Campaigns

Chester Students’ Union creates campaigns with the aim of making your student experience better. All campaigns start with a passion or idea, with a goal of creating a positive change.

Anyone can lead on a campaign – an Officer or a student – so you can always make a difference at CSU, no matter who you are!

Start a Campaign

Want to lead on a campaign? Brilliant! We can’t wait to hear all about it. To get started, all you need to do is fill in this easy Campaign Idea form. It’ll cover the basics, and then you’ll meet with our Democracy & Campaigns Coordinator to talk about the details.

We’d recommend reading our comprehensive Campaigns Toolkit to get the best idea about what a campaign is (and isn’t!). It’ll have ALL the info you could possibly need.

Once you’ve done that, you can download the Campaigns Planning document and start bringing your idea to life. We can work through this together when you meet with CSU, or you can get your campaign team involved! (see the Campaign resources section for all the files).

Micro Campaigns

Micro campaigns are quick wins, short awareness campaigns or events, or targeted pieces of advocacy work. They’re low-resource, easy to enact, and make smaller changes than you might find in a full-size campaign. Sometimes they’ll be purely based on social media, and sometimes all it takes to succeed at a micro campaign is a meeting with someone from the University.

We get a lot of our micro campaigns from the Change It submissions, but if you think you have an idea for a quick micro campaign, you can also use the campaign submission form, and there’s a toolkit and planning document aimed at micro campaigns too.

Campaign resources

Campaign training

Watch the video below which will give you the best start to your campaigns! It goes through the whole campaign process from start to finish.

Other ways to make change

If you’re not ready to lead on a campaign, you could make change at your University by submitting a suggestion for change, or you can start a petition and get students’ signatures.

You could also speak to a Student Leader – a full-time Officer, Union Assembly Officer, or a Student Voice Representative, who can relay your feedback to us.