1. Community REACH Who ? Cross Faculty Steering Group:
Drs Victoria Davenport, Paul Matthews, Patrick Manu, Sarah Chicken, Peter Webb (FET, HAS, ACE)
Sponsor Suzanne Carrie (UWE Head of Inclusivity)
Supporters: Jamie Darwen (UWE Head of Regional ＆ Community Partnership), The UWESU (Vice president Bakhai Wynter).

2. What ? Community REACH
Aim: To promote connections between UWE students and community groups in areas of Bristol with traditionally low participation in Higher Education (UWE 2020 Inclusivity)
Outputs: A series of collaborative events across Bristol in 2018, to forge links with LP communities & raise awareness of UWE as an inclusive university

3. How ? Building relationships
Follow
community leads
Summer -Sept
Engage SU staff
summer
Engage students SU conf’ce
10th Oct
Community groups from LP areas of Bristol
SSG Plan & sponsor-ship
Host Sandpit event
15th Nov
Staff Steering Group
Student Societies + Volunteers
Evaluate & dissem-
inate
Mentor projects
2018
Deliver projects
2018

4. The Projects / Events for 2018#
Student groups
Community Group
contact
Project 1
Robot Society
Learning Partnership West (LPW)
VIP passes to National Robot Wars competition at UWE 2
Medical Society + Box Education
‘Pond-Life’ Project 3
UWE SEDS
Rocket building + launching for kids 4
Yate Armadillo Café Youth club
Robot design + building for teens 5
Medical society + Box Education
Kids + Teens Hands on Genetics 6
Rocket building + launching for teens 7
Masters in Architecture + Early Childhood Education
Southmead-Horfield Ardagh centre
Southmead community space redesign

5. LPW - Robot Wars & PondLife projects
Feedback from Lockleaze Youth Club after attending the National Robot Wars event at UWE
“We had a wonderful day! Some of the YP (young persons) said it was the best trip they had ever been on. I also had a father pop in today and thank us as both his sons are now convinced they want to do engineering at UWE!”
Peter Woods-Wetton, Lead Engagement Worker, Learning Partnership West CIC
“I thoroughly enjoyed putting the project together with everyone involved and hope to be planning some similar projects over the summer with the new MedSoc committee.” “It was one of the most rewarding events MedSoc has worked on this year.” Cameron Smith, Vice President of the Medical Society & Biomedical Science student

6. The Challenges – break out groups
1. How do we effectively recruit & mentor relevant interested students?
22 societies signed up - only 5 turned up to Sandpit event
7 events - not all delivered yet
2. How do we expand our links with community groups in LP areas?
Existing community partnership leads informed our project design
Development of personal leads were essential to delivery.
3. How do we expand the staff steering group from here?
Project team was put together to deliver on a UWE 2020 strategy.
Participants in UWE leadership training program.

7. What next ? Community REACH
If you are interested in getting involved
&
Sign up: Fill out the sheet on your table*
*(we will only contact you about community REACH )