food Hate Waste

Visit Facebook for more on Go Green Week

Monday is the start of Go Green Week, so we want you to come to the Percy Gee Building and make a pledge. The best one will get free entry to Red Leicester!

Not on Campus? Then upload from home a photo of you with your pledge to the Facebook event

Make this week, the Greenest week you have ever had.

Suzi Burtenshaw, your Welfare and International Officer, is carrying out this survey to hear about your experiences with the accommodation that you lived in during 2010-2011. She will use the results to find out the key problems in the accommodation sector and will make positive recommendations to landlords and letting agents for how this sector could be improved. As well as this she will be publishing the results to students to help them when house-hunting.

She’ll make the results available but your personal details will not be published. You can answer the questions with our assurance that your name, postcode…

The National Demo against cuts in education is only a few days away, so book your place now to confirm your seat on the bus.

nus@leicesterunion.com

Owen Jones, Campaigns & Involvement Officer, has been elected to NUS Services Limited (NUSSL), the commercial arm of the National Union of Students to oversee the environmental and ethical aspects of their activity.

At the NUS Services Limited (NUSSL) AGM held in Liverpool on March 31th 2010 Owen Jones, the Campaigns & Involvement Officer at the Students’ Union, was elected to the Environmental and Ethics Committee.

His responsibility will be to assist NUSSL in how they can maintain their ethical practises as well as promoting environmental best practise throughout all the Student Unions across the country that are affiliated with…