Posted on Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 15:16 by
Joel Gascoyne
Swansea University alongside the Students' Union are part of the National Union of Students' Alcohol Impact Accreditation Programme.
This basically means we are working to create a social norm of responsible alcohol consumption by students.
We will be championing the use of 'safe space' alcohol free zones at our large events and including more non-alcoholic events in our calendar in general. This alongside a long list of other measures we have committed to work on will we believe help promote health and well being in the student body as well as increasing safety and improving community relations. I can guarantee though that it will do this without detracting from the fun of freshers and university life in general. We're not here to say you can't have a drink we just want to enable you to do it responsibly and make university a more welcoming environment for those who don't drink alcohol.
So it's not that scary really we just have an exciting opportunity to make your university experience as fun and safe as possible! Have a fun and safe freshers fortnight and keep an eye out for my blog on my personal experience of freshers and how to enjoy it to the full.
Joel - SU Welfare Officer :)