Governing Documents

Strategic Plan

Purpose | Principles | Priorities

Purpose

KCLSU: Student Life Support Our mission as the Students' Union is to provide representation, encourage participation and offer personal development opportunities to our members throughout their student life.

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Principles

KCLSU is a student-led, student-focussed organisation with the principles of representation, democracy and informed campaigning at its very heart. Every student at King's is a member of KCLSU. We actively listen to our members and their contribution guides and shapes our policies.

KCLSU works closely with the college to fulfil the needs of our students by providing numerous opportunities for personal development, and participation in activities, services and information, and overall student life support.

KCLSU encourages and supports citizenship in our community. We celebrate our rich diversity and foster an inclusive environment protecting equality for all.

All our activities and services are conducted with the highest ethical integrity. We are accountable and endeavour to be transparent, open and honest about our activities and responsible to all stakeholders. KCLSU is aware of its environmental impact and works to all legal and good practice standards.

KCLSU strives to deliver quality in all of its services, activities and opportunities by ensuring they are user and customer focussed, professional, safe, and offer value for money.

KCLSU recognises the dynamic nature of its community and our flexibility and adaptability allow us to meet the changing needs and demands of our membership.

KCLSU is an informed organisation that embraces the learning and sharing of knowledge for the benefit of our membership. We value our people as an asset worthy of investment and KCLSU supports their professional and personal development.

KCLSU is proud of being a responsible employer and the provider of a safe, secure and enjoyable working environment.

KCLSU is honest and inclusive and is fun to be involved with. It has a strong team spirit that is fostered in an environment of trust between students, staff, officers, the college, alumni, the wider community and our customers. KCLSU is an organisation to be proud of.

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Priorities

1. To increase and enhance student participation in all areas of KCLSU.
2. To improve our knowledge of students in terms of their needs, wants and the local and national trends.
3. To create strong relationships and to manage these relationships well. These relationships will include the College, other Students’ Unions, the NHS, NUS, ULU, , and other charities and not for profit organisations. KCLSU aims to be a big London player and be one of the leaders in the movement.
4. To have quality and consistency in everything that what do. To go from excellent to outstanding and to have best practice, and recognised standards of work e.g. Investors in People, Investing in Volunteers etc.
5. To ensure that there is good systems of governance at KCLSU and to support the implementation of the new system and the associated changes in practice and culture.
6. To ensure that there is good systems of governance at KCLSU and to support the implementation of the new system and the associated changes in practice and culture.
7. To take a strategic and proactive approach to improving internal and external communication.
8. To maintain a proactive approach to ethical and environmental issues acting directly where possible and lobbying partners and external bodies to produce positive change.

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