Goldsmiths activities - Selena Bolingbroke talked
through the following Goldsmiths
Community engagement overview:
1. Building strong relationships with local schools
and colleges and community organisations
- Volunteering in the
community – 20% of students are active volunteers
- Building partnerships
with local schools and colleges – 200 local students on the
Goldsmiths Progression scheme, 1400 local young people attending
Goldsmiths Master Classes
- Providing study
scholarships for Lewisham students – 10 full tuition fee
scholarships awarded annually
- Providing pre-entry
careers advice – independent Matrix accredited advice for
anyone thinking about their options pre-HE
2. Accessible learning and research
- Lectures and
performances open to the public – see event planner on
website, updated weekly http://www.gold.ac.uk/events/
- World class research
including Centre for Community Engagement Research and the Centre
for Urban Community Research
- Short courses –
12 new courses launched this year
- Integrated degrees
– aimed at adult returners (often local) over 200 enrolments
this year
- Research
demonstrations – Lewisham’s People Day: 2015 Forensic
Psychology experiment, 2016 Local History consultation on
commemoration event for 40yr anniversary of Battle of Lewisham
(Aug.2017), Research installations Lewisham Shopping Centre,
Show-Off Science events Amersham Arms March 2016
- Library community
membership scheme – just need ID and proof of
residence
3. Being a good neighbour
- Consultation events
with local community in relation to our estate master
planning
- Student accommodation
– we have dedicated Stakeholder Engagement manager whose
responsibilities include liaison with local residents
- Open Days –
local community always welcome, also this year Goldsmiths will take
part in the ‘Open House London’ event – where the
restored St James church will be fully open and accessible with
tours - Sept. 17th 2016
4. Sharing space and facilities
- Community groups can
book rooms at Goldsmiths at low or even no cost – last year
21 events were supported involving over 7000 participants,
including school sports days on the College Green.
- Club Pulse is our gym
and leisure facility – local community can apply for
membership – over 500 community members.
- Curzon Cinema –
new partnership between Goldsmiths and Curzon to redevelop our
cinema facilities and provide a Curzon quality programme open for
our students, staff and the local community http://www.curzongoldsmiths.com/
5. Contributing to local workforce
development
- Goldsmiths is one of
the largest employers in Lewisham
- We are a London
Living Wage employer and accredited by the Living Wage
Foundation
- All of our vacancies
for professional and support staff are advertised in the local
media
- Our students become
graduates who often settle in the local community – higher
level of self-employed graduates than many universities, also
graduates in teaching, youth work, social work.
- Our staff volunteer
at schools and other organisations in the local
community
6.
Connecting with Political and Representative Stakeholders within
the Community
- New Memorandum of
Understanding signed between Goldsmiths and Lewisham Council
– to underpin closer working relationship and shared
priorities
- Goldsmiths
Students’ Union ran a big voter registration campaign this
year and invited Vicky Foxcroft to conduct one of her constituency
surgeries on campus
- Goldsmiths now
represented on the Lewisham Local forum, Lewisham Safer Communities
Partnership and Stronger Communities Partnership
- Goldsmiths headline
sponsor of Telegraph Hill Festival, also sponsored the
Artmongers/Grow Wild Sunflowers project on New Cross Rd
7.
Supporting Local Business
- Goldsmiths
Procurement run ‘Meet the Buyers’ events to help inform
local small businesses how they can become part of our supply
chain
- 16% of our suppliers
are businesses registered with a SE postcode
- Over 130 small local
businesses attended our jobs fayre to promote their part time job
opportunities to our students
- Goldsmiths members of
the Lewisham Fairtrade Committee and our staff help and advise
local businesses that want to become Fairtrade
accredited
For more information www.gold.ac.uk/about/community,
Or contact Selena Bolingbroke S.Bolingbroke@gold.ac.uk
The assembly appreciated Selena taking the time to attend and would
like her to
update again in future assemblies.