Lead Her University Society Resources

Start semester one by delivering a Start HERe workshop focused on Scotland or Wales in freshers week or the week following to explore the past, present and future of women’s political representation. Get your members talkative about why we need more young women involved, and what you can do as a collective in the year ahead.

Work through the My Political Future toolkit together as a group to support one another as you each map out your next steps in getting politically active.

Get involved with the WIP National Student Conference! Here are some top tips to get as many of your society members attending:

• Host a pre-conference networking event at your own university so that all attendees (or prospective) can mingle and get to know one another,

• Make your presence heard! Post on socials and send emails to those you know are already attending.

As the year winds down, encourage your members to stay positive and politically active over the break with simple steps:

• Switch your alarm to the radio in the morning. This is an easy way to stay informed, especially if you no longer have the university library to rush off to!

• Go out and buy a newspaper instead of reading it off a screen.

• Get your podcast walk on! Try listening to Electoral Dysfunction, Media Storm, Women with Balls, the Rest is Politics and Page 94 .

Beat the winter blues and get your members cozied up with a book from our reading list! Start semester two with a book club on one of our suggested reads. The list contains a mixture of short to long, and fiction to non-fiction, so there’s plenty to choose from.

With three months to go to the local elections, hear from your local candidates in your area by delivering your own hustings. We’ll give you everything you need to know to deliver the event, so your members can stay informed on what each candidate stands for. You can even centre the hustings on a specific theme that your society cares most about.

It's International Women’s Month! Get your members ready to vote with our Demystifying Voting guide. Why not pair this with an informative social media campaign about why women’s participation in democracy is particularly important?

Look at other ways you could get involved in the election together, and get your members clued up on what political parties they could join! Use our Political Party Handbooks to help your members decide on which most aligns with them - you could print these out and create small teams to talk through each guide together.

It’s time for the election! Make sure you encourage your members to vote or volunteer in the election. We know this time can be a busy period for students, and society activity may start to wind down. Why not use this moment to offer members a chance to write for our blog?

Take time to rest and recharge! Reflect on how your year went as a society and make sure to relay this to the new incoming committee members, we’d love to get to know them ahead of next year. Reach out to other WIP societies too to reflect and plan for the year future.