Spend It is the Guild’s way of distributing its grant funding to its societies. Alongside principles and values of participatory budgeting, the Guild wants to ensure societies have access to funding to support them in their organisation of events/activities or to buy items for their society, decided by students, for students!
All society committee members are invited to four meetings per year, where bids will be presented to them by other society committee members. Attendees can make amendments to the bids by consensus, and all attendees can then vote on the bids. The bids with the most votes, will be funded up to £4,000 in total.
We invite bids that are for:
- More than £350, up to £4,000
- Large items/events/activities
- Projects that include collaboration between societies
- Projects that are likely to have a longer lead-in time
- Projects that have a benefit to the wider society/student community
When is the meeting taking place?
Big Spend It Round 4 will take place on Wednesday the 30th April, 2pm-5pm, in the Elizabeth Gidney Room, here at the Guild.
Only one representative per society should attend to take part in the voting of the meeting.
We will be in touch with you all following the bid submission deadline with any further questions on your bid or next steps.