Wonkhe SUs · The 2026 webinar box set
Bonus: Getting general meetings (AGMs) right
Why SUs hold general meetings, what legally has to be in them, and ideas for making them work in practice. (Recorded in a previous year.)
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What we cover
- Why students' unions hold general meetings and where they came from
- What the Education, Companies and Charities Acts actually require
- Why your annual meeting probably isn't a company-law AGM
- Presenting accounts, affiliations and the trustee report transparently
- Getting clubs, societies and trustees to run a celebratory AGM
- Practical tactics to boost turnout and hit quorum
Things to read
- How to ensure your AGM is a great meeting
- How to keep democracy alive in SUs
- What is deliberative democracy and why should SUs think about it?
- One union's journey to find its new democracy
- How Scandinavian SUs do policy and democracy (not elections)
- A funny thing happened on the way to the democratic forum
- Please vote and we will shut up
- Yes but what do students think?
- What's it like being on academic board / council / senate?