Just another reminder, Student Sports Forum this wednesday at 5.30 in Guild Council Chambers. Please make as many people as possible aware that it is happening.

With Hannah away for a couple of weeks, I am also involved in the phase 3 building works for the guild. Also, nominations are now open for NUS delegate elections, and packs can be downloaded from the internet. Any questions please do email me, or the R&D department.

I also attended a West Midlands Higher Education Sport (WMHES) meeting. This meeting incorporates not only sports officers, but their respective Director of Sport's as well. The meeting gives the officers an idea of what the DoS's are working on in the region, and the relationship with Sport England.

The student Sports forum is nearing as well. 5.30, wednesday 29th October. Anybody and everybody is welcome who is involved in Sport at some level within the University. This is the way to get your voice heard!!!

My personal thanks to the Football team who wholeheartedly got behind the 'Kick it out' scheme, and not only that but I am glad to say they won their match as well, 1-0.

This Wednesday 15th, there is a football match on the Athletics track at 4pm, supporting the 'Lets kick out racism' campaign. Please show your support and get as many people there as possible.

The student sports forum is as we speak being put in place. We will have 2 meetings in the first term, on the 29th October and 4th December. This will give any person on campus who plays sport the oppotunity to come and voice their opinion about any issues to do with sport, being positive or negative.

Next wednesday, there is a football match that will be supporting the 'Lets kick it out' scheme. The idea is to support removing racism from sport, and in particular football. It would be great if we could get as many people there as possible!!!! more details will follow

A meeting with all the club captains will take place this afternoon, just laying out expectations this year and any questions they may have at this early stage.

The first sports night was also very successful and well attended, as was the well being fair. A personal thankyou from me to all the societies and companies that attended, as well as all the staff, as the day was absolutely fantastic.

Well I hope eveyone is ready, Welcome Week is about to kick off. So much work has gone in to this coming week so i hope it is thoroughly enjoyed by all students. From my personal point of view, make sure the well being fair and Sports fair are visited. Both will be awsome events and well worth turning up too.

Club 1-2-1s are also at the end of this week, where hopefully goals, aims and objectives will be set out for the coming year.

Hello again guys

Well I hoped everyone enjoyed the olympics. It was such a fantastic showcase for sport, especially for team GB of course, but also for University sport, as so many of the athletes competing are still in HE. It just shows the current importance of University Sport. And if you havent noticed, the football season has started again, with manchester city spending 32.5million pounds on Robinho, only for him to be sold in January to Chelsea ( watch this space....)

Personally, here at the Guild, its been hectic. Most of the plans and preperations are now in place for the Well-being fair, on the 22nd September, and it should be a great day. Hopefully we will have a number of different socs to talk to, information to sample, relaxing massages and competitions on a Wii board just to name a few things. Club 1-2-1s are also on the horizon, so I am looking forward to officially meeting all the club captains for the coming year.

The first regional BUCs meeting has also been held, where I met a few more of the sports officers in the west mids region!! Hopefully these meetings will be vitally important this year in communicating with BUCs, but also in understanding what else is going on in Sport at other institutions.

Sport at Birmingham has also been re-branded, and is now known as UBS, University of Birmingham Sport (not USB).