The Cost of Living continues to have a huge impact on students' wellbeing and overall student experience, with many students reducing food intake, skipping social events, and missing scheduled teaching.
What we're doing
Based on student feedback from our last Cost of Living Survey (May 2024), we've crafted a set of recommendations that will enable us to develop student support and lobby for positive change - at a local and national level - to help ease the burden on our students.
Cost of Living report 2023/24
Recommendations
- Continue to offer and develop support, as well as lobby external representatives and partner organisations, for students around the rising cost of food.
- Lobby travel companies around the cost of travel for students.
- Continue to offer healthcare support (such as the period poverty scheme) as well as work with external organisations and SHU on healthcare provision.
- Collaborate with SHU to create a robust student employment strategy and action plan for Hallam students to get high quality, stable jobs closer to campus.
- Continue to offer and develop low-cost social activities for students to get involved in whilst at Hallam.
- HSU & SHU to lobby the incoming government to increase earning thresholds and maintenance amounts to levels that ensure financial support reflects the actual cost of living for students.
Cost of Living support
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Cost of Living Shop
Access free food from our Community Fridge, or trade unwanted items with our clothing and book swaps.
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