What is the RUSU Rewards & Recognition Scheme? All societies are part of Rewards & Recognition – a scheme designed to encourage your society to engage with RUSU and celebrate all the hard work you undertake throughout the year. You will receive points for all sorts of activities: from increasing membership numbers and attending meetings organised by RUSU, to taking part in Give it a GO Week and running events in collaboration with other societies. Activities are awarded different points, depending on the amount of work involved in organising them. An up-to-date list of the criteria that will result in points being awarded is included in a table at the end of this document. You can start accruing points for your society from the start of the summer term, on the basis that you have met the following criteria:
President, Secretary and Treasurer to have attended committee training
Provide up to date copies of your committee’s contact details (name, email address and phone number)
Have a signed constitution for 2013/14
Have a signed behaviour policy for 2013/14
Have a risk assessment for your societies activities
Once you have confirmed with the Societies and Media Co-ordinator that you have met these criteria, you can begin to accrue points. If you feel your society should be awarded points, you will need to provide the Societies and Media Co-ordinator with evidence (emails, photographs, a letter, invoices and on on). Societies will be rated on a star system; according to the number of points they have been awarded.
How will societies be recognised and rewarded? Your societies point’s score will be regularly updated on the RUSU website, enabling you to compare your point’s scores with other societies. Your points score will be converted to a star rating at the end of each year, based upon the average points accumulated by societies.